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Time To Play!


Nostalgia, what this hobby is built on, and new company All The King’s Men certainly hopes to tap into this with its daring new product line, Mike Blake investigates

Re-Live Your Childhood

This is how Ken Cliffe of All the King's Men (ATKM) Toy Soldiers puts it, and it’s a sentiment I’m sure will appeal to us all. ATKM is a relatively new miniatures company set up by a collector, Ken, for his fellow collectors.

Ken says that ‘As long as I can remember, I’ve been a collector of 54mm (1/32nd scale) toy soldiers. I remember painting them in the backyard as a kid on summer days in Canada, and lining them up in the garden to be lost among the bushes and flowers. If you’re a kid, or a kid at heart, whose passion is still little plastic or metal men, you’re among friends.’

ATKM offers 54mm (1/32nd scale) figures for collectors to display, and more daringly, for wargaming too. When the venture started out, the idea was to offer everything from original pieces to a painting service, and now Ken has taken another step, adding playsets to the mix.

The latest offering from All the King's Men are the new ‘Army in a Box’ playsets. Ken’s bold aim is to try to bridge the gap between toy soldier collectors and wargamers. He wants to show the former that they can do more than ogle their collection on the shelf, and the latter that they can play fun, complete games with ‘big’ figures. To this end he has sculpted a range of 54mm pewter metal toy soldier castings. These are packaged as both wargames play sets, complete with pre-printed colour flags, rules and scenarios, and individual sets of figures etc. ‘Army in a Box’ is intended as a tribute to the classic toy soldier tradition of ‘playsets’, with buildings, diorama accessories and dozens of 54mm soldiers all in one set and all based on one era of history. In fact, ATKM has taken that tradition one step further, bringing the playset fully into the 21st Century by providing wargame rules for using the forces too, including all the game tools you need to lead an army into battle. No more wondering what to do with your soldiers once you've set them up, now you have all you need to play a wargame!
 

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