Plastic Figure Showcase Part One Georg Maiwald MPC 11 Figures More we have lots to cover. Georg Maiwald from Germany shares some of the buildings he has done. Rich Fisher has a question of the MPC GI are there ten or eleven figures. I will share a few figures as well.
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Laurie and I met Georg Maiwald many years ago in Germany. I have made contact with him again through Facebook. Georg does these great buildings out foam and wood.
Here we have us looking down an Arab street. Georg has done a number of buildings in 54m and 1/72 scale.
Around look at his buildings with Britains Deetail Arabs racing bye.
Georg is working on a Viking house. You can the drawing he is using for his structure.
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Rich Fisher going through his MPC Army figures discovered that he had eleven different poses. He wondered if there was a twelfth pose.
The problem revolves around there are three advancing poses with the rifle. Two do not have bayonets the other one does.
There is difference in the detail. One of the figures has shovel on his back. Another figure has no webbing on his helmet. Kent Sprecher lists only 10 poses. What are your thoughts?
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We have a few links we need to catch up on. First Expeditionary Force is showing photos of their Woodland Indians
LOD Enterprises is planning on doing a six inch British Grenadier and six inch Santa Claus. I do not see it on his site. ( It was on his Facebook page.) He does have special preorder sale on his new Revolutionary War figures which can see here.
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DSG of Argentina got access to Britains Deetail molds that been left in Argentina. First they made the figures like Britains but then they adapted to be other periods. The above figures were base on the Deetail Napoleonic. DSG sold them various different troops ranging from U.S.Marines to Mexican infantry. You see examples here.
Americana acquired access to the various molds that BMC had done. They continued with these sets but made variations. One of those variations was Irish Brigade. Except for the two character figures the soldiers were BMC in green. Above is one of the character figures Father William Corby. The figure is a copy of the statue at Gettysburg.
The E-force figures are great, I especially like the cannon.
I have mine in 10 poses.the one with out net looks a copy made by else to me.Is not included in mine .But I could be wrong.
MPC issue alike set in what is call 45mm but to my measure are 52/54 and the ione as 54 are in fact 56/58 mm or taller.
i had seen MPC sets copies with out mark in bags and loose too .Maybe MPC made several molds of same or rework it …
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Aren’t there really three distinct sets of MPC GIs? You have the small ones Erwin mentioned above. (I used to get those in bags of 100 for a buck at Grants and loved them!) Then there are the roughly 54 mm GIs with no holes in the bases. Finally, there are the slightly larger GIs with the holes in their bases. There are similarities in poses between all three groups. I got a bunch of the 54 mm no holes in the bases GIs years ago in those Miner? sets that were available in KB Express outlets that also included what I think were Payton reissue trucks, jeeps, and cannons. The hole in base guys were used by the Toystreet/new Marx folks for their “Battleground” sets in ToyRUS and elsewhere that were virtually all MPC – the MPC GIs, Germans, bunker, tanks and vehicles. I think only some cannons were actually Marx.
I had see two the 54mm(call 45mm) and are not 45mm and the one close to 60mm.
They differ a bit in some detail.
I seen others that look a copy w bases rectangular too…
Maybe MPC did a redone set or Payton that copied many MPC such western and space men did too.
I had even seen HK vopies of then too.
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I’ve always considered there to be three different sets of MPC GIs. The smaller guys I got with various sets; and then the two larger scales that were almost identical to me (I probably still have examples of both in one of my boxes) – the big difference I remember was one group had smooth helmets while the other group had creases to simulate camouflage netting. I can’t remember offhand which had the hole in the stands or not but do remember some had them and others didn’t.
There are 3 different sets of MPC/Miner G.I.’s/Marines, ( The Marines were in blue and steelblue colors I believe.). There were the 45mm figures, then the 54mm figures with the helmets thet looked like they had netting in 8 poses, this had the running with bayoneted rifle. Then there was a later set that had altered copies of the earlier 54mm figures but no netting on helmet and no bayoneted rifle plus two new figures, advancing/walking with greasegun and kneeling firing M-1 rifle, making a total of 10 poses. The last set may have been made by Miner. I had lots of MPC figures growing up, (Along with Timmee and Lido.) Thats what all the stores in town sold. One 5 and 10 did carry MARX 6 inch figures. It was a while before I got any MARX G.I.’s and Germans. I was always happy for whatever Toy Soldiers I got. They all got played with.
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Opps, thinking about it, I may be wrong about the 2nd set of 54mm MPC G.I.’s having 10 poses. I think the bazookaman and walking with rifle at waist with the netted helmets from the first 54mm set was replaced by the kneeling rifleman and advancing with greasegun poses in the 2nd 54mm set, making 8 poses. Sorry, hope I didn’t cause any confusion.
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You can get a bunch of the 54 mm smooth helmet, no hole in base GIs at Classic Toy Soldiers (look in the inexpensive toy soldiers section) and I imagine other places. There are 9 poses, including the kneeling shooter and advancing with greasegun. I have no idea which came first, the no hole in base, or the hole in base GIs. Both seem to have been recast like mad in the 90s and early 2000s. I think I prefer the smooth helmet GIs, though some of their bases are really narrow, making them wobbly. The hole in base guys always seemed a bit too skinny to me. The often cheap and brittle plastic of the recasts didn’t help. I wonder where the molds are now?
But to me any how they are the less desirebles figures in American army as in many poses are base in marx,auburn ,tim mee ,Eldon and very flat skinny ,plus mold is very wasted in many production sets .Any how I got one set w 11 poses only no need others.
But got bunch loose left over in large lot will drop off my ebay x sale along w others soon
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I saw some a guy had painted up one time (many, many moons ago) to go with a model tank he’d done. They painted up pretty well – better than I expected.
I agree they aren’t the most elegant of figures out there, but they do have their own charm, I think. For those of us who grew up in the 50s, 60s, and 70s – MPC filled out our armies – they were cheap and available. My favorites are still the littler guys – I got a whole bunch of them in all sorts of colors (OD green for GIs, silver for Air Force, and medium blue for Marines) – I used them for Japanese until I discovered the MPC Japanese figures. I didn’t even know Marx made Japanese until I saw the small cereal box (was it “Bravo Squad?”) playsets when I was going to college on my GI Bill and picked up two boxes (managed to snag all the Japanese and GI poses between the two boxes – talk about hitting the jackpot).
Not doubt u and many would Wayne.
I did not know of then till 90s.Still give then some space in my collection.But in modern sets I barrely repeat poses too.
As the three sets are pretty much same and so much choices today I skip those.But I’m sure I will had like then back then too.
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The building are very well done ,it remind me of those made in 50s till 80s for (Belen ) =Nativity playsets in Spain for Puchol,Puig and Oliver ,still around made of light cardboard,wood and cork bark materials .I have few of those in my collection .
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