Ancient Russia. Soldiers battles

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I decided to continue the excursion into the world of soldiers with an article dedicated to the medieval soldiers of Russia.

Ancient Russia. Soldiers battles

I. Ya. Bilibin. Prince Igor




Every boy in the Soviet Union played with these heroes.

And the origins of these flat soldiers can be found in the so-called Nuremberg miniature, which began to be mass-produced in Germany from the end of the first half of the nineteenth century. The ancestor of the production of flat figures of tin soldiers was Nuremberg craftsman Joachim Gottfried Hilpert, who lived in the eighteenth century. He produced the Prussian army of Frederick the Great, and the figure of Frederick himself brought him additional glory.

A bit of history


It is difficult to say why in the USSR it was the flat form that gained popularity, and later, at a time when voluminous figures were actively produced in neighboring European countries, we focused on the flat ones.

I think the explanation is simple: the first is the economy of production, the second is the inertia in the production of toys, and the third is the Soviet soldiers 50-60. XX century originate from the soldiers of the 30-40 years of production of private cooperatives, and all of them were also flat. You can even observe the evolution of some figures from cooperative 40's to mass 70's, they have not changed much. The established forms made it possible to produce a lot, to give a “shaft” without working on quality.

With the introduction of plastic toys in the 50-60's of the twentieth century. and in the Soviet Union they switched to the production of plastic soldiers, all the more so since it reduced its cost and made it possible to make large volumes.

If we talk about the old Russian toy army, their aesthetics always surprised me: quite strange postures of the heroes, which were difficult to use in battle. One of the warriors, for example, holds a sword only with a guard and for a guard, without a hilt.

It can be assumed that the sculptors who worked during this period were under the serious influence of the works of the artists of the “Russian Art Nouveau” V. M. Vasnetsov and I. Ya. Bilibin, authors of different, but many depicting Old Russian warriors in the Art Nouveau style. Fashionable during this period, I. S. Glazunov, who also wrote Russia, did not differ in originality in the image of soldiers. All the same type in appearance and armament, from the 10th to the 17th century, under the general name "Old Russian warrior". This is probably why miniatures present more expression, movement, one might say, epic, but little realism.

But the end of the 70's - the beginning of the 80's was a time of change, voluminous soldiers were produced in the GDR and Poland, at the same time the Donetsk toy factory began to produce voluminous soldiers, there was nothing for children to compare with.

I already wrote in the article, dedicated to viking soldiers, that today there is an opinion that we did not have to buy molds of the Mars company (USA) for the Donetsk plant, but create our own: take not the Vikings and Indians, but from our stories. This, of course, would be correct, but it is known for certain that this decision (on the purchase of American uniforms) was justified by cost savings in its own development.

At the same time, there was a debate about whether we needed a military toy as a whole or not: if the party leadership believed that our peaceful society did not need soldiers, then the Komsomol believed that such a toy educates future soldiers and it is necessary.

Warriors in the USSR


So, the first set to appear at the very end of the 60's was the Russian Warriors kit, known today as the Don Camp. About twenty years it was produced by the Progress factory, the set consisted of 8 foot and 2 equestrian warriors, it cost 45 kopecks. This is, of course, as it is now customary to say, a cult set produced in millions of copies and duplicated by other toy factories (the Saratov toy factory made soldiers in blue). It was about this set with a strange aesthetics that I wrote above.


"Russian warriors." Plant "Progress"


At the same time, the Progress toy factory, which was created in 1966 by the union of two metal toy factories, produced the same Russian soldiers in metal (TsAM). Riders cost 25 kopecks. On foot warriors cost 15 kopecks. They were sold separately at the Soyuzpechat kiosks and as a set in toy stores.


"Russian warriors." Plant "Progress". TsAM


Still worth remembering about the similar warriors that were produced at the factory to them. 50 anniversary of the USSR in the city of Kotovsk, Tambov region. These are very strange, non-artistic figures, but because of their “strangeness” and extreme rarity, they are very popular with collectors.


"Russian warriors." Plant them. 50 anniversary of the USSR. Kotovsk


The big disadvantage of all these sets was the lack of opponents: with whom to fight?

However, the same question could be addressed to all kits dedicated to our army, with rare exceptions.

