Upper shot, let top right - the four poses
so far discovered by me (that's not a 'discovery', they do turn up and
I'd seen them before with dealers and so on before I started collecting larger
scales a few years ago); Drum Major (Pipe Major?), drummer, bass-drummer and
piper.
Lower shot - there are several tartans on
display, leading one to wonder if they represent real or generic cloths and
might be touristy things. I seem to recall Britains collectors saying the
all-green one (second in) is Black Watch, but I'd need to gen-up properly
before attempting the others!
I love the little 'big' cat's head over the
shoulders of the bass-drummer! The bass drummer needed a hot-water treatment
before he would stand-up properly, and follows the pattern of most similar
figures in having the drum affixed by a long, integral spigot spearing the
drummers chest!
These two drummers are actually different
mould-cavities, note the thicker base on the right-hand example in both
pictures (yet he's still also slightly shorter) and the yellow-weave stencil of
their tartan is slightly different too, suggesting they may have been sprayed
together while still on the runners?
I'm not sure if the left-hand drummer is a
repaint or not (again the thinner-based, taller moulding), looking at the
little area of waist-band between the halves of the jacket, there's no sign of
a previous scheme so I guess the kilt is genuine, but I suspect the white may
have been touched-up by hand . . . including the eyes!?
The most recent piper (right-hand of pair)
has a deposit/film on the base which seems to have been some reaction in the
factory, as it's under the green paint, and doesn't scrape off with a
finger-nail. Perhaps someone sprayed a mist on the tool to cool it and it
puddled on the flat area of the base? Too much mould-release lubricant . . .
something like that?
Anyway, that's them as I have them so far,
are they Toyway, or the same HK lot
that did the Salvation Army bands, someone else . . . anyone know? And thanks to Chris Smith for the latest additions.
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