C is for Contributed Chinatroops

I haven't got a big post or set of posts on Army Men this year for RTM but there are a few, and both these have come from other sources; with shelfies of a set from across the pond via Brian 'Terranova' Berke and a set from closer to home donated to the Blog by Peter 'PW's Roving Reporter' Evans, so thanks to both.

Brian sent me these shots to see if I could ID them, I wasn't 100% at the time but I'm sure now that they are 2nd generation sub-piracies of the 1990's New Ray figures, we looked at some 1st generation copies last year in the big RTM four-parter (which over-ran into September!), and you can see these have suffered a further drop in detail/quality, but . . . they will still paint-up.

Indeed seeing what the Man of Tin - Men of Tin has been/is doing with those 30mm's from Poundland/99p Stores (et al), it's fair to say the less detail, the more can be done with paint! Branded to WowToyz Inc., and available in TJMaxx, I haven't seen them in TK' . . . yet!

Meanwhile OTL are importing these Red Deer branded 'army men', and again we saw these last year, but in a series of screen-grabs of various issues from various phantom-brands and Ali-Baba page-holders, so hard to tell which was which and which these are closest too.

As they are 3rd or 4th generation copies-of-copies-of-&etc., with a skeletal semi-flat countenance it matters not, but with 20-odd each of four colours they might keep two small boys quiet in a wet caravan . . . not much danger of that this year though!

Peter and Brian - cheers guys, even especially 'chinatroops'-  all grist to the mill!

Monday 6th - Follow-up in the pipeline! I got home from posting this article to find a big parcel from Peter Evans, with more on these, digging in the dongles added yet more still!