C is for Crong

Among the newest figures in my collection are these, made by a company called Crong which were bought in a Newsagents in Guildford a couple of years ago, imported by PMS. There were three catapults included, which were similar to the Crossbows & Catapults/Castle Storm engines, they were over-scale.

These figures also came with an abysmal 'fort' which consisted of a basic front façade with gate and two corner towers and went strait in the bin! The figures are roughly 28mm and compatible with Games Workshop or similar makes.

Close-up of the novel locking-in of the rider, the shields bore two designs, basically Cyrillic letters roughly translating as F/Ph and J/zh, and this may be a clue either to the origin of the figures or the intended market. The figures are in a softish plastic material, closer to nylon/rayon than polythene, however I already had in my collection a hard polystyrene horse and caparison which are a bit older. I had always assumed the older one was from a board game, anyone got any further info/ideas on either type?

Shot of the older hard plastic horse on the left with the Timpo-like fitting of the caparison (split collar and hole for tail in the back) shown on the right.