A bit late I'm afraid but the December issue often is, especially if I don't do it literally the same day! A load of good stuff though, so if you're still not subscribing, here's what you've missed!
Articles
* An
interesting look at early Hilco Wild
West horses by Joe Bellis with additional
editorial material on the similar Lone
Star examples, with a view to comparison between the two, kicks-off the
issue
* Andreas Dittmann reports on the new interactive
book/games from Dorling Kindersley (DE), each with a pair of figures; Roman
Gladiators or medieval foot-knights
* Steve Morris discovers Kraft Dairylea giveaways
* James O'Connell (lovely chap, we'll be
looking at a piece of his erudition, in depth, here, soon) looks at the sort of
make-believe armies we used to paint-up, when we were kids
* Scalextric figures go up a size with Adrian Norman's coverage of the rarer
1:24th scale figures
* Les White is back with his lovely
conversions, this time a German WWI Schutztruppe in Africa on an Armies in Plastic (AIP) Egyptian base-figure
* Bob Legget (of SAS Auctions and the
Alresford exhibitions) 'Shows and Tells' on a very special Triang Spot-On medieval castle
'What The
!&*$?' has five queries again this month (there were five in PW172!)
- Colin Penn seeks an ID for a Dr Dolittle-alike
- Brian Berke wants help getting an ID on his Desperate Dan, previously seen here (answers to PW please)
- The Editor is asking for information on a tent (see above, answers likewise)
- Brian Carrick has a knight in need of a name
- Colin's back seeking info on a lovely tradesman's wagon, I know the answer; should be lots of feedback from France and Iberia!
* Speaking of
Colin Penn, his F&G 'Crazy Clown Circus'
is revealed by Michael Bonnefoy of
the Plastics Historical Society to
be made by . . . [Subscribe!]
* The Replicants mounted Comanche figures launched
at the PW show last year are reviewed
by Tom Stark
* The set of
eight relief-flat 'Kings and Queens' from Shredded
Wheat are fondly remembered and critiqued in depth by Peter Watson
* Finally Brian Carrick covers the 'multipose'
kits of S-Model - Ivan Wieslawa from
Poland
Which - as I use the same template for these
reviews - means there's an extra article squeezed in there somewhere, over the PW172 count; I needed an extra pink asterisk! What? I have to order them from Ulan
Bator!
Regular Features
* 'NEWS
and VIEWS and other stuff ' covers
- PW show date - Saturday 11th may 2019
- 100th issue of US Playset Magazine
- News on Britains old factory from Peter Evans
- Call for last few copies of Suspended Animation by Peter Cole - when they're gone; they're gone!
- Website news
- Email anomalies (I've been getting the same thing with some Blog comments)
- Paul J Robinson a 'Marx' man has passed away
- Paul Stadinger has news on a figure for-/the retirement of Ron Barzo
- Chicago Toy Soldier Show date - Sunday 27th September (shurly shome mishtake? Ed. Must be Sunday 22nd or 29th or Friday 27th?)
- Reader request for an unpainted Starlux source?
- Editorial (?) request for Speedwell boxed or bagged sets to photograph
- Jack Shalatain gets a picture credit
* 'Readers
Letters' include
- Norman Nevard has a question on Britains sheep and the relationship between catalogue appearances and availability
- Eric Keggans has repainted Cherilea Sikhs and a lovely set of soldier erasers to show
- Musing on the last PW show and Naval cannons comes from Ashley Needham
- Still more on the Olympians/premiums from issues 171 & 172 comes via Les Collier, Rainer Maul and Andreas Dittmann (I'm waiting 'till all the smoke blows over before showing mine!)
- Kent Sprecher feeds-back on the Wild West 'What the !&*$?'s from PW172
- Brain Carrick suggests an answer for Chris Smith's figures from the same issue
- There's more on Barrett's coach from Brain Heaps
- While [deep breath...] Erik Kemp, Peter Evans, Brian Carrick and Les White all answer John Rafferty's call for help with gluing and glues.
* 'What's
New' covers recent releases from;
- Un-branded figures from the subsidised Russian co-op everyone (in the Old Guard)'s busy pretending is fifteen separate concerns!
o
Romans
o
Slavic's
o
Teutonic's
o
A mounted Conquistador
- Paragon Scenics - Plains Indians
- Expeditionary Force
o
Roman
o
Ancient Barbarians/Celts
- Engineer Basevitch
o
Sumerians
o
Hittites
All available from Weston's Toy soldiers
(www.plasticsoldiers.com)
Plus all the usual readers small-ads and a
commercial supplement
Covers -
Front has A.
Dittmann's Dorling Romans
Rear shows the B.
Legget Cotswold fort
PW's contact details;
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
Website's back on the menu but won't be updated (email
first) . . . www.plasticwarrior.com
Tel: 01483 722 778
Address; 65 Walton Court, Woking, Surrey,
GU21 5EE, UK
And they are on Paypal
