Toysoldiers - A visit to Steve Ault´s collection

Manufacturer:   Various

Scale:   Mostly 60mm (1:30) 

Hi,

while planning out trip to "Warfare 2024" in Farnborough I asked within a facebook-group for shops selling toysoldiers around that area.

Steve told me that there would be some in London but not near Farnborough. But as he lives near Farnborough he invited me to meet him at home and to have a look at his collection. This was a great honor and so I went to his house in the evening after having been to "Warfare 2024" the whole day.

Thank you Steve for your invitation, your hints concerning our tour, your kindness and sympathy. 

Be assured that you are welcome to visit my home if you should ever come to Germany or Bavaria though my collection cannot compete with yours. But I will take you to "Historicum" in Schmalkalden.  Historicum Schmalkalden

Here is a photo-tour of the wonderful collection of Steve. Please apologize for the bad quality of the pictures. I am not a photographer and my iPhone is an older version. The photos do not cover the whole collection. Otherwise my visit would have been not only two but four hours. :)

Cheers

Mike

Steve´s version of Fort William Henry, 1757

Del Prado´s "Men at War"- range

A smaller vignette

One of my favorites of Steve´s collection.

Another masterpiece of miniatures.

Incredible.

One of the ranges I also have in mind for collecting.

Figures from St.Petersburg - just look at the flags - really outstanding.

Another very nice display.

And of course - Culloden 1745. This range is also one of my favorites though I have not started 
collecting it yet.

A good inspiration for displaying my own "Battle on snowshoes" - a range I have completed.

The Second Boer War - a mixture of TeamMiniatures and ThomasGunn.

Andrea´s stagecoach - very impressive.

As you can see - Steve has a small museum within his house.

Another highlight - Rorke´s Drift. 
This display has more figures than I have within my whole collection I guess.

I think this is scale 1/6