A week adrift catches me almost totally 'on the
ball'! Issue 168 is themed around civilian items this month but is still filled
with all the usual goodies, and following the normal order;
Articles This Month
* Barny Brown begins a series on Cherilea farm animals with the 'from
hollow-cast' mouldings (confirming my 'unknown' hen!)
* 'Comances' sees an investigation into the
more realistic Indians produced to represent Southern States natives by Tom Stark
* The best
article this month is Michael T. Hyde's
'Parade of Popes' which does exactly
what it says!
* Converters
Corner the one conversion this month; a rather nice paint-up of a Starlux
figure by Eric Critchley to
represent . . . still not subscribing huh? Try back-issues! Cleaver
badge-technique too.
* Adrian Norman is also beginning a
series, Scalextric Figures, with
backgrounds and historical overview this issue and sets to come, a much-needed
subject gets the PW treatment!
* The story
of Total's golden footballer premiums
("Big League Football Stars of the
1970's") and the moulds is told by John Begg - the best article in this issue - since the last one!
* The reason
for a shout-out by Colin Penn for
information on F&G Products here
on the Blog recently is revealed with the news the Crazy Clown Circus was boxed
by them, as no one visiting here knew, let's hope the PW readership is more
successful.
* Ashley Needham's piece on a Hong Kong
set of Salvation Army bandsmen would get the 'best article of the issue' award,
if we hadn't had two already!
* Ferrero's recent Kinder set of Barbie-doll
figurines is itemised by Les White
and I'm regretting ignoring the pink eggs as 'girly' now!
'What The
!&*$?' has three question marks this quarter;
- Some idiot wanting to know about a PVC sailor/'heavy' figure clearly forgot to tell the Editor it's got a Heimo 'Marx' mark on the base along with the Hanna-Barbera 1979 ©! I'm sure it's in the PVC book, but mine's in storage!
- Brian Carrick shows a lovely little cavalryman he thinks may be Spanish
- He's also looking for an ID on two quite lovely Ancient Greeks
* 'Stone Age News' from Andreas Dittman brings news of
immigrants from the Neander Valley, via Tomy-Takara
* Yours truly
delivers a Spear's Game - A Shepherd and His Dog [Adrian mentioned at the
weekend just gone that the cover may have shown Britains originals, but the original shots aren't clear enough to
tell, the sheep were grey though and the shepherd had a green base - both
visible in the PW reproductions]
* Colin Penn closes the
latest Plastic Warrior with two fine shots of the Britains zoo set Chimps Tea
Party in reverse-colours
Regular Features
* 'NEWS and VIEWS and other stuff ' carries
- News on a televisual presentation called Bargain Hunt, which seems to have been a bargain for the final buyer!
- A correction of capiera to Capiepa from issue 167
- More hysteria around the Timpo white-gloves (although as the previous hysteria was confined to the Internet; it's only fair!)
- C&T Auctions have an important collection coming-up for sale on the 10th October [www.candtauctions.co.uk]
- News on artist Volker Küne from Stephan Dance
- A call for readers to grab the last few copies of Andreas Dittman's illustrated guides on German toy figure, novelty and premium manufacturers; Domplastic and Manurba, for UK readers only though. Although I notice Kent Sprecher's still listing both along with Andreas's Lefredo guide on his site Toy Soldier HQ
* 'Readers Letters' is a post-show
follow-up with penned contributions from Ashley
Needham, John Cross, Stephen Wood and Eric Keggans and images from Les White and Eric Kemp
* 'What's New' takes a sabbatical to help
make room for everything else!
Plus all the usual small-ads
Front Cover is a recreation of the crowd watching
James Hunt finishing the British Grand Prix . . . I think! . . . I counted over
150?
Back Cover - Comanche!
Remember also; for subscription details or to
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And they are on Paypal.
Another
vintage issue!
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