P is for Postscript on Plasticom and Their Polish Pals!

Return or follow-up wouldn't compute once I'd decided on an alliterative heading and 'Pandect' would have flummoxed most I fear! Anyway, Plasticom were first seen here a long time ago now, and we have re-visited them several times AND looked at Polish versions, so this is another view, with more Polish figures (courtesy of Chris Smith) and, and . . .

I took a lot of pictures, and Chris sent a fair few, so we're starting with line-ups of his new Polish takes on the Plasticom 'Soldabar' sugar-candy/lolly-handle WWII figures above and below from two different angles, and  - the middle - the current rainbow of polymer colours from my Plasticom sample.

Note also slight variations; offset holes, smaller base and deeper reinforcing round some of the holes, also the orange-red 'short-shot/miss-mould' at the back left.

Chris's Polish knock-off's compared with the Plasticom, these would appear - from below - to be from two makers, but I think they are all of the same origin and although we've looked at similar figures here from Konrad Lesiak, and Wojciech Gudaczewski recently covered them on a Faceplant group, the maker/s remain anonymous! Wojciech did say they were mostly produced around Warsaw though, and would be what have been described here before as Kioskowce - cheap 'tobacco kiosk' novelties.

The standing firer is quite an original pose, with a serious attempt to replicate the Plasticom base; a shallower rim to the lolly-socket giving him away, while the 8th Army officer is a straight lift from Airfix's set. We've seen the two Plasticom's before, they are a Crescent (firer) and Britains (officer) clone respectively.

These are Chris's Matchbox clones, to whom belongs the firing figure from the previous image, we have 8th Army and Afrika Korps. Polish troops fought with the Eighth Army, but in Italy when they had gone into long trousers I think (and there weren't many Highland Bren-gunners in the Polish formations!), but still the affinity is there, and it gets round making hated Russians?

While Airfix are plundered for more 8th Army poses and - unusually - Ghurkhas, with both these and the previous, the colours are very hard to photograph under any conditions, and more worryingly - in the case of the center four - made to look almost as edible as the candy-lolly they were holding!

I wasn't thinking when I did this collage, so we have Wild West above (US Cavalry) and WWII below! The bazooka-man is taken from the late Britains Hong Kong output while the advancing pair in the middle are Crescent again with another Britains (damaged) on the left. The cavalry which I didn't recognise last time were ID'd by someone a while back (Vichy?) as Jecsan I think, but it's a fleeting similarity, with the Plasticom's far more naturally stance'd.

Image on the left here is from Theo van der Weerden, with two of the Cofalu clones (one each beret and helmet) of French infantry, more Britains and another US cavalryman, while I have the same pair (lower right) of Frechies, with another, stabbing pose, in various colours - above.

My four together, we've seen this shot on the Khaki Infantry page, but for the sake of completeness it might as well be here too!

Chris kindly sent me three duplicates from his collection, and I will eventually use them in comparisons on the Airfix Blog, but for now, one of each; Ghurkha, 8th Army and DAK above, order reversed below.

And to the wild Wild West! Top left (they too, came from Theo) and bottom are the Platicom from Belgium. The other two shots are all Polish figures from Chris (oops, I've only just realised one of them is WWII British!). Note the higher collar on the two top-right, which may be another maker's work?

There seems to be a bit of mix-and-match with these, but I'm not so au fait with Wild West figures . . . Theo's red figure is taken from Britains Herald Hong Kong, the green chap from the same maker's Swoppet range, the high tube pair might be based on ex-Jean or Manurba poses, the two six-gun chaps (bottom left) Herald (similar) again? The standing riflemen are quite nice poses/sculpts, albeit a bit flat; like most the Polish figures.

All Plasticom and a mix of Britains and continental sculpts being lifted here, I think we've seen them all before, I recognise the four interesting poses but can't place them (French?), while the standing firing and kneeling archer are both Herald HK. The standing bowman looks a bit like Rambo!

Two Polish Indians, again courtesy of Mr. Smith, and clearly a new manufacture for the blue figure, who might be mistaken for 'just' a Kioskowce but that base is hollow and too large to not be for a lollypop to sit in! I don't recognise either pose and the green one is missing a hand.

