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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Monday, January 7, 2019

B is for Box-ticking - Soviet Era Troops - Poland

An awful lot of stuff is credited to PZG, a fair bit of which never saw the inside of one of their production-plants! These however are safely to be ID'ed as PZG having the correct bases!

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Their 'bog-standard' Warsaw Pack, soviet era troops, there are more poses I think, but it's not a bad sample. Not as plagiarist as some of their stuff, the two kneeling figures (in a darker green) look vaguely familiar and the grenade thrower seems to be channelling the old Airfix German infantrymen!

65mm Figures; 65mm Toy Soldiers; PZG Infantry; PZG Plastic; PZG Soldiers; PZG Toy Soldiers; PZG Toys; Officer; Plastic Officer; Plastic Toy; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Polak Infantry; Polish PZG; Polish Infantry; Polish Plastic; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soldier; Soviet Era Toy Officer; Soviet Era Toy Soldiers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Soviet Figures; Vintage Soviet Toys; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage USSR Toys;
Reverse shots, this is 'range-day' or firepower-demo' PCE (personal Combat Equipment) consisting of nothing more than a belt, day-sack and weapon/s, and the base-paint is starting to come-off in large flakes! At 60+mm (with base) they are a bit to big for 54mm armies, but go well with the other figures we'll be looking at today.

2 comments:

Gisby said...

Hugh,

The Officer looks like the Airfix German officer, and the running, upright firing, and kneeling firing remind me of the Airfix WW2 Russians.

The walkie-talkie reminds me of the Monogram 1/32 figure.

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Gisby . . . and there was me congratulating them for a less derivative set . . . definitely PZG!

Hope you and yours enjoyed a nice Christmas break!

H