It doesn't come any leerier than this lot;
does it? They look like they were moulded from tooti-fruity flavoured,
bubble-gum chews, five minutes ago, but in fact were Christmas cracker novelty
'gifts' a few years ago, although when I say a few years ago, I'm forgetting
the passage of time, and I mean the 1980's!
It has taken the full thirty-odd years to
amass this lot, they have come in one or two at a time, three if I'm lucky, but
some years there will be none added, and it wouldn't have been possible to
mount this parade without the help of people like Trevor Rudkin, Michal
Melynic, Peter Evans, John Begg, Chris Smith, Adrian Little and Gareth Morgan, who've all added the odd
figures to the bag over the last 20-years.
There seem to only be the five poses, but
never-say-never; I've only found four fifers . . . fifers four! [Brit's will
get it - it's a Scottish football reference] Which is a small enough sample to
suggest at least one may still remain 'un-found'.
Similar to - but distinct from - the Shackman 'Mocherettes' that came in
little matchbox pencil-sharpeners I guess they must be based on the Eyes Right guards band from Britains (their anatomy is too good to
be from the Herald Hong Kong
efforts!), but they may be more original than that?
A scale guide; we will have a proper look
at the other small-scale guards now they are all out of storage and put
together with the ones we looked at a while ago, but on the relevant Airfix
posts, rather than here, while the 35mm chap we looked at recently, will be looked
at again later today.
The Drum-Major has provided the means for
several copies, but as stand-alone figures with no additional musician poses.
The first four came from Mr. Lucky Bag's in the mid-1990's and I
managed to get a handful (well a soggy pocket-full) when I helped clear a
snack-food wholesale warehouse in Mychett after a fire! Note that the four are
on two base types - thick and thin; while the blue and green ones are shorter, this
is true for all colors and points - beautifully - to a multiple-cavity
mould-tool.
The next two seem to be sub-piracies of the
Mr. Lucky Bag moulding, and the last
two who have just started appearing in mixed lots are very poor quality shite,
probably from £1 store/shop/land type Christmas crackers, using a copy of the
tool of the previous pair (the release-pin marks running through the feet?) but
with no QA/QC leading to consistent shot-shots and no mace, while poor
pantographing has rendered them semi-flat and flashy round the join-line.
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