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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

H is for Highland Odds & Sods!

Having seen Hong Kong's novelty Highlander production earlier this morning, this is a group of the less common piracies of the every-day figures, although they may mostly also have been aimed at the tourist market - tuning-up in ones every time; not the handful's those commoner pastel-maroon 'Empire Made' and HK copies from the 1950's do.

Britains Copies; Britains Herald; Britains Herald Highlanders; Britains Highlanders; Britaish Hong Kong; British Infantry; Drum Major; Drummer; Empire Made; Gordon Highlanders; Highland Bandsmen; Highland Pipes & Drums; Highland Toy Figures; Highlanders; Made in Hong Kong; Piracies; Scots Highlanders; Scots Soldiers; Scots Troops; Scottish Highlanders; Scottish Infantry; Scottish Troops; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Zang For Herald; Zang Highlanders;
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.

Britains Copies; Britains Herald; Britains Herald Highlanders; Britains Highlanders; Britaish Hong Kong; British Infantry; Drum Major; Drummer; Empire Made; Gordon Highlanders; Highland Bandsmen; Highland Pipes & Drums; Highland Toy Figures; Highlanders; Made in Hong Kong; Piracies; Scots Highlanders; Scots Soldiers; Scots Troops; Scottish Highlanders; Scottish Infantry; Scottish Troops; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Zang For Herald; Zang Highlanders;
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.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 27, 2018 at 10:50 AM

    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

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  2. Hugh WalterNovember 27, 2018 at 2:07 PM

    Cheers Anon, it's all luck though isn't it, somewhere someone may have 'other' poses?

    H

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  3. Hugh WalterNovember 27, 2018 at 2:09 PM

    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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