T is for All Moulding . . . Maybe!

Toumoulage; a French company, the meaning of which is probably no more translatable than Triang or Meccanno but which can produce the above English, or variations on it ('Mould All') in translation engines, so may well mean that (input from friendly French welcome!)?

A hard polystyrene plastic original, factory painted, behind, with a soft polyethylene premium in front, the premium probably isn't Toumoulage, but rather a piracy/licensed copy, reduced in size by somebody-for-Procter & Gamble France?

P&G had issued unpainted polystyrene versions in their soap power, which were shown on Ludo's old site, so I guess the smaller, soft plastic ones are a later edition for the same companies products? But they could be from another issuer, these premiums tend to 'do the rounds'?

I think there are eight poses in total (plus a mounted line, we'll look at another day), I've still to find the crawling Indian and cowboy with lasso, and you can see they are part based on the second set of Lido Wild West (also copied in Hong Kong), part based on the earlier Crescent/Lido from hollow-cast Wild West set (seen here a while ago), with elements of the Siku premium set maybe and even the Thomas/Poplar for Quaker cereal premium set.

This is not to say they are straight piracies, they have their own style (a sort of art-deco meets yellow-submarine!), but the above named companies would have been contemporaneous-with and clearly influenced these.

Close-up of a couple of the smaller copies, so far I've only found them in the soft polyethylene, but as stated above there was a hard polystyrene issue, while the Toumoulage are always 'styrene, but can be painted or unpainted.

Colours found so far, I shot these from a very small sample before I'd found the larger ones (there may be a few more in the storage lots?), so there's not much else to say about them!

Elkie the moose shall sing no more, but he'll taste good and make excellent moccasins! I think the moose (Hong Kong) and background foliage (which includes a coral!) were in a lot from Chris Smith which was to-hand and the moose was the right size to suggest the vignette!

The tree on the far left is particularly interesting as it's a variation on the stackable Merit type, but with a single stepped-trunk you drop the greenery over, unlike the more common plug-together stack of separate sections . . . I recently picked-up a larger one, which is former-Soviet, so this one may be too, I can't remember?