Breakdown of a complete set's contents, 29
figure box
A mint set needs to contain one of each of
the figures above, with the equivalent number (where hard to discern) for each
pose as given to be properly 'Mint'; otherwise it's just a 'made-up' set in both meanings of the word!
The three colours of Airfix I know of, the grey ran for the longest time; from day one, in
the late 1960's and with the odd faint shade variation between production-runs
remained unchanged until 1980'ish, when the 14-figure boxes contained the
orange ones I think. The Khaki examples are a more recent re-issue/CTS thing I've - so far - paid scant
attention to.
Some Hong Kong copies; mostly generic junk,
but the lighter-brown ones (top six and left of mixed shots) seem to be the Rado Industries (Ri-Toys) shots, although of poor quality they match the small-scale
versions for colour.
Best copy on the left, poorest on the right.
As mentioned above Rado seem to have manufactured
their larger scale copies in the same colours (per nation/subject) as their
small scale ones, which means you should find these in silver, green, blue and
the orange (below) I think, as well as this chocolate brown (the commonest - in
both scales), which has been dutifully followed by the bottom-feeding
sub-pirate!
Ri-Toy's standing firing in orange, the kneeling firing compared with Airfix's original and another kneeling
figure, who has the look of a good-quality copy, sent in by Chris Smith and
seen over on the 'Home Blog' the other day (2019), but he's not as well detailed.
