In order to avoid any music industry copyright problems, I'll be replacing the music on each page with my own compositions...sorry about that folks...it's either that or get sued by money grubbing music execs. *****  If you are interested, I will be selling cds of my instrumental music for $15  each. There are five different cds. 1. Border Town  - includes all the tunes I use for the western diorama pages; 2. End Times: Countdown to 2012- includes all the music I use for the  Future Wars diorama with "Alien Abduction" featured..you might have already heard that on the radio; 3. My other cds are After the Panic (blues, jazz); City Rhythms (rock, funk); Novel Tunes (Acoustic); and   Gentle Tunes for Trying Times (Acoustic...wide range of styles). Send checks, money orders, to Joe Carvalho, 97 Ridgeway Circle, Springfield, Mass. 01103 USA;  or Paypal (use my email joecar123@comcast.net  )  . The $15 includes postage and handling for the United States. I would need to calculate shipping for international orders so just email me your address and I'll get back to you with the total cost. Also you might get a kick out of  my band's website which features my musical collaboration with singer song writer, Eva Cappelli at www.evacappelli.com  You  can hear tunes of Eva and the Watershops Band  which plays a range of music with influences from   rock, blues, country,  celtic and latin music. Hope you like it.

This website contains photographs of Joe Carvalho's collection of military figures. Each figure has been hand-painted by  Carvalho over the past 32 years. Each uniform is based upon the uniforms actually used during the period depicted in the various diorama's. Figures  in 54mm scale were produced by a wide range of makers from the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The most prominent makers are Marx, Britains, Accurate, Imex, Classic Toy Soldiers, Barzso, Conte Collectibles, BMC, San Diego Toy Soldier Company,  Starlux, Dulcop, Reamsa, Timpo, Revell, Call to Arms, Replicants, Herald, Crecent, Charbens, Lonestar, Historex, Italeri, Ideal, Marxmen, HAT, Armies in Plastic, and Jason Pope's Plastic Underground figures. Viewers familiar with these makers  will notice a number of "conversions" of various figures created by Carvalho in order to increase the diverse look of the individual soldiers or to create certain poses which enhance the "story-telling" of a particular diorama. All photographs on this website are by Joseph Carvalho. Add this site to your "favorites" and check in every week for new photos.

This site is dedicated to all those brave souls who march off to war for their country and kin. You will note that the following dioramas depict those who actually had to fight these wars...not the troublemakers who started them in the first place....they were almost never seen on the front lines!

The link below is to a video of the Connecticut Valley Toy Soldiers Collector's Exhibition at the Springfield Museums in Springfield, Massachusetts which will open Friday November 14, 2008 and run until August 2009. The Springfield Republican Newspaper's website, www.masslive.com , filmed an interview with the Exhibition organizer and club leader, Ted Lyman, esq.  The following link will direct you to the video on MassLive : http://videos.masslive.com/republican/2008/11/toy_soldiers_history_in_miniat.html . If you are in the Northeast, the trip to the Museums is well worth a few hours drive. Here is the Museum's website which has hours of operation and directions, etc. www.springfieldmuseums.org .  Regular Visitors to this site will recognize the Zama diorama is mine from my Carthage and Rome collection. Enjoy, Joe Carvalho.

P.S. I have tons of new material for new dioramas but have had zero time this past few months to photograph them....I promise they'll be in place by the first of the year.

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