I managed to find a full set of the
Progress Russian Infantry (going very cheap or I would have waited) a while
ago, and while I only needed the three Chris helped-out with last time we
looked at them, I thought "When will
I see them again?" so grabbed them!
We saw the backs of most of them when we
looked at them last time, so just a re-hash from one side, they have faint
traces of paint on them (a pale flesh on hands and faces, no other apparent
colours), so earlier (?) sets seem to have carried paint, but I've seen them on
packaging (near mint) without.
And as Chris suggested last time, still
only the nine poses, I guess they considered it a set of ten items with the
flag, not that any set of toy anything has to have round numbers and many
don't, but with toy soldiers you tend to look for six, eight or ten &etc!
Having accepted I would have a bunch of
duplicates, they came in a darker, flat green than most of my existing metallic
ones, or the pale-jade above, so I will probably hang-on to most of them for a
fuller sample in the near future at least, right now they are still in two
places so I haven't had time to fully-compare them.
The best of the bunch, he can be holding it in a brisk updraft (right-hand pair) . . .
. . . or on a slightly breezy day!
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