Here he is! Civil Guard - Spanish National Police? I
think they are the equivalent of Federal police or Gendarmerie? I stand to be
corrected; but he's a Spanish policeman and that's good enough for me!
He had to borrow my Guardsman's bayonet, as
he came without one, but the other figures I've seen on that there Intermerweb
thingy (Federal and Confederate ACW) both had one. I'm guessing these are aimed
at the tourist trade in each territory, and there may be others to find.
The Spaniard compared with my Guardsman, which
we have seen before here, briefly. You can see the only physical difference is
in the headdress - along with plastic-colouring, and the tampo-printed uniform
and face decoration, obviously!
I did try making a video, but the light was
all wrong and you have to hold the wound-up figure/s 'till you press record,
then get your hand out of the way, at which point they fall over, or go away
from the camera or march into out-of-focus, or - when I tried both together -
collide with each other, so I gave that up as a 'bad job' requiring five arms,
three of which I've yet to grow!
From the sides.
As I say, I have seen Union and Confederate
soldiers from the same series, in the US, often quite cheap, but the postage-cost
has dampened my enthusiasm, a quick Google or feebleBay search will reveal
them.
Base code/markings (or technically 'foot
codes') are the same for both, but the Spanish chap has had a branding added to
the other foot - he's not Hans, he's
mine! The arms swing and the head turns from one side to the other by a few
degrees each way, as they march-along. I think this was a charity-shop job, but it may have been in Jim's big box, so shout-out to Jim!
The robot in the left is the addition;
we've seen my old yellow and red Christmas stocking one before. The ones we
looked at last time (thanks Adrian) and mine are - for the most part - single
action toys, just 'marchers', but the new one has similar cam-wheels with pins (to the arm-swinging Guardsman & Gendarme above) between different plastic 'plates' to
make the arms punch in-and-out, or the antenna to move up and down as it walks.
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