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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.

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

NZNAM is for New Zealand's National Army Museum - Gift Shop Figures

Reinforcing the figures in the museum's display cabinets are a small number of figures for sale, for which I have no details as to manufacturer if any NZ reader happens to know? Seem to be modern 54mm (that is closer to 60!), 'new metal'  to match K&C, Figarti, Gunn, Atkinns & co.?

Anzac Day; ANZAC Forces; ANZAC Troops; BEF; Colonial Defence Force; Gift Shop Novelty; Māori Soldiers; Māori Warriors; Maori Wars; Mesopotamian Expedition; Metal 54mm Figures; Metal Toy Soldiers; New Zealand National Army Museum; New Zealand Toy Soldiers; NZ Army Memorial Museum Trust; NZ Toy Soldiers; NZNAM; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soldiers Through the Ages; Tourist Keepsake; Tourist Souvenier; Tourist Souvenir; WWI Toy Soldiers; WWII Toy Soldiers;
WWI ANZAC's; interestingly, after the end of the previous post; the officer seems to be wearing a slouch hat, but un-pinned, the troops sport a slightly shorter 'spike' more like a Mounties, while - and it's not clear - the pack-mule handler, half-out of frame to the right, seems to have the standard 'British' service-cap?

Anzac Day; ANZAC Forces; ANZAC Troops; BEF; Colonial Defence Force; Gift Shop Novelty; Māori Soldiers; Māori Warriors; Maori Wars; Mesopotamian Expedition; Metal 54mm Figures; Metal Toy Soldiers; New Zealand National Army Museum; New Zealand Toy Soldiers; NZ Army Memorial Museum Trust; NZ Toy Soldiers; NZNAM; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soldiers Through the Ages; Tourist Keepsake; Tourist Souvenier; Tourist Souvenir; WWI Toy Soldiers; WWII Toy Soldiers;
A nice group of resisting Moari and two figures (also in service caps) who I suspect are not WWII, but - from the blue-ish shirts - WWI Mesopotamia or Gallipoli? There seems to be a WWII figure advancing out of the frame, to the right.

Many-thanks again to Brian for the images, he explained that they are all shot from the rear as the reflection on the glass-fronts of the cabinets was too bright for photography. Has anyone got some at home they can shoot for us?

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