Back in the 50's wood was available while British made toys were being exported. The result was a lot of WW2 compromise by fathers in making wood toys for or with their sons.
I have fond memories of the fire station my Dad built me that I helped paint red. The many swords, guns sailing ships and yes those date box boats, mine were sometimes galleons sometimes tug boats with barges.
For model train layouts there were printed paper sheets of building exteriors that you could paste on the front of a wood building made of balsa or plywood.
Well into the 1960's Tri-ang toys combined metal, plastic and wood into their toys.
Buildings from lolly sticks could take a long time to collect the building materials, these days I only have to go into an art/craft store and I can buy a pack of them.
These days I use lolly sticks as a base for painting items!
Terranova47
USA
Using sticks in Minature tabletop wargaming was as old as time (or most of the players), but most of the time they were used with double side tape. You would stick figures on those sticks for "batch painting" using spray cans/airbrush for primer and basecoats.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of lollipop sticks being used in gaming is as old as time. I suppose people have moved sticks and stones around large flat areas for thousands of years.
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