As with the other two Crescent sets we're
looking at in this batch of posts, there are two main versions of base;
flat-bottomed or with a slightly raised rim, marking is consistent and numbering
- figure-specific. The 'K' is probably for Khaki, and some bases are painted on
the underside (or all over) others aren’t painted at all.
Figures on the other hand are always
painted, I don't think these were used for premiums anywhere, so unpainted ones
don't seem to occur (unlike the Para's), and the same generations seem to exist
as we saw with the paratroopers, namely a - probably earlier - surface-etched
or gritty sandy look, with finer-detail to weapons, and smoother figures with
chunky weapons.
The three upper figures are an old eBay lot
from ten years ago (I listed them all at 99p, can't rememebr what the went
for), while the far left firer in the lower shots seems to be an interim design
(as we saw with the three weapon variants in the Para's) with a medium
thickness barrel!
On the right camera-flash has highlighted a
slight colour variation, also seen with this morning's 'SAS' chap. Several of
these figures (mainly the first three) have been/were copied (quite crudely,
but with 'Toy Soldier' charm) in various plastic colours (and equally leery
paint-jobs) by both Turkish and Greek brands of the 1960/70's.
Poses are - in no particular order;
K30 - Officer -
running to the Lone * Star advance-dance,
by the looks of things; I hope he's got three-and-four'pence!
K28 - Throwing grenade
with SLR (although it looks more like a Bundeswehr G3!).
K31 - Firing US
M3 'Grease-gun' SMG from waist.
K32 - Signaller/Section-runner
with an SCR-536
walkie-talkie and another SLR-FN-G3 abomination! A much
pirated figure in Hong Kong, particularly in small-scale.
K33 - Flamethrower,
both the Crescent flamethrowers get three-fuel tanks, they were determined to
out-fry the opposition, who always got two, or one!
This was one of my favorite figures in our heavy
Frey-Bentos 'Christmas Selection'
cheese-biscuit, biscuit-tin of soldiers when we were kids - he came in a mixed
bag of other early British figures from a church fête and he
looks like he's stripping paint off a barn-door, but I loved the pile of rocks!
K29 - M1 Carbine/Ruger
Mini-14, I've fired them both, so have a liking for this chap, but - like the
rest of the set (less the radio operator) - his legs are a bit small, it's like
they had one guy sculpt the legs and another do the arms/heads/torsos!
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