N is for Nottingham Mafia's 'Normous Men . . . and things!

I have a few of these elsewhere, I think we saw one in the comparison shots on the Airfix Space Warriors page, but I've had a bit of luck with two lots, so we're looking at them next. I nearly got a third lot, but two other bidders recognised them and bid each-other way out of my bracket!

Games Workshop's experiment with large scale 'Fighting Fantasy' figures, not as unsuccessful as some would have you believe, and I suspect many are still out there in the half-forgotten collections of sixty-something's who were into Games Workshop back in the late 1970's.early 1980's, and who would have grabbed these without thinking.

Indeed; while they don't show up that often at the moment (hence silly prices), when they do they are as often on the card as loose, but on the card they are identifiable and fetch the really silly money!

As you can see you get a solid 'ring-hand' body with [interchangeable] head and a selection of weapons, staffs, tools, shield &ect., which would come on a circular runner behind the figure in a blister card, figures were always grey, while the 'weapon runners' were a matching-gray, silver or gold. Relevant runner blisters' also got a sticker for the shield.

Hero Knight type and obvious Dwarf, there were about 30 figures I think (so I have some way to go), and they were divided into good and bad, more D&D than W40k, but then early GW was more D&D than W40k!

Good Wizard and bad Wizard . . . any resemblance to Gandalf and Saurman is purely coincidental, and no - the Nottingham Mafia haven't asked me to say that! As GW's small scale had left 25mm behind, in favour of a 28-mil which by the time everyone had invested in 'Slotta' bases made everything closer to 30mm-plus, so too, these were way beyond any pretense at 54mm, with a 60+ size bracket.

Orkey Boys (or Orky Boiz if you've been captured by the Mafia!), one needs paint-stripping, which I will get round to one day, and because they are soft polyethylene, unlike the 'styrene (or whitemetal) of their smaller cousins, it will be a relatively simple procedure.

2nd purchase and I think I've run out of blurb-material . . . subject, contents, packaging, maker, scale/size, material and some opinions? Boxes ticked! Well . . . what to say . . . the long-sword is a Hong Kong copy of Cherilea I think and nothing to do with the rest of the stuff in this post, nor do the daggers look right - medieval Britains Swoppet was my first thought; for the small one, but it fits! I suspect the larger is Playmobile or something like that?

Beyond wizardry . . . this chap is a full-on necromancer and the first thing he seems to have brought back from the dead is himself! Given the size of these, I think it's fair to say they could have been better sculpted that they are, they have the same 'heavy' sculpting with chunky steps between over-emphasised detail elements, as found on the smaller gaming stuff, but they can still paint-up well.

Another goodly-knight or Adventurer, I gave him the dodgy sword as the others had gone away - which means I have these in three places now . . . Doh! More when I find them and we ended-up with enough blurb for the last two paragraphs!

And . . . going back to my comments about where these [mass-produced] figures may be hiding, I wouldn't be surprised if they become increasingly common on the sales market over the next ten-to-fifteen years, and some of those silly prices may well become obsolete?

I is for Incongruous Infantry!

There is a trend these days, a minor one fortunately, but a trend nevertheless, to do 'medieval' sets with a few Romano-Greek types thrown in for good measure, I think the fault lies with Supreme/SP Toys, who managed it in several scales with two lots of sculpts, much copied and the trend has since been seen in another unpainted polyethylene set, but today we're looking at a current set which I found as a generic in the UK but which has been branded in the 'States.

No stickers, no labels = no title! There was no wraparound either and I suspect it was mailed direct from China in a plain brown wrapper! So we'll call it 'Castle with Figures'! The way it's packed in the tub is the only way it'll fit, if you don’t put all the small pieces up one end first and then the long wall; corner-to-corner, you can't get the lid on!

If the set was/is commercially available over here it would/will likely be through Tiger Hobbies, their sometime customer Strawberry Group or the rival HTI? While European sets might be Simba-Dicke and Toy Major could be handling them too; anyone got a set with a title?

The castle is more of a gilded Mile-Fort, which, given some of the figures included, is pretty apt, but it's very basic and went to charity some time ago, seven pieces with the gate pre-fitted.

