Well, if TJF's gonna' copy my output I'll copy his! Only in nationality of subject though (and Morawski is in the queue!), it is amusing; he spent six days trying to think of something 'as good as' and ended up following my format but without the research, translations or links! We - loyal readers - are supposed to think this makes him a 'legend' and me the idiot!
Anyway; this isn't copying layout or anything, it's harking back to a previous post here at Small Scale World, when we looked at the 'Kioskowce' (tobacco kiosk's) production of Andrzej Kawecki, based in Lódź (thanks to Konrad Lesiek for the information on that occasion). Also this's been in the queue for five weeks and I said it would post in a day or two; those five weeks ago!
This time we're
looking at very similar sets from another producer; Spójnia supplied by (and thanks to-) Maciej
Jasinski who reports memories of these figures being produced in Poland between
around 1985 and 1987. he's also sent very high-resolution imagery; so be sure to open them in a new tab or window to get the full effect.
Maciej also scanned the cards separately at a higher resolution, so we'll look at them now in the same order as above;
While on one level Spójnia (also the name of a top (?) Polish football team!) is just a branding, translating it in Google lead to 'bond', 'connect' or 'couplings' so there's maybe a reference to kits or models within the brand-mark, or teamwork? As well as the aforementioned Andrzej Kawecki post, I have put the Globus and Universal issued Kioskowce on the British Paratroopers page of the Airfix blog and reading the blurb on the Kawecki post, I still have Napoleonics from Spojnia to come . . . so - next time I pass that box I'll dig-it out!They (Spójnia) were based in Gdansk (previously Danzig, home of Solidarity) and I believe were still going, also known as Hobby EME, as a more conventional kit-maker (aircraft and AFV's) into the late 1990's?
I will organise some of the images a different way for use on the Wagon Train and German Infantry pages of the Airfix Blog for completion, another day and - in the meantime - many thanks to Maciej Jasinski for today's new to hobby, new to Blog and new to Internet, little-treat!
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There's a little more to come on WWII I think (the image you showed a few years ago), plus the Napoleonics and I might re-blog the Globus here?
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Myślę, że będzie jeszcze trochę więcej na temat II wojny światowej (zdjęcie, które pokazałeś kilka lat temu), a także Napoleonics i może ponownie opublikuję tutaj Globus?
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https://www.mediafire.com/view/j8hjb82wf8ya3ms/BERLIN_1945_KOMPLET_1_GLOBUS.jpg/file
hi from warsaw. maybe im missing something but so far i ve read i dont know what "spójnia" mean ? cause there is no word like this, maybe you meant spółdzielnia ? https://www.diki.pl/slownik-angielskiego?q=sp%C3%B3%C5%82dzielnia as far i know the companies that produced these soldiers were called like that. about figs being produced up to 87 or 89 idk,i think ive saw early revell ww ii copies so it seems that these kind of figures maybe were still manufactured till early 90's. but its my asumption rather than a fact. about catalog as far i have seen on many polish auctions and with some examples from my father stash they literally counterfeited any figures that were availble to them. for example i have polish copies of hong kong scaled down 1/32 airfix japanese .... so for me personally is only interesting to search for knockoffs of rarest soldiers. i have some polish copies from airfix modern russians. the figures ranges from bad quality to acceptable so its hit or miss like with hong kong copies. personally i think that the idea why they made these copies was to have cheap erzac for orginal scale model figures, especially before the fall of iron curtain the orginals were sold higher than average price back. often by private people who bought them abroad and then reselled them on baazars back then, in 90;s i guess the demand evaporated when people gain access to orginals from scale model shops and the toy soldier market for children was dominated by hong kong/chinese figs. best regards michael
Hi Michael, Spójnia is the brand, I guess it doesn't need to mean anything, although you may be on to something with the co-operative link? If you click on the cowboy image with the card, or the Monte Casino one below it, you will see the Brand.
One of you compatriots is writing a book on them as I type, and all will become clearer I suspect! I am hoping to announce it here when it is ready (the book) but he's looking at 2024 as a publishing date.
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