This chap came in the other day and I thought I'd better add him here for the full overview! He's similar to the Herald Hong Kong one, but the legs are slightly different, I think.

Plasticom's scenics, with a Britains original to the far right, you can see the Plasticom tree is greatly simplified. I think we have Chris to thank for one or two of these as well, but some time-ago now!

The Plasticom 'Czech hedgehog' tank-trap, compared with the Britains Herald Hong Kong accessory, and it's an early marbled one on the left (matching the previously seen tree), with a later plain-brown one to the right.

You may have noticed that the ex-Matchbox advancing pose has what looks like a sign on his base, and I asked Chris about it, as a 'supplemental'! He studied it in depth and took tons of shots to try and get a few good ones (which was all 'a call above' for the blog) and sent me the best results. Stopping the shadow setting down 200% (that's the same figure in both shots) made it clear the 'HQ', 'Tobruk >>' or 'Achtung Minen' I had hoped for is not there!

Moreover, it's not that clearly a sign at all, and Chris wondered if it might actually be doing the job of what I call 'sprulettes', allowing material to pass beyond the products original cavity design, so the figure itself gets fully formed. Chris noted most of the other figures are more balanced with a leg either-side of the lollypop hole, while this was a one-sided sculpt, and it seems to me he might be spot-on? Although the bayonet has still short-shotted!

The last time I mentioned Plasticom online someone stated they were available in Germany from Trawigo, Bloomberg list Trawigo GmbH & Co KG (founded 1953) as an importer and wholesaler of confectionery & related products, not a manufacturer, so they didn't make them, they imported Plasticom's Soldabars, and repackaged them.

As I've mentioned them (Trawigo) now, I'll tag them and anyone searching in the future can come here and read > click here or on the Plasticom tag below this post or the tag down the right-hand side of the page for the - currently- seven other posts on these and the previous looks at Polish production/similar figures < !

And it gets them in the tag-list! Indeed, as we now know they got as far as Poland, and seem to turn-up most in mixed lots from France, Belgium, Holland and even the UK (occasionally), they must have had/carried several brand-marks, do you know your local one?

Many thanks to Chris Smith for help, images and figures, thanks to Theo for images, to Konrad for past images and help and acknowledging Wojciech's input, that's them, again, for now!

F is for Fishy Phishing for Fish!

Although most of the 'family archive' has gone to storage now, some months ago; the odd thing still turns up, and while most of it is not of any interest to the Blog, this fell out of other papers a couple of days ago, so small I didn't know if it would scan at all!

My father, I think in Borneo/Sarawak (pretty sure that's one of the Iban tracker's huts in the background), but he had all four Malaysia clasps (in order of award - Malaya, Brunei, Borneo and Malay Peninsula) on his GSM's, so it could be any of them, but from his age; taken long before I was born!

When we were kids he would get us by the fire and tell us his "war stories", among which his tale of grenade fishing seemed to be one of his favorites (misbehavior! The apple never falls far from the tree), and from the grin on his face here, I suspect that that is how he came by his 'catch'?

Also, re. the other day's Officer Recruitment adverts, he is wearing JG (jungle green)'s which led to the temperate OG's mentioned then, although by the time we were old enough to pay attention he referred to them all as OG's as they saw out their lives as gardening clothes! No equipment, so clearly a safe-area?

The picture as found, I was amazed it blew-up well enough to use here, as I never set-up my new scanner, just plugged it in and tried it and it started taking scans straight-away! But these modern machines are all more automated in their thinking (AI?) and seem to know to increase the pixel-rate exponentially when you present them with a postage stamp!

It may have been cut out of a bigger image (there's a sequence of Roger Woodiwiss giving first-aid and medical help to Ibans in their village, one of which is often found in the better books), or more likely, been reduced for use as a postcard, and then cut-down for a/Mum's purse's stamp-window thing?

Y is for You Can't Hold a Candle to Them!