The figures! They are all quite passable, but three Romans and five medievals of a 1000-years later . . . plus! The archer is more Gladiator than legionary, what with the heavy greaves and toy-bow but the rest are passable, the King is very good and has a nicely scaled, integral sword, while he also has a gripping-hand, as do six of the others.

I wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be copies of larger (ELC/Papo/Schleich) types?

While this is - I believe - if not a direct copy, harking-back to a Planet of the Apes play-set accessory? Pretty sure something like this was issued in the 1970's by someone like Mego or AHI for human prisoners, fun piece for kids anyway - mobile gaol!

The fort is manufactured in polystyrene, the accessories mostly a nylon or polypropylene while the figures are a substitute PVC polymer.

The accessories and separate weapons, the former being a bunch of naff-shite make-weights, the latter being mostly a bit oversized, in the style of Lego or Playmobil type stuff, and while the set lacks instructions among it's non-existent paperwork, they are pretty figure-specific. Note the difference between jousting lance, lance/spears and distinctive Roman pilum, likewise the obvious Roman shield against the two smaller heraldic lozenges!

You can swap the two spear/lances, but the rest are pretty much the best fit, you could give the casual green guy the King's jousting lance, but a King shouldn't really have a pole-arm which is a melee weapon for the lower orders!

And really, the yellow Roman needs a more 'Roman' weapon, but the green Roman would look wrong with anything other than the pilum? Meanwhile the red 'Noble' needs the shield which matches his surcoat so the blue guy has to have the screaming emergency-orange one as he's the only other medieval with a spare arm!

In the USA, this set is being handled by Creative Kids through Liberty Imports who are one - of the many - people linked to the [originally] Supreme Wild West Airfix copies with similar play-set accessories, so some symmetry there, just not clear what/how/why!

I think a loyal reader sent me this but I can't find an attribution - my bad (leave something in the comments) sorry. They were marked up "SUPREME (China) Crusaders and Knights", but seem to have some non-standard/set weapons; it's improved them!

If these softish-to-medium density, PVC figures are Supreme, that would make them their fifth or six set after the large 'Silver Knights', the Esci copies (medievals and Crusaders), the common sets (Halsall-HTI/Simba/Toy Major), the Simba/Strawberry/Tiger Hobbies/Toy Major set (Deetail style bases) and possibly the strange 'construction worker' set with the spangel helms (also Simba) . . . etc! Two of which lines ('Silver' and common) also contain Greco-Roman sculpts!

W is for Wedge-Hand Warriors

I've been after a set of these for ages, I have one or two somewhere without weapons, or with the wrong weapons, but I knew what they were as they seem to have been common about 15/20 years ago - around the time 'The Wall' came down, and there had been several dealers; one in Ireland, one in the US and one in the West County (I think) selling the boxed sets, usually for a reasonable amount, but at the time I wasn't really buying online.

And while more recently I have bid and lost on a couple of boxed sets (or dropped out 'cos they went too-high for my wallet!), I spotted a lose but complete set a while ago and got it for a reasonable price (can't remember if it was bid or BIN?), so while a box is always nice, and makes for a longer Blog Post, it's really all about the figures, so -  with all the accessories - let's have a look at them!

Progress again, they seem to have been one of the more prolific of the Russian figure producers, surviving for some time after the end of the Soviet Bloc and with factories/licensees in some of the satellite countries, these Alexander Nevsky Knights are notable for having slot/wedge hands like the 1st version Cherilea combat infantry. I've also seen them described as Progress Medieval Retinue, but don't know if that was an/the official title or a Western translation?

Also like their British counterparts, these are not rubbery or 'grippy' hands, but quite rigid polyethylene hands you have to force the accessory into only for it to pop-out in play! The archer gets two plug-ins which are a bit more successful, while the chap in the middle of the upper row has a more conventional ring-hand for his sword.

The accessories they come with (and the ease with which they are parted from the figures is/was the driver for trying to find a boxed set!), some can be swapped between figures, but they aren't terribly good swaps - visually - and with differing thicknesses of shaft or handle; are really figure-pose specific?

These all ended-up with rather busy backgrounds, so I will revisit them at some point with a plainer setting, but for now you get the idea, the Soviet equivalent of rack toys gets shoehorned into RTM again!

