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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 20, 2020

Red is for Cat

A real box ticker here, rather like them, don't know much about them, although their WWII stuff was all over the place about five years ago (Peter Evans sent the Germans to the Blog I think, and I'm not sure they got covered properly?), but to get Redcat (for it is they!) into the tag list, here's nothing!

СОЛДАТИКИ; 12-14th Century's; 210-11-67; A-to-Z; I-7630; Made in China; Marx Knights sculpts; Modern Russian Production; Padgett Bro's.; Plastic Knights; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Knights; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack-Toys; Red Cat; Red is for Cat; Redcat Toys; Rus; Russian Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SOLDATIKI; Toy Soldiers;
Modern Russian producer, but not charging 40, 60 or even 80-quid for the set, but rather a few dollars with six dollars postage! Which is the intrinsic value of a handful of made in China rack-toys - for that is what we have here, bagged with a header card and manufactured in a tough ethylene, or a polypropylene/nylon type polymer!

СОЛДАТИКИ; 12-14th Century's; 210-11-67; A-to-Z; I-7630; Made in China; Marx Knights sculpts; Modern Russian Production; Padgett Bro's.; Plastic Knights; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Knights; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack-Toys; Red Cat; Red is for Cat; Redcat Toys; Rus; Russian Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SOLDATIKI; Toy Soldiers;
Sold simply as 'Soldiers' СОЛДАТИКИ = SOLDATIKI = soldiers, and as 'set II' by the seller, I've not encountered a set I, nor had the seller got one (I asked!), so they may be stand alone or a continuation of a series? I think they represent Russian knights of the12-14th Century period.

СОЛДАТИКИ; 12-14th Century's; 210-11-67; A-to-Z; I-7630; Made in China; Marx Knights sculpts; Modern Russian Production; Padgett Bro's.; Plastic Knights; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Knights; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack-Toys; Red Cat; Red is for Cat; Redcat Toys; Rus; Russian Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SOLDATIKI; Toy Soldiers;
They reminded me of the recent third or fourth generation copies of the old Marx knight sculpts, imported by Padgett Bro's./A-to-Z, and while there's no actual connection I took a shot and hopefully you can see what I was thinking of!

Weapons on the new figures are a bit leery or oversized and the mace (?) on the far right needs . . . something! Work; it needs work!

СОЛДАТИКИ; 12-14th Century's; 210-11-67; A-to-Z; I-7630; Made in China; Marx Knights sculpts; Modern Russian Production; Padgett Bro's.; Plastic Knights; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Knights; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack-Toys; Red Cat; Red is for Cat; Redcat Toys; Rus; Russian Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SOLDATIKI; Toy Soldiers;
A first outing for Redcat in the Tags/on the Blog, so a bit late for a box-tick, but I'm only human! These are some of the other sets mentioned above and I'll try to find the Germans and get them up here.

СОЛДАТИКИ; 12-14th Century's; 210-11-67; A-to-Z; I-7630; Made in China; Marx Knights sculpts; Modern Russian Production; Padgett Bro's.; Plastic Knights; Plastic Toy Figures; Plastic Toy Knights; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack-Toys; Red Cat; Red is for Cat; Redcat Toys; Rus; Russian Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SOLDATIKI; Toy Soldiers;
Occasionally you take a couple of shots which - if animated together - produce a slight 3D effect and this is one of those cases, the two shots used here would normally have been deleted in favour of the upper image in the second picture above, but they make a fun thing!

2 comments:

Chris Smith said...

I'm sure I've seen those abd the WW11 sets on ebay new listed as Hing Fat? Sure it was from Russia,

Hugh Walter said...

Yes, I thought they were being called-out for HF a few years ago, but here they are in Redcat's colours, so - for now (and to get them in the tag list!) - they can be Redcat!

H