Sir Gawain

9 Responses to Sir Gawain

1. Ed Connell says:

   November 9, 2012 at 1:01 AM

   He’s definitely knightly looking Paul. Poor guy is missing his arm, he must have seen many battles. I wonder what stories he could tell if he could talk. Were other marx Gawain figures that you have ever seen painted, or did they have the plug in arm as well Paul ? Does he have a sword molded on his side, or back, because I can’t tell.
   Maybe he is supposed to be without it however. Thanks for sharing him.

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   • Ed Borris says:

     November 9, 2012 at 8:00 AM

     Strange, his right arm is missing but he still has his right hand. Curious injury indeed. Must have had some amazing surgeons in those tiimes.

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     • admin says:

       November 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM

       Ed
       It is strange how they made him with separare arm piece, but the right hand is on the figure.s

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   • admin says:

     November 9, 2012 at 3:00 PM

     Ed
     The Europeans did several Prince Valiant figures whichwere painted. Besides the Elastolin. There was a Spanish company. Yo0u have to be careful as Spain had a similar character Captain Trueno (I hope I have that right) by Estroplast which have some wild characters. This was based on a popular comic strip in Spain and the figures are quite expensive.

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2. Bill Nevins says:

   November 9, 2012 at 2:34 AM

   Paul, Is it in hard plastic, almost Elastolin-like? I have several of these, but I always thought that they were Elastolin knock offs. I have 3 or 4 different characters, although I don’t collect knights, so I have no idea who they represent.
   Interestingly enough, one of the figures is missing an arm. The socket is there, but the plug arm is not.

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   • admin says:

     November 9, 2012 at 2:56 PM

     Bill
     Yes he is hard plastic you might think elastolin. I have a Prince Valian with sword over head, which I have to find my picture I recently did.

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3. Ed Connell says:

   November 9, 2012 at 6:10 PM

   According to one of the oldest Welsh surviving poems of the Arthurian legends, ( approx. 600 AD) which I believe relates to the last battle of Badden Hill, (which is modern day Bath, which was a Roman Hill Fort, and spa, because of its hot springs ) (The battle lasted for 3 days and nights with non stop fighting, based on Legend of course, I also think it was the last battle of a series of 12 battles of Arthur to unite England or repel the Saxons, my memory is a little hazy at the moment).

   Paul you probably know more about that than me since you have been to England, and I am sure you researched the Roman forts there, because of your figure line ( well its at least possible you researched them).

   Sir Gawain fell, he is actually named in the poem. I can’t remember where I read that poem, but your figure brought back that memory to me. I think a total of three of Arthur’s famous knights fell in that famous last battle of legend, and Arthur himself may even have been mortally wounded there as well, however I do not remember if that poem states that. ( I don’t think it even mentions Arthur for that matter).

   It does mention Gawain though. I read that poem well over 20+ years ago, so if someone else knows about it, or knows it, and I am wrong forgive me. I researched Arthur, and read everything I could about him or any of his knights many years ago, because I was interested in the subject. Obviously if I would have lived in England I might know a lot more about the subject than I do now. Plus I apologize for going so far off topic, I sometimes do that, I can’t help it, its a curse.

   Thanks for the info on the Spanish companies as well Paul. I was never aware of them, nor have ever seen any of the figures that you mentioned, I am really ignorant on many of these Companies, and figures, especially from other parts of the world.

   It saddens, and humbles me, and excites me, at how little I actually know about toy soldiers. Yet I have tried to collect them and learn about them all my life, lol. I thought my collection was huge, I have no more room to even store anymore, and I only picked certain figures I liked generally, there are some exceptions, so I can only imagine at some of the other collections out there now.

   Your Gawain figure does look more like an Elastolin figure than a Marx one, to me as well. Plus I have never seen a painted Marx one ( not saying he didn’t either though ), I figured maybe Marx did some, and Marx did a lot of things that I am not aware of, like a plug arm as well ?!? Maybe he’s a Herald knock off of Elastolin ( the reason I am stating that is because of the catapult operator, rock loader figures they had in some of their catapult sets, they were 54mm hard plastic (if memory serves me right). However Elastolin/Prieser definitely sold (made ?) those exact same 2 figures in 70mm as well ?

   Apparently, anything may be possible when you are talking about numerous companies, who copied what, etc. I am not sure of Herald ever doing 60mm either though, Maybe he was like a WOW figure by Marx, (that was pretty rarely done, and only sold in a limited capacity) sorry I can’t help you out more guys.

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4. Mark Hegeman says:

   November 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM

   Look very carefully and you can see “HONG KONG” on the front of the base. I have 3-4 poses like that all marked “HONG KONG”. So, yes he is a knock off. I believe Reamsa also did a number of poses that were almost identical to the Elastolin and they were licenced by Elastolin. I will have to check but I think it was Figuren Magazine that did the article. I also have the large scale Comansi Gawain copy.

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   • admin says:

     November 9, 2012 at 9:12 PM

     Mark
     You are right on the Hong Kong. Yes it is a knock off one the more interesting knock offs. I tried for a Comansi figure but was out bid. You are right on the Reamsa.

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