Both this and the forthcoming Mettoy post have sort of 'grown' as I've
got my teeth into combining what is actually three collections, the main
'storage' collection (33 years - to 2010 - of predominantly small-scale), the
autumn 2010 'Big Purchase' and anything unsorted from four NEC's, PW '11 and
Birmingham '11 (large scale heavy - I was playing catch-up . . . and err,
overtake!) and what was here at Fleet from the last few years (predominantly
large scale), and it means I keep finding things that go with things I've
'sorted'!
I'm pretty sure these two came from Adrian
at the end of the Birmingham show; 2011, he looked a little confused at my sudden interest in 54mm, until I
reminded him the Blog had a voracious appetite!
Reisler originals with coloured helmets and factory paint, the helmets have
a very slight shoulder cut-out both sides.
Adrian had another at recent show, and not
knowing which ones I had (I thought I had four but couldn't remember the
colours!) so I just shot it quickly for the archive! He's the same as one of
mine, but with a clear helmet which - frankly - is far better than my blue ones
as you can actually see the chap, which means he can see where he's going, mine
must be blundering about- when I'm not looking . . . obviously; how mad do you
think I am? - trapped in their own psychedelic
'trip' of inky-blueness!
Comparison between the original and one of
the recent paint-it-yourself-you-lazy-git re-issues! You can see how they all
have a glue-on arm, but they seem to have stuck to a 'same arm for same body'
rule in the factory, rather missing the main-point of different arms!
On the right is a shot which managed to
escape the collage I did last time we looked at the Thomas/Poplar spacemen, showing a PVC original and a later painted
example. The paint is part of the figure, so it's proper liquid PVC paint,
applied in the factory/by out-workers.
Adrian had all four (of four?) and while
preparing this article and digging out the old shots it became obvious they
were - in part - lifted from the Thomas sculpts, with various elements
reappearing on different figures as a cut-n-shut exercise.
Meanwhile my storage additions had come to
light, so I shot them and added the other image I took of the unpainted Reislers, as I'd shot them at the end of
the old camera's life and white on white with a failing mother-board had led to
pretty poor shots! Mine are all PVC except the blue chap, and I think they will
be joining the four in the previous image, one of which is a pirated,
based-copy, with another polyethylene (yellow one) and two bronzy-PVC.
More by accident/co-incidence than design
the Reisler's also mirror, or are
similar-to a couple of the much-latter Britains
poses!
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