Part two of the Sandown plunder posts, and
while it wasn't a particularly memorable show for nice things, I did get a pretty
eclectic mix of bits and bobs, so let's have a look at a few more . . .
I think these were two separate purchases
as I went round the tables, on the left a late, but still marked, Lik Be (LB) robot fitted
with a key-chain loop and in soft polyethylene with a few stabs of silver
paint. On the right a variation of the bath diver, this paler than usual, and
unmarked so might be British rather than Hong Kong in origin, but not the -
often overpriced - Tresco one! We
looked at a few here.
Some more hollow-cast, lead 'gap-fillers' from Adrian,
another red-legged Lone Star legionary (from Steve Vickers, who thinks it's a repaint . .
. I don't mind!), and a bag of Pic-a-Pac (Prison Industries/Pridus?) Charbens
Guards, who we have to assume are Scots Guards, from both the lack of a plume
and the inclusion of a kilted piper - not rare, the seller had a box-full!
The price was taped to the catapult and was
quite expensive - for a catapult, the rest were spread about the shelf a bit,
so I asked it it was for the catapult or the whole lot and he said the whole
lot, at which point the unit-price became very reasonable, so I bought them - the
second 40mm Elastolin lot in two weeks!
Four crew and a wheelwright/blacksmith's assistant
but take his spare/mended wheel away and he makes an excellent extra
crew-member!
This bunch were in the lot too, various
archery shield-works/screens for laying siege, wicker and timber mantlets with
wheels to push about the place, and a more substantial wall, with modular
construction.
Poor photo I'm afraid, there's a couple of them as I was
shooting against Boysey-Boy's freshly laundered fleece and it's so soft and
fluffy (he loves it) that the camera didn't know what/where solid was! But yeah
- Blue Box Russians, another HK radio-operator Adrian found in his post-PW
Show sort-out and another Aurora kit
figure Russian.
Two Marx 60mm sports figures, coincidentally the
two most usually broken (I think I have the golfer WITH super-glue!), both have their flesh coloured-in which I think was an end-used addition? And a reissue (?) of the 54mm female
jungle explorer
Box-ticking with the lead civilians! Charbens
(or copy?) farmer - Crescent mechanic -Unknown (penny toy?) - Johillco milkmaid?
I'll check them all against the books at some point! I love the farmer's matching
neck-tie and handkerchief in polka-dots!
Seen before here, courtesy of Chris Smith, as
'unknown, a bit like Arco', now known
as Pikit Toys 'Battle of the Bi-Trons' with a better post coming, probably in RTM?
A well! Since the two or three
posts/follow-ups on these a year or so ago, Chris has sent me one or two, I've
bought one or two, so the whole sample/side-collection has grown somewhat but
is currently in several places, most of them buried in a shipping container, so
it will be a while before we return to them, but we will and with a better picture
than last time, and they told a reasonable tale then! This is the all lead version
of the Barratt piece we looked at here, produced after Taylor had 'won'
the T&B tool in the divvy-up!
Another one that's not quite in focus, we
saw them years ago when I shot them on [I think?] Phil's table at Sandown Park,
now I have a set, a nice box ticked. A bit pricy, and not as rare as some would
have you believe, they found a load when the Elastolin factory closed about 15/20-years ago, so all the
interested parties got a set at the time!
From the rears, the red one is quite a
traditional, if portly 'crab-man', and the spaceman is very good if a bit
uninspired, the other two however came from the fevered minds of a surrealist
on drugs! The blue one is both inventive and wacky, but the monkey-faced,
horned, flat-chested, ostrich-knickered, hoofed, rubber-stretchy hula-lady is
the stuff of nightmares!
I wonder if there is a Perry Rodan connection with these figures; there isn't an
'overt' one as far as I am aware, but I thought maybe some of the paperback artworks might have inspired the sculptor/s?
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