A is for Archive - K is for Kibri

Looking at a quick scan from the 1977-78 Kibri catalogue, it only has the one page of figures but is interesting nevertheless for being/showing the cross-over between earlier and later figure types.

 

The first three sets are the 20mm semi-flats (copied in Hong Kong) we saw here at Small Scale World a while ago, the fourth (6540) a combination of the first two - which may explain why there are more piracies of them than the poses in set 6530 - there were more available to find TO copy?

 

The next three sets (6545, -50 and -60) are true HO; 19mm figures, in sculpting similar to Preiser but in execution more like Roco - unpainted (or at least I think mine are unpainted; a light-sand or fawn styrene), while the two sets of animals appear to be fully painted in the style of Preiser or Merten.

 

They were of course all replaced by the funny little over-mould figures I sent to Plastic Warrior magazine's little brother; One Inch Warrior years ago and which re-appeared in PW itself a while ago. One way or another I think I have most of them, but before finding the carded set of semi-flats last year, and digging this out the other day, I hadn't made all the connections so they are in at least four different places.

 

Kibri's 1990 catalogues had workmen as good as current Preiser, with some of the vehicles listed at the back of the catalogue, which I may also have somewhere, so when I've dug them all out and brought them all together we'll have a proper 15/20 image look at them in depth, with the HK copies again; but all of them!