Although I checked the image dates and one
of them's from over two years ago, while another is over a year old now, but,
sometimes I purchase a mixed lot, or a few parcels end-up being delivered on
the same day and I shoot them for 'posterity'!
These were a few of the highlights of a big
mixed lot I grabbed, for a single figure I think, or because it was going
cheap? Anyway, I know there were more of the Weston's Mexicans, a lot more, but mostly the same poses, so
presumably the ones the seller hadn't liked, used or wanted!
We saw the ex-flocked Womble when I posted
the renovation/conversion, while the three Charbens
African are useful, the Butch from Kellogg's
Sooty set (probably by Crescent)
is a slightly chewed box-ticker; I can never remember which figures I've got in
which colours!
An LB
cartoon American Indian is a bonus, the Palitoy
(and others) kicking footballer is always fun, while the Imperial version of an Impro
Triceratops is my first, I have all bar the Plesiosaur in the UK iteration, but
Imperial's are harder to find this
side of the pond! I think the Dylan is Corgi,
but he's not the guitar one?
Seven parcels? French Albator boxing of Space Captain Harlock
from Atlantic, and colour variations
of - I think - the Goldrake Vega set,
which I have on the runner in bright apple green (Brian Berke as sent shots of
them in this sand shade, but they're still in queue, with 90% of everything!),
above which is a bagged set of the Humber 1-Ton's with all six fire engine
bodies, one of which is shared with the military versions (ambulance) but here
in silver.
We saw the pair of die-cast Play-Me and 11resin pirates on ITLAPD, while the Hussar got sent to Plastic Warrior as a
follow-up to Chris Smiths excellent article on Kwong Wah Industrial.
I can't remember if I've blogged the larger
vehicles, but I'm not blogging that country's stuff if I can help it, at the
moment, I was right to call out those promoting the wrong side of the Donbas
line's products (earned me more opprobrium from the Morlocks and Yahoos at the
time) when I did, and I try to keep to my own standards/principles!
So many ironies; Dave over at PSR has also
stopped promoting/reporting on that nation's products for the duration (?)
while some of the producers on the Ukrainian side are still operating - if
they're not in the actual combat zones, they're desperate to keep their
economy running as normal, while if we end-up in a nuclear exchange with
Putler, you can guess the choice words - for some in our hobby - my last 'I
told you so' post will contain, even if it never gets out to the ether!
These were a cheap 'small scale' mixed lot,
which were about half-and-half non-Giant
Cowboys & Indians I really didn't need, and other items, which I'll look at
now:
I suspect these are probably accessories
for a die-cast or plastic vehicle or play set of some kind, very similar to the
sets on the back of the box of the space set we saw here, but a rival
line - we've seen the firefighters and mechanics from the same line before, and
they are a dense PVC to the other generic's 'styrene, with key-slots rather
than peg-holes in the bases to lock them onto the cards. Obviously, yet more Monogram copies!
Miscellaneous 'civi' types, most already in
the collection, but again - from a plastic-colours point of view - you can't
find too many of the Märklin
HO track-gang, copies, nor the Dinky
road-gang clones! The Matchbox
hunter, on the other hand, is just boring now, he came with at least two 1-75
vehicles and I have a bag-full, one day I might paint a squad up as ACW
Confederate volunteers!
These were what the bid/BIN went-in for.
The Romans are poor quality Giant
copies, but tracking them down is a slow process so finding seven at once is
useful, and they came with a genuine Giant
tower roof and flag which I know I need, a probably Giant medieval/Mongol horse and two yellow 2nd type Giant knights.
The Mongols only ever seem to appear in red
or yellow, and I've never seen a 2nd version Knight in red, but alongside the
common black & silver ones, these yellow versions do turn-up occasionally,
where they're from the Helen of Toy 'Gold
Crown' game/comic-offer with paper board, not Giant at all!
The other items of interest in the lot were
the Airfix animal knock-offs, the
farm have been pretty-much nailed now on the relevant blog page, with two or
three generations and various pack types, but the zoo copies are still more of
a mystery, with at least two generations, the flat colours and the washier,
cream-coloured ones with the eyes dotted-in, or red-lips &etc.
And there's a few of each here, although
one of the gazelles has been converted into a short-eared Llama . . or Alpaca,
or whatever the other ones are called; Vicarious Guanos?
These only came in the other day, and were
going unloved, again I have most of them already but as with the stuff Chris or
Peter sends, it's the odd one you don't have which makes all the difference!
Here it's the HK copy of the Gem diver (top
left), the runner, mid-left, the chap top right and the PVC Flintstone in brown - I have a few, but
again - colour variations! The bloke who looks like a composition pirate in
maroon coat is just a cut-about Spencer Smith AWI gunner!
Back to the chap top right - in the late
1990's/early 2000's, a company or companies unknown (there may be a brand on
the die-cast forums) was producing these flesh/sand figures in various
iterations and scales (at last four sizes?), which were sold as generics and
home-branded to various volume sellers; supermarkets (Tesco, Sainsbury's), Woolworths/Chad Valley and etcetera, as
well as other branding elsewhere
The only way to tell them all apart is by
the base-markings which vary greatly between issuers, and must have reflected
contract data, and the base shape. One day we'll look at them all properly, the commonest is
probably the German firefighter (in fritz helmet) who seems to have been in
everyone's range and every size! I annotated some of them at the time, which
should help make sense of them, but I only bought them when they were on
clearance! Smaller sets usually had one vehicle, but often with useful accessories
like wheelie-bins, street-furniture, skips (dumpsters), recycling bins, etc . . .
There were also three of these Hong Kong
flat railway figures, and this shot which I took a while back reveals that I
needed the green lady with umbrella and red case, loose, to complete the line-up,
now I have her!
I'd actually bought two lots of these mixed/vehicle
accessory lots a few days apart and this is the other one, and while - again -
not only do I have most of them, we've seen most of them in the mini-seasons onMatchbox and Corgi I did about ten years ago (still waiting for shouty-man's
corrections?!!)
These are the new, the better examples or the
not sures. For instance I know I have the chap with the hose from Matchbox's airport fire tender, but I'm
not sure about the chap with the axe, while to his right is one who matches the
Monogram guys above. Can't remember
if I have the green clown (Corgi),
and there are about four versions of the Dinky
Moon Rover/Chariot crew, so he may be needed.
Another of the believed to be Hornby rail staff/loco-crew, but in a
new, lighter blue, with the boy from the late Corgi straw-stack next to him. The little black figure (probably a
bomber pilot) is sculpted similar to the Kleeware/Tudor
Rose Space Clipper or X-400 crews, so might be early 'something'!
The middle of the right is a cartoony character from
something modern I suspect, but I don't know who or what and the skeleton will
be one of those Mattel motorcycles, or
a similar knock-off! It's all good stuff, which fills the holes in the story of
'Toy and Model Figures'. Lots more to come . . .
