So, following the ID'ing of one of the Swoppet poses as being in with the Khaki
(or 'Combat') Infantry poses when sorting-out Kamley-Kositoys the other day, I thought I'd better return to the
box and see how many of the other Britains
Swoppet clones I could tie in with Britains
Herald sets of Khaki Infantry copies.
It helped that in going through the HK
carded boxes looking for stuff to photograph for RTM I'd found these two and
was able to sort their mates out of the Britains
Swoppet tub - where the clones and the originals have been rubbing
shoulders for a few years.
The notable one here is the crouching
mortar-man who has been converted to an officer with a crude automatic pistol.
Although the standing mortar-man seems to be waving a bottle around . . .
"Com'mon yoooo wang'kers . . . I'll take you all on .
. . bloody ruskie-sovs! Hic!"*
I took the opportunity to shoot some
comparison shots, we have looked at the Swoppets in more detail previously, so
this is really about the clones which as you can see are much reduced in size
and quality and; having been copied without their webbing, look bloody odd! But
then - the originals were all wearing barrack-dress ties, so . . . yer pays yer
money!
With the Kamley and 'Soldier Set'
figures gone from the tub, I was left with four figures to sort out, another of
the crouching officer conversion, a marching and two - differently marked - being
cut-'n'-shut's of the kneeling firer from the Herald Khaki Infantry set with the Swoppet standing mortar-man's torso.
Two have similar marks and the same shaped
cavities under the base as the 'Soldier
Set' figures, so I wouldn't mind betting (especially after seeing the
generations of Kamley sculpting) they
are earlier runs from the same source as the generics in the above bags.
Apologies for this and the next two images,
they were taken in a heavy thunder storm with light-levels all over the place
but I was keen to get-on and they're left looking like I hired Paul Stadinger
to take them!
As the Kamley set had included one of the
cut-'n'-shut' poses with an otherwise clean sample of Herald Khaki Infantry, I
went first to that tub and found that yes, indeed, one of the unknown bags
would happily accept one of the orphans, the shot notwithstanding - they are
all unmarked with large release-pin discs visible.
The same exercise found a home for the
other two-way, nice matching ovoid-cartouche recess with a neat, small "HONG
KONG" this time, saw the chap home to his family,
although it's only a family while you're still serving!
Which left the other two to join the three
grenade-throwers in the mongrels bag! I still have about 14 'sets' to
attribute, but have at least brought four lots together in the last few weeks.
* Humourless PSTSM readers and thicko
Vichy-French should accept that that is supposed to be a humorous report on the
fictional dialogue of a drunken cold-war warrior I invented, but in no way is
intended to reflect my own opinion of my comrade-brother worker's from the East,
nor is it to be taken remotely seriously by stupid people, of which - the world
is currently, sadly, over-supplied.
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