I suspect they are the same sculptor as the set of WWII Infantry with the plug-in red-flag we've seen here (with Chris's help), and are reported to have first appeared in 1976, but with only the five poses in this set, possibly because of the extra effort and second mould-cost required by the accessories?

I ended-up with a couple of images which cropped so similar again, they make for a nice .gif, which gives the impression of 3D without faffing-about on making a short video which is often more effort than it's worth.

Progress Russian Alexander Nevsky/Medieval Retinue knights' set - box ticked! I'm now searching for a complete set of the MIR copies; cruder sculpts, also silver PE, but with plug-in heliotrope pink/red bases, making them even more 'swoppet'-like!

H is for Hungarian Herdsman Hurls Hose

I only have the sellers word for this being Hungarian, but there's no reason to not believe that he is until otherwise informed by better or more empirical data, given as how he arrived from Hungary yesterday, with Hungarian postage, tax-form an'all!

When I saw him I thought he might be a copy of a Pecos figure as scale was hard to judge and I didn't bother looking it up, it was going for a song so I just grabbed it! He's actually a copy of the generic MPC pose; cavity 118, which was issued as a cowboy among others.

While the rifle (oversized) fits one hand and the belt is definitely ex-MPC, the pistol has too-big a grip to fit in the ring-hand so may be of an other origin and the 'iron bar' or hose he's about to crack someone over the head with seems to be a polyethylene scrap taken from the lip or lid of some container and probably has nothing to do with the original figure! Although it might be the chewed end of another rifle?

The base lacks the usual MPC markings so it would seem to be the knock-off and when the MPC turn up (garage!) I'll compare him with the hand-up guy - if I have him? Accessories on the right, and it's Hungary in the tag-list!

Nice to see - later the same day - that 'Dan Morgan' was paying attention!

P is for Prototypes?

If TJF and his chattering, ventriloquist's glove, monkey-puppet (see earlier post today) had done a bit of searching instead of picking the low-hanging fruit . . . so low they ended up with their faces in the dirt - they might have found these on a British patent application site;

Registered by Hing Fat in October 1995, and given the design number GB2051216 (now expired), this and the following three figures seem to have been the start of a planned sci-fi range of space warriors and robot/android figures, probably of a 3-to-4½-inch action figure type, but with no obvious points of articulation, they may well have been intended as smaller solids?

From the left; GB2051213, GB2051214 and GB2051215 (I think?), there's an obvious provision for separate weapons, and the possibility of a removable helmet on '15, I would imagine if they were going to be 54/60mm solids that the planned material would have been a PVC-type soft polymer? Has anyone ever seen these are a retail item/commercial prospect?

Both images are false-coloured by me from B&W originals.

I tried to find the original page (to give you the link) and couldn't! Google is really shit now, it's so commercially-oriented, it's almost impossible to find useful stuff, even if you know it was there years ago! But I did fond this page . . . with another figure from this 'set', but registered in 1994! I think the page is actually dead, as it takes ages to load?

Five minutes later and I found a few more, but I'll let you find them from the link! It looks like a set of Power Ranger knock-off's (added to the tag list!) registered in 1994, renewed in 1999 and struck out in 2007, and the set of space figures I'd already found from the following-year? The pages get faster once you've opened a few too!

Note the definite ring hands on what I now suspect were going to be 65/70mm vinyls?

T is for Two - Wild West From the East

A combination of picasa clearance and follow-up here, with some larger stuff from the former East Germany in the first instance and the former Soviet Union in the second-half.

I believe these are both Lisanto, previously a composition maker, but swallowed-up by the Red's in 1945, they would eventually become a centralised, collective VEB, from whence era comes these two, if they are Lisanto, as there were several similar makers and once they'd been VEB'd who knows who had the tools that Friday!

If they are Lisanto they should be . . .

Numer 033 - Shading eyes

Numer 048 - Stabbing with rope

But even those numbers may be modern collector's numbering?

The weapons are crude, the tomahawk die-cut from a sheet of [I think] polystyrene, but it could be something tougher, a propylene or ethylene polymer? While the rifle is like an inter-war pop-gun or cork-firer, and a pretty standard polyethylene! They are interchangeable, as the figures are a softish PVC, but the one (axe) has stretched its hand, leaving the gun loose, while the other's (rifle) hand is tight for the tomahawk.