But here is another mass set that every boy had, corrected this error. This is an "Ice Battle" (or "Battle of the Ice") worth 1 rubles. 10 kopecks. The number of soldiers is 20: 10 Russian and 10 German knights, in each squad of 3 rider and 7 on foot. Russians were red or crimson, Germans were green. Later brown and gray.


"Ice battle." Plant "Progress". Figures of the beginning of the 70's


If the equipment of the old Russian soldiers was vaguely reminiscent of warriors and combatants of the 13th century (which are only “mirrors” on the chest of the infantry and Alexander Nevsky), then the “knights”, with the exception of one figure, went back to the end of the 14th century and higher. The cult film of S. M. Eisenstein “Alexander Nevsky”, which constantly, to the delight of the boys, was shown on television at that time, contributed to the real right battles of “ours” with the knights. The myth, which the film involuntarily propagated by the soldiers, showing the soldiers of the Order with such armored vehicles, is tenacious even today, although a new myth has appeared: now they talk about heavier weapons of the Russians compared to the Germans.

The low cost of these sets made it possible to "reconstruct" the battle on Lake Peipsi, a scheme which, thanks to the history textbook of the 4 class and the wonderful "Book of Future Commanders" by Anatoly Vasilyevich Mityaev, was known to any boy.

In the 70 years of the twentieth century, Old Russian soldiers and their opponents launched the Astretsovo metal toy factory located in the Dmitrov district of the Moscow region. Astresovo is a historical place for the production of Russian tin toys from the middle of the 19th century to the 1990. It is unfortunate that such a wonderful tradition for the production of tin toys has perished, just recently, when in Madrid, I saw a Spanish tin modern toy store: wonderful clockwork motorcycles, cars, trains and clowns.

At the Astretsov factory, a set of soldiers was made of TsAM alloy, from the end of 80's without blackening. The set included 8 horsemen: four Russians and four of their opponents. They were sold in a box and placed on a plastic stand. The sculptor of these figures was B.D. Saveliev. His son, D. B. Saveliev continued this series, making 16 foot soldiers. The soldiers were extremely fragile, especially the infantrymen, which is probably why the same figures in plastic were released, but only equestrian ones. It is amazing how control bodies missed such fragile products that literally broke in their hands. Naturally, plastic ones were sharply more stable and unbreakable.


"Warriors of the Middle Ages." Astretsovo metal toy factory


At the same time, in Leningrad, at the Leningrad Carburetor Plant (LKZ), the “Ice Slaughter” set was produced.

The set consisted of 14 enemy warriors: six on foot and eight horsemen, the knights were “chained” in armor around the fourteenth century. The horses made huge tails to support the figures. The use of such elements gave unreality, fairy tale to such soldiers. The figures were located on a plastic high stand, closed with a transparent cover.


"Battle on the Ice". Leningrad carburetor plant.


The complex and small elements of the soldiers quickly broke, so, despite the large volumes of production, few of these figures have survived to our time. It is worth adding that in Leningrad every boy had them and they ... correctly, actively smashed with the help of cubes. Therefore, today the set is extremely popular among collectors and its value is constantly growing.

The author of the figures was the famous sculptor L.V. Razumovsky, who created many toys.

The production of this set, however, in plastic, was continued at the beginning of the twenty-first century. in Ukraine - in Lugansk by the Alpanus company. The figures were slightly smaller than in the Leningrad set. They were made of multi-colored plastic and, unlike their older metal counterparts, they were fragile.


"Battle on the Ice". Alpanus. Lugansk


L. V. Razumovsky was the author of another set, which has been successfully produced since 1987, according to other information - from 1991, and is still available. This is a set of "Battle of Kulikovo" (later - "Russia and the Horde"). The set was made in multi-colored plastic. Initially, it was produced at the Leningrad carburetor plant. Rusichi were red, and the Horde were blue.


"Battle of Kulikovo". Tatars. Leningrad carburetor plant


Now you can find sets of different colors. After LKZ, the figures were produced by the Baltic Chemical Company and Plastmaster. A total of 14 figures, of which ancient Russian warriors are 5 mounted and 2 on foot. Among the Tatars, all are equestrian, but one figure is double, an archer stands next to the rider with a lasso.

These are very well-made miniatures, more or less reflecting realities, just the fourteenth century.

Below I give a photo of a colored version of the “Kulikovo battle”, it is worth saying that among collectors of soldiers it’s not accepted to paint figures, they should be preserved in their original form.


