We've actually
looked at these before, and because I think they run to 16 sculpts of which I
have yet to track down a few, we'll look at them again before the sun sets on
Small Scale World, but for now we have a box, brand and new colour!
The box; it was in
a state of semi-collapse. but a few minutes with an iron and some licky-sticky
bookbinders/sealing paper-tape took care of the worst of the damage and a glue
stick tidied-up the rougher edges.
I'm not going to bore
you with a translation of the artwork-panel titles, as apart from about three,
they don't bear much relationship to the figures, and while there are eight of
the little pen sketches and eight figures in the set, several of the figures
clearly aren't in the artwork at all, and more poses have turned up, so I think
the artwork is more for the interest of little-people buying or begging for
toys, rather than to directly represent the contents!
The new figures are
a slightly different colour - which we'll get to in a minute (I had to dig them
out of the new storage unit!), but are otherwise the same as the ones we've
looked at before; semi-flats with heavy bases that can lead to ID'ing them as Polish
production where such bases were more common.
Malysh (Малыш, English; 'kid') also known as Moskovskiy
zavod plastmassovykh igrushek
(МЗПИ
- MZPI), who we've seen here before and which was
clear on the tray last time we looked at them! I'll update the previous posts. A
minor difference which may interest the completists, this one has had the 1-rouble
removed from the tool, so we must assume that the boxing of a complete set came
after their sale as the grab-box/counter-display singles (8x11 for 88 kopeks)
we saw here originally?
The new sample out
of the box and from both sides, to the casual eye they look like the previously
seen ones', in a softish aluminum-silver coloured polystyrene, and while
obviously Napoleonics, I don't know if they are all Russian subjects (I suspect
so), or have some French units mixed-in, kids didn't care and they are arranged
to charge each other for all eternity, in their tray!
I have to accept
that Girly-girl's son is more of an overseer than an assistant, and he kept
pushing them away with his nose - once he'd realised they were attached as a
single item and therefore not handy mouthfulls! But the colour was niggling me
and so next time I took some stuff up to the storage-unit, I had a quick dig
and brough the older ones back for a comparison.
Sure enough, the
newer ones (on the right) are actually a more pastel shade of sea-blue/green
next to the other [earlier?] sample, their tray is also a slightly more washed-orange,
but that's a minor point.
The two
extra/buckshee poses are in front and both look a little more French? However,
you can see two in the tray are a darker gunmetal and I think they came later,
which is not to suggest there are specific 'set contents'; we know from earlier
posts that the slip's translation was giving a pricing that was for individual
figures, eights and full sets with tray; but rather to question how many there
are overall
The last time we looked at these
it was as uncaptioned-drapery to translations of articles which came out of a
conversation on the Friends of Plastic
Warrior faceplant group, and during which we learned they were designed by
a venerated Soviet era sculptor Boris Dmitrievich Savelyev, and I hope wherever
he is he's happy with the coverage they've had here at Small Scale World over
the years!
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