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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Friday, January 5, 2024

R is for Railway Figures - Primex and Vollmer, Not!

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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