"Battle of Kulikovo". Rusichi. Plastmaster


In addition to the Soviet flat warriors, it is worth noting that in the NDP cooperatives produced, among other things, soldiers on the subject of the early history of Poland, outwardly they looked very much like the Old Russian army, judge for yourself:


Warriors of Poland. Cooperative production. NDP


But in the 80's, the Progress association released the first voluminous Old Russian warriors, and the absolute innovation was the fact that the warriors had a removable weapon, that is, in the game it was possible to change swords, spears, axes and maces in warriors. The release of the "Russian squad" on a scale of 60 mm, and even voluminous, was a step forward, but all this happened already at the end of children's interest in such a toy.


"Russian squad." Plant "Progress"


The heroes of our day


In the 90s, interest in soldiers fell completely, especially since the topic of ancient military history became completely irrelevant. Although, for example, DZI released its sets until the very beginning of the XXI century. During this period, the company "Technologist" appeared in the city of Gelendzhik (1987), it produces inexpensive soldiers for board games and coloring in sizes 40-54 mm. In her line "Artmaster" there are Rusichs and Varangians.


"Rusichi". Plant "Technologist"


During perestroika, the direction of the military-historical metal miniature (VIM) began to actively develop. And only at the beginning of the "zero" by the forces of collectors of enthusiastic Soviet soldiers was an attempt to develop the process interrupted at the end of the 80's made. The desire to give it mass was not crowned with success: the children played other games, and just like in the case of soldiers in the 60 years, cinema played a significant role in promoting the toy. And the heroes were no longer heroes and Vikings, pirates or cowboys. Interestingly, the Lego company in 2004, being at the bankruptcy stage, began to actively use the series to promote their toys, and this saved the situation.

In the same year in Moscow, the collector of soldiers, Timur Zamilov, created the Ura company, which produced an assortment of soldiers from TsAM that exceeded the entire Soviet one. Among them was a set dedicated to the battle on Lake Peipsi.

They were flat, well-painted warriors, made in a deliberately toy style. The set was sold in a beautiful gift box.


"Battle on the Ice". Company "Hurray"


St. Petersburg companies, which also created flat metal soldiers on the themes of the famous battles of Alexander Nevsky, did not want to lag behind Moscow. The Soldiers for All Time company released a set of flat opponents in the Ice Battle from white TsAM, in 2019 they made the same figures in multi-colored plastic.


"Battle on the Ice". "Soldiers for all time"


And the company “Soldiers Publiya” first created a set of horsemen and infantry based on the battle on Lake Peipsi, then a master and Alexander Nevsky in metal, followed by foot soldiers on the battle on the Neva, first in TsAM and later in plastic.


The Battle of Grunwald. The Soldiers of Publius


Their next stage was the release of three-dimensional figures on a scale of 60 mm on the theme of the Grunwald and Kulikovo battles, and, of course, on the battle on the ice of Lake Peipsi. It is worth noting that the Battle of Grunwald was made for the first time in Russia, before it was done only in Poland.

When developing master models, the company relies on popular science reconstruction work, which gives special significance to its figures.


"Battle on the Ice". The Soldiers of Publius


The company "Engineer Basevich" released a set of voluminous soldiers "Ancient Slavs" on a scale of 54 mm. And in 2018, the company released a magnificent set of No. 23 foot “Nomads”, where there are Khazars, Pechenegs and Polovtsians. The company traditionally has very high detail and elaboration.


"The ancient Slavs." "Engineer Basevich"


More recently, the company "Warriors and Battles" is actively developing the theme of the game flat soldier. She made as part of the series “Kievan Rus. Friends and Enemies ”of horsemen, infantry, magi, squad of Ancient Russia, as well as their opponents, Polovtsy.


Magus. "Warriors and battles." It is gratifying that the manufacturers of soldiers are turning to such interesting topics.


In conclusion, I want to say that the soldiers are still primarily a toy, so you should not judge them very strictly, from the heights of our historical knowledge. I will say more, often the expensive and painted by professional artists VIM also does not withstand any criticism from the point of view of historical reconstruction. Another thing, is such a task facing the authors?

And the last one. Today, voluminous plastic soldiers reach a high degree of detail and historical authenticity.

