RTM is for Rack Toy Month - S is for Soldier Shoot

So first post for Rack Toy Month and what I consider to be the quintessential rack-toy - carded knock-off toy soldiers and a dart-firing gun! There's also a bit of synergy involved as it's only a few days since we looked at the Lone Star equivalents, only this time it's not ganging-up on Native Americans but rather blowing-away generic khaki infantrymen!

And instead of 'Careful; You'll have somebody's eye out' corks, we've got 'Careful; You'll have somebody's eye out' sucker-darts.

The bag with its rather leery header-card, I think both the font and the colour-choice places this firmly in the mid/late-half of the 1970's, it's that vague attempt to re-create the zeitgeist of the psychedelic-sixties, with a dodgy sheet of Letraset lettering!

Figures are copies of the Crescent 60-millimetre khaki infantry figures - in fact the reason I bought this (at March's Sandown Park show) was because I think I have the figures loose and it's always nice to tie loose HK into a set, even if there's no maker . . . it's a start!

Simple 'Hong Kong' mark in a spaced DIN-type font, set into a tablet-shaped recess under the heavy base. The pistol looks like the sort of toy which managed about 20-shots before the slackly-applied glue failed and the whole thing fell into two halves - we had toys like this when we were kids!