INTRODUCTION 

I collected and made toy soldiers when I was a boy, now many years have passed and in early 1996 my interest was raised again on seeing a newspaper article of "Boys and Their Toys". This listed different hobbies that grown men had taken back up many years after childhood and once again, gained much pleasure from, but this time with the money to support the hobby.

I have now been making and painting metal toy soldiers since then and wish to show you some of my "craftsmanship", just go to the pages linked on the left to see examples. I had thought that the eyes were shot and the hands may have the shakes, and that I couldn't do it, but not yet, as you will see.
Hope you have a look at all of my work, and give some feedback.

Its great to get a message from fellow collectors around the world as there are only a handful of us here in the South West of Australia and its a long way from all the Toy Soldier Fairs in the rest of the world.
 

Published by: John O'Brien
E-mail: obees@upnaway.com
First Published on 18 Oct. 97 & last updated: 3 April 2023
Fremantle, Western Australia.

On July 1st 2011, a segment of the Nationwide TV show COLLECTORS featured me and my toy soldiers,