This is where I end the review of soldiers - warriors of Ancient Russia.

To be continued ...
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  1. +9
    27 September 2019 05: 50
    Scale is a ratio, for example 1:33, or 1/72. In millimeters, the size is measured (height, length, width). Yes, I'm a bore.
    1. +4
      27 September 2019 11: 51
      I'm boring wink . Is there a scale of 1:33? The main scales of the figures are 1:35 and 1:72. Well, another size 54 mm. Much less often - 1:16, 1:48, 1:87.
    2. +1
      27 September 2019 13: 04
      And I'm used to mm, my collection consists of such miniatures. Chic miniatures are made by Nikolai Drabant-miniatures. He has a wonderful line of Russ.




      1. +1
        27 September 2019 17: 22
        The legs are short! And so very good.
  2. +3
    27 September 2019 06: 15
    The "battle on the ice" of the "red-green" heroes and crusaders, ruled in the 70s, only not on the ice, but in the yard sandbox laughing
    1. +2
      27 September 2019 11: 00
      I had such in my childhood, they gave me 4 sets for my birthday, it was joy. He arranged whole battles.
      1. +2
        27 September 2019 11: 58
        They had a catchy, rather pleasant smell of new plastic. laughing
        1. +2
          27 September 2019 15: 24
          Yes it was, the smell is unforgettable.
  3. +13
    27 September 2019 06: 51
    A cousin served in Brno / Czechoslovakia / and from there brought a present --- a beautiful box with a showcase like a model car, and there are knights in it. Beautiful and interesting, because they were painted and collapsible. It was possible to combine. I forgot exactly what emblems on their shields were depicted, but now it has become interesting --- from the bulldozer then painters painted their shields or they were historically reliable.
    There are opportunities now to master the production of such soldiers, which field is not plowed --- because so many eras can be cast in plastic. And produce sets of 100-200 units. It is to have a lot of them. And I never liked that the set is limited to dozens of figures --- you can’t build any tactical depth with such a miserable amount. There must be many soldiers! fellow
    1. +8
      27 September 2019 07: 03
      Then he was sorting out old things brought to the country ... I found several sets of my children's soldiers from the 80s. He brought it to the Son, they didn’t have any impression on him ... why are Dad so ugly, he asks request
      But now you can buy high-quality miniatures, real tin, both painted and simply cast (it’s possible to paint it yourself), the Spouse draws well - that’s what they paint with the Son (they look at historical literature, the details are gorgeous) plus quality sets from good Western manufacturers ... I bought my Napoleonic Wars (the number of one hundred pieces) ... that's where you can play whole battles! good
      1. +1
        27 September 2019 07: 14
        For especially wealthy children, on Aliexpress there are figures on a scale of 1/6, taking different poses with a set of weapons and uniforms of different times, even our Russian special forces soldier came across in the "hill", but we at times developed with simple plastic and tin casts in childhood their imagination, so modern children do not understand the charm of these simple miniatures.
        1. +3
          27 September 2019 09: 22




          Chinese hit the world laughing
          1. +1
            27 September 2019 09: 33

            There are Rusichs.
            1. +3
              27 September 2019 10: 29
              It is still necessary to collect and colorize!
              And the soldiers - they are always ready for battle laughing
              Except for jokes: the Chinese are so non-name, in this direction VIM is full of cool companies with fantastic detail. And there are a lot of masters in Russia, they will do it - better than living wink
              Russia in general in this direction is far ahead, I mean the master, color, and VIM: 54 mm., 120 mm.
              1. +1
                27 September 2019 10: 53
                Of course, everything is divided into mass and collection products, from this the price is up, just to the fact that in our childhood there was no such diverse choice ...
        2. +3
          27 September 2019 09: 39
          It will be about these figures my big article with interesting photographs. Already written!
          1. +6
            27 September 2019 11: 53
            We tried on the 20th century to make sets. And otnostelno toy and detailed.

