Men In Boxes

I have a new blog about plastic toy soldiers! I've reached a point where I felt that I wanted a specific blog to highlight one of my favorite collections. I've been collecting for some time now, and although I've already lost a great portion of the toy soldiers I grew up with, I'm slowly building up a new collection, one I'd like to share with fellow enthusiasts. Thus, Wee Men was born. To prevent overlapping content with my other blogs, my criteria for including content here are the following: plastic only figures must be depictions of uniformed military personnel from all eras and may include knights, cowboys, pirates, and other subjects that involve combat-related themes Figure scale must be in the ff scales: 1:24, 1:28, 1:32, 1:35, 1:56, 1:48, 1:72, 1:76, 1:87 and even smaller scales Posed figures only; no work-in-progress pictures Painted or unpainted Some of these might end up as wargaming armies. Some might not. Just expect most of my pla...

Life has been oh so toxic this month with a heatwave enveloping my city and midterm national elections. I have to game soon. Here are some posed pictures of two HotT armies I'm working on. One is a fantasy Greek army while the other is a fantasy Egyptian army. Not really a game, just a photo op.  

Here are more figures, this time from Caesar Miniatures. These are Special Forces outfitted in a variety of kits. Caesar does very nice sculpting and posing although their rifles need some more work in terms of detailing and accuracy. Overall, a nice set that could help out in my Philippine Army project. posted from Bloggeroid

I'm working on getting figs suitable to build a small Philippine Army force for Fubar or Force on Force and have settled to using 1:72 models since I have a lot of kits I'd like to build and use. Based on pictures on the net, most of the Philippine Army soldiers carry a variety of US kit, sometimes dating to the Vietnam war and upto the more recent equipment changes. Here are a few figures I'm considering from Italeri's reissue of ESCI's US Special Forces in Vietnam. posted from Bloggeroid

Here're the troops I'm working on for a Sog of Blades and Heroes game. I'm a fan of the comicbook Swamp Thing and the current storyline of the Green (plant life) fighting the Rot (death and decay) caught my fancy. These figures are part of a Mageknight lot I got dirt cheap from former players of the game who gave the system up after the maker, Wizkids, went bellyup. They've been repainted and rebased with flocking follow. More on these, as well as SoBH stats soon. posted from Bloggeroid

Got lucky and scored this lot for a sog and a dance :) Oh, happy day! posted from Bloggeroid

 From Hat Industries' 1/72 Punic Wars range. Painted in acrylics.