Flat, 35mm'ish copies of the Crescent/Kellogg's 54mm solid Indians!
Obviously copied by hand rather than pantograph, and copied poorly, with bits
missing (the tail of the archer's headdress!) or badly moulded.
I have a single yellow one, so there must
be more, and likewise the slosh of gloss-blue on the other addition to the
line-up could be home paint, but I suspect a minimally-painted version was put
out there at some point.
Those of you of an observant persuasion
will have noticed that the two eagle-bird men are very different sculpts, one
having a feathery hood, the other 'fish-scales'. I have a dozen or so of the
red ones and there is quite a bit of variance, but the 'Hong Kong' mark is the
same on all of them, so it's hand-copied straight to multiple cavities I think!
We have definitely seen these on the Blog
but I had a couple of loose ones in storage and couldn't remember whether or
not I mentioned last time that they are scale-downs of the old Gibb's 'Toob' flats from the USA, I
don't have any copies of the Gibb's US
Cavalry poses, but it has to be wondered if they too were pirated, at the same
time? Still missing the wagon!
These are semi-flat and probably accompany
some of the smaller mounted figures you find from Hong Kong, I only have the
one pose and the two figures - about 45mm. Along with the first lot they are a
soft polyethylene ('polythene').
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