I didn't get much, but it was all good,
interesting or unusual stuff, most of which we'll look at in a minute but above
are a couple of 'Khaki Infantry' of note; the kneeling firer I thought might be
Polish, but Adrian reckoned British (confirmed by the arrival of PW 178 this
morning, reminding me I have a different one somewhere!) and it is a
soft polyethylene (rather than the hard recycled mix the Poles used) so I'll
have to sort them again and slot it in with whoever had those grey helmets, Speedwell over on the Khaki Infantry
page? The other is an anonymous MG-gunner in a flecked-brown.
Below them is a pack of styrene kit-built (R&L style) racing cars (thanks to
Gareth Morgan) which appear to be the same as, but likely the originals of, the
ones we saw recently here at Small Scale World from Tito. The mouldings are finer than Tito's and the assumption has to be that Tito copied, but I haven't had a chance to compare them properly yet.
A small pack of probably 'box scale' ship's
boats from an old Pyro or Revell-Monogram kit, some hollow-cast
corn-stooks and a couple of Cane
musketeers make up the rest of the stuff not looked at below.
The main theme of the day ended-up being
Native American Indians; and while the bulk of these came from John Begg's
stall (PTS52 on eBay), the trio of Waddington's
copies were from Gareth and the Tri-Ang
mounted cowboy came as a swap with Barney of Herald Toys & Models.
The polyethylene Thomas Indian in the centre seems to be painted the same as the
earlier PVC pirates and costumed-children, so may (must?) be a crossover piece
from between the painted PVC era and the unpainted PE-era? While the other Thomas pose (green, rear) is actually a
smaller, semi-flat piracy, possibly a premium of some kind.
There were some other Wild West procured on
the day, for a project I've been working-on for a while, and I left them out of
these shots as I was going to post the article this week (or last week if the
forecasts had been more accurate!), but I've learnt someone else has gone to
print with them so I'll wait for them to have the first word on the subject!
However thanks are still due to Adrian Little and John Begg for managing to
find some for me, and also Steve Vickers who had some hollow-cast originals the
same day!
I picked-up three 'colonial' types, the FFL
from Cherilea is not my first, but he
has the best paint I think, and while their bag is getting quite stuffed, I
can't say the same for the Arab, where every example is damaged! While some
legionnaires can be brittle, most are still supple; the same can't be said for
the nomadic 'local' tribesman who's always brittle now! Really; I should
give-up on finding a good plastic one and settle for a hollow-cast example!
The copy of the Britains Herald ACW officer is probably Argentinian*, but could be
Spanish and the Grant's Whiskey
premium (Britains-supplied) is a new
pose in a slowly growing collection of the die-cast 'New-Metal' / Deetail
style figures - which sounds grander than it is, I have five or six maybe, and
one (initial offer?) seems to be far more common than all the others?
*06th June 2020 - Now known to be Oklahoma and indeed; Argentine
*06th June 2020 - Now known to be Oklahoma and indeed; Argentine
A bit of Sci-Fi, I can't remember how I
ended-up with a bunch of 4" action figures (less than two weeks ago and my
mind's a blank! Must have been cheap, or in a bag of something else?), the two
'actual' action figures (battle droid and un-panelled C3PO) will go to charity,
but the polished C3PO is a vinyl solid, so will stay.
The bag of Hasbro's Star Wars Command figures were a quid! Mostly duplicates
but the two in front are new to collection (and therefore to Blog!), while the Tomy Egyptian Pharaoh mummy-zombie thing
(King Sphinx from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) came from Abid's
stall with a couple of other bits. I love the Darth Vader key ring, he's been plated in an anodised chromium type
coating, which make him look like he's been grown as a crystal of pure bismuth!
Finally the Rocketeer figure (Applause)
came from a stall which always has nice stuff, I try to get at least one figure
from him each time, this show it was The
Rocketeer, which - strangely - I had been wondering about the likelihood of
toys-of, a few weeks earlier - and for no particular reason; I saw the DVD in
passing somewhere or something?
These - as a single bag - were bought on
the cusp of packing-up time, and are an interesting mix, the lower shot of
micro-planes will be familiar to some of you, they are credited to various
brands, and I have them with three different slot-types in the undersides, and
two materials; hard polystyrene and softer polyethylene.
The upper ones are newish (to me - Adrian
gave me a yellow one about a year ago) and may face a call for 'Airfix' at some point, they are of two
variations, the top five are firm, near-mint polystyrene, the middle pair are a
less stable phenolic or cellulose/celluloid-based polymer, starting to curve
downwards with age at the wing-tips, which raised the nose of the twin-boom
(Vampire, Goblin?), while digging it in on the more conventional 'plane.
Now, I know they're not Kleeware or Tudor Rose, as I have both, marked, while the parallels with Airfix's early animal-flats and the
micro-planes I've 'called' for Airfix
(some years ago), not to forget the 12 'first' figures are hard to ignore; the
colours and the two tranches of material; so I suspect I'll call them at some
point, but for now they are unknown [probably] early British!
Of note - the PS five are marked MADE IN
ENGLAND, the older pair are totally unmarked - which I
think was the same situation with the mico-ones?
This was another of the items I picked at
Abid's stall in the annex (more of a small, temporary State, all they need is a
flag!), post-GIANT, and in need of a good clean, here's a before-&-after!
Nice subdued colours for this 25mm 'plastic small', which are usually far more
leery!
A lovely novelty to finish-up with,
probably a Christmas cracker-prize and I have a matching diver in yellow
somewhere, but she lacks a base (so I though; cake decoration), meaning that
this chap (from Adrian Little - cheers!) tells the next bit of the story!
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