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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

R es para Romanos A Caballo

Literally translates as Romans on Horseback, means Roman cavalry! More box-ticking and we have seen one of them before here, as a late-Reamsa/re-issue moulding in unpainted silver, who commands my definitely Co-Ma, not RP (. . . or Basa!) squad of ring-hand Romans.

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Having failed to get the frames square on the images in the infantry post, I got these dead square without thinking about it and didn't even think of scanning them! Also they did have the clear plastic sheet (but no film), so have stayed in their box for now.

732 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Históricos Romanos; Históricos Romanos A Caballo; Históricos 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;
Five mounted cavalry on two horse sculpts, there are two officer types - if you measure such things by plume size/type - but with such an eclectic set of shields and an un-armed 'trooper' doing a Caesar impersonation, in gold armour, I think they are too toy-like to get excited about on that level and are best called 'auxiliary' cavalry, late Empire!

732 Romanos; Barcelona; Gormasa; Gormasa Historicos; Gormasa S.A.; Gormasa-Soldis; Históricos Romanos; Históricos Romanos A Caballo; Históricos 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 two horse designs are a bit chunky, and are reverse poses of each other - apart from the tails! That's it another couple of boxes-ticked, Reamsa-Gormasa Romans from the Soldis-Históricos 'big box' line.

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