F is for Follow-up's - Various Recent Things

Running over a few additional details, info or images of a few bits we've seen here in the last few weeks, no particular order or sense to it, just things I fancied doing extra/more/follow-up shots of!

The sports pencil top Chris sent, alongside one I had here of a boxer, we both think we've seen a football one, and it would be interesting to find out what others there were, as a set they probably went to at lest four sculpts?

 

The Hong Kong-marked KT figures I have here, about half of them went to storage a while ago, including the pen-stand thing which started the whole odyssey, so one day we'll look at them all together, as there are probably pencil-sharper and stand-alone versions of all of them, along with other novelties for some of them . . . I haven't found a sand-timer yet, but I'd happily put a tenner on one being found.

 

And the pencil sharpener version of the guardsman with its replacement figure. Luckily the old one just popped-off, but I had to do some careful knife-cleaning of one of the foot-studs on the replacement, who had a lump of his old stand still attached as that bubbly-glue patch stuff!

 

Also, while the damaged figure popped-off, he did leave one locating-stud rattling around inside, which I caught by well-glueing the hole with liquid-poly, and shaking it around, upside-down, until it sopped rattling, meaning it had got stuck to the glue . . . something to confuse future archaeologists!

 

That green Tatra figure from Chris, next to the two most common colours, although, these days, you see more and more of the red and blue too, but you can see just how green he is, under the gold-residue?

 

Following on from something in the comments, these are the athletes which have come-in over the last 18-months or so, we looked at them originally as mostly small scale here;

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html

And revisited them more recently here, to look at the larger scale;

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-is-for-athletes-vintage-plastic.html

so with this sort of quantity being added every year or so, when we return to them properly we should have a better idea about which sets/types had which poses, and are therefore, in the two or three seperate 'families' of piracy?

Remember I said I had another Morph, well here's Chris's donation, standing on himself! Too cool for art school! And the brown colour which Morph was made in (his later mate Chas was a neutral beige-gray), is the same brown everyone's Plasticine went after it had all been mixed together in the toy-box!

Plasticine Flash Mob!

 

Oh yes, TJF had such fun correcting my 'brain freeze' when I said they were from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, when they were from some Disney knock-off, but they were also from a different-again board game, and having found the four copies a while ago, I now have a slightly damaged Lost in Space original, also Remco, in yellow, with the missing figure, and 3 more board-game pieces to find we will return to these!

 

Left to right;

 

4x Homecast resin/3D-printed (?) copies of Remco - Lost in Space figures

1x Remco - Lost in Space original

1x Remco - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

M is for Merry Mass of Malleable Model Mayhem! 4 - Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Cartoon, TV & Movie

So we're up to part four, with what I think will be five to come, and I've combined a couple into two others, in fact, this is one, it was sci-fi and Fantasy as one post and TV/Movie as another, but after a couple of collages it made sense to throw them together, although I think one may fall under 'circus' which should be in the civilian post!

Army Ants, ants in armies! These were more popular on the other side of the Channel where in Italy they were known as Combattini, elsewhere Terminators (termites? Yeah!) I think I erroneously told Chris they were Exogini, which is another line altogether! There's loads about them on the LRG sites, and I first encountered them in Lucky Bags in around 1994-97, when, as a small-scale only collector hoping to find old Giant mouldings or at least new HO stuff, I passed these on!

 

The same Lucky Bags were also full (well, one figure per bag!) of Novalinea (TMNT) and Panosh (Horror, Ninjas) stuff, and from the colours and softness of these, Panosh is a good bet for originator factory, in the 'States Hasbro picked them up, but did them in flat orange and blue. The glitter-bums (a term coined by the LRG groups, not me!) are removable, but prevent some of them from standing-up properly!

Four more Bi-Trons from Pikit/Gordy, and a colour variant, there's already a follow-up on the way, surprised the two-P's haven't managed to find these on evilBay, or Worthpoint yet and Blog them as 'new' or never-seen-before!

 

This is fun! It's a vague US Marine Corps amphibious personnel-carrier (LVTP-7 / AAVP-7A1), but with three axles instead of two caterpillar-tracked units, and contains the smallest AFV's you ever saw, except for some smaller one I could spend awhile listing!

Chris reports there were two, the other a more obvious green/camouflage, and the realistic-coloured AFV's and white rocket went in that, while this silver one had the blue/silver kit. Very-much in the vein of those UFO's we looked-at, at the end of last month - a Polly Pocket / Mighty Max knock-off, micro-playset!

The other rocket-bomb to come-in recently, and it's slightly different to the previous one, having more rivet-detailing. Behind it to the right is a Weetos Moon Landing premium from 1994, over it is a rocket which looks like the Jean one, but I'd have to check, there are so may of them, all slightly different.

 

Under it is a Lik Be/LB space-tank! Lacking it's rear load, but 'fitted-for-dozerblade', I may have one of the Lone Star knock-off pom-poms in the spares to fit? While in front is a robot, who also appears to be a projectile of some kind, possibly from a larger Transformer's fist?

All sorts! I think the two zombies are from the 'Zombies!!!' role-playing game, there's a bit of Bluebird (in blue!), a Tente astronaut, a Toyway astronaut (as we've seen here previously, if it was GLJ* it would have silver paint!).

