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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.

Thursday, August 8, 2019

PW5 is for Best of Show - Warrior Types

As well as the themes which develop as the show progresses and the plunder grows in several bags, there are the stand-alone pieces which won't otherwise be Blogged for years, or which may already have been blogged in a lesser form, and which therefore can go here!

2019 Show Dates; African Bearers; African Natives; Chinese Figures; Cold War Era Troops; Czechoslovakian Soldiers; Drevopodnik Composition; Drevopodnik Czechoslovakia; FFL; French Foreign Legion; French Toy Soldiers; Hunting Party; Jungle Safari; Napoleonic Hussar; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Plastic Toy Soldier; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; Polish Flats; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smart Toys Creative; Tourist Novelty; Trading House Mirika; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Although we'll start with something which was anything but 'best' of show, they are intriguing, unusual, but - and let's be honest here - f**king hideous! Clearly aimed at little kids (not that most of what we collect wasn't; in its original retail form) and/or Terracotta Army tourists, these are actually in Russian packaging and being imported by one of the German dealers . . . but . . . Oh Boy! Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Vases . . . semi-flat, tinny, chalky-plastic, leery colours, stab-and-hope paint job, one figure per pack, childlike poses, poor anatomy, faces that look like a horse just mounted them (in the Biblical sense) . . . they have NO redeeming features beyond depicting a previously un-covered era.

Smart Toys Creative of Yiwu, China, carried in Russia by Trading House Mirika, they're not nice and that's a box ticked - we won't see them again here very soon or very often!

2019 Show Dates; African Bearers; African Natives; Chinese Figures; Cold War Era Troops; Czechoslovakian Soldiers; Drevopodnik Composition; Drevopodnik Czechoslovakia; FFL; French Foreign Legion; French Toy Soldiers; Hunting Party; Jungle Safari; Napoleonic Hussar; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Plastic Toy Soldier; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; Polish Flats; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smart Toys Creative; Tourist Novelty; Trading House Mirika; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Hee-hee . . it's funny how something keeps growing; forth (?) appearance since Christmas on the Blog, and there's more to come - Chris Smith also found the hunter, at around the same time - despite missing the show!

So we have a new native pose (now have to find his load) and the hunter; a clever take on the much-pirated Britains farmer with shotgun, and this one is smaller than most so probably a copy of an old Blue Box or Holly copy-farmer rather than a Britains original?

2019 Show Dates; African Bearers; African Natives; Chinese Figures; Cold War Era Troops; Czechoslovakian Soldiers; Drevopodnik Composition; Drevopodnik Czechoslovakia; FFL; French Foreign Legion; French Toy Soldiers; Hunting Party; Jungle Safari; Napoleonic Hussar; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Plastic Toy Soldier; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; Polish Flats; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smart Toys Creative; Tourist Novelty; Trading House Mirika; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Already seen today, but this was one of the highlights for me, most Polish production is quite large, starting at 54/60mm and going in steps (like Fontanini) up to five-inch stauettes, so this 45/50mm semi-flat in the margarine premium style was a lovely find, and paint looks original, yet near-mint, but it may not be that old, a lot of the Polish stuff was still in production in the 1970-80's?

2019 Show Dates; African Bearers; African Natives; Chinese Figures; Cold War Era Troops; Czechoslovakian Soldiers; Drevopodnik Composition; Drevopodnik Czechoslovakia; FFL; French Foreign Legion; French Toy Soldiers; Hunting Party; Jungle Safari; Napoleonic Hussar; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Plastic Toy Soldier; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; Polish Flats; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smart Toys Creative; Tourist Novelty; Trading House Mirika; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Similar in several respects to the previous figure, this has to be French? But it's a weird dence yet soft plastic; polyethylene, nylon, polypropylene . . . even a PVC? Seems to be factory painted, seems to be relatively modern. French Foreign Legion, unusual, plastic version of an old lead figure?

2019 Show Dates; African Bearers; African Natives; Chinese Figures; Cold War Era Troops; Czechoslovakian Soldiers; Drevopodnik Composition; Drevopodnik Czechoslovakia; FFL; French Foreign Legion; French Toy Soldiers; Hunting Party; Jungle Safari; Napoleonic Hussar; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Plastic Toy Soldier; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; Polish Flats; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Smart Toys Creative; Tourist Novelty; Trading House Mirika; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
I keep finding them! Another Drevopodnik, and not one I was looking for; I know I'm looking for a carded set of Napoleonic/ceremonial dressed figures and staff officers as I've seen one, but this guy is A) new to me and B) clearly sold individually as a tourist trinket - from the little label? Bulling boots, probably not a great seller, and he's a sly-looking fella'!

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