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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.

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

T is for Two? I Suspect Not!

I said I'd follow-up on some of the Hong Kong piles in the lot from Peter Evans last week, and this is the first of two quick posts looking at what appear to be current but interesting production from China - no brand or packaging.

Airfix 1:32nd scale; Britains Deetail; Britains Herald; CHINA; Cowboys; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Knife-man; Indian Toy Figure; Native American Indian; Native Americans; No Brand; No Packaging; Ottoman sword; Pirate-Crew Indians; Production From China; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Roman; Wild West;
Four figures have one kind of base, and while the two blue ones have an eyeful of Airfix 1:32nd scale DNA, the Native American is more Britains Herald Hong Kong knife-man and I'm not sure where the yellow guy's parentage lies, but he's not a well-worn pose and has a meaningful stance with forward momentum.

Airfix 1:32nd scale; Britains Deetail; Britains Herald; CHINA; Cowboys; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Knife-man; Indian Toy Figure; Native American Indian; Native Americans; No Brand; No Packaging; Ottoman sword; Pirate-Crew Indians; Production From China; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Roman; Wild West;
These have another kind of base and were in a separate pile if/when you saw them on Friday last, there's even less recognisable here; the blue Indian again seems based on Airfix's 54mm figures along with the legs of the green one and the green cowboy, the rest are pretty one-off?

Airfix 1:32nd scale; Britains Deetail; Britains Herald; CHINA; Cowboys; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Knife-man; Indian Toy Figure; Native American Indian; Native Americans; No Brand; No Packaging; Ottoman sword; Pirate-Crew Indians; Production From China; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Roman; Wild West;
Upper shot shows the different bases, with one as flat as an iron's arse, the other with a built-up rim, the lower shot shows . . . err . . . the pirate-crew Indians! I think he's (the green one) the Britains Deetail chap with the horns, isn't he?!

"What shall I give him to disguise his origins boss?"

"Err . . . try a big Ottoman sword!" (also Deetail!)

"What about the other chap?"

"Try this Timpo Roman thing?"

Airfix 1:32nd scale; Britains Deetail; Britains Herald; CHINA; Cowboys; Cowboys and Indians; Hong Kong; Hong Kong Knife-man; Indian Toy Figure; Native American Indian; Native Americans; No Brand; No Packaging; Ottoman sword; Pirate-Crew Indians; Production From China; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Roman; Wild West;
Anyway, as the colours matched, the sculpting was similar and they are all marked CHINA on their bodies, so it's pretty obvious they all go together (from behind - that yellow Indian's ex-Deetail too), and make a nice sample, Thanks again Peter.

2 comments:

Dan said...

These western figures were sold by ToysRUs in their True Heroes line of bucket sets. Before that - many years ago - they were sold in bags at Dollar Tree outlets in the US. The brand may have been Toy Major.

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Dan - these are shiny-clean, so probably the TRU version, but always nice to get the brand; and even better some history!

H