Chris Smith sent me the most incredible link a while ago, and I was so amazed, I didn't even look at the price as I hit the buy-it-now (BIN) button! It wasn't terribly clear how many were whole or - indeed - how many were damaged, but then they still had an ocean to cross, so it was cross-fingers-and-see-what-turns-up time!

And this is what turned up, miraculously a good more than half, were passably 'complete', and I say "passably" as we shall see in a second or two, playwear has rendered a lot of them even more blobby than they were when minty fresh, which would have been pretty blobby, as they are basically made of crayon wax!

There are four simple poses of generic WWII/Early Cold War types, which, clockwise from the green pair are; Sentry with slung rifle on right shoulder, holding SMG across body, water-cooled Maxim/Browning MG and a bazooka/ATR. And the SMG (where discernible) is more Soviet Bloc than NATO, so really generic!

Colour variation would suggest they were actually made from wax crayons - one of the Crayola big 64-caryon sets maybe? Bottom left is the broken ones, but I've kept them for some of the colour variations!

Equally, how they came about is a mystery to me, but I'm assuming some kind of home-moulding kit? They came from the 'States which is home to the Mattel Thing Maker (1962?),  which had many mould- or accurately mold-sets (were they for fighting the monsters?), the Kenner Presto (1972?), the Mold-a-Rama coin-op's (1962 to the present day) and more recently the Toymax metal molder (which could take wax) among others (did Hasbro have one?), but the closest I could find was Emenee's Formex 7 sets with the Dyna-Cast which was another wax moulder, and they did do a military set, sadly with four larger scale figures?

Size comparisons; above with the early war, under-armed, cash-only thank you Mr. Churchill Flying Fortress (from Adrian Little), also in wax and below with an Airfix USAAF pilot, you can see the wax figures are a pretty perfect HO-gauge compatible 18mm.

Many thanks to Chris for finding them, and does anyone know where they came from, other than America, which I just told you! A brand; we're looking for a brand! They could even be something more commercial and pre-manufactured, or cast from home-casting metal war-gaming figure moulds?

Later - Correction on the numbers - counting the two images - at this late stage! - It's about 82 good ones to 100 broken, so just under half, some of which have been given away already!

Later still - might be Kenner's 'reusable plastic' Mold master set from 1963? Also found the Rapco - Plasticast and Gabriel - Monster Machine! but putting Kenner in the Tags . . . for now!

A teeny bit later . . . yeah! That's it- 1963 Kenner's Electric Mold Master toy maker No. 1410, now I've got to track down all the AFV's!

R is for Recruiting Rodneys!

A couple of scans from the Sunday Times supplementary magazine, dated 1960 and 1966 receptively. I don't know what it was like where you are (foreign readers), but from the 1960's and into the 1980's our 'Sunday supplements' were really very good magazines, with minimal advertising (against the glossies), interesting articles and usually very good imagery, and where there were adverts, they could be quite good to!

A pose which could have influenced both messrs Ron Cameron and Bill Farmer? Airfix British Commandos (SLR replaced with a Thomson SMG), Britains Super Deetail (tree-branch replaced with grenade!), couple of Matchbox figures . . . both sculptors would have seen this image many times, as these ad's would run, regularly, or for a year or two on-and-off, in several publications.

 

Also of note is the pre-DPM olive-greens ('OG's'), which replaced the WWII/National Service Battle Dress for a while, having first been used in the jungles of Malaya and Borneo I think? DPM was fully introduced around 1966. This may be the Canadian pattern jacket, but the uniform changes of the 1980's are a murky business with no real timeline . . . the Gloster's wore Battle Dress in Northern Ireland in 1970!

 

Yeah! You got that, Johnny Foreigner? The best in the world 'init! Heay, I can be as jingoistic as an arse-kissing lover of Farage (rhymes with c**t) if I want to! Just a bit of fun!

But joking apart; it was - I think it's fair to say - one of the best for some time, regularly winning inter-nation tank performance and gunnery competitions in Europe and Canada, giving the Israelis the ballistic turret outline of their Merkava and producing a barrel and fire-control system any-other nation who could, immediately tried to squeeze into their existing turrets, and while it was getting a bit long in the tooth against later marks of Leopard (and Iraqi T-72's made a mess of Iranian ones in the original 'Gulf War'), it was really only Challenger I and M1 Abrams which chased it into the history books?