I also found this, clearly marked, it's made of polystyrene and you can see damage to the base from being in close proximity to the PVC figures in the past, the escaping thalates from the PVC softening the styrene's chains; I keep such things separate.

I may have a rider somewhere, probably in the two boxes we looked at over a year ago, which are still to be properly sorted - as I think I've said before; Wild West isn't a priority for me.

Above; That marking in full!

Below which are four figures from Chris Smith which were a follow-up to something I've forgotten! Flats of the demi-ronde variety, and Russian - I think - although Chris said they were sourced in Lithuania (or Latvia?).

I love these, I've seen them on the Russian forums and slightly envied them, I used to think they were rubber, but I think they look polyethylene too, and large'ish?

Chris describes them thus - "The black/charcoal one looks like it has been carved in a soft stone similar to some Inuit/Eskimo tourist knickknacks I’ve seen . The red ones look like they are carved from red plasticine." I know what he means I've put a Totem Pole up here exactly as he describes and seen those stylised whales (they're ocean-going mammals Mr President, not countries!) in the same blackish material.

N is for Not Co-Ma . . . Except the Ones that Are!

Strangely these appeared on Shitestuff the other day, grandly announced to his eager readership by the 'legend' that is TJF (legend in his own lunchtime!) as Co-Ma figures, but . . . err . . . they aren't! Anyway, in the interests of setting things straight (again!) let's look at them here, now . . . and dispel a couple of recent myths!

I bought six (a 'set') of the seven above (we've looked at the gunmetal one - top left - in the past) at the recent PW show in Whitton/Twickenham, and - hurrying (so many bargains, so little time!) - failed to notice until I got them home that in fact half of them were Res Plastic's issues and the other half were the dwarfish copies/piracies of the original Co-Ma Romans and Barbari or (and henceforth-) 'Vikings'.

Knowing (after a call) that they would reappear at Sandown Park I prepared the above drawing (read scribble!) to help sort out any remaining figures (I knew they'd sold well on the day) and hopefully find some of the ones I needed.

Taking the picture above for the hell of it, I realised I didn't actually need the drawing, as I could just load the images of the figures back onto my camera and use that, so no real reason to subject you to my skeletal-zombie figures either, but I have!

Almost total success was achieved with another of the copies secured, and all three of the missing RP's truffle-hunted from the pile! The same Stadsshite post also explained to its readers that some of the figures had holes for weapons (as - of course - the Co-Ma originals did), this too was a failure of TJF's 'knowledge base' . . . and his abilities to study photographs; two of the figures have crude daggers where they used to have ring-hands in the original, which these aren't!

A similar exercise was carried-out with the Romans, but no similar success was forthcoming, so it's just the three to add to my Co-Ma originals and previously seen copy. It seems the 'fallen helmets' added to the bases (and passed on to the RP re-sculpts) were something conjured by the first copyists who made the above figures, each helmet lying approximately where a bump lays in the Co-Ma original's grass-etched bases.

A couple of comparisons; the copies are much smaller than the Co-Ma donors, but RP beefed them up again, a bit, and while the Co-Ma figures were hard polystyrene, the copies are a soft polyethylene. Note that the gold copy doesn't have horns, but rather two stumps or studs, which seems to be deliberate, but could be a short-short moulding?

More interestingly, the RP's are - mostly - also a soft polyethylene, but one or two of them are the harder ethylene or polypropylene of the gold Romans we've seen before . . . seen rather too much-of, some might feel, but I see Erwin was whinging (again) back at Christmas that he'd never used the RP's, even though the Vichy's limp-dicked hussar (born from the thigh of an angry, retarded troll) has taken my cropped enlargement of Erwin's 'Peruvian' RP figure to illustrate his (hussar's) RP entry in a spreadsheet!

Which is itself (the spreadsheet) equally interesting, as it's also full of my images, despite the limp-dick having gone on record as 'barely knowing' and 'rarely visiting' my site! But I'll be dealing with several of his utterances in a separate post.

