Toy and Model soldiers; where it all started! Onwards and upwards as they say, with the next batch of donated figures from Chris Smith's last parcel, and we're into khaki military, but as I've added some sailors it's really 20th/21st Century!
Two
Toy Story chaps flank the last
Blue Box WWII figure I needed to complete an at-least-one-of-each sample of them, and it wasn't the usual 'I don't need this so you can have it' donation from his purchase sorting, it was a 'I have one you can have' from Chris's collection, so double thanks for this chap. I have quite a few, painted and unpainted, but they are all missing their mine-detector, which is too easy to pull-off, or be short-shot in the moulding-tool.
Not sure if I have the other two, but there were several sets over the years, and until I get them all together, I won't know!
I think these are
Pilsen from Turkey, but the
Solpa figures from Greece (next door) can also have the contouring on the base some of these have, and as
Solpa also sourced capsule-toy robots and Hong Kong small-scale stuff, it may prove to be that
Solpa were using
Pilsen?
A mixture here, with a
Galloob Micro-man, some HK chaps, a bubble-gum premium and what appears to be a homemade/home cast clone of a French plastic? The two
HTI's (right) both have the base marks we looked at briefly a few years ago, but they are different marks, so when I get round to an
HTI A-Z page, there will be a few of them to study!
These are second generation copies of
New Ray, I think, I got quite excited about a couple of the poses a few years ago, following one of Chris's earlier parcels, but more have come in, overtime, and they are less exciting now, maybe, but there seem to be two tranches/sources, so there will be a full article one day!
Arguably common, but there are many, many variations of these mid-80's rack-toy clones of
Airfix British paratroopers, with or without beret/helmet conversions (at the factory) and in dozens of sizes and many plastic colours, so always welcomed for the final sort-out!
Kit figures, two
Aurora Russians on the left, and two early (1950's) 'box-scale' on the right, but the chap in the middle is new to me, a scale-up of the
Nitto 1:76th German (which was a copy of the earliest
Tamiya German set I think?), and in a 'German' blue-grey plastic? All five are glueable, brittle polystyrene.
Probably
Kwong Shing (Kamley-Kositoys-KS) figures, but these coloured ones are less common, and well worth adding to the stash for the final A-Z line-ups! Here, oxide red and grey, rather than the silver we've seen before, I think?
Still need set titles or a maker's marque for these Hong Kong sailors, originally thought to be Navy
or Police, for a while, and in discussion with other collectors, the turning-up of the semaphore chap rather confirms the former at the expense of the latter, and probably from a 1980's big-box naval vessel or aircraft-carrier playset? they are around 18/20mm.
You may well know all this, but this is just to confirm that the blue German running with an MP40 was originally part of a 1:35 Tamiya set of German infantry. It was three figures, originally in a plastic bag, later in a box. The figures also included an MG34 gunner prone, and a kneeling rifleman. All were a bit small. The MG34 gunner could also be made with different arms and a box of ammo for the MG34. I would guess hey came out around 1970? A set of three German tank crew was released about the same time-think these were the standing figures also found in tank kits.
ReplyDeleteHi Andi, thanks for that, I did know they were Tamiya poses, but I don't think Tamiya ever did them in this colour plastic, theirs were usually grey, and copied by Nitto for their 1:76th kits. I don't think they lasted that long, before much better sets were issued?
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