I've been busy adding hundreds of items for HMS and RFA ships over the past couple of days and will continue to add pictures over the coming weeks.  As always, if you would like to view a product which doesn't yet have a picture please get in touch.  As the pictures are added the products will appear in the New Products section for a while so watch that space!

We are looking forward to meeting everyone going to the Light Infantry Reunion in Shrewsbury on Saturday 14th June 2008.  We will be bringing Light Infantry products, including the Light Infantry Northern Ireland Veteran pin badges.  If you would like to order specific items for collection on the day please get in touch.

 

 

After a very unpromising start because of bad weather (well it was a Bank Holiday weekend in Britain after all) Support Our Paras turned out to be a great show.  By the afternoon it was actually hot - hard to believe that less than 24hrs earlier we had been battling to put up our stand tent in a howling gale! 

Highlights of the day have to include the Red Devils parachute display team and the Spitfire display.  Seeing two Spitfires flying together was really something.  As always we enjoyed meeting customers old and new at the show.  No doubt the weather put a lot of people off but the Dunkirk spirit was alive and well in all who attended.  We were not able to show our products as we would have liked because the displays would probably have blown down but had to compromise on an improvised "boot sale" approach.  No-one seemed to mind, so thank you for that.

 

 

 

The Light Infantry NI Vets pin badges are now available. Here's a link to the website

http://www.militaryfigures.co.uk/pages/product.aspx?category=15573&page=3&product=16086

If you get together to order the postage is cheaper.  The postage on 4 badges is the same as on 1.  The next band covers 5 to 10 badges and the next 11 to 20 badges.

We look forward to meeting you at the Support Our Paras event this Sunday (25th May) at Old Sarum, nr Salisbury.  It promises to be a great family day out.  You can find out more at www.vision-stream.co.uk/sopara/index.htm.

Welcome to the Blog of Debra Raymond Military Figures & Gifts!

With the launch of our new website we hope to make your browsing experience more pleasurable. As with any new project their might be issues along the way so if you can think of anything which would make your experience easier then please let us know. Whilst we can't promise to implement all of your suggestions we will consider any and all suggestions which are made. As always, if you can't see what you are looking for on the website, please email Deb@militaryfigures.co.uk.  A regiment may be "gone" but it is never "forgotten" - we are bringing out products for regiments long since amalgamated all the time.

In conjunction with the launch of our new website is of course the launch of this new Blog. The aim of the Blog is to act as a tool for passing information about Debra Raymond Military Figures & Gifts to you our customers. Deb will be letting you know about her latest painting projects giving you as many top tips as she can think of to help budding modellers to improve your work.  We will be using the blog to let you know about new products, shows that we have attended or are going to attend and just about anything else we think would be of interest to you. 

If you are new to blogs then I would encourage you to eheck back regularly to find out what is going on. You can subscribe to our RSS feed and receive automatic updates when new posts are added. As we are also new to blogging we promise to try to make things as interesting as possible.  We would appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing from you.

Thanks for reading my first ever blog.  Oh, and if you have seen us at a show, I'm the tall one with specs! 

Bridget
http://www.militaryfigures.co.uk

 

We are pleased to be able to tell you that the sum of £2,537.33 has been donated to SSAFA so far from the sale of Support Our Troops items. 

Thank you for your support.  It is very much appreciated by us and SSAFA - Forces Help.

Debbie
www.militaryfigures.co.uk

PS. Support Our Troops pin badges are now also available from the National Army Museum in London.

 

 

They may have been consigned to history but we are currently working on products for the following regiments:-

Essex Regiment
Royal Sussex Regiment
Royal Fusiliers
The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regt)
Middlesex Regiment
9th/12th Lancers

Once each graphic is finalised we will be able to offer you mugs, coasters, keyrings, wall shields, fridge magnets, mousemats and bottle openers, all made in our workshop. Watch out for the Essex Regiment coming soon!

Bridget
www.militaryfigures.co.uk

 

 

 

I can't paint so I won't be giving you any painting tips.  That said, I did once come up with an idea which has saved Deb quite a bit of money over the years. 

Several years ago when Deb was first trying out acrylic paints she commented that it was going to be more expensive because of the need for more palettes.  Apparently the residual enamels dry hard enough to mix a different colour on top but the residual acrylics don't.  My solution was simple - give up on palettes completely and use all those free CDs which come with magazines and newspapers etc.  They work just as well and don't cost a thing!

Cheers!

Bridget
www.militaryfigures.co.uk