I had dug out the Lone Star 'Cork •45 Pistol Shooting Game' figures from
the storage sample (as you may have gathered by now, I dug out the whole Lone
Star box!) where I had said I might have other poses or colours, by some stroke
of luck, I had a pair, and they were two different poses and a new colour.
But what had prompted the search was the
fact that at Sandown Park, Jim (who otherwise wishes to remain anonymous) gave
me a huge box of chuck-outs, among which was a third figure (20-points) to the
two we looked at last time and in a new colour; red.
While the gods smiled, they also decided
that colours would duplicate, so while my two were the missing two poses from a
random/possible five (odds on that?), I'm sure there may be blue or green to
track down, mine being one yellow (5-points) and one red (40), but as far as
poses goes; I think that's it now!
If your eyesight's even twice as good as
mine you may still like to know the bases are numbered with an odd sequence of
5-15-20-30-40 points.
On the left a late re-issue in unpainted
glossy ethylene and on the right an earlyish example with all over paint,
sandwiched between them two of the game-pieces for comparison, the only real
difference is in the base with its diamond-mesh pattern overlaid with a smoothed-out number on
the underside and the little wire-clip at the back edge.
The 5-pose seems to have had the back of
his base extended a touch, too, but as with the Knights/Medievals from Lone Star, there are base variations for
single poses within the line anyway, so it may be a question of which cavity
had the work done to it?
A reminder of the picture Paul Morehead
kindly sent to the Blog with the original catalogue image of the game. It's clear
the figures are different colours, but are they red & yellow, or red,
yellow and something else?
Adding ID'd stuff to existing boxes meant
these die-cast Roadmasters
accessories (ID'd after/at May's show) went away in the Lone Star box, and as they may never come out again, I thought I'd
just show you a red driver who has appeared since we last looked at them!
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