Also apologies for my inaccuracy on Friday,
it's not Vanuatu we're about to sign a trade-agreement with, it's the
international power-house that is the Faeroe Islands! As someone with more
knowledge of these things than me on the News Quiz pointed-out on Friday night;
they're going to send us puffin meat, in exchange for the mould off Ms.
Maybe-Maybe-not's jam!
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Another box-ticker, another set of the Toyway-Timpo vinyl figures with separate
bases, we're off to Greece this time, and frankly, this set is not as nice as
the Romans, the sculpting is a bit . . . sort of lumpy or rubbery! But there
are some quirky figures and it's a full group.
The whole set, 10 figures, the painting is
also a bit of a let-down, they are all 'text-book' boy's-comic Rome with all the
red and silver, and they were - of course - from the bronze-age and Greek! Two
musicians and a woman hardly help with army-building either!
Those musicians in full! The guy on the
left is obviously a signaller, but the one on the right might be the more Mercurial,
godlike character . . . Hermes! Or is it Ares/Mars?
The figure on the left here is also
supposed to be a god, well, goddess I think; Athena/Athene (Minerva in Rome)? While the chap on the
right appears to have been designed for a chariot, which - to my knowledge -
was never offered, but might it have also gone with, or been designed to go
with the Timpo Roman chariot, which Toyway may have been thinking of? As it
is, he looks like he's about to start a race with an invisible watch!
Spearmen - a hideously unbalanced spear
being wielded by the guy on the left, the other two are OK, although the middle
figure looks more early Roman to my eyes; maybe he's the General? At least his
cuirass is the right colour, while the chap on the right is wearing the latest
in kilt fashions; imported from Polynesia!
Swordsmen - probably my favourite figures
from the set, perticularly the old man on the left; some crocked Trojan
packed-off to do his duty and die properly; the other two quite good poses, the kneeling figures is particularly nice, but all
three let down by the fact that their swords have morphed into letter-openers!
The shields are all reasonable designs I
think, most taken from actual Greek art or artifacts in museums, although the
originals wouldn't have been quite so deep in relief, most being only
painted-on? They fall down in the bright-yellow on silveriness of them all!
A scale comparison shot, with similar
figures from two Atlantic sets; the woman with amphora being taken from a Roman
set!
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