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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, October 24, 2019

C is for Chinese Combat Chaps

Another box-ticker really, but nice to get this one out of the way, as I've had the bottom shot in Picasa for about six-and-a-half years waiting to find the rest (out in the market place), only to find them, near-mint, in the Cherilea box, putting something away the other day (mixed, might-be-Hill Wild West!), which was nice! It also means the missing Sikhs may turn up as I was sure I had them but can't find them anywhere?

60mm Plastic Soldiers; 60mm Toy Soldiers; Charbens Chinese; Charbens Japanese Infantry; Cherilea 60mm Soldiers; Cherilea Chinese; Cherilea Japanese; Cherilea North Koreans; Cherilea Plastic Soldiers; Cherilea Toy Figures; Cherilea Toy Soldiers; Chinese Toy Soldiers; Korea; Korean War; Made in England; North Korean Toy Soldiers; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Six poses, are they Chinese, North Korean or UN? In those bloody awful winters, everyone ended up wearing 'Deputy-dog' hats and there are two Bren-like weapons in evidence! But the officer sets the tone - and he's an indoctrinated, enthusiastically-invading, 'commie' rat-fink . . . if ever I saw one!

60mm Plastic Soldiers; 60mm Toy Soldiers; Charbens Chinese; Charbens Japanese Infantry; Cherilea 60mm Soldiers; Cherilea Chinese; Cherilea Japanese; Cherilea North Koreans; Cherilea Plastic Soldiers; Cherilea Toy Figures; Cherilea Toy Soldiers; Chinese Toy Soldiers; Korea; Korean War; Made in England; North Korean Toy Soldiers; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
From the other side (or another aspect), points to note I suppose are the different colours of base plastic, the Japanese style puttees, the US bazooka and British 'life-belt' flamethrower? And that's it really, it's why I call them box-tickers; you all know them . . . other people have covered them . . . these are mine . . . now in the tag-list!

60mm Plastic Soldiers; 60mm Toy Soldiers; Charbens Chinese; Charbens Japanese Infantry; Cherilea 60mm Soldiers; Cherilea Chinese; Cherilea Japanese; Cherilea North Koreans; Cherilea Plastic Soldiers; Cherilea Toy Figures; Cherilea Toy Soldiers; Chinese Toy Soldiers; Korea; Korean War; Made in England; North Korean Toy Soldiers; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
I have spares! Here compared to the Sino-Japanese flamethrower from Charbens (make a useful Rumanian on the Russian Front - summer of '43), ostensibly; the Cherilea are supposed to be 60mm and the Charbens 54' but you can see there's not much in it!.

I could shoot them in a line, but that's for the A-Z Blog one day, I could do more comparisons, but the obvious one will be on the Airfix Gurkha page eventually, so that's it!

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