Plasty is for Ri-Toys is for Rado Industrial Co.

I think we looked at the first set back at the start of the Blog, but it may have been earlier - and only in black & white - in Plastic Warrior's stable-mate One Inch Warrior? Anyway, we'll look at it again with the juxtaposition of the donors own-branded set!

This is the Plasty set; a resting foal or pony, three sheep in two poses, ex-Britains farmer (reduced to around 40mm) and a goat, along with piracies of Merit's fencing in white plastic with rustic artwork of a generic European nature, the hanging-card being more Franco-Spanish, the inner-liner having the look of Northern Europe or the Low Countries.

The horse replaced by a cow in the Ri-Toys original, these (the cow and horse) are better examples than some, but only equal in finish and decoration to the wider-found Blue Box mini farm sets they are - basically - pretending to be. There's also a third pose of sheep; a ram, all three based on Britains sculpts, as are the cow and pony/foal.

This is one of those posts that reveals the wheels-within-wheels that is the toy industry, with everyone seeking a slice of a small, finite pie which peters out earlier and earlier with each generation, they will happily get into bed with each-other for a shekel . . . as Airfix probably already owned Plasty by the time the upper set hit stores (the two sets aping the earlier sets by Blue Box, as supplied to Marx), yet they (Airfix) had their own small-scale farm set which Plasty could have used? With or without paint!