“LAY ON YOUR BACK IN THE GREEN GRASS OF YOUR HOME, AND LOOK UP AT THE BLUE SKY, AND IMAGINE WHAT YOU WANT IN LIFE – THAT’S “A DREAM!”

FOLLOWING IS AN OPEN LIST OF TOY SOLDIERS LITTLE KIDS AND BIG KIDS THINK THEY MIGHT LIKE TO HAVE WHILE GROWING UP AND DREAMING IN THAT SAME, TALL, GREEN, GRASS!

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NEWEST SUGGESTIONS BY: SteveO - Thank you for your research and updates! Keep correcting me. Pete – The squeaky wheel gets the grease; keep asking again and again! , Colin D., (awesome request – FFL Paratroopers! I’ve wanted Paratroopers for decades, but better than the A/F sets!), Tom S. (I’m supporting you, Man!), Umpapa – I suppose PULP goes with Fantasy, so I did my best to fit in your excellent requests! 

TOY SOLDIER MEN WHO WANT TO SEE THE HOBBY GROW!: RCD, Arlin, Bert, Colin D., Britsfan, Graham Korn, Pa, Cappy, bluecher, SteveO, Pete, Mako, Martin_HY, Ian Bruce, Andrew Hughes, Misteredd, and tom s, B-, Paul K., Jerzy, Umpapa, AlexK, FoxtrotPapaRomeo, john the red, Tom Williamson, Pedro, CC, Tolly, celtic warrior, Brian, Alex M, CPN, GC.

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PRE-HISTORIC & FANTASY
• Cavemen / Neanderthals / Cro-Magnons (to fight against each other, as well as pre-historic animals)
• Fantasy Figures for Fantasy Games
• Riders of Rohan
• Fantasy Figures for Historics
• PULP interwar/WW2 figures:
- civilians (doubling as civilians in WW2)
- gansters and mobsters, US/Europe.
- Tong/Asiatic/Yakuza gangsters
- US policemen
- civilian/nazi zombies
- hooded cultists, also sacrificing
- and ... pulp heroes sets (can be overpriced) : brave adventurers/anthropologist/archeologist, elder professor, their loyal native friend, The Great White Hunter Jumanji style (cork helmet and elephant rifle), evil aristocrat (top hat&tails, tuxedo/white tie), detective, reporter with flash camera, damsel in distress (chained to chair), damsel before sacrifice, shaman/witchdoctor during sacrifice, masked Shadowlike avenger with rapier and revolver, crazy scientist. Extra point for extra heads in top hats, fedoras, fez, turban, African mask and cork helmet to let some conversion.
Maybe even robot servants, trained chimpanzee, Frankenstein's monster, Predator etc. (There is enough ghosts, Yetis/Saskwatch, vampires and gorrillas already)

ANCIENTS (BEG. OF RECORDED HISTORY – EARLY MIDDLE AGES)
• Ancient Amazons

ANCIENTS – SMALL ARMS (SOFT PLASTIC SETS):
• Carroballista (Cart-mounted Ballista)
• Manuballista (Hand-held Ballista)
• Scorpio
• Onager
• Traditional Field Ballista

ANCIENTS – TRANSPORT & CIVILIAN SETS
• Sedan Chair w/carriers
• Carpentum
• Donkey Cart
• Water Wagon
• Supply Wagon
• HQ Wagon/Traveling Coach for Generals (Movie Gladiator)
• Chariots
• Race Horses
• Bettors, Gamblers, Gamers
• Audience Figures (Winners/Losers Poses)

ROMANS
• Emperors court during campaign as well as (civil) in Rome
• Roman triumphal procession
• Roman politicians (in senate, law court, ...) for both republican and imperial eras
• Ancient personalities

ANCIENTS – ROME’S ENEMIES LATE REPUBLIC
• Pontic army (Mithridates)
• Armenian
• Parthian
• Iberians
• Italicans
• Etruscans
• Celtiberians
• Celts (Infantry & Cavalry)
• Lusitanians
• Liguarians
• Illyrians
• Aquitanians
• Bad Indians
• Thracians
• Carthaginians
And …
• Indians
• Bactrians
• Eastern Armies
• Persians
• Spartacus Army
• VII AD BYzantines

ANCIENTS - ADDITIONS TO PUNIC WAR RANGE
• Successor states like Macedonia, Seleucids, Ptolemaic Army (including different types of Cavalry and War-Elephants), Hellenistic City Armies (e.g. Syracuse)

MEDIEVAL FAR EAST (FAR EAST INCLUDES JAPANESE SAMURAI, CHINESE, MONGOLS)

