One spring day in 2021, Justin Fairweather was driving around Los Angeles and stumbled upon an art exhibit of what ... were three-dimensional: small toy soldiers dotted the canvases.

Except, that is, when the two were playing with toy soldiers when McCarty ... idea of how he could use his art to help people heal from the horrors of war. After developing his ideas for 14 ...

The craze for collecting toy soldiers began with the French in ... Noguera remembers using the metal soldiers in war games on the tennis court and in the gardens of the family’s country house ...