      2. +5
        27 September 2019 07: 22
        Good luck in the battles, Field Marshal! Or maybe the Emperor himself ... and I have a daughter crying )))
      3. +3
        27 September 2019 12: 06
        Brought - to the Son, they didn’t have any impression on him ... why are Dad they are so ugly, asks request
        But now you can buy high-quality miniatures, real tin, both painted and simply cast (it’s possible to paint it yourself), the Spouse draws well - that’s what they paint with the Son (they look at historical literature, the details are gorgeous) plus quality sets from good Western manufacturers ... I bought my Napoleonic Wars (the number of one hundred pieces) ... that's where you can play whole battles! good

        Dear ANTIQUE!
        Does your son go out into the yard with these painted soldiers? Allows others to play them? Or, how "Tsar Koschey wasted over them"?
        Yes, toys in the USSR were modest in color and quality of the material! But we carried them into the yard. We played them with friends! They fought with friends over broken toys - everything was!
        1. +5
          27 September 2019 12: 23
          Alexei, modern children, unlike us, stopped making toys and playing in the yards. request So, bike or football.
          At home, he plays with friends, realizing their value - he treats him carefully (for all the time only one comb on the shako has been broken off, carefully restored). Those soldiers who color with Mom (I encourage this lesson in every possible way, study secret military history) are happy to give their friends on holidays ... Children who receive such a gift are simply indescribable delight! Even most parents believed that such instances - are only in museums!
          Regards, Alexey.
          1. +1
            27 September 2019 12: 33
            At home, he plays with friends, realizing their value - he treats him carefully (for all the time only one comb on the shako has been broken off, carefully restored).

            More could not write!
            So we did not understand the value of toys or their penny value did not affect our children's consciousness! Soldiers are consumables!
            It turns out, as in the old Georgian fairy tale about the ruble earned!
            He spoiled the children of the USSR in the late 70s and early 880s.
            It was then that they began to shake for the GDR bear or for the Indians.
            And Soviet soldiers or combatants - why take care of them. hi
    2. +4
      27 September 2019 07: 30
      [quote] [There should be many soldiers! / quote]
      Axiom!!! good
      1. +2
        27 September 2019 10: 57
        There must be many soldiers!

        Well-known Malcolm Forbes also thought so, so he put together a collection of
        115 copies illustrating the main battles of world history. He kept it in his Tangier Palais Mendoub.
        Unfortunately, after his death, the collection was sold in parts.
        1. +5
          27 September 2019 11: 04

          The battle of El Ksar al-Kebir (the battle of the three kings) from the Forbes collection.
    3. +8
      27 September 2019 08: 26
      Dear Stormbreaker,
      You probably write about the GDR knights - there was one set of them, now someone bought this "company" and continues to make this set.
      The shields were accurately painted "from the bulldozer", since the mid-80s our set of knights (on foot) appeared - a copy of the Italian ones, they were made at the Progress plant, the shields were also painted just like that, but you could do it yourself)
      Opportunities now are to master the production of such soldiers, which field is not plowed --- because so many eras can be cast in plastic.

      Now there are a lot of companies listed in the article of the Russian Federation company - these are companies that are also sold on the American market, while they produce more new products than the Americans do for you.
      Firms are not many, but not few.
      The problem, as I wrote in the article, in one thing - this is all for collectors, children do not play, at all.
      The price of a set of Russian production - 1500-3000 rubles per set, very, very much. One hundred units - no one will buy.
      Plus - collectors need not everything, the majority do not delve into the historical details of the figures: who collects by epoch, for example, someone by brand, etc.

      There is still VIM - there are their own topics, I wrote a little about this in an article about the Vikings, just like in wargame.
      Something like this.
      There must be many soldiers!

      I absolutely agree, but, there are big limitations.
      Sincerely.
  4. +3
    27 September 2019 07: 26
    The warriors against the knight dogs ...
    I look at these figures and recall my childhood. Even what kind of toys were of high quality (I’m talking about Soviet sets). It is not surprising that they are being bought and hunted for.
    The nuances of the author are accurately noticed
  5. +5
    27 September 2019 07: 27
    "There will be poetry and mathematics,
    Honors, debts, unequal battle,
    Today the tin soldiers
    Here on the old map they were put into operation "(c)
    If it didn't work out for me with the Vikings, then these sets were all (until 1985) and more than one set. Childhood breathed.
    Thanks Edward!
    1. +7
      27 September 2019 08: 33
      It was a childhood dream.

