Parade panorama – Broken down into smaller sections below.
This small parade is made up of a few of my childhood plastic and Britain’s Deetail figures that have now been paraded by several generations of my family,
along with other lead, aluminium and plastic figures from various makers since collected and from travels all over Britain, some still in need of repair,
and some homecasts that I have made and painted. All mostly 54mm.
Can you spot my homecast avatar Man of TIN saluting?
I ran out of space on the mantelpiece , so couldn’t fit on all my redcoats, pipers, and all. Then there’s the unpainted plastic …
More Guards and Jubilee fun of chocolate boxes, cake toppers, toffee tins and other Guards Toy Soldier stuff in part two of this post this weekend.
Blog posted by Mark Man Of TIN on Platinum Jubilee Day, Thursday 2nd June 2022
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Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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Man of TIN blog two 
Awesome. Great collection.
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Thanks! This is only part of the Redcoat whole … I just don’t have a big enough mantelpiece for a toy shop window Coronation type display.
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Terrific work Mark, looks absolutely splendid!
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Thanks Alan – likewise with your pipers. Busy Queen to be in two places!
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Hi Mark…Superb parade of loyal soldiers. Regards.
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Thanks Tony. A tiny warm up for Trooping the Colour!
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Will have to break out my plastic redcoats guard set. I think I recognize the Queen in the top pictures – I had a commemorative Britain’s colour guard as a kid (four metal figures, with plastic weapons and flags), and her inspecting the guard was another set on the box.
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That is just the right thing to do! The Queen is a 1983 hand-painted Britain’s Metal Model.
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Yes, spotted the saluting bloke. I always love the ceremonial figures. Of course, they fight in my wargames, same as all the rest.
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Good spotting in our Jubilee “Wheres Wally?” style spot Man of TIN contest.
As in real life, few of these red coats are ceremonial only. You can see plentiful medals on chests. The bandsmen are often also medics IRL etc.
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Excellent parade. I confess I had a handful of Britains guardsmen (and my daughter’s a not-to-scale Hello Kitty Guardsbear) on duty for our own celebrations!
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Thanks Marvin. Good to know that you had your troops out on parade. A Hello Kitty Guardbear is a new one to me …
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