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"Toy Soldiers" is a song by American singer-songwriter #Martika, appearing on her self-titled debut album (1988) and released in the United States as the second single from the album on April 26, 1989. It was her only song to top the chart in the United States, reaching the number-one on #Billboard #Hot100 for two weeks in mid-1989. An edited version of the song is included in the imported version of the album #ToySoldiers: The Best of Martika.
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I know (from reading three books about #toysoldiers during this search) that German toy makers attempted some standardization in the 1840s, but sources are confused about whether those were head-height or eye-height standards.
Take, for example, Heinrichsen's oft-cited "Nuremberg scale."
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Gloria Camiruaga, “Popsicles”, 1984, video, 5 min ★ Chile/USA/Quebec/Canada ★ https://www.sawvideo.com/mediatheque/video/popsicles ⦾ https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/popsicles #GloriaCamiruaga #videoart #popsicles #icecream #toysoldiers #antiwarartworks #humanrightsartworks #aboutauthoritarianism #authoritarianism #AugustoPinochet #feministartists #Chileanartists
Глория Камируага сняла в своей работе и дочерей, и себя (как мне показалось), и ещё подросткинь и взрослых. Есть на видео и один андрогинный юноша с фруктовым мороженым во рту.
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Gloria Camiruaga, “Popsicles”, 1984, video, 5 min ★ Chile/USA/Quebec/Canada ★ https://www.sawvideo.com/mediatheque/video/popsicles ⦾ https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/popsicles #GloriaCamiruaga #videoart #popsicles #icecream #toysoldiers #antiwarartworks #humanrightsartworks #aboutauthoritarianism #authoritarianism #AugustoPinochet #feministartists #Chileanartists
Глория Камируага сняла в своей работе и дочерей, и себя (как мне показалось), и ещё подросткинь и взрослых. Есть на видео и один андрогинный юноша с фруктовым мороженым во рту.
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Gloria Camiruaga, “Popsicles”, 1984, video, 5 min ★ Chile/USA/Quebec/Canada ★ https://www.sawvideo.com/mediatheque/video/popsicles ⦾ https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/popsicles #GloriaCamiruaga #videoart #popsicles #icecream #toysoldiers #antiwarartworks #humanrightsartworks #aboutauthoritarianism #authoritarianism #AugustoPinochet #feministartists #Chileanartists
Глория Камируага сняла в своей работе и дочерей, и себя (как мне показалось), и ещё подросткинь и взрослых. Есть на видео и один андрогинный юноша с фруктовым мороженым во рту.
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Gloria Camiruaga, “Popsicles”, 1984, video, 5 min ★ Chile/USA/Quebec/Canada ★ https://www.sawvideo.com/mediatheque/video/popsicles ⦾ https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/popsicles #GloriaCamiruaga #videoart #popsicles #icecream #toysoldiers #antiwarartworks #humanrightsartworks #aboutauthoritarianism #authoritarianism #AugustoPinochet #feministartists #Chileanartists
Глория Камируага сняла в своей работе и дочерей, и себя (как мне показалось), и ещё подросткинь и взрослых. Есть на видео и один андрогинный юноша с фруктовым мороженым во рту.
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Gloria Camiruaga, “Popsicles”, 1984, video, 5 min ★ Chile/USA/Quebec/Canada ★ https://www.sawvideo.com/mediatheque/video/popsicles ⦾ https://hammer.ucla.edu/radical-women/art/art/popsicles #GloriaCamiruaga #videoart #popsicles #icecream #toysoldiers #antiwarartworks #humanrightsartworks #aboutauthoritarianism #authoritarianism #AugustoPinochet #feministartists #Chileanartists
Глория Камируага сняла в своей работе и дочерей, и себя (как мне показалось), и ещё подросткинь и взрослых. Есть на видео и один андрогинный юноша с фруктовым мороженым во рту.
