F is for Follow-up - Koho Wild West

I lied! When I said I'd found some other Koho's in the sort-out after taking the shots the other day I think I stated it was another of the larger and two of the smaller which had turned-up, but it was the other way round; with two of the 70mm and a 40mm coming out of the pile!

So, sorry for that clear attempt to deceive with a wild invention, but anyway, and in the meantime reader Theo van der Weerden found a few figures and something even more interesting, so let's have a check back at 'chez' Koch und Hofmockel's Wild West figures now . . .

Two 70mm figures to accompany my painted Calamity Jane; both native Americans and one armed with a Winchester, so she won't be getting her lebensraum with any ease! They are both slightly flat in sculpting, which probably has more to do with the ease of production than any deleiberate look back at earlier 'flats'; Calamity herself had both hands pushed forward, so although she has a similar base, she lacks the more-obvious two-dimensionality.

Theo provides a third pose of Indian and the larger version of the smaller cowboy we saw the other day and - in the right hand pair - a new plastic colour. There is more detail to the larger figures, with finer etched detail on the cowboy's hems and scarf, but the large mould release-pin mark mars the figure slightly, visible on the chest of the Indian, there is almost certainly one on the back of the cowboys, as all mine - in both sizes - suffer from them.

Nothing exciting; a new colour, he seems to match Theo's cowboy in being a slightly heliotrope red, but I can't say for sure, mine is sun-faded and photography can play havoc with true-colour! Again; the larger manufacturing mark on his back, and I feel this figure is more central or South-American in detailing?

This - also from Theo - is lovely! It's a blow-moulded Teepee (Tipi)! The flap of the entrance being cleverly contrived along the join line, but with the pole-bundle reduced to a decorative finial, by the limitations of the technique. If anyone has a spare one of these, it's gone to the top of my 'wants' list, despite the 'infant toy' look . . . or - perhaps - because if it!

Reverses of all mine, just to get another image up here . . . quite an unsung maker; Koho, despite being in there with the whole Jean-Big-Dom-Manurba-Heinerle band of Wundertüten suppliers, and possibly sharing a sculptor with Leyla?

And many thanks to Theo for the new information.