Subject of the post with both scalers as
they are a true in-between around 30mm. My two spacemen are to the left (similar
to Co-Ma's); three civilians on the
right and a lone Native American Indian (green) in the middle.
My two again, the red one seems to be a
late one with the mould-face having been ground down (to remove a
flash-inducing dink of some kind?), meaning the appearance of flash is created
where the product-material meets the flattened surface of the - now shallower -
other half of the tool. A similar performance has filled in the elbow-cavity of
the blue one - see next shot.
I shot these on Adrian's stall a year-or-a-few-ago,
and there's a third pose, the 'sonic golf-club' carrier! You can see how the
earlier ones are both fuller-rounds than mine and that my red one is meant to
be carrying Thor's hammer!
The Indians,; they may be one of the next
lot, or they may be from a specific Wild West set, I don't know, and I only
have the one pose, all damaged, evidencing the daftness of those who spent the
1970's writing to modelling magazines asking for glue'able polystyrene figures,
and mirroring the problem with the similar-sized and also polystyrene Rospacks; especially the archers!
The civilaina figures seem to follow the 'Dolls
of the World' pattern (lots of firms had similar sets back in the day, Marx and Thomas for instance) of national or 'ethnic' dress as- or of- children, and as stated
above may include the Native American?
Here we have a figure who could be Dutch or
a nurse maybe, the headdress is a bit ambiguous, but the twin hair-plats seem
to have been a trope for Holland in similar sets like those of Commonwealth Plastics or Van Brode. I
actually think it's probably Germany/Bavaria, with the braces suggesting the Dirndl
of Southern Germany and the Tyrol?
While here we seem to be in Scotland but
the gender is less clear although the hint of a sporran may indicate a young
lad rather than a lad'ess! And he/she lacks accessories such as a drum, a set of
bagpipes or a pair of swords to jump over?
This young lady looks like a WWII British
'Land Girl' but is - I suspect - more aiming at what we might call 'Riviera
Chic'? And is therefore (and modelled) more adolescent than the child-like
figures of the previous three poses.
That's them; I don't know if they are from
two sets or three, even the space figures are a bit juvenile so it may be the one? I don't
know how many figures were in the/each set, nor whether there were aliens for
the spacemen to fight, or cowboys to evict the Natives? Nor do I know how they were retailed, some kind of premium? Capsule machines? Little carded 'novelties'?
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The little boy is not Scots. He is Greek - head dress gives it away
Cheers Peter, I wondered if it was attempting to be a side-hat, but it wasn't 'very' Scottish!
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Hi! I have some Torgano figures (spacemen, aliens, civilians) and I need more informations about them. Would you be so kind and give me some explanations? My email address is bongiovannilu@gmail.com. thanks.
I only know what's written above bongiovannilu! Some kind of gum-ball or bagged pocket-money novelty?
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