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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.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

I is for Intermediate Scales - 40mm Wild West; Atlantic Copies

Presumably Hong Kong but unmarked so no guarantee, they are however in that tinny polyethylene which was quite prevalent in the rack-toys of the late 1980's and 90's and follow the style (and size bracket) of figures from DFC and others.

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Copies; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Cowboys and Indians; Atlantic Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Copies; Plastic Cowboys and Indians; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wild West;
Copies of Atlantic, most from Laws and Outlaws, one (lasso) from the Cowboys on the Ranch sets, the forth figure is purported to be Wild Bill Hickock and is the only 'character' figure copied from the Atlantic sets to this effort.

The colours are a greyish-white (showing bluish in the above image) and a pure white (creamier above)which seems to be the commoner, but that could just be the serendipitous or coincidental way they've come in?

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Copies; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Cowboys and Indians; Atlantic Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Copies; Plastic Cowboys and Indians; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wild West;
The Indians also run to six poses, taken half-and-half from the two Sioux specific sets; Torro Seduto Sitting Bull (smoke signaller and the two heavily-armed warriors) and Sioux Camp. Colours are brown and blue, with the brown seeming far more common but the same caveat applies.

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Copies; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Cowboys and Indians; Atlantic Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Copies; Plastic Cowboys and Indians; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wild West;
Some other buggers effort, painted to a 'toy soldier level' it gives you some idea of how these would paint-up - he's clearly not to be engaged in an argument!

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Copies; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Cowboys and Indians; Atlantic Indians; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Copies; Plastic Cowboys and Indians; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wild West;
I wanted to add an HO one, but could only find the cavalry/ACW over-spill and they have no sitting figures, so it's just Torro' himself, which is not the best comparison, as he's huge, closer to 60mm size (1:30) than the stated 1:32nd scale!

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