H is for How They Come In - November Sandown Park - General Purchases

So, we're back to the 12th of November last, to look at my plunder pile from that final BP Fairs show of the season (round here, I think they had a later one at the NEC Birmingham), which was better than the previous couple I think? It's marginal, and some sellers always have better days than others, but the buzz seemed to be back to pre-Covid levels, if not pre-Brwreakshit levels!

A fun bag for pennies; these are probably all Dulcop Charlie Kit figures, but could equally be copied piracies from Hong Kong, the Soviet Union, Hungary or elsewhere as they all had a pop, and might be Kinder specific production, rather than the mini-boxed Charlie originals?

Clockwise from top-left; The workbench might go with one of the Charlies? I hadn't considered it before, I have one with half the vice in the odd accessories zone, it's been there for years but I never really gave it much thought but there were a few other bits in the Charlie bag and this might have been one of them? Next to it is a winding mechanism . . . from a  Kinder toy?

Three hollow-cast figures I nabbed from Mercator Trading's cheapie-tray, two sailors and a highlander, makers to-come when I've checked them against Joplin's book and re-Blog them in something more thematic!

A large Easter chick in two-part glued polystyrene, a Roche Fees premium lamb and a Ripley from Alien, who I thought might be 3D printed when I saw her in a rummage tray, but who seems to be more commercial? If she'd been resin and grey or white I might have hazarded the guess of Reaper Miniatures, but in this rotten-lettuce green polymer she remains a question-mark for now, but a really nice figure around that 28/30mm size.

Finally a bunch of animals including a Kellogg's Rhino, and a Merit bear, except I recently noticed Merit seem to have provided their circus/Noah animals to a Coco-Pops cereal premium line (also Kellogg's) toward the end of their existence, which may explain some of the colour variations?

From the left; Cofalu/x French Foreign Legion above ann Auburn Rubber farm maid, late mono-coloured Comansi G.I. and a open-bottomed crate from a large-box or rack-toy play set, I suspect.

Two late Hong Kong'y versions of Waddington's Little Bighorn cavalry officer, with below a selection of die-cast 'mocherette' figures (one Kinder), an AHI sourced Japanese copy of an SAE crusader, a war games grenadier and finally, the laying figure seems to be a civilian sailor, possibly a copy of a plastic kit figure, but just what you need for a Craftline balsa-kit!

To the right we have two of the Jean Napoleonics, I recently learnt were imported into the UK back in the day, in this unpainted state by Plastic Warrior magazine, both above a pair of the Starlux farm we looked at the other day! I have seven of the eight Jean's in the stash somewhere, but I can never remember which one I haven't got, so there are various odds kicking about now, in the hope that one of them is the missing one!

Two aluminium bears, being early- and late-version Wendal's; Wendal removed the bases from a lot of their production (where technical properties allowed) to reduce the amount of material and therefore the unit-cost. Along with a Commonwealth horn-blower ('Miss Switzerland') who once had full paint!

I also picked this up, it's a colour facsimile rather than an original, but it'll look good on the wall of the planed work-space in what should be my final stop in this world! Already mounted, once it's trimmed and framed it'll look better than this slightly curved state! Of note is that both sets of Deetail Germans are present, but the Japanese have been dropped.