PW is for Plastic Warrior Show - 2 of 5

Continuing with the rather random way I shot everything this weekend, after the 37th Annual Plastic Warrior toy soldier show, but all the posts have interesting stuff, so getting stuck in . . .

A few vehicular pieces; back left is a space car, it's probably Kleeware (or Tudor Rose) having the circular MADE IN ENGLAND stamp common to both and will need a check in the Blast Off book, a small boat in marbelled plastic which looks to have some age and was probably a bath toy and a rather nice, but unmarked die-cast mazak Mosquito type . . . I know - metal at a plastics show!

The two Airfix motorcycles are a disappointment, they've both been chopped about to the point of almost junk, but I need both riders and four spare wheels will be useful if I get chewed ones in the future, and the pale one is a new colour in the sample.

Tyrolean touristy thing with a weighted base flanked by two 'walkers' of clowns on donkeys, I think the idea is that they are pantomime donkeys worn round the waist, so just two clowns then!

The orange guy - from the amount of silver paint remants - is probably an Argentine copy of a Marx GI, flanked by two late production Starlux; an alpine bugler and a staff officer. The next two are . . . a bit of a mystery, they look quite like the Solido figures, but are slimmer and unmarked, they also look like the Torres Maltas 40mm figures, but are obviously closer to 60mm, so I wonder if maybe Torres from Spain? Help appreciated on them.

The other five are Hong Kong copies of Timpo 8th Army and are marked with the circular HK monogram, we looked at a couple back in 2011 here, but the new ones are a much better sample. Clearly painted to deceive too!

A right old mix from several stalls here, with a Starlux clown who has an uncommon, thin base. I think I've shot the miss-moulded Crescent knight before, but now I have one, behind him is a Jecsan Jap and Kellogg's bust, while in front a new intermediate size of Zang composition pilot about 45mm, however he may not be Zang, having a better finish and neater base - late production, or improved copy?

The Cavendish guardsman was in someone's bag for me I think and to his front is a 54mm HK copy of a 60mm Crescent 'modern army' soldier. Moving back to the left we have a gold (faded) Russian Officer who might be Atlantic or a copy; he seems a bit smaller than typical Atlantic; so licensed Res Plastics (RP) or Gulliver?

Civilian bits; the horses will be from a board game, in polystyrene and sans a couple of tails, I thought the racing colours were well done. A Jecsan circus performer, glow-in-the-dark ghost, two Spot On figures, a Taylor farmer and a Scalextric newspaper seller make up the rest, along with a large bale!

Animals include a rather nice buffalo/bison which may be Spanish, the Hornby O-gauge horse, a Tudor Rose pig, Tiger with a docked tail, Airfix dog (2nd 'missing' pose since lockdown!), probably a Spaniel and a lovely - probably Japanese - celluloid Elephant playing a drum!

Mixed lot here with five Aurora kit figures, not the best and from two sources I think, but they all go together and eventually I'll have a good set! The 'pod-foot' Native American is from the set we looked at here, but what fantastic marbling! We looked at the main sample here.

The other highlight is the Zang Chauffeur, I have him in brown and green, but missed out on a cream one which I think is now headed to a museum, however a blue one is plenty compensation, and you can never have everything!

Space and Sci-Fi; three of the little Torgano figures, two spacemen and a 'costume doll', four Captain Video/Winco Condar figures, three needing a bloody-good clean! A wafer-thin, flat angel, who's actually a short-shot, she should be holding two cymbals. The bear/monkey is from Marx's Noddy set, we weren't allowed Noddy as kids (racism and grammar!), so I haven't the faintest on it, but am slowly building the set, this is number five or six I think?

The big blob is the Cherilea 'Mechanoid' and I believe the Dalek set's version of it with all the top panels open (generic 'space' Mechaniod's have alternate open and filled panels), I think it's missing a flamethrower or something along with the ladder, but is otherwise in damn good nick, and the all important four legs are present and the same colour!

A bunch of small scale, with Marx soft plastic Germans, Jap's and a GI, from the window sets, two copies, a Lone Star piracy Indian and five Zang pilots are also seen along with a lead pilot I was told replaced the Zang, but I think it might actually be visible in some Kay's adverts, or similar publicity from Pixyland-Kew?

Next to him is the missing Tiny Trojan railway staffer! Isn't it typical, the same day the PW 'Special' is officially launched, the next addition is found! I've sent better images to Paul at the mag. A Chinese Kentoys CHiP's motorcyclist and flat sedan chair cereal (or other) premium complete the line-up.

Five Argentinian copies make up a third of this group - two Lone Star modern infantry (grey, left) knock-offs, two 'khaki infantry' (white, centre) clones and a Timpo Foreign legionnaire (back, centre) copy. They are joined by two PZG from Poland; a Native American in 75mm and a 60mm Cold War paratrooper.

A painted Kinder barbarian will need stripping, the tin flat was probably a cigarette-pack premium from Europe, the painted flat cowboy is interesting and might be Eastern European, while the late Britains mounted Indian is actually a polystyrene copy from Hong Kong!

The Morestone Davy Crockett though is a ringer! He has paste-hands with a cut-down HK copy Britains musket buried under the compound! However, the original hands are OK underneath, so I now have two is the same/similar paint-condition, with no musket between them!