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Collectors Corner

Occasionally we get a rare opportunity to acquire individual items and complete collections for collectors that are thinning out their collection or from other dealers. These pieces are items that we do not normally stock. All are in mint condition or and in their original boxes, unless specified in the description. Please note these may have been on display.

So these are ideal pages to view if you are looking for that missing piece in your collection or just looking to find some very unique pieces that are not normally available.

This month we have added a very large collection of Aeroart, St Petersburg figures and also a very large collection of Plastic figures and Play Sets. We have also added Frontline French and Indian War sets in perfect condition.

Consignment Highlight

This month we feature sets from Thomas Gunn, First Legion, Britain's, Jenkins, King & Country, Frontine, St Petersburg and Plastics.

Collectors Corner

Sierra Toy Soldier Britain's Exclusive

Sierra Toy Soldier Exclusive - In Stock Now!

• BR20199 “Ukulwa Nokufa!” (Fighting to the Death!) Zulu Hand-to-Hand
• BR20183 Pressing Home The Attack - Zulu Warrior and British 24th Foot Hand-To-Hand Set.

Zulu Storehouse Attack

Britains

New releases Expected November, 2025!

Clash of Empires

• BR16209 British 43rd Regiment of Foot Ensign with King's Colors, 1780
• BR16210 - Continental Line Drummer, 1779-83

Clash of Empires

American Civil War

• BR31323 Union 146th New York Zouave with Regimental Colors
• BR31501 "Rebel Steel" Confederates Charging with Bayonets Levelled
• BR31502 Confederate Infantrymen at Rest

American Civil War

American Civil War - 18th-19th Century Freight Wagon

• 35045-18th-19th Century Freight Wagon with Two Oxen & Teamster
• BR35054 Yoke of Oxen

American Civil War

WWII Americans

• BR25307 - "Reporting In" U.S. Infantrymen Kneeling

WWII Collection

Restocks

Restocks expected in November.

• BR10201 Alfred The Great, Anglo- Saxon King, 886
• BR31173 -- Union General Daniel Sickles
• BR31232 -- Federal Captain Richard S. Dillon, 24th Michigan Company A, 1863

King and Country

New releases September, 2025!
Washington’s Life Guard

This elite military unit, commonly known as ‘Washington’s Life Guard’ was a unit of the Continental Army that protected General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Formed in early 1776, the Guard was with the future first president in all of his battles and was disbanded in 1783 at the end of the war. The Guard itself was authorized on 11 March 1776 at Cambridge, Massachusetts with not only the task of protecting General Washington but also safeguarding the money and official papers of the Continental Army. To that end, Washington directed that this corps of soldiers be made up of "sober, intelligent and reliable men”.

• AR076 Washington’s Guard Company Standing Firing
• AR077 W.G.C. Reaching For A Fresh Cartridge
• AR078 Washington’s Guard Company Kneeling Firing
• AR079 Washington’s Guard Company Kneeling Ready
• AR080 W.G.C. Kneeling Reaching For A Cartridge
• AR081 W.G.C. Standing Corporal Shouting Orders
• AR082 Washington’s Guard Company Standing w/Ramrod
• AR085 Washington’s Guard Company Drummer Boy
• AR088 W.G.C. Present Arms!
• AR089 W.G.C. Kneeling w/Ramrod
• AR091 General George Washington

The Americans

95th Rifles

In 1800, an "Experimental Corps of Riflemen” was raised from officers and men drawn from the regular line regiments of the British Army. The ‘recruits’ selected for this new military experiment were chosen from the fittest and smartest young soldiers of their ‘parent regiments’ ... They also had to be the best marksmen! This new formation was to act as scouts and skirmishers in advance of the main army as well as covering the flanks of any larger advancing force. They had to blend into the countryside as well as move swiftly through it. Not for them the traditional scarlet coat and white crossbelts of the regular British infantry even their military appearance was different ... These new riflemen wore dark green uniforms together with all-black belts, pouches and backpacks. Importantly, they carried the much more accurate shorter Baker Rifle in place of the more cumbersome ‘Brown Bess’ musket of the remainder of the army. After two years of tests, trials and tribulations they were formally brought into the British Army as "The 95th Rifles” in April 1802.

