Wee Men Plastic Toy Soldiers

The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army Cavalry Regiment, whose lineage traces back to the mid-19th century.  The Seventh Cavalry Regiment patrolled the Western plains for raiding native Americans and to protect the westward movement of pioneers.  In 1873 the 7th Cavalry moved its garrison post to Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota Territory. From here, the regiment carried out the historic reconnaissance of the Black Hills in 1874, making the discovery of gold in the Black Hills public and starting a gold rush that precipitated the Great Sioux War of 1876–77. Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876 with 211 men of the 7th Cavalry. The Battle of the Little Bighorn was an armed engagement between combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which occurred on June 25 and 26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in eastern ...

Doughboy is an informal term for an American soldier, especially members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I. One of the supposed origins of the term was during the Mexican–American War, where observers noticed that U.S. infantry forces were constantly covered with dust from marching through the dry terrain of Mexico, giving the men the appearance of unbaked dough, hence “doughboys.” I only have four poses from an unknown maker. Three are marching and one is preparing to throw a grenade. One of the marching men is wearing the M1912 campaign hat with the Montana-style peak, commonly seen by parading troops arriving in France, but not seen at the front. On his back though, together with his pack is his Brodie-style helmet. When the first American troops landed in France they were were not ready for the trenches supply-wise and found they had to rely on Britain and France for much of their equipmenty and supplies, so that by the time they first saw action...

The 4D Master Lionheart Crusader is a 1:25 ( roughly 70mm) figure puzzle manufactured by the Fame Master Enterprise Limited of Hong Kong. The set comes with 4 parts to build the fully painted knight and horse.  The figure is depicted wearing what would soon be known as the Royal Arms of England. Its blazon is Gules, with three lions passant guardant in pale or armed and langued azure, meaning three identical gold lions with blue tongues and claws, walking and facing the observer, arranged in a column on a red background. The box and the armor style labels the figure as a crusader but Richard the Lionheart used a single lion rampant, or perhaps two lions affrontés on his surcoat, during his time in Outremer. Richard later used three lions passant in his 1198 Great Seal of England, and thus established the lasting design of the Royal Arms of England. The figure is covered in chainmail, a surcoat, a great helm and armed with a lance, a strapped sword and a heat...

 These are 1:30 (60mm) recast of the Italeri Teutonic Knights set, but only featuring four figure poses and two horse poses. The figures are molded in silver plastic with minimal paint applications of black or white. The horses also come molded either in black or in white with minimal painting on the horse furniture and bridle. The Ordo domus Sanctæ Mariæ Theutonicorum Hierosolymitanorum or the Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem, more popularly known as the Teutonic Order, was a German medieval military order formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The order also served as a crusading military order in the Middle Ages together with the other two orders of Jerusalem, the Hospitallers and the Templars. As early as 1192 they were endowed by Celestine III with the same privileges as the Order of St. John, whose hospital rule they adopted, and as the Order of the Temple, from which they borrowed their military organization. ...

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The knights' armor and horse furniture owe more to fantasy than to historical accuracy but they look pretty cool en masse. I've cleaned these figs up for painting soon but I'll probably start with the Saracens.

These are recasts of the Britains Deetail Crusader knights and Saracens. The foot and mounted figures came bagged with a catapult and small packets of weapons.The Crusaders are composed of two foot poses and 2 mounted knights and horses. The Saracens have more foot poses, with 5 foot and 2 mounted. The horses came in two poses only. The standing figures come separate from the bases and little pegs at the solesof the feet plug into the bases. The horses are mounted thru a peg on their bellies.    More on these soon.