Nice job . Would like to pass along a tip I use. I only deal in plastic soldiers, but may help someone. Liquid super glue that takes a little longer to harden then dust it with baking soda . It will instantly harden and you can layer it and file it to shape. No wait time at all.
@bronzesnake7004
4 жыл бұрын
I love your work, but what I love even more is the fact that these wonderful figures are becoming harder and harder to find, and there's fewer and fewer people like you left who appreciate and love them enough to take care of them like this because most people would just throw them out and that is so sad Willy. I'm 57, and my grandfather came from Yorkshire England, Bingley to live with us in the early 60s when I was maybe three years old. My father was a WWII veteran, he served aboard the carrier HMS Illustrious, and my mother did her bit assembling bomb components for bomber command. My parents never got over the "ration" mindset. They never bought anything new, even our toys at Christmas, many were toys mom and granddad found at flea-markets and garage sales. But I loved the old toys more often much more than the new toys we got, because they were awesome! They always found fantastic toys that you would never see anywhere! A lot were from England, these huge meccano sets, and they weren't opened, but they were often ten or more years old because I saw the dates on the boxes. I got a huge bunch of Thunderbird toys one year, and all kinds of Matchbox/Lesney Corgi and Dinky toys which were my absolute favorites! It was my grandfather who introduced me to those awesome British diecast, but he also gave me a huge box of led soldiers. There were a couple of hundred pieces - some were older Red Coats, and Russian soldiers, with calvary, canons, and bayonet soldiers. There were WWI and WWII pieces also and a bunch of cowboys and indians many on horses, and a bunch of civil war pieces with canons also. My grandfather collected them and gave them all to me and my brother. He always bought us diecast every Christmas and birthdays. And he would very often just come home after work, or on a weekend with bags full of diecast for us, he was such a wonderful grandfather. My brother was five years older, so when we lost grandma, I was home with grandpa and we became very close, I still miss him very much. We had a fire aqt the house and all the led soldiers were melted, and it just broke his heart, and mine...I still feel sick remembering that first time we walked through the house after the fire and found out beloved pet Minah bird Larry, a wonderful talker dead, then as that heartache pierced us we walked into the den and found them melted, and I immediately looked at my grandfather with horror in my eyes, and he took his thick pop bottle bottom glasses off and he was wiping his eyes and I just started crying, so he put them back on, he sucked it up and put his arm around me and in his thick Yorkshire accent said "it's alright Jack, we still have out Corgis lad, come on cheer up" and he walked me out. Of course I didn't fully appreciate what he had given me, sure I absolutely loved it and spent hour after hour playing with those soldiers, and near drove my poor mum up the wall because more often than not she had to pick up this huge pile of these led soldiers, because I never just took a bunch out, I always took them ALL out!! A couple of hundred led soldiers, horses, canon, all in a number of different poses, and some days I spent most of my time bending the rifles, swords and bayonets back to shape after granddad came in and saw I had not been as careful as he had constantly been instructing me to be! lol! I had saved every toys that meant something to me in the attic as I grew too old to play with them, and then after I moved out started working and got my own place I forgot all about them for years. When I decided to go up to the attic when my folks were retiring and about to put the Toronto house up for sale when we all decided to move North, they were all gone. Mum had sold everything, not thinking I cared about them when I hadn't bothered with them for so many years. I was heart sick, but didn't let Mum know, I didn't blame her one bit. To her they were just old toys right. So after I was married and had three sons I started collecting the old diecast I loved when I was a boy with my granddad. It was so easy once the PC came out, then EBay came around! I got all the old Corgi Dinky, Matchbox and Lesney I could get hold of! The special ones my granddad bought at Christmas - the Batmobiles, both scales, the Batboat and Batcopter! The Man from U.N.C.L.E.! The Saint! James Bond's DB5 with the ejector seat, machines guns, and bullet proof plate at the rear window! James Bond's Lotus Esprit Submarine Car! The Green Hornet! The Corgi Chevy Impala Fire Chief car, the Corgi Land Rovers, I have a few of those, Tow Service, Public Speaker...The big Dinky Cadillac Ambulances, and the most special is my late brother's prised blue Dinky Delivery Service car transporter, which he somehow managed to hold onto since he got it when he was maybe 6 or 7 years old in 1963 or 64. I'm looking at it right now and it fills my heart with the warmest Christmas memories... Anyway, oh oh! I've gone and yammered my face off! LOL! Willy I love your work and it warms my heart knowing there are still awesome people like you who love these special things as much as I do, and my grandfather did!! Thank you brother!! You've brought back a swarm of the most wonderful memories of my life, thank you so much!! Jack - Canada ~'()'~
@WillyDahm
4 жыл бұрын
I find them in old junk boxes and in antique markets. In London Markets they are 2 or 3 pounds. Thanks for the kind words. Cheers Willy
@manweller1
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your vid it's inspired me to try and restore some of my broken airfix men.