They're all awful; the TJF & the PSTSM, the Vichy French and AFD's, along with the three lick-spittle Aussies (Hall, O'Connell and Pye)by turn ; hypocritical, shite-talking, envious, plagiarists, making it up as they go along, or sitting in other-people's dust and vociferously talking-up each other's nonsense in a group-hug of fuck-wittedness!

Although I let the gold RP go six-years ago, I had taken loads of images (although I think I'm using this one again? Doh!), so we can look at all three types together. Obviously, the Res' is scaled 'by eye' but when seen together, he will be found to be slightly larger than the copy but noticeably smaller than the Co-Ma original.

Co-Ma's sculpt is a well-proportioned, proud, graceful figure; sculpted with some care (for the 1950/60's), striking hard, two-handed, at an enemy he is clearly making eye-contact with, a sweeping stroke which will - hopefully - remove the protagonist's head!

The metallic-blue one is a much-poorer copy, the neck lost and the legs shortened leaving an over-developed torso. He is still 'in-line' with his base and remnants of the Co-Ma details (buttons and things) are there, but he's swinging his sword with less purpose!

While Res Plastic's figure is (like the rest of both their sets) a re-working, which seems to refer to both the previous versions; anatomy has improved toward the original, but the neck is still missing, the torso has been turned slightly, and with a further slight turn of the head he is swinging more wildly (in the 'ineffectual' rather than 'angry' sense of the word), the 'fallen helmet' has been cleaned-up (but retained), the buttons, however, have been replaced with some poor machine-tool marks aping the leather segments of the original's 'cuirass' - it's probably got some Latin name! Leatheretta-segmata jerkinius?

The fact that the slight musculature on the Co-Ma figure's right wrist/forearm has - by the incidence of the RP figure - become large welts or scales, suggests the employment of a pantograph in both copying exercises, but work has also been done by hand (body posing), and machine-tools (leather, 'fallen helmet') to change the copy-sculpts slightly.

Another comparison, Co-Ma to the left and two of the copies; I've placed a bit of Blue-Tac under the gold figure to give a suggestion of the missing RP version.

It is a fact, that despite seven or eight mentions, posts or forum threads on these figures over the last 24-months, here and with the derisible-duo, as yet, no evidence has come to light of fourth or fifth types, apart from that rather-odd set, looking like RP's but with hexagonal holes in their backs - where you might expect to find the RP marks! I believe they are an act of vandalism designed to win an argument - which the authors' had already lost?

There is little or no evidence of DSG figures either, except insofar as with both hard and soft plastic versions of RP-marked figures around, DSG may have run the mould (which they are known to hold, or have held) unchanged, or wholesaled/retailed the/some leftover RP-marked stock. I say "little or..." as - if they are genuine - the hex-hole figures seen on Shitestuff may be DSG, but they weren't presented as such by 'Cheech & Chong'!

Neither is there any empirical evidence of Basa having ever carried the Co-Ma figures (which they may have done) or produced their own copies - which they almost certainly didn't. As they (Sterwin) have led us round the garden-path several times trying to cover-up Erwin's original falsehood (that the gold RP's were Peruvian product), one has to ask why they still visit these figures? The figures announced the other day in the 'other place' (as he refers to me!) as ring-handed Co-Ma, are neither Co-Ma, nor ring-handed!

Indeed, while my own ministrations over the course of the debate have provided some facts by way of obvious conclusion, the pathetic pair of poltroons have provided piss-all of pertinence and only succeeded in confusing themselves and each other as we saw earlier in the journey!

The two figures have - in point of fact - been armed with crude daggers, made by simply drilling into one half of the tool and removing the little spigot with would have formed the hole in the hand, so that both the hole and the drill fill with polymer, creating a stumpy, stabbing instrument!

Or, at least, it would be how the originator might do it, the pirates' just avoid the hole while- (or fill it in before-) pantographing, and then only have to drill the stabber-stud!

On the subject of the copies; I don't know who produced them, it may be in the latest book on Italian figures (which I don't have), but I don't recall it being in the earlier volume (which I do have!), it'll probably be someone like Plasticrom (Cané/Grisoni), PRB or Ro-Plast who were all producing rack-toy/'bazaar' stuff and/or knock-offs, in the 1970's?

