Quite a few model railway companies never paid more than lip-service to scenic, producing a basic station or a few lineside accessories like signals, or a level-crossing, but from time to time would buy in other makers products to 'make up the numbers' in a glossy catalogue, this is true for figures too, and, later in the series, we will look at some interesting British ones from Jon, but these two obvious candidates have come-up in the research!
Primex were a budget firm set up by Märklin, while Vollmer are one of the three or four main producers of ready-coloured building kits, however both have, from time to time taken-in what seem to be Preiser figures, to enhance otherwise rather one-trick catalogues.
Primex getting sets of six, as per Preiser, but with basic paint, Vollmer having the indignity of only five figures per set, along with the simple paint! Both firms also get a few of the earlier animal sculpts.
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