Tin soldier

Tin soldier

Tin soldiers are miniature figures of soldiers, extremely popular in the world of collecting. They can be bought finished or in a raw state to be hand-painted. They are generally made of pewter, tin, lead, other metals or plastic. Often very elaborate scale models of battle scenes, known as dioramas, are created for their display.Tin soldiers were originally almost two-dimensional figures, often called "flats". They were the first toy soldiers to be mass produced. [Opie, James "Toy Soldiers" Phillips Collector Guide Dunestyle Publishing Ltd 1989] Though largely superseded in popularity from the late 19th century by fully rounded 3 dimensional lead figures, these flat tin soldiers continue to be produced.

Casting

"Real" tin soldiers, i.e. ones cast from an alloy of tin and lead, can also be home-made. Molds are available for sale in some hobby shops. Earlier, the molds were made of metal; nowadays they are often made of hard rubber which can stand the temperature of the molten metal, around 250 °C.

Literature

[
Vilhelm Pedersen for "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" ("Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat").] The best-known tin soldier in literature is the unnamed title character in Hans Christian Andersen's 1838 fairy tale "The Steadfast Tin Soldier". It concerns a tin soldier who had only one leg because "he had been left to the last, and then there was not enough of the melted tin to finish him." He falls in love with a dancer made of paper and after much adventuring, including being swallowed by a fish, the two are consumed together by fire, leaving nothing but tin melted "in the shape of a little tin heart."Tin soldiers also play a role in "Knight's Castle" by Edward Eager.

ee also

*Militaria
*Model figure
*Toy soldier

References


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