The three on the left seem to share an
origin (other than the Herald donor),
having many similarities, but work has been done to differentiate them,
particularly the Busby, but also - of course - the base-plate of a three part
tool and the weapon arm.
The Drummer is channelling the Britains Hong
Kong drummer, even to being PVC glued to a green base! While the fifth figure may be
a clean example of the figures we saw here, he is also PVC and both figures look
later and are heavier copies, possibly hand-done rather than pantograph, and
sharing an origin?
Markings are; from the left:
Made in British Hong Kong
Empire Made
Empire Made (ink-stamped or tampo-printed)
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Made in Hong Kong
Note: that first one is marked the same as
the grenade thrower added to the 'Khaki Infantry' page yesterday.
Compared to their donor-sculpts, with the
marching guy I've shown an early Lee Enfield armed Herald figure (far left) and a Britains
Hong Kong PVC lump next to him.
3 comments:
Not seen the British Hong Kong mark before, very interesting added to the wants list! You lucky to find those others with the arms I think all mine are missing theirs and have modern lead substitutes for display purposes
Cheers Anon, it's all luck though isn't it, somewhere someone may have 'other' poses?
H
I'd never seen that mark before either; I think he came from PW's show in May, only for the grenade-thrower I put on the Khaki Infantry blog this Monday to turn up at Sandown a couple of three weeks ago!
H
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