• 10th-14th Century Samurai Horse, Foot, Heroes, Attendants and Monks (Genpei War, Yuan Invasions, Nanbokuchō War etc.)
• 13th Century Sung Dynasty Chinese Infantry and Artillery
• 13th Century Yuan Dynasty Sino-Mongol (as above)

MIDDLE AGES OR MEDIEVAL PERIOD (5TH - 15TH CENTURIES), RENAISSANCE AND AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT / AGE OF DISCOVERY / FIGHTING ON THE SPANISH MAIN / COLUMBUS, CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD / JAMESTOWN (1492 – 1607) (16TH – 17TH CENTURIES)
• Sprue 1 x1 would have had 12 personalities: Elizabeth, Drake, Raleigh, Cortez, Malinche, Montezuma, De Leon, De Soto, Pizarro, Pocahontas, Chief Powhattan and John Smith
• Sprue 2 x2 or 3 would have: Various Florida Indians for the De Soto Expedition, Spaniards and Buccaneers for the Spanish Main and Powahattan Indians and settlers for Jamestown
• Sprue 3 x1 could have Spaniards and Elizabethans that can sword duel with each other on land or ships and also some poses to fire cannons on forts or ships, if not covered above, or …
• Spain's Personalities-Columbus, Cortes, De Soto, De Leon, Pizarro
• English Personalities-Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Smith (of Jamestown fame)
• America's Personalities-Montezuma, Malinche, Pocahontas, Chief Powhattan
• The Peeps: Taino natives (warriors and women for all the Caribbean Islands the Spanish set foot on), Southeastern US Natives (warriors, women, etc) to fight Conquistadores (they did succeed after all, Timicua, Apalachee, etc. tribes, they look very similar), English Seadogs/Buccaneers and Spaniards for the Spanish Main, Powhattan Indians (again warriors and women)Jamestown settlers

15TH, 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY PIKEMEN WITH RING-HANDS AND WITH THE ARMS LINED UP / 30 YEARS WAR
• Landsknecht Pike with Ring Hands
• Swiss Pike with Ring Hands
• English Demilances and ******** (Bravenet software deletion; not moderator)
• Landskechts, Jinettes, Reiters, Demilances, Border Horse. Arquebusier, Gendarmes, Sword and Buckler, Usars, Grenz and all the Panoply of the Balkans, Muscovy and the Turkish empire

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR (1642 – 1651)
• (Please suggest sets)

JACOBITE (WARS) REBELLION (1688 – 1746)
• Jacobite Artillery
• Jacobite Cavalry
• Jacobite Infantry (Done)
• British Artillery
• British Cavalry
• British Infantry

SEVEN YEARS WAR (1754, 1756 - 1763)
• SYW Russian infantry

FRENCH & INDIAN WAR (1754 – 1763) = America’s version of “Seven Years War”
• (Please make requests)

ANGLO-MYSORE WARS (1ST – 4TH WARS, 1767 – 1799)
• Britiish East India Company
• Kingdom of Mysore Warriors / Fighters

AWI – AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR (1775 – 1783)
• Mohawk Warriors

NAPOLEONIC WARS (1803 – 1815)
• Ottoman Line Infantry (Nizam I Cedit)
• Ottoman Light Infantry (Albanians)
• Ottoman Artillery
• Napoleonic Civilians / Camp-followers
• Prussian Landwehr Infantry
• Prussian Landwehr Cavalry
• Prussian Uhlans
• Prussian Limber
• Austrian Infantry before 1797
• Later Hungarian Grenadiers
• Later Austrian Mounted Artillery
• Later Saxony Infantry
• Portuguese Cazadores in light brown (Like British in Greatcoats!)
• Austrian Infantry before 1797
• Later Hungarian Grenadiers - the Italeri soldiers are out of scale!
• Napoleonic Later Austrian Mounted Artillery
• Napoleonic Later Saxony Infantry

WAR OF 1812
• American Militia in Winter Dress 1812 (In Preparation)
• Kentucky Mounted Militia in Tall Hats and Buckskins
• American Militia in Summer Dress 1812
• Regular US Infantry
• Canadian Militia / Voltigeurs
• US & British Dragoons / Light cavalry
• Lafayette's Pirates for New Orleans
• Naval and Royal Marine Shore / Landing Parties
• Muletrains and Rafts for Supplies
• Creek Warriors
• Choctaws
• Chickasaws
• Shawnees
• Personalities: Tecumseh (and his Confederation of British Allied Shawnee Indian Tribes), Sir Isaac Brock, Wilkinson, General Andrew Jackson, Sir Edward Packenham, Laura Secord, Lafayette

FIRST ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR (1839 – 1842)
• East India Company
• Camp Followers
• Afghanistan Fighters

ANGLO-SIKH WARS (1ST AND 2ND) (1845 – 1849)
• British East India Trading Company
• Sikh Empire Warriors / Fighters

