F is for Follow-up - Koho Wild West

I lied! When I said I'd found some other Koho's in the sort-out after taking the shots the other day I think I stated it was another of the larger and two of the smaller which had turned-up, but it was the other way round; with two of the 70mm and a 40mm coming out of the pile!

So, sorry for that clear attempt to deceive with a wild invention, but anyway, and in the meantime reader Theo van der Weerden found a few figures and something even more interesting, so let's have a check back at 'chez' Koch und Hofmockel's Wild West figures now . . .

Two 70mm figures to accompany my painted Calamity Jane; both native Americans and one armed with a Winchester, so she won't be getting her lebensraum with any ease! They are both slightly flat in sculpting, which probably has more to do with the ease of production than any deleiberate look back at earlier 'flats'; Calamity herself had both hands pushed forward, so although she has a similar base, she lacks the more-obvious two-dimensionality.

Theo provides a third pose of Indian and the larger version of the smaller cowboy we saw the other day and - in the right hand pair - a new plastic colour. There is more detail to the larger figures, with finer etched detail on the cowboy's hems and scarf, but the large mould release-pin mark mars the figure slightly, visible on the chest of the Indian, there is almost certainly one on the back of the cowboys, as all mine - in both sizes - suffer from them.

Nothing exciting; a new colour, he seems to match Theo's cowboy in being a slightly heliotrope red, but I can't say for sure, mine is sun-faded and photography can play havoc with true-colour! Again; the larger manufacturing mark on his back, and I feel this figure is more central or South-American in detailing?

This - also from Theo - is lovely! It's a blow-moulded Teepee (Tipi)! The flap of the entrance being cleverly contrived along the join line, but with the pole-bundle reduced to a decorative finial, by the limitations of the technique. If anyone has a spare one of these, it's gone to the top of my 'wants' list, despite the 'infant toy' look . . . or - perhaps - because if it!

Reverses of all mine, just to get another image up here . . . quite an unsung maker; Koho, despite being in there with the whole Jean-Big-Dom-Manurba-Heinerle band of Wundertüten suppliers, and possibly sharing a sculptor with Leyla?

And many thanks to Theo for the new information.

D is for Dunderheads (Sterwin Watch)

Well, it's like shooting fish in a barrel isn't it? They wanted to open a new front on the day-to-day ID'ing of figures, spent last week not knowing their own space figures or failing to comprehend the term Amerindian and then this priceless piece of fuckwittery from TJF turned-up;

It's Selcol you dimwitted dunderhead, you think to correct me on a foreign figure I said I didn't know, yet appear incapable of copying a name from the magazine - presumably - open in front of you! Still - it's nice to see I'm not the only one driving your output in 2017, you have no original ideas in you, do you; no imagination?

I'm so surprised he thought it was the non-existent 'Secol', in fact I'm so surprised . . . went to floor . . . and x else . . . Yadayada!

After Mr. Churchill - the dog!

Sacul - Oooh yes! Oooh yes! (British, Mr Lucas)

Salco - Oooh yes! Oooh yes! (British, Salco-Toytown)

Secal - Oooh-nononononononoo! (See Sacul or Segal?)

Secol - Oooh-nononononononoo! (Invented by Paul 'The Jabbering Fuck' Staddinger)

Secor - Oooh yes! Oooh yes! (US, Jerome Secor Manufacturing)

Selco - Oooh yes! Oooh yes! (Portuguese, Leeway Selco)

Selcol - Oooh yes! Oooh yes! (British, Selmer-Selcol (MPI), Selcol Products Ltd)

Segal - Oooh yes! Oooh yes! (British, Phillip Segal)

Segom . . . (that's enough sec's and sell's! Ed.)

Of course - it's only a typo (albeit repeated!) but if he's going to pick me up on minor points I'm going to remind everyone he gets it wrong several time s a week! Pot and kettle, goose and gander . . .

From the 'here's how it works' Department.

First the cock-wakin' monkey-lizard is sent to Vichy France to demand answers;

Who made it !??? Not even a 'please'; now he may be intending to be polite, but because he clearly gets an illiterate 5-year old to do all his typing it's hard to tell!

A couple of hours Googling later (allowing for the differences between British and European Summer Time and Eastern Standard Time) and he's waxing lyrical, well maybe not 'lyrical' chapter-&-verse as if he's the 'Walking encyclopedia of toy solders' one of his more sycophantic supporters put it a while ago.