• NA537 Captain Richard Sharpe of the 95th
• NA538 95th Rifles “Ready, Aim, Fire” (Set of 2)
• NA539 95th Rifles “Loading & Reloading” (Set of 2)
• NA540 95th Rifles “Taking Careful Aim” (Set of 2)
• NA541 95th Rifles “Reaching for a Fresh Cartridge”
• NA542 95th Rifles “Fix Sword Bayonets”
• NA543 95th Rifles “Walking Wounded”

95th Rifles

RAF - Spitfire

Please see individual descriptions.

• RAF101 Supermarine SPITFIRE MK II A (Flown by F. Lieut. Eric Lock)
• RAF102 Supermarine SPITFIRE MKⅡ A (Flown by Sqdn. Ldr. Brian Lane)

Royal Airforce

Hong Kong

This long-wheel base Land Rover carries the markings of “Western District”, on the western portion of Hong Kong Island. This area includes Kennedy Town, Sai Ying Poon and Shek Tong Tsui.It’s a vibrant area where traditional Chinese culture in bustling street markets and old buildings meets towering, high rise modern developments. It’s also well known for its many diverse restaurants and bars. These distinctive blue and white Land Rovers would normally carry a driver plus an inspector or a sergeant sitting next to him plus two or more constables in the back. This model includes a seated police officer figure in the driving position.

• HKY026 R.H.K.P. Land Rover (Western District)
• HKY027 R.H.K.P. Land Rover (Emergency Unit / Hong Kong)

Colonial Hong Kong 1897

Jenkins

New releases expected October 2025!

WWII - StuG III Ausf. G Assault Gun

While most World War Two enthusiasts focus on either the Normandy Campaign or the Eastern Front, the Italian Theatre was no less important in 1944 to the outcome of the war. Following their victory in North Africa, the Allies launched a campaign to weaken the Axis by knocking Italy out of the war. Allied planners originally envisioned a relatively easy operation to carve out the "soft underbelly" of Europe. Instead, they encountered a "tough old gut" filled with battle-hardened German troops, turning the theatre into a grueling campaign that stretched the length of the Italian peninsula. Here, Allied offensives were repeatedly rebuffed in brutal fighting, nowhere more so than at the Allied landings at Anzio and during the multiple battles for Monte Cassino and the Gustav Line. Fighting in Italy continued until the very end of the war and proved to be the bloodiest campaign on the Western Front, with combined Allied and German infantry casualties exceeding 300,000. John Jenkins Designs' newest releases focus on this often-overlooked area of World War Two, with a matched pair of assault guns representing a StuG III Ausf. G and a StuH 42 Sturmhaubitze (Assault Howitzer) of StuG Brigade 242.

• GA-024A StuG III Ausf. G Assault Gun (Sd.Kfz. 142/1) Sturmgeschütz Brigade 242 Italy – The Forgotten Front
• GA-024&B StuG III Ausf. G Assault Gun (Sd.Kfz. 142/1) & StuH 42 Assault Howitzer (Sd.Kfz. 142/2) - SPECIAL OPTION FOR INITIAL OCTOBER RELEASE ONLY!
• GA-024B StuH 42 Assault Howitzer (Sd.Kfz. 142/2), Sturmgeschütz Brigade 242, Italy – The Forgotten Front

JJ WWII Collection

Cyrus’ bodyguard

Based on Xenophon’s descriptions of Cyrus’ bodyguard at the Battle of Kounaxa in 401BC, they are described as having a cuirass under the red tunic, and a bronze helmet. The general appearance of recent illustrations are inspired by a relief in Turkey, which shows a Persian cavalryman with a crested pilos helmet fighting a Greek Hoplite. Another part of the relief shows bronze horse’s head-armour, and horse’s breast armour of embossed bronze or leather. It has also been described that the guard wore matching thigh and leg guards.

• AP-060 Persian Heavy Cavalry, Cyrus the Youngers' Bodyguard

Persian Cavalry

Gladiators

An official would be dressed in a mask of Charon, to represent the ferryman of the dead, and would strike a corpse with a mallet. This was normally reserved for the Noxii or criminals condemned to death, but gladiator skulls found in a gladiator cemetery, and by modern pathological examination has also confirmed the probable fatal use of a mallet on some. It has been suggested that gladiators who disgraced themselves might have been subjected to the same indignities as noxii, and denied the relative mercies of a quick death, and therefore would have been dragged from the arena as carrion.

