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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collectors passion borders on the chaos of memories"
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Click For Our Figure of the Week
Each week one of the MTSC staff will pick out their favorite figure, be it old or new, glossy or matte, cheap or $$$.
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Forces of Valor
Below is a complete listing of all Forces of Valor releases to date. We have listed their entire production including retired items, figures and mass market (big box retailers) releases.
We ask any collectors with additions and corrections to notify us and help us keep this list up-to-date. |
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Forces of Valor
Arranged By Series
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Forces of Valor
Arranged Numerically
Printable Checklist for Collectors
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| Click Here to Visit the Offical Forces of Valor Website |
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MTSC HOW-TO #1
Painting, Enhancing and Converting Plastic
Toy Soldiers and Figures
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MTSC Tip #2
Understanding Scales for Plastic Toy Soldiers
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MTSC Tip #3
Working with Plastic Figure. Glues, Primers, Straightening Weapons and Other Useful Tips
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MTSC Tip #4
'Gearbox' 1:24 Scale Vehicles for Dimestore Collectors
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Display is Everything
Old Chinese Proverb
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MTSC Tips #1
Displaying your figures.
Diorama and Display Ideas
Enhance your Miltaria Collection and more
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Collectors and Their Collections
A Gallery of Collectors and Modelers
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Buying, Collecting and
Identifying Old Toy Soldiers
The amount of misidentified and misrepresented merchandise being sold via the internet is alarming. Whether it is intentional or not the collector and customer should at the very least be aware of what they are paying for. We have begun assembling this series on what to look for and what to watch for when buying or collecting old toy soldiers.
Any input from fellow collectors is welcomed and appreciated.
Click Here to Learn More
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Rearm the troops with...
Replacement Weapons for Britains Plastic
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The Swoppet figures produced by Britains Ltd in the 1960s were very innovative and exciting; but encountering these figures on today's market many times the weapons are missing rendering them useless in battle. In 1996 Replicants of England received a license from Britains Ltd to produce replacement spare parts for Swoppet and Deetail figures. These weapons are exact reproductions of the originals.
Replacement Weapons
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MTSC Collector's Tip for Composition Figures
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Some old dirty and dusty composition toy soldiers can be brought back to life be lightly cleaning them with 'Stand Oil.' This is a product used by artists for painting and should be available in most art supply stores. It will not harm the paint and will bring faded paint back to life. Note that Stand Oil does leave a slight glossy look to the figure but after it has been applied for a period of time (1-2 weeks) it can be lightly rubbed off, leaving a look similar to the original factory issue. A sample jar of Stand Oil is available from Michigan Toy Soldier for $1.75.
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Left: Before Treatment
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MTSC Collector's Tip for Composition Figures
Repair composition figures using 'Plastic Wood' or 'Duro's Wood Putty.' Fix detached body parts or missing pieces. Since stress cracks are considered by many collectors to be a natural part of the figure we strongly advise against filling them in unless you are completely restoring and repainting a figure. A & B epoxy works equally as well and is used by most figure sculptors. Repaint figures using Humbrol or other similar enamel paint.
Whether to restore a figure or not is a matter of personal preference but keep in mind that as a rule of thumb most dealers and collectors use the 50% rule. If 50% or more of a figure is missing paint or parts, restore it otherwise leave it alone. After a figure has been restored is the honorable thing to mark it as such.
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Click here to view a...
Collector's Tip for Converting Elastolin Figures
A photo guide to enhancing and converting Hausser/Elastolin plastic figures.
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WE NEED YOUR INPUT!
This area of our web site is for input from fellow collectors. We are soliciting articles and contributions from anybody with something of interest to fellow collectors of Toy Soldiers, Historical Miniatures, Historical Figure kit modelers and so on...
Collectors are encouraged to submit something on their own collections. Manufactures are also welcome to submit the history and product lines of their company. We would like to have complete lists with photos of complete product lines included with any articles submitted.
Please eMail ideas and suggestions to info@michtoy.com
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