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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.

Thursday, February 17, 2022

H es para Históricos!

And so to Spain, not actually, but by way of subject matter for another box-ticker! Looking at a set of vintage Reamsa moulds which have seen some mileage now and I think these - by Gormasa - are the last major issue?

731 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Historicos Romanos; Historicos Romanos A Caballo; Historicos Romans; Reamsa Plastic; Reamsa Plastic Cavalry; Reamsa Romans; Roman Auxiliaries; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Musicians; Roman Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spain; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers;
How mine came, the cellophane was ripped beyond repair but I managed to get it to behave for the scanner, which did quite a good job, possibly because of the pale backgrounds? If I try to scan say, a kit runner, flush against the black pad, all I get is fuzzy, but these did quite well?

731 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Historicos Romanos; Historicos Romanos A Caballo; Historicos Romans; Reamsa Plastic; Reamsa Plastic Cavalry; Reamsa Romans; Roman Auxiliaries; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Musicians; Roman Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spain; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers;
However I needn't have bothered as there was a better, commercial image on the back of the box, alongside the cavalry set! I don't know if these had a 'Soldis' iteration, I suspect Históricos were the older (by era) version of the same Soldis line; the boxes are certainly the same?

731 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Historicos Romanos; Historicos Romanos A Caballo; Historicos Romans; Reamsa Plastic; Reamsa Plastic Cavalry; Reamsa Romans; Roman Auxiliaries; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Musicians; Roman Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spain; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers;
I tried to be clever with the photography, but it's impossible to get the frame perfectly square with a hand-held pocket-camera, so it is what it is - a collage of lop-sided frames! But the figures are lovely and it's nice to have them in the stash.

731 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Historicos Romanos; Historicos Romanos A Caballo; Historicos Romans; Reamsa Plastic; Reamsa Plastic Cavalry; Reamsa Romans; Roman Auxiliaries; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Musicians; Roman Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spain; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers;
The tool is unchanged from original owner and the painting on these is good enough to conjure-up the originals if not pass for them after a bit of playwear! But the material is a bit of a giveaway; the Reamsa figures were polyethylene, these are a substitute-PVC with the same rubbery qualities of other elastomers.

731 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Historicos Romanos; Historicos Romanos A Caballo; Historicos Romans; Reamsa Plastic; Reamsa Plastic Cavalry; Reamsa Romans; Roman Auxiliaries; Roman Centurion; Roman Legionaries; Roman Legionnaires; Roman Musicians; Roman Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spain; Spanish Toy Figures; Spanish Toy Soldiers;
My sample's box was missing the ridged, clear plastic sheet which should tuck into the corners of the window, so with the wrap gone as well it was going to be a nightmare to keep it all together, thus, it went the way of all flesh, but not before I'd scanned all the useful bits for the archive! the troops have got a [clean] takeaway-tub in the main Romans box!

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