No he isn't; as I've said before and will say again, he makes it up as he goes along when he's not stealing other peoples efforts without credit, he didn't even thank the chap who told him where to look - for reasonably common 1970/80's Polish figures?

I'm so surprised he thought it was French, in fact I'm so surprised . . . went to floor . . . and x else, etc...etc...! Too bloody funny; these Muppets are too bloody funny.

". . . more Central and or South American . . ." try 'Amerindian'! You're both Too Funny!

S is for Sterwin Watch . . .

Did you see what I did there, sort of like 'Amerind', except it's Stads and Erwin!

Being the latest nonsense from Paul 'The Jabbering Fuck' Stadinger (TJF) and his cock-wackin' money lizard; Erwin 'Makin' it up as I go Along, Again' Sell. Crappy Post but I can't have the two idiots thinking they're getting away with it!

How fucktarded is he? . . .

. . . This fucktarded apparently! And what the hell is an 'A. American - brackets - Peruvian' when it's at home, some unleavened bread, an Arizonan wall-builder? Still it’s nice to know he has a hand - for all that cock-wackin'! Too funny, just too funny!

I could have used the word 'Mesoamerican' but I would have been on shakier ground, so I used the cover-all (for a figure I'd admitted I didn't know 100%) . . . 'Amerindian' . . .

. . .  which was the correct word to use, this is the Oxford University page, but there are others - all saying the same thing! In point of fact had a tossed the coin for and got Mesoamerican I would have been spot-on, but I'm careful, so lost a Brownie-point!

This guy is so stupid, so ignorant, so utterly fucktarded he sought to correct me on a word which has totally escaped him, a word which it didn't even strike him as maybe being worth Googling before his pontification! Trying to be clever when you're not very clever is not very clever. Too funny, just too funny!

Meanwhile his sponsor [TJF] has decided to spend January (or maybe the whole year?) playing I've got those too! This means I'm now literally driving the output on Stad's stuff - pretty poor output - it has to be said! Unfortunately it seems he didn't have the Lido 'Captain Video' figures necessary 'cos he showed some Lido knights he's shown before, instead - not a full set or anything useful like that-  and then threw-up some other space figures which he stated he didn't know!

Can he (or his supporters) not see the blatant hypocrisy in pulling me up for not knowing a Spanish figure, then he, himself; not knowing his own US-made Ajax and Archer, like his apprentice, he's too fucking funny! And - as I've said before - as thick as pig-shit; if not thicker, he started this war a year ago and so far has done a very bad job of prosecuting it.

If I wanted to play along!

While he has - for a while now - shown a tendency to play I've got those (or something similar!) too, I try not to post stuff they've recently shown (because I don't need to follow, too busy leading!) unless it's a major correction, so this lot (above) which has been in the queue for a while can stay in Picasa for a while-longer and we'll look at other stuff!

To find a level of stupid to match that coming from the PSTSM's headquarters these days, you have to go to Kim Jong-un's palace . . . or the White House! Hard to tell; both buildings are inhabited by child-like ranters with weird hair!

The children are making a concerted-effort to take over the nursery! Something more toy-like this afternoon!

T is for Two - Teixido . . . I Think!

Another quick one; I did say I'd lost my mojo to a certain extent, and it's Christmas, things are very much in bimble-mode!

Despite what He-who-makes-it-up-as-he-goes-along, again, has said in the past; I don't often post on Spanish stuff and when I do it's usually either common stuff I know about (sobres or Comansi) or stuff I've been sent, so this post is a bit of a departure as I'm happy to admit I'm 100% sure I'm not sure who made either of them!

But I'm pretty sure by way of supposition (the level of presumption below assumption) that they are Teixido, and a quick perusal of that there Intermerthingey (the Wibbly Wobbly Way) reveals that there's not much known about the company by anyone, even the Spanish Blogs, so obviously they were a minor company to whom stuff is still being attributed?

Anyway we'll have a look at two 'possibles' and anyone who knows more or better is free to add their bit! They were both shot at that show-and-tell I posted stuff from a few years ago (2012).

This is lovely; An Amerindian (Peruvian?) clearly; and in the same PVC rubber as the chap Brian Carrick ID'd - also awhile ago - with similar painting but a better size (closer to 54mm), maroon-red Jaguar-pelt notwithstanding; I'd love to see the rest of the set.

