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"Hey, Barry... I can see your mother-in-law down there" - "Okay... I've got it, mate"

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Just happened to notice this, kind of expensive but knowing it exists maybe you can find a bargain copy someplace. https://www.michtoy.com/item-MPB-Poo...T_KNIGHTS.html

^ Wow! Thanks, buddy - I had no idea about the existence of this book! These are the most sought after figures of all in the world of toy soldiers. Very grateful to you for this and I've found another link here:

https://www.swordsandrosesbook.com/

(I've also passed this on to the 'Swoppet Knight' Facebook group, since I've never seen it mentioned there either)

I'd maybe do that if I didn't mind getting a repetitive strain injury

Thought you might appreciate a look at these too. If nothing else you might find some of the buildings useful.

https://peterspaperboys.com/

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/

^ Well what an amazing idea! Years ago I joined the group "Papermodelers.com" but I've only visited there a few times - always vowing to go back and look more often when I see how great some of this stuff is, but it never occurred to me to use these paper kits as a backdrop for my toy soldiers - I just don't know how I didn't think of that because it suits the subject so perfectly. I guess because I've only just started to take photos of them

My next plan was to photograph some of my cowboys, so I'd begun searching for a photo backdrop for these - but now with your idea I'm going back to Papermodelers to look for a model Wild West town instead! Thanks again, friend - I'm really looking forward to this one now and I'll share the pics right here when it's done :Kaleun_Salute:

Look at this little beauty - only problem is it's in 1/76 scale - and scaled up x2 loses too much definition. Never mind though, as it can instead be 'further away' using what's known to modellers as "forced perspective"

https://i.imgur.com/4rCB3v6.jpg

Some toy gunfighters posed in front of this... or maybe bank robbers and the sheriff

Swoppets didn't make any saloon girls? :D

The Britains figures did include ladies but they were usually either dancing or milking cows :)

http://i.imgur.com/FXYegDS.jpg

"Miss Scarlet - Wild West Saloon Madam"

25mm White Metal - Reaper Miniatures......with a bit of searching you could probably find some of her girls too. :)

For 25mm this has got a lot of detail:up:

The guy with the paper armies has several books with those soldiers on Amazon for a cheap price. He also has a book of card model European buildings that I imagine couuld be scaled up or used in the background the way they are.
https://www.amazon.com/European-Buil...s%2C160&sr=8-1

^ I see that most of this stuff comes in 1:28 and believe this is the preferred scale for wargaming. I've now successfully scaled up the western town store kit to 54mm scale with no pixillation

https://i.imgur.com/oXB6ml1.jpg

Meanwhile here are some Roman legionaries by Timpo/Toyway (I'll show the whole set of 10 against a decent background later). These three were not given shields for some reason (shields are all moulded onto the others) so I found some Timpo swoppet Roman shields in the spares which fit them just nice - I knew they'd come in handy one day

I painted these figures up myself as the original factory job wasn't great, and they are so good otherwise

https://i.imgur.com/JHVaYZw.jpg

This is an Airfix cowboy on a Britains horse. Together they make a fine figure - more like a model than a toy - so I gave them a diorama setting to show them at their best