Public Service Announcement - Fireworks

No, not the dead graphics software, and not as humorous as a couple of previous Public Service Announcements here, with an added gentle, yes, I think 'gentle rant' attached!

DeBrett's Peerage 1886

I love fireworks, don't ever think I don't, I have loved them all my life, and have let-off more than I care to remember, but as the planet burns and we quietly go extinct due to our own complacency in Capital's rape of that same planet, it is imperative we learn to ask (of every existing human 'thing' and every new innovation); "Just because we can, does it mean we should?"

Every firework heats up the planet just a little bit more, every sparkler, every wick/squib, every struck-match or flicked-lighter, every accompanying bonfire or BBQ. And anyone who's retained the lessons of the 'energy cycle' rules from their school days (E=MC² and all that!) knows that that heat remains where it is until it is turned into something else.

But then there is the pollution? The above graphic (which has been around for a few years and may-well have been rendered in Fireworks!) gives some idea of the damage coming from fireworks, and as we all learn to wheeze and cough from traffic pollution (way over published limits) at this damp, still, time of year, we don't need to be adding to that invisible cloud with even more toxic gasses and particles. Some UN figures put air-pollution as main culprit in 2-million* deaths a year.

* Sorry - 4.2-million deaths: https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution

Another pollutant these days are all the plastic elements of modern fireworks, all the features and effects used to be achieved with card tubes, card and paper pistons, paper wraps and cotton, wool, hair or kapok wadding, and that was still the case, for most fireworks, only ten or twenty years ago.

But now it's all done with low-grade plastics (frangible polystyrenes and crumbly polyethylenes) which rain down, hundreds of yards from the firing point, or which get fired through/over the boundary into neighbouring properties where they join fast-food wrappers, shopping-bags, vehicle parts, old clothing, condoms and helium balloons in laying-down a new geology; the 'Anthropocene' sedimentary (or 'discardery') layer.

Pets and wildlife also suffer from our conceited desire to entertain ourselves with frivolous high-explosives - for many years I had a cat (Munchkin) who could handle 'Guy Fawkes', as the local yobbo's would always provide a week or two of build-up, so she'd get acclimatized, but midnight on the 31st December/1st of January always saw her piss the carpet and/or my lap and disappear under to wardrobe for a few hours in abject terror.

Now, I've been planning this post for a few years but never got round to doing it, partially because the timing's never right; if you do it in the summer everyone's forgotten by now, if you do it now, it's probably too late! So I'll try to repeat it regularly as we have to change the way we live, the way we organise our societies and the way we interact with everything else. If we don't we may be going extinct as soon as 2055?

But in the meantime, there are quiet alternatives which tend toward the 'traffic-light', 'golden rain' or 'silver fountain' type, which will still generate the heat/particulate/chemical pollution, but do - at least - minimise both noise and the distribution of crumbly, recycled/raw plastic widgets.

Some of the small 'family' packs will give a very pretty show with minimal 'collateral' damage and simplified woosh- or wheeish-rockets without crappy plastic-parts .

But remember, it's not just dogs, cats or damaged veterans that might suffer, all pets are in the firing line, hedgehogs are only now going to sleep for four months, birds (who lose enough sleep to street-lights as it is?) moths, bats . . . it's just not our right to disturb, frighten, injure or kill them and still call ourselves 'sapiens'.

https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/

And congratulations to Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer who have started to get some momentum behind the inevitable phaseing-out of fireworks by not selling or stocking them this year. While Co-Op haven't been selling them for five years, Sainsbury's joining that stance in 2019. Tesco, Aldi and ASDA are offering low-noise ranges.

ZZ is for Hawkin's Bazzar, Ingo Roggaz, Schilling and/or Tobar!

We've looked at them before, Hawkin's have gone under for a final time since Chris supplied his potted-history and the connection with Schilling was proven at a toy fair, but there was one item I really wanted, and another I quite fancied from the tinplate range, and both have been secured since January, so that's what we're looking at here!

