Leo, Roving Reporter
Report from: Bathurst
Story filed: Toy Soldiers
Hi people, Leo here. Today I am going to talk about toy soldiers. I've had some vintage Airfix toy soldiers that used to be my dad's when he was a kid, for a long time now. My dad never got around to painting them all but he did try and paint some with enamel paint because acrylic (which does a better job in my opinion) was not invented and he also wasn't a very good painter. Up till now, they've just been sitting around the house and one night I thought to myself ''I should paint them'' and so now I am. There were so many of them as my dad had a lot of boxes. There's Confederate Infantry, Sheriff of Nottingham, Romans, Washington's Army, North American Indians, Foreign Legion, Waterloo Highland Infantry, Robin Hood, Bedouins, Waterloo French Artillery, U.S Cavalry, and the High Chaparral. We also had some vintage WWII battleships but little kid Leo didn't know the plastic melted when put in front of the bathroom heater and little kid me thought that it was a good idea to dry them off in front of the heater after playing with them in the bath (and I always played with them very gently so they wouldn't break) So, I think we all know what happened to the battleships. To this day all I can find of them is a broken turret (as you will see in the photo. This mistake goes for the French Artillery too as I just took off the wheels a bit too much so now they all have one wheel, same goes for some of the Roman chariots, just one wheel). One day when I have finished this massive project of painting my dad's old models I will proudly place them next to my own models, two generations of models.
Until next time
Leo Roving Reporter
