Being a round-up of toy soldiers in advertising
and the wider world which I've been stuffing in the Toys in the Media folder
for a while now, both modern stuff and some vintage bits.
This is a book I found on Amazon looking
for something else, I rarely read novels (other than sci-fi) so it didn't
interest me particularly, not that that doesn't . . . what I mean is; it's here
for the cover not the contents which may be very good, but I don't care/didn't
bother to find out! Modern 'army-man' pose, sinisterly blured, off-centre and
allowing the shadow to do all the talking - good stuff!
Someone in Eastern Europe (?) is
commando-bombing street signs with army-men, purpose unknown (road-sign sentries?), but it must be
fun looking for them if you know it's going-on in your locale!
Another book cover, this one seems to show
old Stadden designs for . . . Tradition?
Old Guard? Probably from the 85mm or
120mm ranges? These have been painted, but silver, chromium-plated or polished
pewter versions of many pieces exist. Again; the book and its contents are of
no consequence to me.
This lady has a credit attached to 'Indigo' which means little, I think she
was found on Twisted Sifter or Dangerous Minds, or off the back of
a link from one of them? Modern Airfix
copy (Afrika Korps officer/Rommel figure) parachute-toy converted to an earring!
Although "converted" is a
bit highfalutin' for cutting the strings and adding a wire-loop!
A well known (in its day) advertising campaign
for White Horse Whiskey included this
image, in various crops, which ran in the early 1970's in the Sunday newspaper
colour-supplement magazines and on street hoardings I think.
I assume the figures will be something
common (and relatively cheap) such as Minifigs
(Miniature Figurines) but could be
home-cast or something earlier like Alberken,
while the farmhouse looks like, but isn't the Airfix 'Waterloo Farmhouse', I thought it was, but close-ups reveal
enough differences to rule out the plastic kit. The descriptions and sketches of
the time are many and enough to build similar farmhouses!
This is an icing plaque from crafter Yvette
Mayorga and is all icing, but in a frame, not on a cake! Not sure if it's an
army-man or a cowboy, but again a modern Hong Kong/China figure has been
skillfully modelled.
The first series of Blackadder (The Black Adder)
was the least celebrated, yet set-up all the tropes for the future works and is
probably my favourite after the trenches of the last full-run. In one episode
Richard IV (Brian Blessed) is war gaming 'diplomacy' with one of his lieutenants,
using large (Papier-mâché, plaster?) figures on the floor, I took a few stills
last time I watched it.
Then I thought where are The Avengers stills I took, only to
remember I posted them ages ago!
