Plastic Figure Showcase Part One February 2018 Update Reader’s Contributions we start with an update. Next we have several reader’s contributions. Steve Zobel shares a figure he made. I will show a few figures as well.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part One February 2018 Update Reader’s Contributions Update
The Cochise I talked about we got some more information on it. Paul Morehead of Plastic Warrior has told the figure was done by Poplar. He said it was not marked as Cochise. Hopefully he can find a photo of the box.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part One February 2018 Update Reader’s Contributions Contributions
We first have two links from readers. The first one is from Brian Johnson. He tells us of a warehouse of trains from a 60 year collection.
Next we have an article about a collection that was started by a Marx Moon Base playset.
Steve Zobel shared this figure he made.
Hi Paul.I don’t think I ever shared this with you, and yes, please post this in Stadsstuff.
I made it in 2005 or so. It’s an overmolded figure in seven colors, stands about 3″. All of the plastic is recycled.
The Yellow sombrero, Rust Red gun belt, and Green base were clothes hangers. The gun was a toy horse, the skeleton, the bottle and the crossbelt were from plastic baskets bought at a dollar store.
I didn’t have any tooling epoxy so I sand casted lead alloy molds. The injection machine was a 1116 Honajector lever press. Seriously primative technology.
The wording, “handmade” is upside down on purpose. I wanted people to have to turn the figure around to read it, make them more active with the figure. The yellow square in the background is a ruler, it’s 2″ square; it’s there for scale.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part One February 2018 Update Reader’s Contributions Figure Time
The figure on the left is an Oliiver copy of the Pech Hermanos Japanese. The figure is 60mm. Comansi made the figure on the right. Comansi made a lot of figures. It is 70mm. both companies are from Spain.
Marx President Eisenhower figure with hands raised except it is only one inch tall. Was it a special figure giveway? I got these figures from the legendry Marx auction.
Finally two swoppet style figures. The figure on the left is very likely a put together of various companies. The top is Plasty bottom is Hong Kong. The cowboy on the right is from Hong Kong I like head is more realistic.
Wow.SO the ebay seller I mention was correct about cochise figure.
As poplar also share molds with US brands I’m wonder if ever done here.
The skeleton figure looks intersting well done.
Good to represent the mexican traditional souvenir of” la muerte ”
Comansi pose is belong to nation armies sets series consisting of 6 to 8 poses per nation army.
The early painted were made w country name in base.Later was void off from mold.
Some mold suffer damaged and sets never produced or done w less poses.
The more intersting are the indians and cuban soldiers set in my opinion.
Best…
To Steve, I’m very curious to hear more about the Honajector and your molding process.
If you Google, Honajector, and look in Google images, you’ll see pictures of it. Honajectors are the green ones. There were lever (manual) versions and pnuematic versions. To my knowledge, Don Ducote of HTF uses a pnuematic one; the Honajector 1M, which has a 5″ air cylinder and a 1″ dia melt tube.
Mine was a model 1116 lever version. I modified it to give me a slightly larger shot size. I ground the ram holder down about 1/2″ and filed the lever at the ram pivot to allow the extra depression. I burnt out my Xacto because the iron filings got into the motor and shorted it out…lol.
How did you do the over-molding? Did you make other figures and can you show photos of them?
The Japanese soldier is not a Oliver copy of Peach. Oliver obtained the tooling from Pech and retooled the moulds, giving bases to the free standing figures.
I met the owner of Oliver back in the 1980sand have me the detail of how the two companies merged.
Oliver still makes figures but only Nativity ranges
Pech Hermanos never merge w any company. They (actually the younger brother) did and sold all molds to Puig and Oliver right after closing business in mid late 1970s the latest.The transaction took 3 years in fact.Never Oliver and PH or Oliver and any other had merge or sign corporation else.
Puig ended giving all rest to Oliver as Oliver was the figure main provided to Belenes Puig company and Oliver is the one that did add rectangular bases under bases of original Pech Hermanos that were most oval smaller bases.Not free standing(without base) foot pose except mounted,some prone was ever done by PH during entire production of this unique factory from 1952 till 1972
All PH poses had bases except mounted or tarzan in tree and one hunter on tree firing down at lion that was to be place in elephant as safari against tiger too
Then in 1977 Oliver redo the paena (block mold base ) and made the rectangular last bases type as in that japanese figure removing the old oval PH parts mold base original .
Oliver sold former PH molds to INDUSTRIAS PUCHOL latere in 80s who also owned most Jecsan molds since 1972/76.
Industrias Puchol in 1988 till late 90s lease some (4 poses blocks molds) of each original former PH and ex oliver sets of 12 poses each to BUM till BUM decide when was not good profits. That is why most BUM PH sets are only 4 poses minus s tarzan that was release complete in characteres minus one pose. PH made 7 poses of tarzan 1 Jane and one boy plus 12 hunters explorers and 12 natives poses and a huge set of wild animals in very unique poses.
industria Puchol by 2000 change all manufacture machinery and stock away all molds.some had been sold to private person.
Best.
I have two entire different year original PH catalog,one 1978 Oliver and two other Oliver’s catalog plus vast collection of PH and the Oliver nativity figures as Oliver redone copies molded of PH are not my interest after i have most soldiers from original PH.
Only Oliver soldiers original made by then i have are all 15 different Romans they did original in two main scales for their Nativity set in conjunction with Puig Belenes company that produced houses,cities ,trees and elce for nativity playsets.
All figures from PH i own and those in catalogo be either early rubber or later soft plastic from mid late 60s are with bases .Rubber were oval ,while soft plastic semi oval or with minor corners cuts else..
Oliver when took over first sold old PH stock,then redo the paenas(bases part of mold) twice with flat rectangular x most sets in their later production and actually redo some poses such banner carriers in each army set of WW2 and Us CAVALRY changing the arm pose and adding with stick,grenade or rifle were banner was.So yes they redo the molds or what is call in spanish books (retouched the figures mold possible )
The napoleonic,crusades,mexican PH mold apparently got damaged or destroyed as never redone under Oliver in later production any more.So far a mystery for several good well know spaniard book toy soldier writers.
best.
Here early rubber made first set of japanese by PH simple link sample partial set with oval high bases from PH .
https://www.todocoleccion.net/figuras-goma-pvc/8-soldados-japoneses-accion-goma-pech-hermanos-anos-50~x35241909
Here the artillery set of Japanese.sapmple
Please Note that PECH HERMANOS did WW2 japanese,american,british 8th army,afrika korps,germans regular infantry in summer plus a German shepherd mined(also used as Blue Spaniard division with different paint) and a russians/soviets set .Total 6 armies sets 12 poses each
Every set was 12 action poses plus each set had a extra 4 different poses army artillery crew plus a different cannon x each army set .Most cannons were mix modern and old but german AK and british were real WW2 models.They ADD 6 Heavy machine gun tripod and mortars later as well .All cannons in early production fired bullets .A generic tank was used x some set .
https://www.todocoleccion.net/figuras-goma-pvc/4-servidores-canon-canon-japoneses-2-guerra-mundial-goma-pech-hermanos-anos-50~x35242424#sobre_el_lote
I will have to stand on my comment as all that Oliver did was change the base. The basic figure is the same.
Update: I have feel that the Oliver figure would be a variation of the Pech hermanos
Damn predictive text turned Pech into peach !
Awesome job Steve !