Some people say these are copies, I think
they were provided by Lone Star as
the sculpts are the same and the bases have the same off-setting of a 'shadow
base' you see with the some of the medieval figures and the Para's we looked at
the other day.
There are no cowboys. There wasn't a cowboy
set. This was about shooting the natives and stealing their land. A wire ran
through the clip allowing the figure to fall back when hit by the dart or cork
or marble or whatever it was. The maker is still currently unknown I think, but
someone like Lines or Chad Valley, or even DCMC themselves must be in the frame?
There is a third figure with 10 on the
base, now I think I have him in storage, I know I have one, and I'm sure it's a '10',
but I seem to recall it's the kneeling firer, and red. I also think I've seen
green ones . . . I think I may be wrong on all counts. All the others I've seen
are yellow and the kneeling firer would be hard to knock-over for a mid-score?
A fortunately now long-gone, anachronistic
throw-back to our racist, land-grabbing, murderous colonial past and remember;
viruses and bacteria have colonies.
1 comment:
Paul Morehead of Plastic Warrior magazine has confirmed they were in the Lone Star catalogue (1966, cork firing pistol - 1155: Cork .45 Shooting Game), there are several poses (at least four, maybe five) and they do seem to have been in different colours!
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