Given the metallic colours' similarity to those Cane 54/60-mil Vikings which were everywhere about fifteen/twenty years ago (I think PB Toys still have a load?), they may be a Grisoni branded thing?

One is tempted to wonder - given that other people produced several versions of their main earners (Britains khaki Infantry or Starlux combat troops for instance) whether Co-Ma were involved in the soft-plastic copies, but the copies are so poor, that seems unlikely.

True: Britains Hong Kong khaki infantry were as poor compared to their grandparents, but there was a longer period of time between the two generations, and the market had moved-on further when those late PVC atrocities came out of the Far-Eastern colony.

Comparison between the five 'pairs'; you wouldn't be hiding those shield-located marks so easily with a heated screwdriver!

When you look at something as closely as we've ended-up looking at these recently, you tend to end up with as many new questions as answers, and with these as well as who made the first set of copies it's also how Co-Ma allowed these copies to come-about, in the same country?

But looking - again - at Britains, who are known to have defended their intellectual property many times both in the hollow-cast and the plastic eras, yet still suffered loads of piracies, particularly of the khaki infantry, including a few UK-based companies, it may be that sometimes it's easier to turn a blind-eye than try to challenge in court, especially if slight changes to the sculpts will only provide a pay-day for the lawyers!

Also, Co-Ma did change direction, first toward kits and railway accessories, while by the 1980's they were producing more infant-targeted toys and big bath/beach stuff, and those changes seem to have begun quite soon, hence the interest in genuine examples of their [original] figures, in a sea of copies? Perhaps they granted permission for some of the cloning; perhaps they couldn't care because the clones weren't treading on their 'new lawn'?

E is for Erwin Watch - Part; the Somethingth!

That cock-whacking monkey-lizard Mr. Sell had a pop the other day (so did TJF actually, clearly they are getting nervous!) I am working on 'the big one' but in the meantime worth a quick look just to remind ourselves how utterly stupid he is.

He first posted this as 4:36pm local time, it reads - after the [charming] thread-quote is removed;

Such post-attack silly unfunded  maniac from UK using edited pictures  was responded here.

http://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=8882

and also here.

http://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=9096

When i post information  i back mine regardless i post all pictures or not ,yet i wait to respond with all i have and make him looks bad again.
I had never ever talk,write or post anything against this person at all ,he also have plenty enemies he had done himself out of his hate in many non toy related toys blogs.
He constantly uses derogatory ,racist words and comments that let few with desire read any of his puzzles sick comments
What is more sad is the fact that in UK they let this person post in magazines such PW when make looks entire british community looks bad .is a shame british let this person be part of collectors .
my thoughts.

Then (having got a couple of back-links posted for his paymaster) he posts it again . . .

 . . . at 4.43pm, just in case anyone missed it (and to get another two back-links posted for TJF), but also in very small text; presumably  in case anyone with the weirdest eye-condition known to man was struggling with the standard text, seven minutes previously!

Now there are two parts to his illiterate drivel, the re-hash of the Co-Ma/Basa thing which I'll deal with in a minute, and the frankly half-idiotic/half defamatory rant woven into the crucified syntax, massacred grammar and stab at spelling he calls 'thoughts'!

Same pack-drill as before - line by miserable line;

Such post-attack silly unfunded  maniac from UK using edited pictures 

Well, it needs translation I fear, but imagine what kind of maniac I'd make if I could get some funding from edited pictures!

When i post information  i back mine regardless

No he doesn't! In the same thread (on a pirate board-game figure) he states "The figures then sold as souvenir or loose in ITALY till well 90s by many companies around with sweet or chocolate as well as free toy gift as well." With no 'back' whatsoever, bear in mind he's said the same thing about another brand a day or two previously and it's not long since the German lollipop posts here - that's how it works; I lead, they follow; badly!

i post all pictures or not ,

Pretty much like the rest of us then? Sometimes we do . . . sometimes we don't! The man's too funny to be kept off the stage really.

yet i wait to respond with all i have and make him looks bad again.

I must have missed that load, was I carrying an umbrella? Good; I hate the smell of fish! He actually wants you to take him seriously, and - to be fair - some people are, but then you realise they too are strangers to the caps-lock and it's just a bunch of gobshites blowing-off.

