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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.

Sunday, April 26, 2020

I is for Intermediate Scales - 40mm Wild West; Ex-Waddington's 'Battle of the Little Big Horn'

Very similar to the next set (above; or click 'newer post' below) and equally unmarked and equally Hong Kong production-looking are these Battle of Little Big Horn clones of the old Rojas e Malaret sculps, except I suspect they aren't clones so much as a late running of the final tool of the two or three we saw here.

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Indians; Battle of the Little Big Horn; Cowboys and Indians; Culpitt Cowboys; Culpitt Indians; Culpitt Wild West; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Injectaplastic; Jouets Super Plastic; JSP; Merten Cowboys; Merten Indians; Waddington's Cowboys; Waddington's Custer; Waddington's Indians; Walter Merten;
Whether the mould was in Hong Kong or was moved to Hong Kong is - currently - anybody's guess, just because some people have attributed HK without recourse to evidence or caviat is not really the point, the figures exist and while those late painted ones 'look' Hong Kong'y, there is nothing to say either way!

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Indians; Battle of the Little Big Horn; Cowboys and Indians; Culpitt Cowboys; Culpitt Indians; Culpitt Wild West; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Injectaplastic; Jouets Super Plastic; JSP; Merten Cowboys; Merten Indians; Waddington's Cowboys; Waddington's Custer; Waddington's Indians; Walter Merten;
Indeed; these may be from a late version of the board game, paint is not necessary for 'playing counters' and while I've never seen a set with these, equally I've never seen a carded or bagged rack toy with them either?

They could just as easily have been run as cake decorations, the same as those very frangible Triang-Minimodels ones - who also have unpainted versions. Note: the second shade of brown.

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Indians; Battle of the Little Big Horn; Cowboys and Indians; Culpitt Cowboys; Culpitt Indians; Culpitt Wild West; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Injectaplastic; Jouets Super Plastic; JSP; Merten Cowboys; Merten Indians; Waddington's Cowboys; Waddington's Custer; Waddington's Indians; Walter Merten;
There is a clear difference is in the horses where there are various horse colours (and I must thank Gareth from Morgan Miniatures for putting a few of these - foot & mounted - aside for the Blog recently), but I don't think there is any import by it, beyond a bit of variation.

40mm Cowboys; 40mm Cowboys & Indians; 40mm Indians; Atlantic Cowboys; Atlantic Indians; Battle of the Little Big Horn; Cowboys and Indians; Culpitt Cowboys; Culpitt Indians; Culpitt Wild West; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Injectaplastic; Jouets Super Plastic; JSP; Merten Cowboys; Merten Indians; Waddington's Cowboys; Waddington's Custer; Waddington's Indians; Walter Merten;
The real American [not a] Hero who gets to be massacred again and again and again and again and again and again and again . . . although when I say 'massacred' I mean taught a lesson by the locals "Never go south of the River if you're not properly tooled-up and ready for trouble" . . . . everybody knows that, ask a taxi-driver!

2 comments:

peterE said...

They were sold in header card bags in Zodiac Toys in the 1970s in their 15pence toy line

Hugh Walter said...

Aaahhhh! That's useful stuff, thank you kind Sir!

Funny, they keep cropping-up, I have a few images (off of that evilBay), but there have been several mentions of them recently, here and elsewhere, do you know if there's a catalogue somewhere . . . like Lions?

H