The best! Only because I can't really afford those beautiful old French or German ones when they come up occasionally! Vaguely Prussian or Austrian (even Italian or French) cavalryman of that 'colonial' period 1840-1914 so beloved of figure painters (and print artists) for the colours of the splendor of often quite OTT uniforms, many - well 'a few' - of which survive, simplified, as ceremonial uniforms to this day.

The reigns serving as the gilded tree-hanger, and the whole being three sheets of die-cut tin-plate, pressed to shape and assembled with bent ears/tabs in the traditional way.

My line-up now looks like this, with the fictional Vomag (Vogtland Maschinenfabrik AG, actually subsumed under communism and surviving as IFA - Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau) fire-wagon/ladder-truck as the other 'newbie'.

When we looked at these last time I marked some up as not by Hawkin's or Tobar, as they weren't in the catalogues to hand, but they all seem common enough here in the UK for an assumption that all three importers (Schilling [USA], Tobar [UK] and ^Z_Z /Roggaz [BRD]) carried the full range in one catalogue or another, one year or another.

Really a generic fire fighting vehicle with lines that are more American (showing the input Schilling had from the beginning of this ^Z_Z-branded line?) than anything else, the overly complicated bar the ladder is fixed to obviously doubling as pipe-work for interest/external detailing.

Couple more shots of the additions, the ^Z_Z mark being something I've never managed to do justice to within the font limitations of Word-for-Windows! And Dinky's Centurion again shows how small these little tree-hangers are.

There must be loads in people's attics, cellars, sheds and under-stair cupboards, coming out every year and going back on the tree? And they are perfect to take off the tree as presents for sudden, little visitors . . . my late mother always had a few spare bags of chocolate-coins hidden in the center of the tree - on the fat-ends of the branches - for little people to search for, something she was still doing two years ago when the new neighbours brought round their daughter, and a tradition I will continue when I get to wherever I'm going-to.

ABC is for Another Beauty Catalogued!

I received some lovely 'might be/probably' ABC figures from Chris Smith a few days/weeks ago, which are in a future 'H is for How . . . ' post (and which I have posted elsewhere recently for those who saw them), but I've also managed to track this down;

It's starting to lose its bonnet-graphics and is missing a spare-wheel (which may turn-up in the spares box), but is otherwise in good nick for something which probably dates from the late 1950's or very early 1960's. The next question is whether it goes with the green figures we've seen here before, or one of the various iterations of Monogram copy - we've also seen, and I suspect the later, so will be looking at them more closely when they come out of storage, but for now - new Jeep!

V is for Versus . . . Plants!

One single trope seems to connect the most of all the Zombie sets, the 'Zombies versus Someone', or 'Someone versus Zombies' title or set theme, usually as a 'vs' or simple 'v'. And these are no exception, despite my knowing slightly more than nothing about them.

Plants versus Zombies, I picked these up a while ago as they were going dirt cheap, and I haven't got the time to look into them right now, but I'll give them more time in a year or two and we'll return to them here with a full picture.

What little I've gathered from a few minutes on evilBay/Google is that they are quite a big thing, or recently were, possibly among the 5-10 age group, or 8-15's? Related to a computer game and dating back to around 2006 (game) / 2008 (toy licenses?) and the figures are made by Jazwares/The Zoofy Group (I think!).

Also there seem to be loads of them in various sizes of sets, with some commoner figures (most of the above ten?), and seem to have been around for five, maybe ten years? Fun things anyway, and although sculpted in a heavier style, and with some cartoonishness, are otherwise - at around 70mm - about the right size for the Accoutrements and Safari sets in the previous post.

I don't know if this chap goes with them but I think he does [no he doesn't - see comments], I thought he was a gardener, but he has three spanners hidden in his hair and another in his hand, so maybe the plants need the odd tune-up before they go hunting Zombies.

Also totally forgot Jan had looked at them a while ago; https://site-of-curiosities.blogspot.com/2017/07/plants-verses-zombies-toy-miniatures.html 

F is for Flesh-eating . . . Zombies . . .

. . . are there any other kind? Actually it should be T is for Two - Zombies, as the post rather grew somewhat!

