F is for Follow-up - Hing Fat Pirates

We looked at these for the second time last year, and I pointed out a difference between the pastel-coloured ones we'd looked at ten years ago and the more primary ones which I further consider to be the true Hing Fat (they tend to copy rather than innovate), so someone else's earlier sculpts.

Well I've picked-up a few more, and these contain two of the figures I only had as the later copies, but from the earlier set, so all the poses will probably turn-up for that earlier set, with Hing Fat probably still missing a few poses?

The new additions also increase the number of colours to be sought-out, and while I won't try for every pose in every colour, I can still use a few more from both sets for fuller samples, so I will look out for them again this year, with a view to a final post in a future ITLAPD.

Although Hing Fat's still current set have a dark red and a mustard, these are all the earlier, better sculpts.

D&D Distribution are offering this version of the Hing Fat set, and you can see the pose number is quite limited, with a hideously over-scale plunder-chest and barrel, two rather daft guns (I have one somewhere, but the wheel-hubs are brittle and one's fallen off! The raft however is not bad for a cheapie rack-toy?

Note also; the plants and horses, the former pretty generic fayre maybe bought-in, maybe Hing Fat sub-piracies, while the two horses are more interesting, being bare-backed sculpts of some originallity? The brown-one looks like the donor for the BraveStarr robo-one?

This was an old thumbnail from feeBay, and I've had to blow-it-up, lighten it and enhance the shadows to get it viewable, but it shows an alternate contents with a canoe replacing the giant barrel!

D&D are also carrying these smaller/different contents sets as header-carded hanging rack-toys, the pirate ship (and cannon) was being ascribed to someone else (Pressman) a while ago (15-odd, 20 years ago?) possibly in O'Brian?

Anyway, obviously in both iterations it has been around for a while and branded to various other names as a generic, all three D&D sets carry their own/branded artwork. Some sets have a 'little jolly boat' instead.

This was a late addition to the post and compares the older, now enhanced set on the left, and those poses duplicated by Hing Fat as smaller second-generation copies on the right. Because I was rushing things I managed to duplicate one pre-HF pose (top right of left-hand image - pink and mint-green), while seven is an odd total, so I'm wondering if another pose for Hing Fat's clone-set may turn-up, while eleven suggests one still to find for the originals?