These being they! Two Danish guards from Reisler, in the everyday uniform, the
red is the ceremonial, the black for day-in/day-out wear. To their left are two
Mignalu plastic Monaco police (Carabineers
de Monaco) in their summer dress uniform (they also have a dark version
for winter), these are taken from a short experiment by Minot (CGB, not Barry) in Aluminium production back in the 1950's.
My three Athena's, I couldn't begin to
explain anything else about them as there seem to be so many variations; red
and blue, white and blue, kilts, bloused trousers, pom-poms - large, small and
no, single or double 'deputy dog' ears, 'wing-boards' . . . and I must conclude
that every regiment has its own uniform, or that several guards have summer and
winter versions, there is an excellent book or two on them by Markos Plytos and they
should make it clearer, in the meantime - my three are a good mix!
The first four were going to be with the
Cavalry, before they expanded and I decided they must go seperately as a 'foot
ceremonials' post, off to find the Evzones above, I checked Brian B's folders
and found this 80'mil-odd chap, who's from Processed
Plastic (thanks to Kent's site)'s US Air Force set.
Which in turn reminded me I had this chap
(on the left) in with the unknown navy (or navy-like) figures, looking at him
anew I suspect he's actually a chauffeur or doorman from a 1:35th scale car kit
- Monogram, MPC/AMT-Ertl, Pyro or Revell? He's in hard polystyrene plastic
anyway and someone's tried to glue him down by melting his base!
He - in turn - reminded me there was the
other black plastic figure hanging around, seen on the right; he's soft
polyethylene and I know nothing about him, I thought he must be Marx or MPC but doesn't seem to be either, has some features in common with
the Remco Romans, but is lacking the
fine detail seen on their shields, he's close to Marx's 60mm naval cadet marching, but of poorer quality and without
the shoulder flap on the Marx
figure's greatcoat, and, if it wasn't for the base, you might mistake him for
an early experiment by Pater Cole's Replicants!
Anyone know, he seems to be a modern
re-issue so I guess somewhere someone has a bucket-full of 'um? To be honest he
looks like a neighbouring dictator's guard from the Trigan Empire and seems to be carrying an Elephant
Brontosaurus-gun! The gun actually looks to be damaged at the tip, but
inspection under a magnifying-glass suggests it's all there? Steam-punk
Nazi!??!
ABC, Hong Kong rip-off's of Britains hollow-cast marching troops,
they look better en-masse than they do individually!
A mix of French troops marching, seen
recently here, but again looking better as a group, and also HK copies, this
time cloned from Starlux.
A Salvation Army chap I shot on Adrian's
stand years ago and which has been sat in Picasa ever since! I may actually
have one myself, but either a different pose or a different flag, and I'm not
sure where I put it? He's aluminium and Wend-Al.
A scaler on the left, while on the right
- they are all ensconced in their new tub! the HK stuff (ABC/Starlux-copies) have their own tubs!
The cavalry grew to fill two tubs, Reamsa and 'others', and the foot got
one of their own. The red plastic Reisler's
(which we've seen; Blog passim) will stay with the British guards for now, but
as this sample grows and fills a deeper tub, they may migrate across (with the
correct paperwork - no illegal's here!), while you can see the lovely RHA chap
Chris Smith sent the blog a while back has joined them.
Because PVC can melt polystyrene, the three
Greeks and the artilleryman get PE bags, which prevents that kind of damage occurring
and provides padding for all the figures in the tub.
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