More seasonal this one; he seems to be a shepherd-boy, but whether from a farm-toy range, medieval line or a set of nativity 'Belenes' I can't say - as I don’t know!

Again he's toward the 50-mil bracket, again PVC, but the paint's glossier and peeling (not proper PVC paint). The wire could have been added by a later owner, but I suspect it's original, a lot of Early Spanish stuff has wire added, usually as flag or standard staffs, but weapons, and - as we saw with Jecsan the other day - angel's 'sky-hooks' can be wire too!

That's it, I'm afraid - quick and easy!

28th Dec. - Message over Christmas from Paul Morehead at Plastic's Central; "They are both Pech Hermanos. An Aztec and a pirate with a flag on a wire" - Cheers Paul!

CC is for Christopher Columbus . . . C is for Colonising Couple of Continents, Cruelly Crushing Centuries-old Civilisations!

Back in 1992 Preiser produced a set designed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Europeans wreaking two whole continents with their little flags, and; forgiving Preiser (but not Columbus); it is a sublime set which represents the highest peak of Preiser's output, both in terms of design skills and production techniques.

Each of the three main runners contains a number of 'multi-pose' (home-assembly) figures with a few accessories, while another runner contains more bits and bobs. Above we see the 'character' runner with both Europeans and Amerindians, and the extra runner with an assortment of shields and weapons.

 

The other runners were a matching pair with the 'background soldiery', again for both sides of what would become a cultural cataclysm, for one side at least.

The figures in the set are beautiful, and while modern 3D CAD/CAM processes can take some of the credit for all Presier's modern developments, it's true also that somewhere in the organisation you need people with flair, vision and a sense of imagination - I'm sounding very poncy suddenly, but there's not a lot to add to a few 'sprues' of unpainted figures!

 

We can however add the box-art - showing both the unpainted figures 'made up' (which allows me to keep mine on the runner!) and some of Presier's wonderful 'suggestions for arrangement'.

While the reverse has the same figures, fully painted and photographed from both sides as a painting and positioning guide for the various parts.

Although there is also a full instruction sheet included in the set for those who need words and arrows and numbers and things!

It also carries more views of the landing scene, and a rather nicely posed 'plug' for Revell's 1:90th scale Santa Maria model-kit.

Not the first time Preiser and Revell have worked together; soon after taking over the Elastolin archive, Preiser licensed the Romans & Celts, Normans and Saxons of the later, to the former, suitably reduced in size for their 1:72nd scale polyethylene figure set range.

They have also worked together to get Prieser's excellent FH18 field howitzer, crew, limber and team simplified for production in the same soft-plastic figure range.

Due to its release being tied into the anniversary year, although it was never marketed as a limited edition - to my knowledge - the Columbus set was nevertheless swiftly withdrawn from the catalogue and became considered a rarity (despite everyone I know who wanted one, getting one) carrying the evilBay price premium that such a status comes-with these days. [frown-ani, angry emoticon!]

However, the bulk of the useful figures from the set are now available in a large unpainted set (16359 - the best way to purchase Preiser, who can be considered very dear as painted sets), along with all sorts of other useful items for medieval war-gamers and dioramists.

Of interest are the re-enactor market traders and serving wenches in costume or the shop-dummies; which with feet added (or longer skirts) and heads (of which there is a supply attached to the 'serving wenches') will make lovely additions to the Italieri Tournament sets - as will everything in these new releases.

Also - at this scale - you can't tell if the dealers stalls have been kit-built with s coach-bolts, or lovingly hand-built with blacksmiths nails, so all the various structures can go straight into a medieval diorama or onto a medieval war-game table, while the Saxons (returning from their loan to Revell?) are equally useful, if tiresomely 'old hat' now! Set 17216 also seems to have the accessory-runner from the Columbus set, but the Amerindians are notable by their absence.

The best bits above are the transparent green bottles (Rothenburger I'm sure!), I can see them appearing in the hands of diminutive Panzer-crews or GI's at modelling shows!

A high-res image scan of the flag carried by the colonists (Castile?) which is printed on the boxes heavy card end-flaps, it may be of use to someone as a download, re-size it to about 1x2cm; it's only meant as a little standard or guidon, for a lance or pole-arm.

 

Best shots of the figures here