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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

K is for Kick-ass Key-ring Kurassiers

I scored this pair for a song of-off that there feebleBay the other day, thinking "They'll go well with that knight" (I have a knight!), but in going to look for the knight A) found he was much smaller, softer and chunkier and B) that I had another from this series, so, as is often the way, the post grew from what might have been one collage into this - enjoy, loyal readers!

1976-1776; 40mm; ADC's; Bonbon Marked; Cavalry; Cuirassiers; Dragoons; European Premiums; Horse Riders; Horsemen; Hulior; Hussars; Injectaplastic; JSP; Key-Chains; Key-Rings; Keyrings; Kick-ass; Kinder; Kurassiers; Macau Sourced; Medieval Knight; Merten Medieval Court; Mounted Knight; Napoleon Brand; Napoleonics; Nestle; Novelty; Opposing Pair; Prince from Exin Castillos; PVC; Spencer Smith; Staff Officers; Via Portugal; Wellintonians;
So my purchase, which was only a week or so ago - they came yesterday; Two rather over-dressed or flauxy, foppish chaps from the - vaguely - Napoleonic era, in all their finery trotting out to do some hawking or handkerchief-dropping or some such? They would complement the 'Prince' from Exin Castillos or maybe some of the Merten medieval court stuff.

1976-1776; 40mm; ADC's; Bonbon Marked; Cavalry; Cuirassiers; Dragoons; European Premiums; Horse Riders; Horsemen; Hulior; Hussars; Injectaplastic; JSP; Key-Chains; Key-Rings; Keyrings; Kick-ass; Kinder; Kurassiers; Macau Sourced; Medieval Knight; Merten Medieval Court; Mounted Knight; Napoleon Brand; Napoleonics; Nestle; Novelty; Opposing Pair; Prince from Exin Castillos; PVC; Spencer Smith; Staff Officers; Via Portugal; Wellintonians;
Off to the 'unknown/unbranded pre-20th century military' box for the knight I knew I had and found both another of the 40mm'ish ones and that the knight was actually a bit of a stumpy-runt! The 3rd figure being in the same dense PVC Injectaplastic (and JSP) use while the knight is more of a silicon-rubber? I say that because . . .

1976-1776; 40mm; ADC's; Bonbon Marked; Cavalry; Cuirassiers; Dragoons; European Premiums; Horse Riders; Horsemen; Hulior; Hussars; Injectaplastic; JSP; Key-Chains; Key-Rings; Keyrings; Kick-ass; Kinder; Kurassiers; Macau Sourced; Medieval Knight; Merten Medieval Court; Mounted Knight; Napoleon Brand; Napoleonics; Nestle; Novelty; Opposing Pair; Prince from Exin Castillos; PVC; Spencer Smith; Staff Officers; Via Portugal; Wellintonians;
. . . the 35/40mm European premiums of Wellintonian types also go quite well with the riders, and also have that Macau-sourced, via-Portugal, look about them! And bases in the style of the Wild West we looked at recently. Mine are both Bonbon-marked Napoleon-brand premiums (small sweets), but Nestle had a set, Kinder have been credited (pinch of salt there?) and Huilor as well.

1976-1776; 40mm; ADC's; Bonbon Marked; Cavalry; Cuirassiers; Dragoons; European Premiums; Horse Riders; Horsemen; Hulior; Hussars; Injectaplastic; JSP; Key-Chains; Key-Rings; Keyrings; Kick-ass; Kinder; Kurassiers; Macau Sourced; Medieval Knight; Merten Medieval Court; Mounted Knight; Napoleon Brand; Napoleonics; Nestle; Novelty; Opposing Pair; Prince from Exin Castillos; PVC; Spencer Smith; Staff Officers; Via Portugal; Wellintonians;
I seemed to take more shots of the old figure than the two new ones - he was the only one who would stand-up before I took the chains off! After removing the key-chains; I used to cut the loops off as well, but that was when I was a philistine, now I just slip the ring out and leave the key-rings in the bag with the figures.

The funny thing was the seller had them listed separately, so it was 'shopping-cart and see what they look like together when they turn-up', then, when they turned-up, I wondered if they might be (from the colours) an old 1976 [1776] novelty opposing-pair, but after finding the third I'm now just wondering how many more there are in the set and/or; do colours change on the same figure? It's another rabbit-hole!

They would also probably go well with Spencer Smith as a bunch of foppish, Old Etonian, staff officers or ADC's, wot-wot! And they will look good with those cake decoration copies of Airfix's Washinton's Army?

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