Seen before on the Blog, more than once I
think and being carried by various brands at the moment as the default small
scale, they are actually around 30mm and a second shade of silver-grey -
distinct from the silver - surfaced in the 'Big Bag' from Peter Evans.
I re-shot the shelfie (right-hand picture) I
got so fuzzy last time and we can see rust-brown still to enter the collection
here at Small Scale World Towers while Brain Berke shot the left-hand bag when
he was last in the UK, it showing an apparently darker green set of figures.
Here the same figures are being offered on Alibaba
by an 'E-Toys', made-up brand if ever
I read one, but clever and you wonder why no one else thought of it first, but
maybe they have!
Number 16 has been in the collection for a
while and may date back to the Hong Kong era, but he has the chalky look of
more recent China production.
The broken figure seems to be Hong Kong,
but without a base it's not clear, he also seems to be quite original? Next to
him is a green, soft PVC, copy (?) of the believed to be Galoob for Realtoy (et al.) in denser plastic. I've put the
question mark in brackets as he may be from the same factory/mould, just for a
different contract, and some of Micro-Machines
own figures - especially the early, unmarked, small scale 'combat' ones were in
softer PVC anyway?
The other three are small-ish scale (all in
this shot are around 40mm) copies (or homage)
to the ring-hand MPC figures, I have
no weapons or helmets for them so don't know if they had them but suspect they
must have, if only by going by the little belts - which are removable! I'm
guessing gum-ball machine capsule toys, but they may have had a header-carded
bag, or blistered outing too?
Speaking of Realtoy and moving up a scale, if anyone tells you the figure lower
left is Realtoy, tell him he's making
it up as he goes along - again! The Realtoy
one is bottom right and we looked at them here a while ago.
The upper image shows the unknown 50mm
figure, a couple of the denser/harder PVC Realtoy
(et al.)'s; they have also been
marketed as Daron and Sky Marks, while I've been told they
were Galoob, and certainly follow Galoob poses; along with the softer 'copy'.
In the lower image we see the various
colours now found, the sailors being consistently painted the same, the others
coming in desert-sand, olive-green, a 'Russian' SF/SWAT/Urban camo', a general
camouflage and the woodland green 'copy', however there is a commoner reverse
camouflage with sand as the dominant background and blobs of green and brown
but I don't have one in this pose!
Similar figures (looking odd as they have
no belt-order/webbing) are being offered by Smile
Station on Alibaba and evilBay (upper shot) or at least they were a year or two ago, I can't find them now, but that's made-up brands for you, easy come; easy go!
Another set of similar figures were Blogged here.
While the various unknown
carrier-deck ground-crew in the lower picture manage to look like both the
unknowns; the five in black PVC are very similar to the green chap but a tad
taller, while the lower three are in a soft silicone-rubber and look like the
not-Realtoy figure!
However, I now know the lower chaps aren't
carrier-crew, they were sold in a Realtoy-like, but unbranded/generic window-box 23710 Die Cast Metal Airport Play Set,
two per card, so that may where the larger unknown figure originated, not the civil
airport; but another generic window-box!
Found these on Alibaba, they look to be all
new poses, of some merit and in a smaller scale; mabe45mm judging by the
accompanying vehicles? And - note two new variations of the CAD-CAM-hulled AFV
we looked at the other day.
Those Tamiya
1:48th copies (which Arlin Tawser ID'd here a while ago) came-in again, in a larger
sample with the 'Big Bag', still unknown, but by adding one 'missing' figure
gave a photo-opportunity of 6 poses x 4 figures x 2 armies for a 48 total which
I suspect will prove to be the/a full-set/set-count? Miss-moulding has reduced
a couple of the B.A.R-gunners to mere riflemen!
Finally, we looked at Skylark yesterday with a nice set of figure sculpts in a larger
scale but in the smaller scale they are offering these really poor copies of
some pretty poor 1990's copies of copies of Airfix,
which (the 1990's ones) were also issued with Majorette AFV's.
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