So, this sequence was going to be eight
posts with the main 'round-up' as the eighth, but these arrived this morning,
and they were meant to enhance that post, but are too big a question mark, so
I will put them here as another stand-alone post and bring it all together in the
final post, next.
Foot figures; all bearing more than a
little resemblance to [both/all] the medium sized sets associated with Supreme, Toy Major and co., but smaller (40mm), not quite the same when
studied for a second and all wearing a rather 'spacey' helmet, like the
full-face motorcycle helmets favoured in really poor, post-apocalyptic,
straight-to-video, sci-fi, B-movies dubbed from Italian or Argentinian in the
1980's! They also all have muscle-cuirasses and Greek kilts?
Bases are like a lot of the stuff carried
by Toy Major 15-20 years ago, but
without the usually distinctive marking, nor do they have the TM mark of more resent stuff from that branding;
most only having a single numeral, probably a tool-cavity identifier?
The mounted; posed against Islyn Thomas's
seminal work on injecting plastics (I think he would approve?), both horses are
mirroring a couple of Supreme mounts,
and again the riders are close-to, but not Supreme
sculpts.
The full purchase is 20 foot figures
(x2 each, of every pose, in both colours) and the two mounted - commanders?
Which would seem to be too pat for coincidence, I'm guessing a whole, original
sample, but what buildings/siege weapons/scenics might have come with them . .
. a fort carry-case maybe? Indeed, did they come with one of the many skeleton
armies out there, there is a fantasy element to them?
There has been - in researching all this -
a mention of Applause, I don't know
where it came from, can't find any empirical evidence and I'm not tagging it
today, but if Applause (or someone
similar) was responsible for a couple of the 'near' sets, that would make
things - with the out-and-out pirates - much neater?
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