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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, September 7, 2021

P is for Previously Seen on the Internet . . . II - Ancients and Medievals

Continuing with my cheap Lazy Posts, and a quick look at a few figures depicting warriors of the earlier eras.

Café Storm; Café Storm Viking; Cane Toy Soldiers; Cane Viking; Cherilea Toy Soldiers; Cherilea Viking; Co-Ma Viking; Coma Toy Soldiers; Egyptian Toy Soldiers; Knights In Armour; Lone Star; Lone Star Knights; Lone Star Medievals; Marx Toy Soldiers; Marx Viking; Medieval Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tatra Egyptian; Tatra Plastic Toys; Tatra Plastics; Tatra Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Timpo Viking; Viking Figures; Viking Toys;
Starting in pre-Ptolemaic anciet Egypt, Tatra - the brown one is dark bronze and marked 'Made In England' as is the silver one below him, the rest only have the 'EGYPTIAN' name-plate mark on the chamfered edge.

Café Storm; Café Storm Viking; Cane Toy Soldiers; Cane Viking; Cherilea Toy Soldiers; Cherilea Viking; Co-Ma Viking; Coma Toy Soldiers; Egyptian Toy Soldiers; Knights In Armour; Lone Star; Lone Star Knights; Lone Star Medievals; Marx Toy Soldiers; Marx Viking; Medieval Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tatra Egyptian; Tatra Plastic Toys; Tatra Plastics; Tatra Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Timpo Viking; Viking Figures; Viking Toys;
Coming forwards 3000-odd years nearer the present-day and we find the Vikings! Sorting to move to storage temporarily (I hope!) I grabbed one of each for a comparison; they go better together for being a barbarian horde!

Café Storm; Café Storm Viking; Cane Toy Soldiers; Cane Viking; Cherilea Toy Soldiers; Cherilea Viking; Co-Ma Viking; Coma Toy Soldiers; Egyptian Toy Soldiers; Knights In Armour; Lone Star; Lone Star Knights; Lone Star Medievals; Marx Toy Soldiers; Marx Viking; Medieval Knights; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tatra Egyptian; Tatra Plastic Toys; Tatra Plastics; Tatra Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Timpo Viking; Viking Figures; Viking Toys;
Another 4/500-years finds us in the medieval period with Lone Star - odd plastic colours, from the left; metallic green plastic (and paint), a pinkish-taupe, a putty-grey, a dove-grey and a white plastic figure.

I've also been posting a few links of similar ilk/subject matter about the place, here are two on the ancient/medieval theme;

Faceplant -
https://www.facebook.com/worldbeautiesandwonders/photos/a.105095208262327/202175238554323/

My Modern Met -
https://mymodernmet.com/3d-print-sculptures-scan-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR06Es2t-HjS6KWMIvorj13Z9FjAis-x11q44T4kR8X_iIGAsijzxYBqg68

1 comment:

Bernard Vanassche said...

Your little viking group has a Little Belgian Celt amongst them called Ambuvarex.
He is one of the marvellous figures of the Café Storme Belgian history collection.
You can check them out at mokarex.fr.

Kind regard,

Bernard