The Ink's barely dry on the last issue, there must be
something wrong with me; three prompt in a row! Anyway - Issue 165 brings the
following Toy Soldier stories to your doormat, if you subscribe . . . and I
know of at least one new subscriber!
Also - I thought that with only the one image in
this morning's post you'd all be feeling slightly cheated!
Articles
* The first
article is a fascinating brain-food theory on the likely origins and
appearances of Dan Dare toy figures,
involving Thomas/Poplar, Tom Smith, Eagle, an outfit called Mead
& Field Ltd., and something called a Jollibom! All pulled-together and mused-on by Gerald Edwards. In addition he rounds-up the other suspects with Crescent, MG Southall and Kentoys
nodded-to - if that doesn't prick your imagination into subscribing and you still
aren't - you probably never will!
* An editorial
piece on the board-game 'Market Day'
by Holdfast Enterprises is equally
interesting
* Alwyn Brice also ponders, in his case
on Trojan, but with less success than
Mr Edwards I fear!
* A lovely
journey of discovery by Peter Watson
details his life-long uncovering of Cherilea's
production, one set at a time!
* Robert Newson (die-cast expert and co-author of the FIM's)
looks in detail at the various versions of Lone
Star Landover - and who knew there were so many - along with the figures/accessories
that sometimes accompanied them
* The well
known German collector and regular contributor Andreas Dittman returns with an overview (and call for more
information) of little-known Berlin maker Miniplast
* Another
editorial looks at some lovely Crescent
clones from Hong Kong
* Tony Sowerby explains his diorama of a
Landsknecht gun position using Elastolin
figures
* Robert Mackenzie contributes to
coverage of Simon Tonge's animal
collection, Simon is the numero uno at Paignton Zoo, so knows what he's looking at!
* Colin Penn tortures me with a Blind Bag
set from Frozen just in time for
Christmas - sorry Colin but I have a sore point over Frozen merchandise, having listened to the bloody woman's doll sing
the Frozen theme all day long, on
Christmas Day, in SPANISH two years ago . . . I live in trepidation of seeing a
Moana doll round my Brother's in two
weeks time!
'What The
!&*$?' has three items this month, all ladies, one 1940's looking in a nightdress
(or fur coat it's not clear!) pencilled-in as 'maybe Spanish', a rural granny
type (early British plastic?) and a more medieval-looking, French-looking,
rural wench, help needed on all three.
Finally news of the forthcoming ACOTS convention
looks forward to their thirtieth anniversary five-day toyfest next Easter.
Regular Features
* 'NEWS and VIEWS and other stuff ' consists
of an obituary for Dave Scrivener,
reprised from this Blog, news of James
Opie's next three C&T-scheduled
auction-sales and news of a HäT crowd-funding
experiment (which I believe failed while the issue was at the printers).
* 'Book Review'
looks at 'Britains Toy Soldiers - The
History and Handbook 1893-2013' by the above-mentioned James Opie
What's New covers the following this issue:
·
Chintoys - Sharp's Rifles (with mention of Nappy's Staff)
·
Expeditionary Force - Zulu War Redcoats
·
Mars - US Marines (Vietnam)
·
Replicants - British C17th (?) Dragoons
All available from Steve Weston's Toy Soldiers
* 'Readers Letters' is four packed pages
this time with two from yours truly (Gordy
Int. & Noki) and other
submissions from:
·
Musings on Hornby/Airfix's
plans from Peter Watson
·
James Peter Young on possible Aussie
pirates (of Hilco)
·
More on Cherilea
Baronial Knights from Malcolm Cotton
·
More on the state of the hobby from Pedro L. Cunha re. modern production
·
Happy Feedback on the Chicago Toy Soldier Show from
the organisers (Jan and Roger Garfield)
·
'a person' has something to say about Stuart
Marconie - who's he?!!
·
Brian Heape shows more smooth-based Crescent knights
·
Thomas Korecek shows rack-toy modern GI's from
Prague
While finally; Erik
Critchley and Dennis Donovan add
to the clown-type from PW 164's What The !&*$?
Plus all the usual small-ads
Both Cover pictures are further shots of Tony Sowerby's diorama
Remember also; for subscription details or to 're-up',
for contributions, letters or queries, Plastic Warrior is now on-line through
various platforms:
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
And they are on Paypal.
The old website is to be run-down/retired.
And if anyone thinks the inclusion of my Blogs URL
in the obituary was a little 'off colour', they're probably right, but it
wasn't in the submitted piece and in his defence - the editor adds URL's to any
contributor's piece when he knows of it, has to fit everything round a deadline
and had probably already sent the smaller pieces to the printer; as I sent them
in a while ago. So maybe unfortunate, but no eggs broken.
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