      Yes it is.
      Miraculously, my mother kept everything, the children "disassembled" the entire collection of prefabricated models for details), and fifteen years ago I thought, maybe I could start collecting (loudly said), or just search, but what is there, how? and plunged into this world.
      Of course, I'm still a collector, not a fan.
      I limited myself to my beloved Middle Ages and antiquity, everything simply cannot be assembled, of course a lot "stuck", so the revolution and the Civil War "collected it by itself", but did not do it on purpose.
      I will gain strength, I will write about Civilian: what has been done, is being done, as well as in the world (there are not many).
      Yours! hi
      1. +4
        27 September 2019 08: 47
        There was also a set of knights on this topic in Soviet times ("volumetric", 5 pcs.).
        There were also "Nuremberg" sets of Russian cavalry in 1812.
        1. +4
          27 September 2019 09: 37
          By the way, we in Penza produced a set of flat painted figures of 1812 - one of my friends, and I advertised it. A vile-looking box pasted over with wallpaper, but inside the figures are very good. There was a box somewhere ... but I can't find it. Then my "Tankomaster" released a set of figures 1:72 Russian Knights - painted figures of horse riders. Moreover, in a very interesting technique. The horses were cast separately, the riders were cast separately, with their arm and shield aside. And then the arm was bent and the shield was installed as it should. The reins were cast separately! The spear shafts were sprues and therefore realistically long and with pennants. Very realistic figurines and expensive. Everything went abroad, nothing left for ourselves ...
          1. +3
            27 September 2019 10: 13
            It is a pity that not 54 or 60 mm.
            Now in Singapore there is an X-Force company, everything in 60 mm., Surprisingly prolific, all on my favorite topics: antiquity and the Middle Ages.
            Their knights are super: interchangeable heads (helmets), replaceable hands, and, accordingly, weapons. You can glue it.
            I keep it on plasticine so that it can be changed.
            1. +2
              27 September 2019 10: 55
              So I had something like that! White horses in apples, black, salty. Knights with red shields, red scabbard, with red shafts of spears. Which did not break ...
          2. +1
            27 September 2019 19: 22
            To Europe? As far as I know, Americans do not perceive the "Nuremberg" figures M1: 72. They need "volume M1: 45"
        2. +4
          27 September 2019 10: 00
          Yes, Anton, voluminous knights, a copy of the Italian ones, were produced on Progress, just like the Russian cavalry of 1812 was made on Progress (I miraculously preserved everything), and in metal in Astratsovo, the infantry of 1812 was also made there.
          What is strange, the theme of 1812 is so fertile, in my opinion, this is the first thing that comes to mind when talking about the "tin" soldier, and with heroics everything is in order, but they were not released at all.
          In France, at 60-80, Starluxe produced a chic plastic volumetric Napoleonics, I think they occupied the bulk of their production. The company also covered itself in 80, but before that it was a leader in the soldiers.
          But I was somehow indifferent to this period, had been ill with them in childhood.
  6. +5
    27 September 2019 08: 31
    This is the first time I am reading such an information-rich article on Russian figurines of "soldiers". Eduardo, grand respect!
    1. +4
      27 September 2019 08: 36
      Vyacheslav Olegovich,
      The most interesting thing "seems to be for myself" is clear, but how to present it is a problem)))
      1. +2
        27 September 2019 09: 31
        Oh, Edward, and soon another problem will cover you. Everything is in the mind, both the image of the text and the TEXT itself, but you need to write it down. And "the hand of the fighters is tired to prick."
        1. +2
          27 September 2019 19: 39
          And there is! When you fall asleep, you come up with a brilliant text (with dialogs!), You wake up - the excitement is gone, disappeared into the dawn haze, giving way to the momentary problems of the day.
  7. BAI
    +2
    27 September 2019 09: 03
    In Sergiev Posad there is a toy museum. None of the presented kits are there. There are many other sodatics - from the Napoleonic Wars and above.
    1. +3
      27 September 2019 10: 24
      If I am not mistaken in Sergiev Posad there is a bit of pre-revolutionary women and the soldiers of the modern company "Ura": Napoleonics and Above.
      It is a pity that there was no rule for the delivery to this museum of everything that was produced, as all the new naval pieces were sent to the Museum of the Navy. laughing
  8. +4
