Paper Soldiers

[Doubting Thomas]

Hi,

I haven't posted on the forum in a long time...like 24 months or more.
I've always wanted a set of 60mm-70mm Ideal toy company toy soldiers.
There are re-casted ones, but I'm not crazy about the price & shipping.

The next best thing is to covert and repaint of some existing figures.
So I've done some redrawing in Auto CAD.
Using Paul's Paper Human...the free X-Wing pilot
I now have some new figures.
These are the results since Aug. 2021

I've made some mistakes on equipment placement on the belts
but it may not matter, they are only for my enjoyment.

There are 16 different poses, so I've got half right now.
Enough text and on to the pictures.

[Elrod4u3]

Your paper soldiers are looking good. Great job!

[rockpaperscissor]

Those are terrific! A number of them look like the "traditional" poses that I remember from my childhood. I had a 4 piece set too: 2 stretcher bearers, injured soldier, and the stretcher. Might make a great addition to your collection. Very nice work. I really enjoyed the post.

[rmks2000]

Very cool! Really well executed.

[Texman]

Very cool!

[VonMick]

The one with bazooka could be easily mistaken for being plastic.
Great job.

[whulsey]

Nice work! Good to see you back.

[MacSongLi]

Very nice work. Great looking soldiers.

Gary

[cardmodeler]

Those are some serious fighting men! I like 'em! Some time back my younger cousin was cleaning out his parents' attic where a lot of his childhood stuff had been stored, some of it I had handed down to him when I grew out of it. It was like opening a time capsule from my youth, with GI Joes (the original 12" from the early/mid sixties), LEGO, tinplate cars, etc. Also found some of my old plastic figures made by Britains, consisting of knights, bicycle racers, and army men. They were some of my favorites to play with and I kept them carefully boxed when they weren't being enjoyed. Sounds like rockpaperscissor and I had some of the same ones, as I also had the guys carrying the wounded man on the stretcher. Only problem is after so many years of being in the attic some of the plastic figures became extremely brittle. I brought a lot of the stuff home and have some of it displayed in my cabinet, reminders of a time when I had no thought of tomorrow, much less fifty some-odd years down the road.

[Doubting Thomas]

Hi all,

Thanks for the support. These aren't that great. Seems like "Old School" style by painting them. I used Van Gogh watercolors olive and it began to fade away a few hours after application. I solved the paint problem with a coat of Future liquid floor wax.

The second picture shows the one I made in comparison with two "Timmee" sailors I found way back in 1974 when my family rented an RV for a vacation trip to Yosemite Nat. Park. Found them between the seat cushions so they are two freebies I've kept for 40 yrs. Painted them with watercolors in the 1980's. Blue & white plastic.

Anyways, this is the #8 in progress and the others will follow. Took a while to get my cannon camera back up and running too. So the pictures shouldn't be as blurry as the tablet camera...which these all are. The angle I held the tablet this morning makes the boots look large. Also the blue background looks almost black.

By the way the stretcher guys, are a different company...Timmee now days Processed Plastics...well actually a different one because they've been sold to different owners. I'll try to add them, and a few other poses. I've got two smaller medic teams with my Marx company battle sets. The Toysolder HQ in Florida is a good place to find the actual plastic ones. I've bought newer ones from the owner.

Jeff