Here is the photo from Ed Borris of the Lido GI wounded. As you can see the figure is laying with his left arm behind his head and his right arm is across his chest. I was not aware of him until Kent mention him somewhere. As I said I have not found him in any of the Lido army figures I have gotten. I got both ofthe figures I found through a dealer. I have no idea where he was sold or how.
Is he wounded or just hiding from Sarge behind the Motor pool??LOL.
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He has a bandage on his head.
You may see a better close up of pose in all sides here .
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-wwll-lido-wounded-combat-s-1828096245
Was he part of a stretcher team?
Nobody knows, but we don’t think so.
The wounded figure is the only one we has seen. There has been no indiction that they were going to do a stretcher party.
Not a bad sculpt, really. It’s a shame there weren’t more of them made or at least they don’t seem as available.
This is a puzzle. I can’t think of any 50s to 60s American toy maker who had a reclining wounded man that didn’t also come with a stretcher and stretcher-bearers and maybe a nurse or doctor (as opposed to a guy being shot). Since we know the mold for the other Lido GIs is currently at J. Lloyd and he is not in it, this must have been a separate mold – but would Lido have had a mold with just this guy in it? I don’t think anybody here has said that they have seen a bag or carded set with the wounded man and the other GIs together. My suspicion is that he must have been made for some special set, maybe done for another company. But this is just speculation.
Well is not first time a separated pose mold is put x sale, in past Marx had some as well other brands,generally happen when intended x a set and never fully made ,or as prototype experiment else.
The figure is wounded and because has both legs slight open I have a theory that he may has been done to be in ground ,not necessary in stretcher as generally are made with legs together more closed or one raised up w in stretcher carried. .The hand back his neck holding up his head looks like not in stretcher either in my view but in a solid floor/ground position.
My observation and thoughts only ..
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Interesting note he is wearing a pistol holster on his LEFT side.
I believe is not a PISTOL holster.Just a regular pouch bag.
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Yes not a Pistol Holster but a Cargo pants pocket,the shadowing on the picture I looked at made it look like a holster.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-wwll-lido-wounded-combat-s-1828096245-Holster
Paul you can delete this as the page has been removed but it’s a Pistol holster,LOL.
Is not deleted i post the link above ,here is again ,is not a holster i actually dig out mine and as Ed mentioned ,is not.
the link not deleted from worth point has three angles close up images.
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https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-wwll-lido-wounded-combat-s-1828096245
I got him here in my hand, on his right hip he has something that resembles a canteen, on his left hip he has some kind of pouch Aside from the bandage on his head it looks like he may have tken a shot in the right arm.
I asked Effie (Lido owner) about the wounded man. Lido & T.Cohn were social friends and wholesaled product to each other . Lido wholesaled figures to T,Cohn and T.Cohn returned the favor and sent their brown hard plastic terrain pieces to Lido. The terrain set included stretchers and Effie told me they made the wounded man to be used with them in a few playsets. I have seen header card bags of Lido soldiers with the wounded man and once got 4 or 5 in a large lot Lido soldiers, but I have noticed that in the past 10 years the figure has become very hard to find.
Curiously, Airfix made a wounded figure in the set of German paratroops but he didn’t come in the early boxes and is harder to find, similarly they made a second officer for the Napoleonic French Guard which was never issued until the set was rerun for the American market (I think for CTS?)
Intersting!!.
I never had any issues w standing wounded in arm and head w bandages pose in the originals sets I hot twice .I even had run in the pose at shows a lot loose and bough to do conversion.
Of course as reissued too but all my FLJG are vintage sets.
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Kent with some other people had the Napoleonic figures run. He can give the background on that more on that project. CTS took over selling the Airfix.
Greg Coots of Present Past in Colorado asked if I would like to help him distribute the reissues of the Airfix 1/32 Napoleonic range. When the French Grenadier mold was run it included a second pose of an officer with sword that had not been included in the 1970s sets. No one at the factory could explain when the new figure had been put in the mold. We made the British Highlanders in red and army green, the British Line in red, army green and blue (made great 1812 US Infantry, the French Line in blue, red, tan & white and the French Grenadiers in blue, red & white. Sales were good the first few years but CTS wanted the business as they were making the Airfix 1/32 WWII line up and things got to be a hassle. With sales dramatically dropping we gave up the business to CTS.