It's a funny old game, this toy soldier & model figure collecting, just when you think you've cracked something, something-else comes along to fuck you up! Exactly a year ago I posted the various Giant and copy astronauts/spacemen over on the Giant blog, I don't seem to have done an announcement here on the home blog though, but they went in here;
And I was pretty pleased with the result, it cleared-up a lot of the confusion over the various types and I tracked down examples of most types of packaging, compared and contrasted, and illustrated the various different marks. It wasn't definitive; these things never are, but the articles did the job! Until now . . .
. . . when first, Gareth showed this at the last Sandown Park toy fair (where I shot the above), only to let me have the example today at the London Toy Solder Show. He's about 45mm and has some age, but is probably a scale-up of the Giant mini's rather than the other way round, and only points to more to be found!
So, large scale copies of Giant smallies - the search goes on!
4 comments:
I once had both versions of the aurora anzio model with the two shades of green for the US forces and the Germans in the light grey.I then came across a set my friend
Had with the US figures in the same grey as the Germans.
I think you left this on the wrong post, but if you're running Windows 10 or 11 I can understand that! Yes, they used whatever plastic they had to hand, I guess!
H
Ah yes sorry Hugh the point I was trying to make was just when you think you have seen,sorted and collected all of a type something odd always pops up.
Regards tony.
Oh yes, no, absolutely Tony! And in the context makes perfect sense, except I've done posts on the Anzio/D-Day sets, where the colours were highlighted! The fatal mistake is to self-declare something 'definitive' . . . I have a follow-up image coming of those 'Pomeroy' Jungle Book figures, which make it obvious they got a full commercial issue and aren't rare or unusual, just forgotten!
H
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