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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label WWI French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWI French. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

1966 World War One French Infantry, S28 / 1728 / 01728 / 01728-4 / A01728 / 7003 - HO/OO

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?
 
Hong Kong Probably Rado Industries Ri-Toys Airfix French Infanntry WWI Sold As WWII
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 Hรคt 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!