I had never ever talk,write or post anything against this person at all ,

Except that which we are reading here? And his madness rant a month or two ago (below image)? And his original attacks on my Blue Box / Ri-Toy post which started all this nonsense, five-minutes after he got on-line? And his joint attack with TJF over Christmas 2016? And, and, and . . . he's a liar, a blatant liar, but some people, particularly the Vichy are lapping it up like hungry kittens rats!

Not a 'talk,write or post...against' me! Liar!

The tragedy is, as he's writing it - he probably believes it! And he knows the Vichy and the PSTSM will support and encourage it, and not just them; Carrick, Bergner, Dittman and others have chosen that side of the fence, instead of staying on the bloody thing!

[I will return to the above quote in a separate post as the main thrust of his premise (public self-therapy) pertains more to his paymaster (TJF) than it does to me!]

he also have plenty enemies he had done himself out of his hate in many non toy related toys blogs.

"Non toy related toys blogs"? Anyone? While you're trying to de-cipher that, maybe you could point me to any Blogs I have 'done myself out of', bar TJF's risible, drivellous, gray-area . . . obviously!

To my knowledge I haven't fallen foul of any other Blogs, although I have voluntarily stopped commenting on one or two - to save their blushes. Someone called James did stop following me the other day, but as I don't follow his and as he did so in a flourish of bilious (and political) hate on TJF's blog (so was therefore - clearly a TJF shill), it makes no difference to my situation and carries no significance for this Blog. And it's a tedious playing-peow-peow's-with-brum-brum's-on-the-carpet type Blog anyway.

He constantly uses derogatory ,racist words and comments that let few with desire read any of his puzzles sick comments 

Ah, yes! The defamatory bit. I have never used racism of any kind? Both Erwin Sell and Paul - The Jabbering Fuck - 'stads' Stadinger (TJF) have now accused me of racism, in public and in private - neither has given an example. The statements are defamatory.

I am beginning to suspect they are both so simple-mindedly stupid, ignorant and uneducated, that they don't actually know what racism is, nor comprehend the tenets behind it, or how to recognise it?

It's true I have been very derogatory, and will continue to be when this kind of shit is being written about me . . . by a fuckwit! Words AND comments? I must be overdoing it! Puzzles? Sick? It's almost enough to drive me to the smelling-salts! Constantly? How do I find time for everything else I'm 'guilty' of!

Even in my insulting derogatoriness I have veered away from the obvious targets, except in so far as originally christening them TJF and the Cock-whacking Monkey-lizard, which was both an amusing Star Wars reference, and - for those who know them - a bit close to the knuckle; but that was their fault for attacking me over Christmas!

What is more sad is the fact that in UK they let this person post in magazines such PW when make looks entire british community looks bad .is a shame british let this person be part of collectors .

The difficult one - In this war (which they started) they (Sell and TJF) keep trying to get other people involved - I try not to. Although I'm happy to shame those who choose to get involved.

What I would say is that I have picked up new supporters and the best part of a million hits in the last 12 months and those who choose to deal with me, do so for their own reasons and don't need Mr. Sell telling them what they should or should not do. The blog is going from strength to strength and I'm going nowhere else.

If, as a collector, you don't want me "be part of " you, have a word next time you see me and I'll try to disengage! And I only ever advise anyone / everyone not to get involved, sadly some have. The reasoning he must be using (at the level of  a12-year-old), must apply equally to Stadinger and himself, with regard the US 'community? But that's the hypocrisy of the two idiot's for you!

my thoughts.

No, no no! Not 'thoughts', his random keyboard jerks! Probably resulting from uncontrolled synaptic-sparks in the brain he appears to have borrowed from a solar-powered lawn-mower . . . too much sun!

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So, that's his literary efforts dealt with, now back to the CoMa/Basa/Res Plastics thing, which was hilarious first time round, but which (by only posting links to one side) he is trying to misrepresent - and because TJF needs the traffic (for his SEO!)! But Googlebot doesn’t trawl locked-forums! Dum, they're both so dum.

