
Of more interest in the photograph are the four X-100 Space Scouts at the back, these are in a semi-transparent/marbled plastic, and in conversation with the guy who supplied the photo, the thought is they are local production. If not Finnish, then Scandinavian at least...Now, the Ajax/Beton/Everybody else mounted figures from the very early days of plastic, were carried/produced in Europe by an unknown French company, Airfix, Remsa and, in Denmark, by Riesler...could Riesler have produced these four?
The other two are a silver X-200 Space Ranger like the red one below [this is a pyro original] and an Atomic Space Ship (with a damaged nose), [marked] Tudor Rose.
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Hello,
If you have some problems to find a french manufacturer, perhaps, the "modelstories" website (specialised in kits)should help you.
This website is in French (and sometimes in English).
Best REGARDS,
Jay
Thanks, I'll give them a go Jay. The wagon in question will feature in an artical on those everyCo. horses, but I need to track a few down on eBay before I can write it!
Kent Specher covers the US end very well on his ToysoldierHQ site, and Paul Morhead covers the Airfix/UK stuff in the 'Airfix Special', available from the Plastic Warrior website.
Oh - Yes, I've had this page bookmarked for a long time, but you're right to remind me, I need to link to it on the main page, and the whole point of going over to a 3 column template was to make room for more links.
They are dealing more with 60/70's stuff. The space ships in the last few posts are all 1950's, originating in the US, we've had a death in the family, so I wasn't really bothering with text, the 5 or 6 posts will all be re-witten in time and make more sence, I just threw the first few up there as eye-candy!! Cheers for dropping by.
Hello,
I forgot to mention that the guy who work on this website (JC Carbonnel / modelstories) had written a recent book about the Airfix toysoldiers (in french and english).
best regards,
Jay
Nice spaceships!!
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