The Glow-in-the-Dark Flesh Eating Zombies Playset from Archie McPhee's mate Accoutrements!

I've been after these for a while and when this one with a sun-fogged case/blister came-up cheap, it seemed like a good excuse to buy one I could open and scan etcetera, so that's what I did, would have been rude not to!

Nine figures at the larger end of the range (75-80mm'ish) and as well sculpted as any other Accoutrements' sets, with all the tropes we've seen since I started looking harder for these zombie figures a few years ago - devil-dog, fat bloke, rising grave-contents (why would they come to life if they haven't been bitten - the rising dead is another movie!), dressing-gown lady, holding his own limb bloke . . . boxes ticked!

All nine, they are made out of a phosphorescent polymer, the amount of painting dictates how much glows and both fat-bloke and dressing-gown lady score low, their eyes are painted-in bright-green fluorescent paint, so appear manic in bright light, or black in the dark which gives them a sinister look, either way!

Compared with the similar sized (some closer to 70mm), but not glowing Safari Tube figures, and again' rising bodies, fat bloke and crawling pose are all mirrored, along with a bunch of undead Karan's! The Safari figures also have the 'emergency green' fluorescent eyes.

This is where I pulled back one of the boo-boo's as I had not fully photographed the Safari, beyond the Accoutrements comparisons, but I managed to find them this week and brought them back, to take a few more shots and make the full T is for Two...!

I thought the grave/s in the previous images looked like they were in two pieces, so shot them again to prove the single moulding. Along with a group shot of the low-hanging fruit!

The eight upright poses are fifty-fifty male and female, with fat-bloke being so fat he doesn't need a base . . . some subtle social profiling there Archie'ments? Also while the two grave-risers are pink, the other ten poses are equally split between bruised purplish-pink and a dead-for-a-while greeny-grey.

The sales image from Amazon with the square 'Toob' (actually a prism . . . or a block!)* as I seem to have forgotten to scan the insert cards, although I know I've got them somewhere and will do another day - probably for the A-Z entry . . . when I get to it!

And did I say the Accoutrements glow in the dark!

 

* It's a rod isn't it, a rod with square-section! Comes to something when a graphic designer can't remember basic geometrical terminology!

BOZ is for Box O' Zombies

"Box O Zombies is owned by Immersive Realms, Inc. founded and operated by Shawn Recinto. The figures and artwork are created by a few Chicago artists who have a passion for zombies, figures, and just making things awesome."

A sadly short-lived project, which seems to have been half-garage or 'art toy' (in concept) and half-commercial (in execution), but for which/whom the website is dead and the Faceplant/Twittsphear pages have seen no meaningful traffic since 2014/15.

But it highlights the fragmentation of the hobby; with 3D printing at home or via commercial printers, up-scaling and down-scaling of existing figures by pirates (as we saw with the Chinese Army plundering Caesar the other day), the Russian/Ukrainian Co-Op's and home-design-&-print, or home scan-&-print it's getting so no one can follow all of it, let alone collect it!

And, while I said this morning that I'd corrected a few boo-boo's in the Halloween posts system, I failed with these! Although in the last few minutes I've pulled it back by finding the original images on the WayBackMachine! But this is here, so, it’s a reuse of a picture already seen here and elsewhere, but you get the idea, BOZ figures being herded by slightly larger Bonux spacemen!

Basically, although I scanned the box and managed to take this size-confirmer and pose the shot with the Bonux figures, I never took full set shots of the figures, except there may have been a couple more in the Bonux sequence, I must have deleted them . . . Doh!

The trade images from the dead website; they were available in puke green and a pale-purple which - going from my sample - are a very pale lilac-gray shade. There were plans for other figures (some nice humans in tan-brown seem to have got to master-sculpt stage) and if you go down the Google rabbit-hole, you will find all sorts of stuff (concept drawings, CAD renders etc) on the various sites once associated with them.

In the searching for info on the Box O's, I also found these from Spherewerx, they aren't findable at the moment (this is the old Amazon listing image, but there are a couple of dozen other Zombie-related items from Spherewerx or Previews Exclusive (the same people who did the WWII Zombies) in feebleBay, so they'll come around second-hand at some point, maybe for next year?

