When this post was in the queue for Rack Toy Month last year, it consisted of about 20 appallingly bad shots of the contents of the bag, with tons of reflection, in which I was trying to shoot at least one good shot of each pose, for collaging into groups, but I ran-out of time to crop and edit them.
There weren't all the poses in the bag which was another spoiler of the project and then, when getting toward the end of the garage emptying, I found their box, and managed a whole new shoot with loose figures and a few silver 'plated' ones!
The oddity with this set (and the reason I had them stored separately in two 'zones'), is that the ANZAC clones are, generally, a tad bigger than the 8th Army clones (both from the Airfix 1:32nd/54mm figures), so, for years, I thought I was seeking two sources! I still am of course, but now it's to find the chromium-guys set, rather than two nationalities of set!
3 comments:
Considering they're clones they are pretty well detailed. Early clones maybe ? What year do you reckon they're from Hugh ? The Airfix Commando with the Aussie head is a nice touch.
In this series they also did copies of the Matchbox WW2 Brits and Germans but I've never seen US Troops
I don't think they are that old John, but then we're all getting older, rapidly, too bloody rapidly if you ask me, and things I tend to think of as modern (1990's) are 30 years old! I would say 1970's rather than 50's or 60's?
I've not seen them Peter, but I'll keep my eyes out for them!
Cheers both.
H
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