So the plan was always to have three posts
here today catching-up on incoming polish figures over the last 14-months, and
as a foil to yesterdays space-horror, which only got Easter Sunday because I thought,
well, the eggs! And I didn't have anything more festive.
That changed yesterday evening, with the
recipt of a couple of eMails and a quick search of Picasa; so we're going to
try six posts (I won't make a habit of it, except on ITLAPD!) before the clock register's Tuesday. How we do will depend
on a number of factors, not least the weather - I must mow the lawn - second
cut!
This post is the oddments, and we're
starting with a small mixed lot I bought a few months ago, mostly flats, but
not the hard 'styrene flats I got from Grzegorz Maciak, these are more
like PZG (recycled Nylon-66),
slightly softer, and painted after PZG
too.Indeed, most are credited to PZG on that site we've visited before,
these being found under the last button (Inni) which I think is the
equivalent of 'other' or miscellaneous? Clearly a Polish winged-hussar and two Cossack
types, although (as some of you will know from your studies and others from
recent current affairs programmes) at the time both were part of the Empire of
Poland-Lithuania or The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but they posed better
attacking each other!
Note to Putler - don't attack the land of
the Cossack's with a bunch of Siberian conscripts, you'll get your nose burnt,
along with most of your tank-crews . . . and your best boat!
A little light reading I've inherited! I've actually had
to pack it for now, but I will read it soon, in the meantime, it seemed to be
the perfect backdrop to the two figures.
Another unlikely pairing, a contemporary
levy (?) to the previous mounted figures faces off against a Highlander? In a sky-blue
kilt with his tartan lines at a rakish angle! he looks like he might be another
plastic figure taken from old Schneider's
home-casting moulds, but I think the Eastern sculpts here are all originals?
The guy on the right is also credited to PZG, but the other two remain question-marks,
and he's a swordsman not an artilleryman, but again for the sake of a
photogenic vignette; it'll do. They are also from very different eras!
This chap is apparently Urlich von Jungingen from a set of Grunwald 1410 figures, and note he's
posed on two different horses, as that was what came in the lot! More a fully
round, he's some semi-flatness to him and his horse, and both have the look of
what we or the French might call 'from Hollow-Cast', but I don't know if there
was a lead progenerator?
This was a shot I took a while back (two years ago) of my
small sample of what I thought were all Napoleonic troops, but actually there are
troops of several nations and several conflicts many years apart, so it became
my even smaller 'samples'! But it makes a colorful group of what PZG (and another maker I think; I've lost the note!) were capable of.
Seen before but this is the 'appeared elsewhere'
image! Bought at the pre-Christmas London Show in December, and note the chap
in the middle is the same as my existing one, but a deliberately different
shade of blue. There is a fifth somewhere I think, so that's a better sample
than some of my PZG sets! But they're all growing.
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