The samples we will be looking at - with a
few additions - there are smaller copies, lots of them, but they are of little
merit and poor quality so can wait for another day! The trouble with the
originals (as far as my acquiring them goes) is that there are loads of them
and the best place for a check-list/images is Kent's page.
My cowboys; the two prone ones seem to be
additional poses, less easy to find and mine look to have never been painted, I
also think they were on another tool, while scale wise they are a little larger
too, but probably the same sculptor? The white horse has no signs of paint
either.
Foot Indians; hardly worth showing and no
prone figure, but I have the female with papoose which is another less common
sculpt so you win some, you lose some!
However I can chase down Mr. Custer and
give him a good spanking, as I have a
decent load of mounted Natives, albeit rather tatty on the paint front, but
rather like Crescent or late Cherilea (&etc!) the later, shiny polyethylene
meant the paint stayed on long enough to get them to the shops, and little
else! It's fair to say these are play worn, and some of the horses have silver
manes!
I shot this on John Begg's stand at Plastic Warrior a couple of years ago,
and the horses are of note as we'll see some similar ones soon with a
question-mark over them. Similar to the Cofalux
one, but with a really naff slot-base system for the horse-team.
Variations on a theme; A Hong Kong version
in pink (next post) stands with the Manurba-Big
swivel-waist and a 30mm figure (another 'left-hooker'), both also used
(like the set we're looking at here) as various premiums and in the Wundertüten 'sweetie' bags.
So that's a bit of a box-ticker, but it
gets them out there and we'll look at the Hong Kong marked ones next.
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