WD is for Wicked Duals

A double joke as they are both two sides in a fight (duelling), and two colour-ways (duel), and seem to be running alongside the more standard boxed version such as that seen in the previous post . . . we arrive at the fourth set (of six?) from SCS Direct, and while not really that Halloweeny, being technically Sci-fi, you will see there is a nightmare element to some of the Aliens!

When I first looked into these I got the impression the tubes/'toobs' were older, and the boxes newer (and either that, or the opposite, may be the case, as far as original production went), but last year's offerings were one of each (zombies in a tube, fantasy animals in a box) and the same is true for this year (fantasy: box, sci-fi: tube), but you can find some of them the other way and with a gap between last year's and this year's listings on both feeBay and Amazon, the circumstantial evidence is that there's a warehouse or two somewhere with healthy stocks of both, released each late-summer for the Halloween season?

As with last year's, the tube arrived broken, and while I don't think it contributed to the short-count (again! Four-out-of-four short-counts!), it's clearly a problem with the gauge of plastic used, against the weight of the PVC-like material!

I didn't do a table for these, and re-distributed them to the other two guys before I took note, but it was short (98 again I think) and there were anomalies with the contents against a straight split, or 'fair' distribution.

However, because these are slightly different from the three previously-seen sets, in having one side in light-grey (the humans) and one in dark (aliens), there were at least three of each and I think everyone got a full set with a couple of handfuls in the 'spares' box.

Top-left is an Imp or Gremlin-like alien; it certainly doesn't look terribly friendly! To its right is the closest to a movie-alien, in being humanoid and carrying sophisticated technology/weaponry in an 'atmosphere' suit!

Bottom-left gives us a Cthulhu-Turtle thing! While the figure bottom right is a sort of elemental; I can see people painting-it-up as fire, water, lava or even a plant-like finish would work?

Top-left is the Dragon we saw in the previous post, it's actually quite sweet, more of a baby dragon than anything else, sitting in a nest of planks! Bellow the Dragon we find the Arse-faced, Flame-haired, Seal-pig . . . very rare I can tell you - due to their tendency to combust when they fart.

Next to that Arse-pig as they are known locally (and from the same planetary system) is the Arse-faced, Shaggy Octo-Gute, very tasty! And in the top-right-hand corner is the Squid-headed Scooby-swine, a useful tracking animal. You know when you are near the tracked pray as the Scooby-swine either bolts and runs away or jumps into your arms and slobbers all over you with its many slimy tentacles, so PPE required!

With the humans we get a mixed bunch of figures which are quite useful in various settings/scenarios, on the left a gang of vigilante survivors who have armed themselves for a fight, the girl on the right is sculpted as a child, but bigger than all the rest, weather she is supposed to be a giantess or something I don't know, but she's in 'Human' coloured plastic!

The other pair are more tremulous citizens, clearly not dealing with an alien invasion in quite such a focused and determined manner as the first three!

The final trio include a pair of 1950's pulp spacefarers, who look more like kids in Halloween costumes, or scientists on Horsell Common - where my Brother and I played a lot as kids - swampy mass of mosquito-breeding, elephant grass puddles, orange-algae poisoned drainage ditches and struggling juvenile fir stands! And there's a comedy sketch in there - "Try it now, it should work?"!

To whom is added (several years before BMC) a Rosie the Riveter! She's posed here with the Auto-Union DKW 'Munga' from Injectaplastic, showing the 1:48th/40mm range of this set, although the aliens and Dragon can be any scale you choose! Rosie, and the uniforms, are clearly placing this lot in that 1940/50's realm of black & white matinee movies about bug-eyed lumps of glowing jelly from that dying, red, militaristic, swamp-planet beyond the stars!

A comparison between the two Dragons we've seen this year, remember last year's sets contained a man-bat and a Dragon which was more like a chess-piece, while this year we get one seemingly from D&D and a heraldic Dragon, so SCS've ticked all the boxes on leather-winged beasts!