If you missed it first time round it's complicated but well worth bringing together in one place, so it might as well be here! Let's thank him for raising the subject again after 18-months-odd (although; one has to ask why?) and dive in . . .

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After I had pointed out that Erwin was wrong about my Blue Box and Ri-Toys post, they both got the arse big-time; inventing a whole port and industrial estate [Tain Sang - too funny] in Hong Kong - which doesn't exist! I pointed that out too - among a plethora of other things they'd cooked-up as they went along!

As a result they started having the odd pop at me over at plaid-stuff, suggesting I didn't know anything and was always wrong . . . so one day I pointed out that Erwin was making it up . . . again!

The funny thing was I only had the one figure, and I only had photographs of it! But it was all I needed.

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He had tried to tell the Vichy that he was showing them Peruvian-made Basa Romans, while actually using Italian-made Res Plastics figures, I pointed out that the figures were RP and he was making it up as he went along - again. (E is for Erwin Watch - Res not Basa).

They (both were involved) then tried to make out A) I was wrong and B) he had not used RP figures (1^st link from Erwin above), by photographing some new figures (actually the same figures after someone had taken a screwdriver's hot hex-bit to them!) and claiming they were the figures he used - ergo; I was wrong.

So I went back to the Vichy thread, took screencap's of the RP-marked figures he had used (and which are still there!), compared them to mine and called them out for now lying about the lie! You can't make shit this up! Although; they try to! (I is for is it Res Plastic, Basa or DSG?).

This led to a spittle-flecked rant from Standinger (2^nd link from Erwin above) which attempted to paint me as a conspiracy theorist (I know - dum! But they get their learnin' from tabloids), with the aid of an spurious, additional, CoMa original! However by now, Erwin was getting shaky on the details in reply to someone's comment and they both ended up contradicting just about everything they'd said on the subject and each other.

I dealt with that, line-by-tedious-line in this post (Stads Watch / Erwin Watch - Back to Basa'ics !) and we moved on to Fontanini, Rojas plagiarism, the risible not-DSG thing and, well, most of you have followed enough of it to know what the flavour is!

Until the little-retch decided to resurrect it all the other day!

In the meantime I have shown the CoMa originals (or late production from those moulds) and another slightly different figure. With what came-out in the original spat, and what's turned-up since (R is for Romans! Co-Ma . . . et al!), it's clear that there are at least three sets of moulds;

• CoMa (Originals)
• Res Plastics (RP)
• Unknown (as yet)

And that the Res Plastics moulds went to DSG in Argentina, who may or may not have run them (or ex-RP stock) with or without the RP-mark and/or hex-driver holes. That there was a late issue of/from the CoMa tool and that there's a third 'cheapie' set - which may have been cleaned-up (or copied) to become the RP set?

At no point has anyone (at shitestuff, Vichy or here) shown a figure which can be authenticated as Basa, and while Basa may have worked with CoMa, there is little actual data on when or what the relationship was and no empirical evidence they specifically handled the Romans. If they did they would be the CoMa sculpts; which - ironically - Erwin also showed!

While Erwin - who claimed to have corresponded with Basa's owner - has failed to explain why he was (still is - thank God it's a locked forum) passing the RP-DSG sculpts off as Basa? Nor has he provided any evidence of this correspondence to 'win' his case.

And while the PSTSM shill's will bleat about me 'getting excited about mere toys', I am in fact responding to criticism (for 'criticism' read 'nasty, factually-inaccurate, illiterate, drivel'), while their self-proclaimed 'Legend' of a leader gets equally excited . . . about toys! Witness the second either of their posts.

And - this blog is err . . . about toys! When I blog on [more important] stuff like politics or the environment they get equally irate, so I can't win either way, but then; they're not a bright bunch, and if I can't win, I'll carry on regardless, being me; and they can go hang! Is that racist? Fuck'em!

The recent spate of attacks on stadsshite and over in Vichy are no doubt due to the fact that Christmas is coming, clearly; they are winding themselves up! I'll help!

Tatra next!

And if you're wondering about the apparent hypocrisy of the internal back-links I've managed to get into this post, actually Googlebot can mark you down for too-many of them, however I'd rather you find the stuff more easily, but then - I'm not the traffic-whore; TJF is.