    27 September 2019 09: 07
    I, after the army, came and threw out the suitcase of my soldiers, I was already an adult thinking why they needed them, I had about 500 of them ... civilians of the civil era, different German knights, our knights, Soviet infantry, Vikings, Indians, pirates, Polish hussars and so on and so forth, all Soviet-made. He arranged such battles. Now the toad has been strangling for a long time, it’s thrown out a rarity.
    1. +4
      27 September 2019 10: 25
      This is definitely a rarity. After the army, I gave my nephews a flask, a flashlight, a belt and gave the soldiers squeezed)
      1. +2
        27 September 2019 19: 05
        He brought a belt from the army, a parade, kerzach’s boots even for a summer residence ... And so the tanks of glue, soldiers, remained, abandoned this business, well, he collected artifacts from the Second World War. Already somewhere after 2000.
  9. +4
    27 September 2019 09: 21
    "Battle on the ice" produced by LKZ. One hundred percent memory that they weighed a lot. Oh, there were many of the sets mentioned in the article. And the battles were global, and the Budennovites with the sailors, and all the "voluminous" knights, pirates, Vikings and others like them, and even chess (why not an imitation of legionnaires?) Were used. It's a bit of a pity, but the entire army in the late 80s was given to the son of friends. Besides chess, of course smile .
  10. +4
    27 September 2019 09: 21
    I also remember I had a set of cardboard sheets of Borodino, there it was necessary to cut figures drawn on white cardboard from 2 halves and glue them, there were infantry, cavalry and guns with artillerymen, both sides and the French and ours
    1. +2
      27 September 2019 10: 05
      There was a game with homemade paper soldiers: Russians and Swedes. The game was "long", so it did not catch on. But the soldiers took part in home battles. You don't use them outdoors.
      About "Knight's Dogs". At the dacha he made a flower garden in the form of a medieval castle-castle. Several surviving knights were caught. Placed in the "fortress", it turned out cool.
    2. +2
      27 September 2019 20: 54
      I had one too. I actually used the cannons, because there really was a problem with the "artillery".
  11. +4
    27 September 2019 09: 46
    Often brought to the grandson of soldiers from Moscow. My grandson grew up, a film director, I don’t know what happened to them. And playing with soldiers he was very interesting in childhood. It was nice to watch.
  12. +8
    27 September 2019 11: 46
    the article "responded". Pleasant childhood memories. When there were not enough fighters, he made himself. These two have survived. I took an illustration from the Soviet Military Encyclopedia as a sample. Next to scale is a cartridge from TT. Don't criticize too much, I was only 12 then feel
    1. +3
      27 September 2019 12: 47
      For 12 years EXCELLENT!
  13. +4
    27 September 2019 11: 49
    Sorry, a little off topic, but tell me what time is this fighter? His grandmother found about 25 years ago in a pile of peat, which she brought to the site.
    1. +1
      27 September 2019 18: 47
      Looks like a Red Army man. Or. Civil or Great Patriotic War.
    2. +1
      27 September 2019 20: 14
      Your case. But I'm afraid because of the state, it costs almost nothing
      https://festima.ru/docs/109452565/moscow/soldatik-sssr-40-e-goda
  14. +3
    27 September 2019 12: 46
    We also made figurines of the Kornilovites. There was an article about them in the magazine "Figaz Modeling" in England, but in the early 90s. "There" went with a bang ... but not for long. Plastic squeezed us out of the market.
    1. +5
      27 September 2019 17: 26
      We still have a piece of goods and more for the collection. This was the first experience of such detailing: professional shooting of models (living people) and real equipment, 3-D modeling, resin. The price for the western lover is gentle - 10 figures for $ 25.


    2. +2
      27 September 2019 20: 18
      In St. Petersburg there is a chic museum of tin soldiers




  15. +2
    27 September 2019 14: 56
    I would be ashamed of the design of such soldiers ...
  16. +5
    27 September 2019 17: 26
    A wonderful review, unlike the Shpakovsky opus. Respect to the author!
  17. +2
    27 September 2019 18: 30
    mmmmm ... thanks crying soldier
  18. +1
    30 September 2019 10: 57
    Quote: 3x3zsave
    To Europe? As far as I know, Americans do not perceive the "Nuremberg" figures M1: 72.

    They were sent to Europe, and to the USA, and to Hong Kong.
  19. +1
    30 September 2019 10: 58
    Quote: Eduard Vaschenko
    I will gain strength, I will write about Civilian: what has been done, is being done, as well as in the world (there are not many).

    Eat 5-6 once a day and strength will appear!

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