 

Another astronaut/spaceman is the silver Giant clone, the little chap down the front might be from the Warhammer micro' sidekick Epic? The head is obviously from an old toy, and while he could be a racing-car driver, or a pilot, he looks a bit spacey to me, almost Thomas Toys or Flash Gordon'esque?

 

Which leaves an Egyptian looking LRG I can't place and a warrior from the King Kong 3rd (2005) remake playsets, which were by Playmates I think, very-much in the style of Galoob's Action Fleet stuff, they also did a small range of Star Trek items.

 

* That's the G.L.J. Toy Co., Inc., of Syosset, New York, of course, don't forget to mention the town, even if you haven't on a thousand other toys, you must mention the town with GLJ, because I did once, I forgot just now, silly me, but I'm still learning!

Having mentioned them in the Snakes & Ladders post the other day - a Bobby Bruin from the Bruin Boys, set in what I hoped was his original card-holder, obviously from a board-game, research quickly revealed that actually he's from a bagatelle set, and went on a different holder!

 

Two Nestle or part premiums to the left, a cake decoration Putti in the centre, and a 101 Dalmations figure (also Nestle), with a Marx (Swansea or Hong Kong) for Codeg, Trumpton Peter the Postman on the end.

Morph! It's only a bloody Morph! God-knows who the pink lady . . . lamb (?) is, but she's possibly newish, and clearly from a vehicle, as is the Thunderbirds Lady Penelope, from Dinky, we've seen the Disney Pecos Bill copy before, while the dog in a dinner-jacket is an actual Dinsneykin - Mother Hubbard's. The green & yellow thing is possibly a modern mobile-phone cord accessory, while the monkey . . . 

 

. . . is off the wall! He may be from a circus set, as the only pose I can imagine is riding a unicycle, but that would need to be about the same size as the monkey, and have a base, and I can't think of a single Circus, Space or any other set that fits the bill. It's painted polyethylene and about 50mm. Cake decoration?

 

Two Nazi's and an oil-drum! I recognised these home-made Star Wars characters almost immediately, as being the accessory figures/drum, from the old Tamiya German WWII and side-car kit, as we had it when we where kids.

 

The greatcoat of the standing figure being ideal for paring-back to Wookie-fur with a pyrogravure, while Han should be carrying an MG34 on his shoulder, coincidently the gun used by Imperial Stormtroopers as the DLT-19 Heavy Blaster! While a rather giraffe'y R2D2 is 'manufactured' from one of the oil-drums which also came in that set!

H is for How They Come In - Robot Erasers

Had a quick scan down the High Street last Wednesday (12th) and picked-up a pocket-full of plunder! Actually; I lie, some of them were Farnbourough in the morning (had to find cherry liqueurs and there are none in Fleet!), the rest Fleet in the afternoon!

The doll matched the Lifeguard I picked up a few weeks ago, with the same hand and head sculpts, and as I was planning a Beefeater round-up at some point, I grabbed him - not knowing an interesting one (Beefeater, not doll!) was in the postal-system from Chris Smith, although there was an interesting mini-doll from Chris too!

I have run searches for Morph figures in the past occasionally; feeling sure there must have been some, if only key-rings or similar so I was chuffed-to-nuts to find the big bendy toy! Bau-ouhh!

The SPG (as close to war as you'll get on SSW at this time of year!) is a late model (still in service) M109-upgrade, made in China, around 1:50th or 1:55th maybe? The 'Santa' is either the worst resin teddy-bear Santa you ever saw, or the worst resin mouse Santa you ever saw, it really isn't clear, but it was 50p!

The Robot! He' a bit simplistic, but he's a Robot, and an eraser, so into the collection he goes, made in a clever fashion too, the pieces are both extrusions and over moulds, achieved by setting several injector heads together, each feeding through a shaped chamber beyond the end of the injection nozzle.

The whole is then carefully laid on a timed-speed conveyor to produce a long, bi- or multi-coloured 'loaf' which is then sliced to produce the components. Easy'ish (I once operated an extruder at Rotamould in Camberly) on the arms and legs which only require two injectors, but the body  is far harder, although I suspect the control-panel was formed separately and then fed through a cold gate as the grey and black was formed around-it?

As I would have heat-problems with just the one nozzel at least twice a day, god knows how much down-time this lot generated, and that's before you consider the conveyor speeding-up and stretching the product, keeping several hoppers filled with base-material, watching the eyes move as the heat and pressure bends the fine shaped injector, etc . . . etc . . .!

But . . . it may be a cold-setting material, more like working with play-dough? I don't know how this eraser rubber is made! It would still need multiple shaped gates and extruders, so the long-winded bit above still has reason!!

He's a Tobar item so Hawkin's Bazaar and therefore might be Accoutrements/Archie McFee in the US?

Ha-ha-ha-ha-Haah! My Robot eraser army is invincible and you can add the Diener Industries ones we looked at ten years ago at the start of the blog and a couple of other smaller ones in the unknown robot box from storage to these!

These have all come in in the last two or three years, and with duplicates there are now nine here, so they were in need of . . .

. . . a new home! Standard deep-sided takeaway-tub will do for now.