• GLAD-015 Charon, Ferryman of the Dead

Gladiators

Troy

Helen, known as Helen of Troy, or Helen of Sparta, was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daughter of Zeus and Ledaor Nemesis, and the sister of Clytemnestra, Castor, Pollux, Philonoe, Phoebe, and Timandra. She was married first to King Menelaus of Sparta, and her subsequent marriage to Paris of Troy was the most immediate cause of the Trojan War.

• Helen - Helen of Troy

Troy and her allies

Hittite War Chariot

• HITT-003 Hittite War Chariot

New Kingdom Egyptians, Battle of Kadesh 1274BC

Roman Auxiliary Cavalry

• ROMCAV-011A Roman Auxiliary Cavalry, Red Shield
• ROMCAV-011B Roman Auxiliary Cavalry, Green Shield

Roman Army of the Mid-Republic

Cretan archers

Cretan archers were a well known class of warrior whose specialist skills were extensively utilized by many ancient armies. They were especially valued in armies such as those of the Greek city states, notably Athens, Sparta and later Macedonia, as well as Rome as these armies could not draw upon substantial numbers of skilled archers from their native populations. Cretan archers carried a composite bow, which consisted of a wooden core with laminated layers of sinew and horn. These bows while difficult to string and use, they gave the professional Cretan archers greater range over the simple wooden bows of the citizen levies of other armies. Cretan archers were widely recognized as being amongst the best light missile troops in the ancient world, and as such found employment as mercenaries in many armies, including the armies of Alexander the Great. Eurybotas was the toxarch, meaning the captain of the archers employed by Alexander.

• CRET-001A Cretan Archers
• CRET-001AN Cretan Archers
• CRET-001B Cretan Archers
• CRET-001BN Cretan Archers

Achaemenid Persian Empire

Samnite Warrior

• CTSM-004A Samnite Warrior
• CTSM-004B Samnite Warrior
• CTSM-004N Samnite Warriors

Carthaginian

Zulu Wars

• GG-106 Ox Wagon, British Laager/Entrenched Defenses
• GG-110 Ammunition Boxes, The Eshowe Relief Column
• GG91-016 Two Highlanders, Ammo Box & Private, 91st Regt
• GGZ-005 Two Zulu Warriors, uThulwana Regiment
• GGZ-005N Four Zulu Warriors, uThulwana Regiment

Battle of Gingindhlovu, 1879

British Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade landing parties were a feature of Victorian campaigns and the Zulu War was no exception. In the aftermath of Isandlwana HMS Shah was diverted from a homeward journey and landed most of its ship’s complement at Durban, a total of 378 men.

On 20th March HMS Boadicea also landed a brigade of 10 officers and 218 men. About 100 Royal Marines were also included. Two Brigades were formed for the relief column for Eshowe. The artillery for this force came entirely from the Naval Brigades. The allocation was as follows: 1st Brigade, included two 9pdrs, two 24pdr Rocket Tubes, and one Gatling gun. -2nd Brigade, included two 24pdr Rocket Tubes and one Gatling Gun.

The 9pdrs, Rockets and Gatlings were positioned at the corners of the British enclosure. The Gatling Guns opened fire at 1,000m, and as the Zulus approached they were engaged by all the artillery weapons.

Naval attachments brought with them their own artillery, including Gatlings which were both used to good effect at Gingindhlovu.

The Naval Brigade Gatlings were apparently mounted on different carriages to their army counterparts, these being narrower and minus the axle-tree boxes.

There were also a number of Hale’s rockets. These were the heavy 24pdrs, fired from tubes rather than the army’s troughs. These tubes were originally designed to be bracketed onto the side of a ship, but by 1879 a modified version replaced the bracket with a tripod for land service, and it was this "Fisher” tube which was the type used in Zululand.

The navy also landed some of its field guns. At Gingindhlovu the naval Brigade had two 9-pounder guns. Since no plans or other drawings exist of these experimental guns, I have decided to produce the standard Royal Artillery 9 pdr.

