Colour and pose variations and a Stadden comparison shot
Full set and some paint
Bit of gloss-red 'enhancing' this one!
Montaplex
Hat - both box types + Whole sprue and colour variant.
The larger figure is known to come in a
Ri-Toys (Rado Industrial Co., Hong Kong) bag, so probably the source for all the above?
Having collected these for over forty years now, I think it's fair to claim these are all the colours they were issued in, but you never know with Hong Kong production, another colour altogether might have been sent to/issued in Peru, or Ulaanbaatar!
Another sample, these dun-brown or pale olive colours seem to be the commonest ones, especially with the larger 50mm versions. Although the greens are quite common too, the blue I have only found once, but it was larger enough to give me all the poses I think?
A painted-up sample of the 50mm,
Rado figures, representing later-war figures in Khaki, they have only just received their new uniforms and still have the blue-grey helmets!
Colour variants; above we have three Airfix and a H
รคt Industries in blue, below the three Airfix colours, a brownish-grey, a mid-grey and a darker one which seems to have been formed by leaching of one of the additives, creating a layer of darker material, which play has worn-off unevenly.
English Civil War / 30 Year's War type musketeer, converted from a WWI Frenchman, some other bugger's effort, not mine, the rest of the unknown modeller/wargamer's army were converted from
Robin Hood and
Sheriff of Nottingham figures, and will be seen on those pages.
A couple more OBE's which have come-in, showing the difference between earlier and latter-war uniforms, in so far as simple home-paint at the amateur end of the spectrum can!
Barravelli from Italy copied the standard-bearer (or got someone in Hong Kong to copy it for them), but it's such a poor quality, that by the time the skirt of the greatcoat was stripped-away, he looks more like the
Airfix Japanese Infantry standard-bearer!
Colour and pose variations and a Stadden comparison shot
Full set and some paint
Bit of gloss-red 'enhancing' this one!
Montaplex
Hat - both box types + Whole sprue and colour variant.
The larger figure is known to come in a Ri-Toys (Rado Industrial Co., Hong Kong) bag, so probably the source for all the above?
2 comments:
Interesting! The original box lists '2 soldiers surrendering'...... the only close candidates for that pose are the two men apperently carrying sacks of supplies (to quote PSR)
Sorry Stuart, I'm not getting eMial updates for these comments for some reason!
Yes, it's oft been wondered at, and they are the obvious choice, but it could just be a copywriter getting confused as by the time this set came out there were one or two sets with a pair of surrenderers!
Hugh
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