CRIMEAN WAR (1853 – 1856)
• Russian Crimean rifles

INDIAN MUTINY (SEPOY REBELLION) OF 1857
• Sepoys of East India Company Mutineers
• East India Company

NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS (PLAINS & WOODLAND) (1622 - 1890)
• Mohawks
• Seminoles
• Chippewa Indians
• Mohicans
• Cheyenne
• Sioux
• Creeks
• Apaches
• et als

COLONIAL SETTLERS / PIONEERS & WILD WEST
• American Westward Wagon Train husbands, wives and children reloading rifles/muskets to fend off an aggresive Indian attack in the Wagan Circle
• Sets of Pioneers, Townsfolk, Prospectors, Sherriff & Outlaws , Gamblers, Buffalo Hunters and Cowboys, Long Duster Coats, Slouch Hats etc.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1861 – 1865)
• ACW (Johnny Reb) Confederate Foot Officer Set (Final of 4 Sets)
• Dismounted Union and Confederate Cavalry for Skirmish Lines w/horse holders for Gettysburg
• ACW (Billy Yank & Johnny Reb) Infantry Troops in Battle
• ACW (Billy Yank & Johnny Reb) Cavalry Troops in Battle
• ACW (Billy Yank & Johnny Reb) Artillery Troops in Battle

MEXICAN WARS
• The Alamo (1836)
• Mexican-American War (1846 – 1848)
• Camerone 1863
• FFL at Camerone 1863
• (Generic) Mexicans in Sombreros
• Pancho Villa and Federales

FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1870 - 1871
• French Cavalry
• Bavarian Infantry
• Bavarian and / or Prussian artillery
• Prussian Infantry
• Prussian Cavalry

FRENCH COLONIAL (EARLY 1830’S, 1840’S) FOR ALGERIA AND HER ENEMIES (PRE-BEAU GESTE)
• Zouaves
• Tirailleurs
• Early Legion Etrangere
• L’Armee d’Afrique

FRENCH COLONIAL (LATE 19TH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY FOR DAHOMEY AND MORROCO)
• All French Colonial Armies
• Classic Beau Geste French Foreign Legion
• FFL mule train
• FFL Mule Teams (2 men per mule) Khaki Uniforms or Whites
• Riff War 1920s (FFL + Riff tribesmen + Spanish)
• Dedicated set of Paras and / or FFL would be awesome
• Dedicated set of FFL Paras would be awesome
• FFL for Dien Bien Phu + Viet Minh
• Spahis
• Native Enemies of the French

BOXER REBELLION (1898 – 1900)
• Chinese “Jingal” Wall Gun (Rampart Rifle) or Two-Manned Rifle
• Chinese Imperial regular infantry
• Chinese Imperial artillery
• German Sea Battalion
• Schutztruppe
• British Navy in Straw Hats
• Japanese Army in Winter Blue and Summer White

SPANISH MOROCCO (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)
• (Please suggest sets)

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN (LATE 19TH CENTURY) IN ETHIOPIA
• Italian Troops
• Ethiopian Troops

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898)
• Rough Riders (Dismounted in Blue Color)
• Rough Rider Officers (w/Mounted in Tan Color)
• American Artillery (w/Gatlings and Cannons)
• Spanish Troops in Cuba (in Light Blue w/stripes)
• Spanish Colonial Troops in Pith Helmet

RUSSIO-JAPANESE WAR (1904 – 1905)
• Russian Army
• Russian Navy
• Russian Artillery
• Japanese Army
• Japanese Navy
• Japanese Artillery

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (DURING WWI 1914 – 1918)
• (Complete Range)

WWI (1914 – 1918)
• Belgians
• Early French Cavalry
• Austrian Cavalry
• Austrian Heavy Weapons
• Italian Arditi
• Italian Heavy Weapons
• WWI Leaders: Marshall Foch on horseback (great statue in London of him!)
• Kaiser Bill wearing one of his 'eagle' helmets
• German 1914 Artillerymen wearing Pickelhaubs with the Spike replaced with a “Kugel” (Ball) to represent a Cannon ball for Artillery to man field guns, one or two of them sitting
• French Colonial troops for WW1 (and early WW2)
• Italians to go against the Austrians done in green and some Strelets style Germans in the Pickelhaub spike helmets

NATIONALIST NORTHERN EXPEDITION OF (1925 – 1927)
• US Navy Landing Party (The Sand Pebbles 1926) in Caps and Gaiters
• US Soldiers in M1917 Helmets, Springfield Rifles, Thompson MG w/drum magazine, manning Vickers Heavy MG’s
• Navy guys manning the Gun Boats/Ships
• Chinese Troops
• Chinese Military Academy Cadets
RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR (1917 – 1922)
• Naval Infantry
• Partisans
• Nationalists (Ukrainian, Polish, etc.)
• Bolshevik Artillery
• Makhnovist Partisans
• Ukrainian nationalists

