C is for Catch-up - Sandown Park - August

Same MO as yesterday, same pack-drill, but we move to August's show, and wot I did get dere in'it. Actually it was another quite restrained hoovering of stuff, budget tight, other pressures, yada, yada . . . but some interesting things nevertheless!

The plunder pile; Apart from the bits we'll be looking at in a minute highlights include an ivory camel (Chinese or Indian?), a blow-moulded buffalo/bison (probably Japanese), some Crescent hollow-cast, some HK circus gap-fillers, some railway figures in metal and plastic from several makers and a Tudor Rose jeep. Bags of animals include Airfix HO-OO copies, nice unpainted Hong Kong and more Olá ice cream premiums.

Yeah! The problem of having an unwieldy queue of articles and part-articles, is that by the time you Blog something you've shot, you've already Blogged it with newer shots! But he's in 'closer-up' this time, a weighted, blow-molded, novelty diver around 30/35mm.

What on earth to say about this? I am assuming, one of the recent Corgi-branded, ready-made, die-cast aircraft, of which there have been hundred in the last decade or so? I initially wondered if he might be from the old '80 Days' balloon kit by . . . whoever it was by -  Pyro, Monogram, Revell? But it appears to be factory-painted and the ladder - at least - is in a nylon or PP, harder to tell of the pilot, as he's covered in paint!

Anyone recognise the figure? Many thanks to Adrian Little for finding him for me, but what to do with him; there is no 'Figures above or below aircraft - Unknown' zone, in the collection!

All the space or sci-fi elements, the - probably - Argentinian monster from Godzilla or Atom Boy or whatever Japanese 1950's anime he comes from, has been seen here before, but after he'd been out for quite a number of shows I convinced Adrian I could give him the best home!

The rocket is actually Hong Kong, but a cut above the usual two-part-with-cap-firer affair; having semi-flat or relief astronaut-sculpts appliquéd to the hull, a more ornate than usual engines-skirt, and a heavy nose with plastic cover for external fitting of the caps.

The two smaller figures may be Cracker prizes (but not the set mentioned in PW magazine which are different sculpts and a little taller. In metallic blue and green polystyrene, they could be US Dimestore, the aforementioned Christmas cracker fare, or French copies? And may be based on the Cherilea hollow-cast downscales of Archer's biggies?

While the truck is marked, but I didn't note the marking (might have been Ideal?), and have now put it away, so we'll have to get the maker when I blog a bunch of them together one day. Looks like it came from a space-port type play-set, but was probably also sold singly as a dimestore stand-alone, and was a find from the 'temporary market' on the terrace before the doors opened.

This is rather nice, but I can't get a maker for it, it's a bit Jean-like, and is in soft polyethylene, but I just couldn't get it to stick with any ideas I had. Similar - in some respects - to the Vitacup figurines, it's well sculpted and the antlers have survived; so not brittle. It's quite Linde premium-like, and you can find it passed-off as such, but it's not listed on STS and lacks the Linde mark, it's nice anyway . . . any ideas?

 

2022 - now known to be Siku, soft ethylene versions of the Vitacup, with some different poses (the unknowns in one of the Vitacup posts!) More work needed to work out which is which, pose wise, but material wise soft = Siku, hard = Vitacup which Siku must have supplied?

Floor sweepings; the erzgebirge tree was nice, and does anyone recognise the glue-in (but possibly factory painted) feathers for a native American's headdress? Two light-sabre's; one Lego, the other from an action figure, a possibly early Meccano crane block/hook and a ball puzzle were also worth the reach down to the floor!