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Pretty happy with how these turned out
#miniatures #miniaturepainting #miniart #grimdark #toysoldiers
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Cludbur militia. A fun challenge to get a sense of weight in the slings. #fantasygames #fantasyminiatures #shivershield #miniwargames #toysoldiers #halfling #halflings #minisculpting #tabletop #ttrpg #warhammer #wfb #oldworld #kingsofwar #oathsworn #frostgrave #wargaming #wargames
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Cludbur militia. A fun challenge to get a sense of weight in the slings. #fantasygames #fantasyminiatures #shivershield #miniwargames #toysoldiers #halfling #halflings #minisculpting #tabletop #ttrpg #warhammer #wfb #oldworld #kingsofwar #oathsworn #frostgrave #wargaming #wargames
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Cludbur militia. A fun challenge to get a sense of weight in the slings. #fantasygames #fantasyminiatures #shivershield #miniwargames #toysoldiers #halfling #halflings #minisculpting #tabletop #ttrpg #warhammer #wfb #oldworld #kingsofwar #oathsworn #frostgrave #wargaming #wargames
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Cludbur militia. A fun challenge to get a sense of weight in the slings. #fantasygames #fantasyminiatures #shivershield #miniwargames #toysoldiers #halfling #halflings #minisculpting #tabletop #ttrpg #warhammer #wfb #oldworld #kingsofwar #oathsworn #frostgrave #wargaming #wargames
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Cludbur militia. A fun challenge to get a sense of weight in the slings. #fantasygames #fantasyminiatures #shivershield #miniwargames #toysoldiers #halfling #halflings #minisculpting #tabletop #ttrpg #warhammer #wfb #oldworld #kingsofwar #oathsworn #frostgrave #wargaming #wargames
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"Toy Soldiers" is a song by American singer-songwriter #Martika, appearing on her self-titled debut album (1988) and released in the United States as the second single from the album on April 26, 1989. It was her only song to top the chart in the United States, reaching the number-one on #Billboard #Hot100 for two weeks in mid-1989. An edited version of the song is included in the imported version of the album #ToySoldiers: The Best of Martika.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsIzQM2LiQY -
"Toy Soldiers" is a song by American singer-songwriter #Martika, appearing on her self-titled debut album (1988) and released in the United States as the second single from the album on April 26, 1989. It was her only song to top the chart in the United States, reaching the number-one on #Billboard #Hot100 for two weeks in mid-1989. An edited version of the song is included in the imported version of the album #ToySoldiers: The Best of Martika.
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"Toy Soldiers" is a song by American singer-songwriter #Martika, appearing on her self-titled debut album (1988) and released in the United States as the second single from the album on April 26, 1989. It was her only song to top the charts in the United States, reaching the number-one on #Billboard #Hot100 for two weeks in mid-1989. An edited version of the song is included in the imported version of the album #ToySoldiers: The Best of Martika.
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I love this more than words can ever express...
(I think #Markwayne the Plumber and #KegsBreath should start a mutual reach-around group then start leaking together)
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Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #monkey #chimpanzee #childrenPlaying #childrensGames #sandbox #beach #warToys #warGames #toyTank #toySoldiers #machineGun #ak47 -
Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #monkey #chimpanzee #childrenPlaying #childrensGames #sandbox #beach #warToys #warGames #toyTank #toySoldiers #machineGun #ak47 -
Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #monkey #chimpanzee #childrenPlaying #childrensGames #sandbox #beach #warToys #warGames #toyTank #toySoldiers #machineGun #ak47 -
Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #monkey #chimpanzee #childrenPlaying #childrensGames #sandbox #beach #warToys #warGames #toyTank #toySoldiers #machineGun #ak47 -
Step by step, heart to heart
Left, right, left, [they] all fall down
Like #ToySoldiers.#Martika predicted this outcome in 1988.
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Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #fckFdp #fckAfd #Нетвойны #monkey #chimpanzee #childrenPlaying #childrensGames #sandbox #beach #warToys #warGames #toyTank #toySoldiers #pacifism #eye #watchingThem #surveillance #observation -
Did you know that wargaming, and by extension the tabletop roleplaying hobby, can claim descendence from a H.G. Wells book?
