F is for Follow-up - Lone ★ Star's Cork Gun Targets

Sometimes the gods conspire to really screw us, sometimes they smile slyly at us from afar, only letting us know they are still toying with us, but happen to be in a generous mood. Last week, they were enjoying the storms they had unleashed upon us, and let me get away with a 'Brucey Bonus'!

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!