Peter Evan’s Treasures August 2017 I received this week a nice selection of figures from Peter Evans. First are the Kinder Egg Despicable Me 3 figures. What is interesting two that I got Gru and Balthazer Bratt are 54mm. Peter also send the Almark machine gun team and some superheroes. There are other surprises as well.
Peter Evan’s Treasures August 2017 Kinder Egg
One of the items that Peter sent me were some Kinder Eggs. Peter knows that I have enjoyed the various figures that I have gotten from this company. This time Peter sent me some of the figures done for Despicable 3. The set has 10 different figures which I got five. I am missing three of the Minons, one of the children and Dru, Gru’s brother.
What is most interesting both Balthazar Bratt and Gru are 54mm. I show them here with a Marx 54mm knight. Gru also twists at the waist.
Peter Evan’s Treasures August 2017 Superheroes
Peter knows I like to collect Superheroes. It goes back to when I created my own Superhero figures. Now you can find Superheroes in various scales. We have here three of the Marvel characters. The first is Kraven one of Spider-man’s villians. Next we have Hawkeye and an unusual Mr Fantastic.
The figure on the left is Captain Blue from Captain Scarlet. The figure was a cereal giveaway in UK. On the right is one of Playalong Lord of the Rings figures. Peterr added a Britains axe.
Peter Evan’s Treasures August 2017 Almark Machine Gun Team
In previous posting I had shown some Almark figures. Peter mention that they did a machine gun team.
Here it is as you can see from the previous photo it is a two man team.
Here is a view from the other side.
Peter Evan’s Treasures August 2017 Odds and Ends
A Lone Star Union Officer with sword.
The figure on the left is Star Lord from Guardians of the Galway. The alien on the right is from a set of aliens. It will end up in Laurie’s collection.
Two more of the four inch pirates. I like the one with the rifle.
I really like the Lone Star Union officer pose is he true 1/32 – 54mm scale?
All ACW Lone Star are tractional 54 mm.Most LT are too, many often falling bellow 54mm
They did a range of 65 mm approx call king line o think.
As far I seen were not ACW in that big range.
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Forgot mention.
Out of the ACW 8 poses ,the officer, the one waving and one fighting with rifle are the best.The bad part as many LS original finding then in that condition is very hard,the plastic used in the ACW sets least was very bad and fragile.
Some of the poses such officer are 54 mm while others are about 50/52 mm max as most indians and cowboys are too.
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Thanks, Erwin. I thought the ACW was in 54mm, but also aware they did the larger figures; didn’t know they didn’t do some larger ACW, too.
Wayne ,rather look x mine and bother admin post entire photos here.
Thanks to Kent site you can see entire set poses and many others from LS main production.
here.http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Lonestar.html.
As far I know only LONE STAR in 60/65 MM are the modern 12 nice poses with plug in heads as RAF/soldiers and set of rare ski troopers i think in 8 poses with odd heads in some resembling like motorcycle helmets in my opinion or divers ,but interesting set as well.
I do not think LS made any indians ,western or ACW in over 54 mm .
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Thanks Erwin, I checked the link and realized I’d been there before, just didn’t pay too much attention at the time.
Hi Erwin, there were 10 poses in the Lone Star ACW set, Kent’s picture is missing the bugler and falling wounded.
There were western in the 65mm King size range but not ACW, 8 poses of indians and 8 of cowboys all with plug in heads. The Modern army figures had 12 body poses with but only 2 types of plug in head, beret or helmet, they were sold as: Red Berets, US Paratroopers, RAF Regiment and UN troops dependant upon which head they had and what colour plastic was used.
The Ski troops weren’t part of the King Size series, although they are 65mm, there is just 1 basic body with moving head, arms and legs, there are 2 different heads: fur hat and hood with gogles, the catalogue shows what appears to be a third head in a kepi but nobody has ever seen one of these so we are saying just 2 heads for the moment, they came with either skis or snow shoes and a large range of weapons as accessories. They were sold separately in blister packs and were differentiated by the type of heavy equipment they carried: minesweeper, radio, flamethrower or bazooka. So, 1 pose, 2 heads, 2 footwear and 4 heavy equipment.
Interesting about the Almark machine gun team. They are japanese and it looks like they are using a Maxim machine gun.
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It is a type 98 7.7 mm water cooler bases machine gun .
Japanese captured several thousand Vickers from 1931 till 1940 in wars with China and Dutch colonies occupation later adopting it and renaming with the TYPE 98 7.7 MM Japanese ordnance terminology.
They manufacture a version with only over 1500 produced too .
They did a variation/conversion for airplanes and other x navy as well i fewer numbers.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AB%E5%BC%8F%E6%B0%B4%E5%86%B7%E5%BC%8F%E9%87%8D%E6%A9%9F%E9%96%A2%E9%8A%83
However these ALMARK figures have ugly bad done Japanese imperial Army infantry helmets and the hands are odd positioned as more for anti tank cannon poses in my opinion.
The machine gun looks odd made to me if original Almark with those legs rust wire metal.
Interesting I had bought a Peco Davey Crockett in Texas a few a back and he didn’t have the standard musket instead they subsituted a Playmobile and that musket being used by the last pirate pictured. I often wondered where it came from, now I know.
Hi Paul, the Jap machine gun team are the original Minimodels figures but look like there has been some repainting, the MG on wire legs and large base are all original. ALMARK reissued the two figures with individual bases in their kit figure boxes but they didn’t do the MG or the big combined base.
There was also a pack mule to carry the MG in the original Minimodels set but ALMARK didn’t reissue this either.
I keep forgetting that they were mini models first and Almark second. Thanks for the update.
I suggest anyone interested in Lone*Star figure ranges should get the check list from Plastic Warrior
I agree PW has a series of guides to help you on British plastic.
Those the PW guide in LS cover the western buildings and accessories?
It is in color?
Alien in silver painted over-
I have the full set of space figures is base in Outer space characters-colorforms series in 50-52 mm scale approx .They were sold in window cases ,also in bags and as ring key variation too.An unpainted all silver version as machine toy also exist too.
Mark HK,CHINA and some come from Mexico too (silver)
I had a lot of them long ago from US toys that sold then in bags of 12 ,then ending reselling many for way $$ after find out they pay more.LOL
The set has 6 different charter poses alien/robots and 6 space mini space ships.
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