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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Thursday, September 29, 2022

G is for Generations of GI

Flagged a couple of posts ago (I'm alternating figure posts and mini-vehicle posts to get some stuff cleared out of Picasa . . . while catching-up . . . a bit!), these are the US troops from Comansi I picked-up at the London Toy Soldier Show a while-ago.

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Pretty wacky, and definitely in the 'toy' section of the model-soldier venn diagram, and we seem to have the three main generations here, with a early one at the top, realistic olive-drab plastic, four-colour paint-job and a smooth, slightly clipped-corner, ovoid base.

Below him to the left is a simpler one with the raised-edge base in more of a pointed-end lozenge and to his right a late, unpainted one in a bright, 'infant' colour plastic.

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Not sure about the grey paint on bottom-left, or the grey plastic of top-middle for that matter! But clearly there were many tranches/issues/batches of these over the years, note the all-over painted one is white plastic under the paint - he may be a home-painted 'bright' one?

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A couple of bazooka men, again, is the yellow one a home-paint? And again with the grey plastic, were they issued as Marines in grey or something? I thought this might be a interesting post, but it's raising more questions than answers!

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From the colour I'm guessing the flag-man (10 stripes and 24 stars??) was an early shot of the late base type as he matched the flat-based one in the first shot, the bottom two are grey and green again?

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Previously seen elsewhere shot of them all, all is proves is there's a lot to collect if you want one of each . . . I think I'll stop at this lot, I may have a couple more in the storage GI's and I could grab some more of the late, bright-colours if I see them going cheap, just for a wider sample, but . . . well; they're nothing to write home about, although you can get a Blog-post out of them!

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