E is for Egyptians (Mummies not included!)

But most of the other tropes are covered by these two sets, and there is a mummified cat! These were sent to the Blog by Peter Evans of Plastic Warrior back at the start of Lockdown, so many thanks to him, and let's have a quick look at these modern 'rack toys' to try and get some momentum behind a slow start to August here at Small Scale World!

Safari 'Toob' on the left and the K&M 'Wild Republic' header-card/bagged set on the right, the latter is the smaller offering, and may be the less expensive as a result, while the Safari's contents' are more expansive, the figures are almost the same.

I tell a lie actually; Peter sent the bagged K&M set along with the two pyramids from a larger Wild Republic tub/bucket play-set (which we looked at here) which also has palm trees and the like, while I quickly sent off for the Safari set from that there Amazon dot com, to do a comparison. And interestingly, the Egyptian set was cheaper than some of the other sets they do.

These are the Safari sculpts less the two in the next pic' and you can see they are aimed at museum gift shops and sort of 'middle school' learners (as opposed to early learning if you know what I mean); gods, grave-goods and other common tropes, which can be dissected in a  school project!

Gold plastic and muted colours would benefit from a heavy weathering with sand washes and dry-brushing, to make them more realistic as war-game scenery?

The small sphinx is lovely; here scaled with Atlantic 1:72-scle figures, but the 'Great' pyramids of Giza trio are somewhat of a disappointment! They have both been given a sand dry-brush in the factory and take the toob's content-count to 12 items.

The Wild Republic set is one of several they have in their itenery at the momenet, a large bucket and a set of ten items closer to Safari's being the notable others. This set has 8 pieces making seven items (Maat's wings are glued-on, but came loose with my sample), and the subjects are similar to the Safari set, with several 'duplicate' sculpts.

Also similar is the shade of polymer used. but over-paint colours are brighter and limited to one per figure, and not all sculpts.

All together; the similarities between some of the gods mean that a modeller/scratch builder or converter/painter could easily produce eight different gods from the line up and together they make a nice addition to the collection.

Safari - Toyway - K&M comparison, not much in it, and the Toyway gets an inch on the others only by dint of having a deeper base! The Wild Republic set are slightly simpler or 2D sculpts and Toyway went with a more traditional, multi-colour paint job, but all three sets post-date the 'golden age' of toy soldiers, so it's fitting that they match each-other as well as they do

The seven standing deity poses from behind/the other side. I guess the K&M's are slightly smaller overall.

Rack-toys, out there now, with the additional toob set from Wild Republic to be found - which does include a proper 'mummy'.