In 1913 already well-known novelist H.G. Wells published Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books which provided a simple system for wargaming with miniatures.
Now, wargaming was older of course (I mean, there was chess after all, and Kriegsspiel was created as a training tool for the Prussian army in the 18th ct., and he does acknowledge a relation), but I think this might have been the first (published) ruleset to involve using toy soldiers and terrain built from toys.
According to the book the idea for the game came to notable pacifist Wells during a visit by his friend Jerome K. Jerome, where they began shooting toy soldiers with a toy cannon after dinner, which spiraled into a mess on the floor as more and more toys and written rules were added over time.
He even started with further extensions, and with thoughts how to integrate this whole system into the larger context of Kriegsspiel and make this into a strategic campaign. That all sounds very familiar.
What takes it from just interesting into adorkable territory though are the pictures. Pictures of soldiers and terrain, yes, but also of Wells and his friends playing the game properly dressed in some casual suit and tie.
The book often is reprinted alongside the previous book Floor Games, in which he describes games to be played by kids on the floor that do not involve war. Notably he described himself and his friends playing the war game, obviously trying to make a difference between children’s games and games for adults here. (although his subtitle indicates kids could be interested in it as well)
Where to get it
There’s reprints that can be found easily enough on various internet bookshops. But as these books are very much in the public domain right now the texts can be found on Project Gutenberg, archive.org, WikiSource, even as a free audiobook version on LibriVox
Little Wars on Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, WikiSource, Librivox (audio)
Floor Games on Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, WikiSource, Librivox (audio)Rate this:
https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/h-g-wells-and-the-beginning-of-miniature-wargaming/
#h #Miniatures #scienceFiction #toySoldiers #ttrpg #Wargames #wells
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To help make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.#BrownsvilleStation
#toysoldiers
#sunglasses
#dominos
#BluesBrothers
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“the war game was constantly improved and elaborated, until from a few hours ‘war’ took weeks to play, and the critical operations in the attic monopolized half our thoughts.”
—from “Stevenson at Play”, by Lloyd Osbourne. Scribner’s Magazine, December 1898
#RobertLouisStevenson & #wargames #wargaming
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #games #boardgames #toysoldiers
Read the article online here:
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Britains British 93rd Highlanders, 1854-1856.
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Just finished painting these 60 mm plastic miniatures with army painter speed paints. I actually know nothing of the origin of these figures. They are labeled 'marching GI's' and seem to be a Chinese copy of some old toy soldiers from the 60's. But maybe I'm wrong. #warmongers #wargamers #warmaidens #warseers #tabletopgames #wargaming #wargamers #killteam #WarhammerCommunity #warhammer #warhammer40k #warhammerfest #toysoldiers
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In the case you grew up with these 1:32 Airfix toy soldiers as I did you should note more changes in appearance ... #132scale #54mm #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen
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In the case you grew up with these 1:32 Airfix toy soldiers as I did you should note more changes in appearance ... #132scale #54mm #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen
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In the case you grew up with these 1:32 Airfix toy soldiers as I did you should note more changes in appearance ... #132scale #54mm #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen
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In the case you grew up with these 1:32 Airfix toy soldiers as I did you should note more changes in appearance ... #132scale #54mm #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen
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In the case you grew up with these 1:32 Airfix toy soldiers as I did you should note more changes in appearance ... #132scale #54mm #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen
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My current work in progress is the conversion of the classic Airfix 1/32 toy soldiers British Support Team set into Australian machine gunners and mortar crew. A simple head swap is doing the job. #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen
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My current work in progress is the conversion of the classic Airfix 1/32 toy soldiers British Support Team set into Australian machine gunners and mortar crew. A simple head swap is doing the job. #135scale #172scale #afvmodel #tankmodel #tankmodelling #scalemodel #plasticmodels #scalemodelling #wargames #wargaming #hobby #miniatures #shipmodel #shipmodelling #H0gauge #toysoldiers #armymen