SPANISH CIVIL WAR (1936 – 1939)
• Regular Republicans and Nationalists
• Spanish Civil Guard
• Winter Infantry
• Spanish Foreign Legion
• Partisans and Militias for each side
• Beret-Wearing Nationalist Carlist Requetes
• Beret-Wearing Republican Basque Gudaris
• Cavalry (in Rolled Shirt-Sleeves – Generic both sides)
• Infantry in M26 Spanish Helmet (Generic both sides)

WWII (1939 – 1945)
• Early WWII in the Desert … figures with Pith Helmets, etc.
• Early WWII Marines
• WW2 late war French Army, with a mix of French, Moroccan and Algerian troops with a mix of French, U.S., and Native North African dress and gear
• Moroccan Gouimers with regards to Operation Dragoon and the Liberation of Southern France
• Stalingrad Russians
• More Russians
• US Army / Marines / Sailors (Pearl Harbor, Midway Island, Guam, Wake Island, Philippines)
• German Afrika Korps in Tan
• British 8th Army
• T.V. “Rat Patrol” Set with Characters (for Jeeps)
• Early British Commandos in Cold Weather Gear (Vaagso Raid)
• Japanese Jungle Fighters

KOREAN WAR (1950 – 1953)
• US Marines in Winter Uniforms
• Chinese in Winter Uniforms

VIETNAM (1946 – 1956 First Indochina War: French & 1956 – 1975 Second Indochina War: American)
• French Paras and Viet Minh (Indochina / Dien Bien Phu)

COLD WAR ERA (Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common - Wiki) / POST COLD WAR & WW3
• Israelis, Syrians and Egyptians for the 1967 and 1973 Wars
• First Gulf War / Operation Desert Storm (1990 – 1991)
• Second Gulf War / Iraq War (2003 – 2011)
• in Nuclear / Biological / Chemical outfits
• Nato and Warsaw pact in NBC outfits
• Soviet Motor Rifle + Mujahideen for Afghanistan 1980s
• Generic African Regular Army / Rebel Army
• Soviet in CBRN clothing + NATO CBRN soldiers (British, West German)

MODERN (OPEN)
• Riot Police with shields and batons
• SWAT / TAC team
• Regular Uniformed Officers & Security Guards & K-9 Units
• Mounted & Motorcycle Officers

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1. “STRELET’S ARMS” (ARTILLERY & ARMOURED VEHICLE KITS)
• Police Van / Armoured Van / Water Cannon / Squad Car
• British Mk5 Tank
• Minerva Armoured Car (Great looking open-top vehicle!)
• WWI French 155mm 1917 Schneider also w/WWII rubber tyres
• British 60 pdr
• Separate Series of Artillery Crews, esp. for all nations using same guns to go with STRELETS ARMS (Yes, yes, yes!)
• Tank Crews and Field Crews for the Tanks that are in the pipeline (Yes, yes, yes!)
• 9.2" Howitzer (In Preparation)

I doubt, at least at the way things are done now, that I will live long enough to see the things on the list I would like to see. I know, ever the pessimist. I wasn't born that way, that comes with experience...

Which reminds me, I hope these manufacturers all have heirs to carry on the business. I somehow doubt it. The EMHAR situation got me to thinking though....

It's amazing how far the hobby has come. I never would have thought 20 years ago, when 1/72 figures were somewhat limited, that we would have so many options now, and as is this list shows, there are many more ranges and figures to be done!

Hi Arlin and Colin D.,

By the time the heirs of our favorite companies grow up to be old enough to pick up the reins and carry on this hobby tradition, I'll be learning how to use my new wings. We've all been given the chance today to influence the hobby and our favorite figures because today's companies listen to our wishes. Fantastically, a lot of us here have had the pleasure to grow up with Airfix and MARX and now today's plastic companies. We can still buy from moulds a half a century old. I'm actually really happy with my collection! We are so lucky to be "Men of our generation and time." Sometimes I feel like I'm stepping into and out of a Time Machine as I continue building my collection. If I make it another 25 years, I'll be ready to let go! :-)

brilliant suggestions some of which you can get but more choice of each would be great i started age 6 and still have my original airfix! my son age 9 has a like of them as well so at least i have someone to carry on my hobby which has so increased over the years please keep it up,my collection has reached about 23,000 to 25,000

For the medievals, I'd like to insert medieval Irish troops in there somewhere. Mainly Kerns and Gallowglasses. As well as a kit consisting sorely Longbowmen would be excellent, as not many manufacturers put enough longbow armed soldiers into their boxes, but England and IIRC Switzerland used them many times.