Seen here at Small Scale World nearly
a decade ago (!), loyal readers from way back will recognise these 'novelty'
figures, but given how the traffic has increased over the years may be new to
some of you. Chris Smith has only gawwn and found two new poses!
Running at under 45mm but mostly over 40mm,
they are intermediate to the 'intermediate' scales! In Chris's own words . . .
"I finally picked
up the officer last year from a job lot from ▲▲▲▲▲
on ebay. You don’t see them very often, then last month received two in a
mixed lot off ebay that I hadn’t spotted when bidding."
"Two very
interesting new poses; first up a charging with fixed bayonet pose, this is
based on the charging with pack Herald figure but with the pack removed similar
to the timpo copy you showed. Why they didn’t just copy the charging without
pack pose? (Crescent had a charging figure as well, why not copy that?) The
base is too small so impossible to stand the figure up without it falling over,
blob of bluetack used for the photos."
"The 2nd new
figure is walking with a walkie talkie, his DNA is from the Monogram GI’s but
is a cut and shut of the upper half of the standing with walkie talkie and
slung rifle and the lower half of the walking with slung rifle. I’ve got a few
of the Monogram copies marked ABC so they would have them to hand. You can see
the creases on the back of the figure are the same as the GI."
The full line-up with donors, they do - of
course - fit in well with the 'pure' monogram copies and could be used with
other 40/45mm figures, but I don't think there's much war-gaming with this kind
of esoteric figure out there, they are collected for their own sake, and
because they are a hundred-times harder to find than anything Airfix or Britains ever made!
Chris's eMails were all the excuse I needed
to get mine out and shoot them again, despite them being the poor relatives now
(I'll send one of mine to Chris by way of thanks for things and hopefully he's
do us a follow-up shot of all four?).
The fourth pose being a pretty straight
copy of a Timpo 8th Army figure with the same Crescent
head-transplant as the others!
Base markings on mine; the officer is
lacking the diamond-shaped ABC
lozenge. ABC are quite good at
marking though, even the cabs of their little 1-Ton Humber trucks (copied from Kleeware) had small marks, so this probably points to forgetfulness
. . . or multiple cavities as . . .
. . . Chris then (a couple of weeks later/a
couple of weeks ago) discovered they are also available in green! And he is
marked. So - my two are now looking for at least six mates in two colours and
some of you may [now] be looking for eight!
The size difference is down to camera angle
and the sand one being a poorer mould-shot, compare the green one with mine and
you'll see they are the same moulding. Again - the more we know the less we
know, although this time - at least - we now know more but there's more to find, have
you got fifth or even sixth poses, or more of the green ones?
Many thanks to Chris for sending these
treasures to the Blog.
Why does the Khaki officer with binoculars have a dash of flesh paint on his prominent fly? tsk tsk!
ReplyDeleteIts interesting that the top, charging figure has not only lost his pack but has changed into shorts and shirt sleeves. The angle of the bent arms and legs seemed to have changed slightly bit I presume that happened during the trouser removal surgery.
Who knows what went-on in the Hong Kong studios of Dr Moreau Ross!!!
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