A is for Additional Post

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?