Sad that the series only ran to the two
sets, but then the recent Klutz sets with figures only
managed four titles, while the ones a contributor found in Europe for PW magazine was only
two as well, I think, but between the three similar lines you get a clue as to
what a larger run might include - Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gladiators, Medieval,
Pirates, Space, Circus, Farm & Zoo . . . I guess a Phidal Disney for 5.99 is
easier - more figures less craft faffing!
Because similar things lend themselves to
similar photogenicity (if that's a word, and if it isn't; it should be!), so
this post is almost the same as the last one, just with different images, which
might make the blurb sparser?
Cover and contents here, similar mix, but
paints and an ink-stamper up the ante on craft in the absence of a catapult!
The 30 (3x10) HO figures of the medieval set are replaced by only 12 (3x4) in
this set, but there's less play-value in civilians I suppose! The booklet doesn't seem to have a byline/given author this time and another
board-game is printed on the back of another fold-down . . .
. . . of an imperial or religious monument,
this being a conglomeration of the Great
Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel (famously moved under UNESCO funding, several
hundred meters, in my childhood to save them from being flooded by Lake Nasser
after the building of the High Aswan Dam), married with a pair of obelisks and Karnak's restored
Khonsu Temple walls as a backdrop.
They are rendered as they would have been
at the time, so colourful and no missing heads! there's also a couple of Sphinxes
and a pop-up religious procession, again it's all sized to use the small figure
included in the set.
Card game playing pieces lye behind a
two-sided painting guide for both sizes of figure, but the guide is clearly using
larger-sized models of the three diminutive sculpts, it would take a
master-painter indeed to get that level of detail onto the actual figures, also
they look more Egyptian here!
The two finished 'wealthy Egyptians'
actually looking more Babylonian or Biblical! I only have these in the hard
polypropylene type plastic, I don't know if a soft PVC'ish issue ever occurred? The one
thing I failed to record when doing these shots, was the other issuer (there's
two versions [earlier publisher?] of one back-cover) and it may be that there's a link between issue
and plastic type? I can add anything relevant to the A-Z post at a later date?
Upper shot is a reverse-order of the
previous post's, the lower shot is the same image as last time - I forgot to
take two slightly different ones! The Crescent
'berserker' was found to be only 50mm to his helmet top, so the king is approximately
54mm to his eye-line which is how some measure them anyway, you could call them
60mm at a pinch, it's all subjective and the Horus figure in this set
has a very deep base - he slips on to
one of the card press-outs if I recall correctly.
Those press-outs include a number of
Pyramids (about 10?) in various (7 or 8?) sizes, a gold-plated funereal-barge and
attendant tender!
I also found an image which belongs on the
previous post so I'll add it there later, while there are a couple of scans
which will go on the A-Z entry, and which I'll try to get done later tonight.
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