@dougssoldiers1929
3 жыл бұрын
The “paper” soldier is from a type called composition. Made from resin and other materials like wood and/or plaster pressed around a wire skeleton. Look up toy names like Elastolin, Lineol and Chialu.
@ToyzNWheelz
4 жыл бұрын
Some real nice soldiers there ! Those composition soldiers are probably made by Elastolin.(parent company Hausser from Germany) Made from sawdust, chalk, and resin, they were heat pressed into moulds. Production ended in 1943 because of the war, and resumed in the early fifties but plastic was eventually used in production. A very interesting video. Thanks!
@WillyDahm
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the very interesting information. Cheers Willy
@stevetheduck1425
2 жыл бұрын
This range of soldiers can sometimes be found in modern Preiser catalogues. The range has been reduced, especially the WWII or pre-war Nazi figures, but several can still be found, notably the bandsmen and parade marching soldiers.
@georgemartinezjr
Жыл бұрын
Love this do you have a Video on painting this Figures as well
@brianthornton8312
4 жыл бұрын
Good job thanks 👌
@WillyDahm
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback.
@georgemartinezjr
Жыл бұрын
Can I use the c KB weld to repair plastic Soldiers
@martindaredare
4 жыл бұрын
Great work, and a very interesting video ,thanks
@WillyDahm
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment...Cheers Willy
@georgemartinezjr
Жыл бұрын
Have you ever used Milliput
@leonardotonin7608
3 жыл бұрын
Hi I recently bought a Del Prado lead soldier. In the package, the soldier holds a spear only that has detached from his hand, however the spear is not detached from the model because it is impaled on the pedestal. What glue do you recommend to use? Greetings from 🇮🇹
@WillyDahm
3 жыл бұрын
I use J-B Weld 8281 Takes 24 hrs to harden but works well. Grey finish and can be filed. If you want it to not be seen and no touch ups you could use super glue but it may break off again if handled. Greetings from France.
@georgemartinezjr
Жыл бұрын
You said you be filling most of your life We're young apprentice to a jeweler
@simoneshapiro8873
3 жыл бұрын
I have a Britain Deetail soldier that is missing the little notches in his feet that fit through the base to hold him. Any suggestions as to how to attach him to the base?
@fishgazoo5851
3 жыл бұрын
Clean off base, clean bottom of soldier's boots. Use Superglue and set to dry for a few hours. Not much else you can do for a Britain Soldier figure. You will need to repaint base green and the boots! Hope you well!
@WillyDahm
3 жыл бұрын
Use J&B weld. One also can put a small nail (pin) up through the base into the leg and then epoxy it together.
@martinjones7246
2 жыл бұрын
To fix my Britains Deetail figures who are missing the plastic lugs on the end of the feet I do the following. I have an electric minidrill and I drill out the feet. You need a small drill and two small screws. When feet are drilled (I go in at the heel of the boot and into the lower leg.) Place the metal stand over the feet and line up. Do up the screws through the stand into the feet. You will have to get the right size (small) screws from a hardware store, or you may have them around your place? I have taken them off old non working electricals like transistor radios, toasters or plastic alarm clocks. They seem to use the same size screws. When it's done, they don't (slide about) and are stronger.
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