• GGNV-002 British Naval Brigade, H. M. S. Shah
• GGNV-002N British Naval Brigade, H. M. S. Shah

British Naval Brigade, H. M. S. Shah

Jacobite Rebellion

• BJ37-008 Grenadier At the Ready
• BJ37-008DN Grenadiers At the Ready
• BJ37-009 Grenadier At The Ready
• BJ37-009D Grenadier At The Ready
• BJ37-010 Grenadier "Push Your Bayonets."
• BJ37-010DN Grenadiers "Push Your Bayonets."

Jacobite Rebellion 1745

Roger's Rangers

• RR-032 Roger's Rangers, Raid on St. Francis

Raid on Saint Francis, 1759

ACW - 1st Regiment, Rhode Island Detached Militia

• 1RH-005 Two Rhode Island Militia, 1st Regiment, 1861
• 1RH-005N Four Rhode Island Militia, 1st Regiment, 1861

1st Regiment, Rhode Island Detached Militia

ACW - Wheat's Tigers

• CSWT-003N Four Wheat's Tigers, 1st Special Battalion, Louisiana Infantry
• CSWT-003 Two Wheat's Tigers, 1st Special Battalion, Louisiana Infantry

Wheat's Tigers by John Jenkins

ACW - Mounted Artillery Sergeant

• USBSA-008 Mounted Artillery Sergeant, Union Artillery

Battle of Brandy Station

Long Tom" Part 2

• WSP-128B "The Long Tom" Part 2, Gold Rush

Whiskey, Scalps and Beaver Pelts

Team Minitures

Tuetonic Knights

The Teutonic Order is a Catholic religious institution founded as a military society c. 1190 in Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Saint Mary in Jerusalem was formed to aid Christians on their pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to establish hospitals. Its members have commonly been known as the Teutonic Knights, having historically served as a crusading military order for supporting Catholic rule in the Holy Land and the Northern Crusades during the Middle Ages, as well as supplying military protection for Catholics in Eastern Europe. Purely religious since 1810, the Teutonic Order still confers limited honorary knighthoods. The Bailiwick of Utrecht of the Teutonic Order, a Protestant chivalric order, is descended from the same medieval military order and also continues to award knighthoods and perform charitable work.

• BOL6013A Livonian Knight - The order of Livonian Brothers of the Sword or Sword Brethren, formally known as The Militia of Christ of Livonia was a Catholic military order of German crusading knights established in 1202 in Livonia by Albert, the third bishop of Riga.[2][3][4] Pope Innocent III sanctioned the establishment in 1204 for the second time. The membership of the crusading order comprised warrior monks, mostly from northern Germany, who fought Baltic and Finnic pagans in the area of modern-day Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Following their defeat by the Samogitians and Semigallians in the Battle of Saule in 1236, the remnants of the order were disbanded by the Pope in 1237 when some of the surviving sword brethren were allowed to return to Germany and those who opted to stay in "Terra Mariana" (Livonia) were accepted into the local branch of the Teutonic Order.
• BOL6013B Teutonic Knight
• BOL6014A Teutonic Knight Standard Bearer
• BOL6014B Teutonic Knight Standard Bearer

Battle of Legnica in 1241

Thomas Gunn

New expected October, 2025!
WWII - German Artillery

• ACCPACK118 10.5 cm leFH 18/40 (Light Field Howitzer)
• SS176 Gunner Preparing to Fire
• SS177A Gun Crew Loader #1 with Shell
• SS177B Gun Crew Loader #2 with Shell
• SS178 Gun Commander NCO with Eye Patch
• SS179 Battery Radio Operator

WWII German forces

War Park

WWII - Normandy

The gun barrel can pitch, the two hatch doors can be opened, the antenna can be erected and lowered, and the tank can be pushed. Track, chassis, gun barrel and some parts are made of metal, others are made of resin or ABS.

• AX040 Camouflage Sturmhaubitze 42 in Normandy

War Park Vehicles & Accessories

Very best regards from Mike & Myszka Hall and the Sierra Toy Soldier team - Alex, Cody and Nicholas.

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