Less fighty-bitey, but still fighting men!
Dealing with the ancients, medievals, ceremonials and other more colourful
types and there were several interesting things among them, not least a
childhood favourite, but smallies first;
Seven Giant
or Giant-like, the green 'loon' being
a less common moulding to find, three items from Quaker Oats's premium line of Gladiators, a broken Marx knight from the Miniature Masterpiece range, I have a whole
tub of these, and being hard, glueable polystyrene; I have every intention of
having a conversion session in the future, chopping some to save others as all-new
figures! To his right (as we view) is the rarer soft plastic version from the
window-boxes, which - as they only had a few figures per set - are hard to find
loose.
Now, these were awesome! I'd actually found
two, a pair in this colour-way and another pair, on feebleBay a day or two before
these turned up, while looking for something else, both pairs were chipped, so
I left them but, it reminded me we had a drummer when we were kids, he broke
once or twice.
Mum dutifully glued him back together with Araldite and rubber bands, this, back in
the days when Araldite left a brown vein
through the work to show the mend, like cheap Kintsugi (another one for NZ Paul to
Google)!
Anyway, to get half a platoon in one lot,
no appreciable chips or scratches was a lovely surprise, so a mid-post 'Thanks'
to Chris for these lovely chaps, our drummer was yellow or yellow/blue if I recall
correctly, so other colour schemes may well be out there. The 'Foreign'
probably masks a Japanese origin, although West Germany earned the same moniker
between the wars (and immediately after the second!).
Chris even sent the originnal gift- box! As you can see,
with or without the packaging, there is a fourth, smaller compartment; I believe
that's where 'our' drummer would have been found. A lot of these would have
been broken-down and sold as single mouldings in gift shops, tobacconists, corner
shops &etc., or eve as actual Fairings so our drummer may have come singly, that way?
But I have no idea if these are 1950's (probably,
more likely) or 1920/30's, in which case our drummer may have been a junk-shop
find, or part of a mixed auction lot of the type Mum used to bring back from Persons here in Fleet, from time to time!
These have only ended-up in this post as
opposed to one of the later ones by dint of the slightly military/ceremonial
type on the right, but he may be a bull-fighter/gaucho type, or a Camargue
horse-catcher type (their traditional dress seems to be black), or is he a
mounted member of the Vatican Guard? The sort of thing you might get from a
broken snow-globe, but no sign of glue, so we may assume a set, somewhere,
factory painted?
The horse may be from a circus set, while
the dancer must be a decoration for cocktail glasses, but she appears to have
no damage or missing part, so seems to have been attached to whatever piece of
fruit or vegetable (those f**king olives; they taste of soap or armpits), via
her pointed foot, or equally pointed hand?
Two sucker Guardsmen; too cool for the photo-bay, so they were attached to
the mirror in the bathroom and turned though 90° to
make sense - he's actually shooting the ceiling! The Highland piper is one of the - previously seen here at Small
Scale World - PVC key-rings, his loop removed and a base added!
Finally the third chap (40mm Hong Kong
swivel waste) arrived just as I was shooting some others for a post (I know,
we've seen them two or three times already, but I like them!), and he was a colour
variation (a more-orange torso, paler trousers) so quickly got added to that in-the-queue
post!
My first 'putty' coloured Kulikovo
example, his lance-tip is missing, but I have some old Testors body-filler somewhere which is almost the same colour, so
with a bit of Plastercine I should be
able to mould a new tip straight on, using one of the existing sculpts?
Above the Hun is a Jean knight (or Blue Box? I'll have to compare side-by-side) in a darker gunmetal to the usual silver and below him another
of the 'brown' Tatra for Nabisco premium figures, with this Conquistador
it's clearer to see the brown is actually a dark bronze/gold than it was with
the previously seen Zulu.
And this one is another marked 'Made in
England'; I'm still looking for a made anywhere else mark, and having tracked down
most of the Rubenstein bagged sets now, have
still to find one for these - in any colour - so am starting to question the
[exclusively] American 'fact' that they ever had anything to do with them, either as themselves or for, or on-behalf of, a third party / Cereal company?
Cheers to Chris, lots of useful,
interesting things here!
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