We now have a clear logo - a sort of
antenna-sporting alien with his (or her) own electron halo and a
checkered-banner or pennant on what appears to be a lance?! The figures - on
identical cards - being approximately 50/54 and 35/40mm (the riders are
slightly bent and hard to measure with certainty), the horse being a single
sculpt, the lot taken from German Manurba
sculpts.
Quick note here; One Erwin Sell; he who
makes it up as he goes along, has stated they are licensed from Manurba, where he got this nugget of corporate
information from is anyone's guess, but as he makes it up as he goes along . .
. the Manurba set are better, but heavier
sculpts and the horses (four poses) have bases.
Licensed production - if new tools are
generated - usually follows the design parameters of the licensor's product (Tim Mee for instance), and indeed - as
far as toys go - usually only extend to re-branding of supplied or
like-for-like product (all those Answer
Robot/Magician games). These are quite different - still I look forward to
his publishing the copies of the licence he must have to make such
pronouncements - as fact.
Indeed, I would say the overall state of
these is 'poorer', something you couldn't say of the swivel-heads seen here at
SSW in 2017, against the blobbier, single piece Heinerle versions. It would appear that both the Italians and
the Germans are the copyists here; PRB
of the Manurba knights, Heinerle of the PRB swivel-heads?
Andreas Dittmann in his guide to Manurba published by Plastic Warrior magazine states
that one of the companies which received Manurba
product to sell-on was PRB, but these
- in today's post - are not Manurba
product!
The cards are the same size, but the
artwork is miss-registered in the case of the 35mm set, or the
guillotine-operator had his settings wrong!
As well as only using the one (base-less) horse
pose in both scales, they seem to have only adopted three or four human poses
and I've only seen three in 50mm and three in 35mm, the 50-mil's getting a copy
of the jousting/lancing knight with separate lance not apparently re-produced
in the 35mm line.
We did see these before on SSW, ten years ago (turns out I'd shown the little pirates before, so ITLAPD was their second showing on the Internet!)
in an 'unknown' post, it's nice to be able to go back and add some pink-text
ID'ing them, and even nicer if no one else has ID'd them in the meantime as I
get to keep the credit and Breizhtt gets to call me an egotist;
win-win for everyone!
The loose ones have more colours as far as
horses go, and I must thank Adrian Little of Mercator Trading for finding me the carded set,
between them they - both samples - are only offering the one horse pose and the
three mounted-poses.
All of mine together - I was trying to show the horse colours, but
flash/reflection and a yellowish light-effect means I'm not happy with the shot
and there's a couple more below. Suffice to say it's nice to have a name to put
to the three old ones at long last!
This is a better illustration of the
dark-chocolate brown against the black and three clearly different shades of
white, being - from the left; very light-grey, cream and snow!
This chap has been languishing in Picasa
since a photo-shoot I did of all the - then - extant medieval's in larger
scales, around 2012 and if I don't show him now I may never! The horse is Hong
Kong and only there because he fits it! Indeed - you can just see the HK-mark
down it's inside front-leg.
But the figure is not so clear; he's midway
between the two sets above, and was once a darker bronze-colour (I suspect), but
an additive colourant seems to have leached-out, leaving him 'antiqued' with a
pinkish, powdery bloom, yet slightly translucent at his thinner points.
He's much-of-a-muchness as far as
rack-toy/bazaar/pocket-money shite is concerned, and not obviously one of the Manurba sculpts (although he could be a
'cut-&-shut'?), I suspect he is Hong Kong, but he could be late'ish
production French, Spanish or Italian . . . anyone recognise him?
The rider is probably Rumanian, see comments (thanks Gabriel), I have since seen harder-plastic, painted PZG versions from Poland too.
9 comments:
The bronze one is an Acedo copy, moron!!! (no offense).
"But the figure is not so clear"....charmer!
H
Can be an romanian plastic copy.was made in few variants black/silver /maroon or golden
Hi Unknown/Romaine, posting dead links to a Facebook page which is presumably a member-only 'group' is an exercise in frustration, so I've removed the comments to save other people the time! But thak's I'll bear the Romanian connection in mind.
H
Ok, H, i sended you an email, i`m not feri familiar with blogs...
Anyway, is 100% an Romanian knight .
Cheers Gabriel, yes, interesting about him being Romanian, I'll add that to the Tags, as I don't think Rumania is there yet? I've since realised he's also available in Poland as a painted, hard-nylon, PZG copy of - I think - a French pocket-money type? So, quite the well-travelled Knight!
For other readers, the link to Gabriel's Facebook photoessay is now viewable here;
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.413214692209399&type=3
H
(I'll reply to your eMail later Gabriel, I'm getting ready to go to work, just now!)
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