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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.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

F is for Follow-up - " ♪♪♫ . . . aaaaand there were Clockwork-men and Clockwork Cop's & Bot's" ♪♫♫

Mentioned in passing the other day (when looking at the other robots), the Spanish guy gets his fifteen minutes in the limelight today, and another robot turned-up in the Storage lot, so we'll look at it too.

Clockwork Guardsman; Clockwork Policeman; Clockwork Robots; Clockwork Soldiers; Guardsman Toy Soldier; Hans Clockwork Soldier; Hans Clockwork Toy; Novelty Figures; Novelty Toys; Old Clockwork Robots; Old Clockwork Toys; Old Robot Toys; Old Space Toys; Plastic Robots; Plastic Toys; Robot Set; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spanish Gendarme; Spanish Police Toy; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers; Toy Robots; Toy Soldiers; Vintage Clockwork Toys; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Robots; Vintage Toys; Wind Up Soldiers; Wind Up Toys; Wind-Up Robots; Wind-Up Soldiers;
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.

Clockwork Guardsman; Clockwork Policeman; Clockwork Robots; Clockwork Soldiers; Guardsman Toy Soldier; Hans Clockwork Soldier; Hans Clockwork Toy; Novelty Figures; Novelty Toys; Old Clockwork Robots; Old Clockwork Toys; Old Robot Toys; Old Space Toys; Plastic Robots; Plastic Toys; Robot Set; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spanish Gendarme; Spanish Police Toy; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers; Toy Robots; Toy Soldiers; Vintage Clockwork Toys; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Robots; Vintage Toys; Wind Up Soldiers; Wind Up Toys; Wind-Up Robots; Wind-Up Soldiers;
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!

Clockwork Guardsman; Clockwork Policeman; Clockwork Robots; Clockwork Soldiers; Guardsman Toy Soldier; Hans Clockwork Soldier; Hans Clockwork Toy; Novelty Figures; Novelty Toys; Old Clockwork Robots; Old Clockwork Toys; Old Robot Toys; Old Space Toys; Plastic Robots; Plastic Toys; Robot Set; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spanish Gendarme; Spanish Police Toy; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers; Toy Robots; Toy Soldiers; Vintage Clockwork Toys; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Robots; Vintage Toys; Wind Up Soldiers; Wind Up Toys; Wind-Up Robots; Wind-Up Soldiers;
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.

Clockwork Guardsman; Clockwork Policeman; Clockwork Robots; Clockwork Soldiers; Guardsman Toy Soldier; Hans Clockwork Soldier; Hans Clockwork Toy; Novelty Figures; Novelty Toys; Old Clockwork Robots; Old Clockwork Toys; Old Robot Toys; Old Space Toys; Plastic Robots; Plastic Toys; Robot Set; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spanish Gendarme; Spanish Police Toy; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers; Toy Robots; Toy Soldiers; Vintage Clockwork Toys; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Robots; Vintage Toys; Wind Up Soldiers; Wind Up Toys; Wind-Up Robots; Wind-Up Soldiers;
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!

Clockwork Guardsman; Clockwork Policeman; Clockwork Robots; Clockwork Soldiers; Guardsman Toy Soldier; Hans Clockwork Soldier; Hans Clockwork Toy; Novelty Figures; Novelty Toys; Old Clockwork Robots; Old Clockwork Toys; Old Robot Toys; Old Space Toys; Plastic Robots; Plastic Toys; Robot Set; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spanish Gendarme; Spanish Police Toy; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers; Toy Robots; Toy Soldiers; Vintage Clockwork Toys; Vintage Plastic Toys; Vintage Robots; Vintage Toys; Wind Up Soldiers; Wind Up Toys; Wind-Up Robots; Wind-Up Soldiers;
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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