Odds Ends Part 5 MPC Items Timpo Horse ETC. we start of with some MPC items. First I show a instruction sheet and then another MASH figure. I have a Timpo horse I will ask the readers about. We post a few other interesting items as well.
Odds Ends Part 5 MPC Items Timpo Horse ETC. MPC
I am amazed what I have laying around the house. Here we have an instruction sheet for an MPC Wild West playset. It is two sided and very simplily drawn. 
The drawings show how to put the pieces together with no words.
The back side shows how to put the three different wagons including in the playset.
Going through the collection I found that I had another one of the MASH figures that MPC did. I believe it is Hawkeye Pierce. It shame they did these figures in such a small scale.
Odds Ends Part 5 MPC Items Timpo Horse ETC. Timpo Horse
My question on the Timpo horse is was it in the farm set only or also used in the westernsets as well?
Odds Ends Part 5 MPC Items Timpo Horse ETC. Photos 
Here we have a Timmee Army grenade thrower in tan. I picked him up at the Plastic Warrior in a box. Checking Ken Sprrecher’s site he mentions tan was only done in Germany As we have mentioned before Timmee had a factory there after the war.
Staying with Timmee for a moment the center figure is copy from China. He is downsized. The cowboy to the left is Leyla of Germany. It is another of the copies that was done in Mexico. the figure on the right is from the Revell WWII German pioneers. when I saw it it was like old friend coming home. I had sold the Revell sets on the list and did not keep any for myself. So I now add them back in when I see them.
I have quite a few Timpo figures including several of the baseless western horses in a corral set, and all mine have four straight legs in either white, black or red-brown. I have never seen a baseless Timpo horse in tan with one front leg cocked. I haven’t paid much attention to the Timpo farm sets, so that horse pose must be from the farm set only.
I really loved the REVELL 1:32/35 WWII sets!
Too bad they only made 4 of them. (And a little on the smallish side too)
BUT, the potential was great!
They were up-sizing their existing 1:72nd sets and had a lot of great ones to cherry pick from too! Oh well?
I agree too as were well poses distributed too and well done.
They blend well e Airfix and ESCI esrly sets but as typical maker of ling tun the saw their losses quickly and suspended.
I spoke to one representative in the NYC TF and his answer was.
Approx. .
“We never saw potentially a future on the line scale toy soldier sets and even the 1/72 was falling too”.
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The Revell 1/35 scale sets sold poorly and I can attest to that so they stopped production. Years later they became more popular but Revell has unique ideas on what to reissue so they have not been remade.
Regarding Timpo Horse think it maybe came both ways.
If download link works
https://www.mirofsoft.com/app/download/8538778849/Timpo+1973.pdf?t…
it comes out to be the 73 catalog showing a No. 175 counter box with farm animals, other horses included. Interesting catalog showing some Eskimo prototypes plus never produced Bren carrier drivers/gunners.
Just checked one of my corral boxes which included a version in black.
Maybe they intermixed with just what they had on hand.
Also possible Midnight Special train sets. Though mine (from Peter Bergners legendary Dannhausen raid. Will sure put a smile on his face when he reads this) hasn’t that specific horse.
Regarding Revell I do agree. Kind of sad that there was no longer a market when they came out with their 1/35 figure versions. At least when, by now almost all, the small toy shops in our area closed down they dumped out their inventory on largely reduced prices so I ended up with quite a number cheap Revell boxes.
Oh, plus maybe the only Apache prototype they had on hand when they went to the printers
The Timpo horse was also done with Bridle and reins on a base and sold with the western range as a mustang. I had the cowboy with lasso sitting on one. I think I still have him somewhere
Is the Leyla a copy or reissue in mexico were that cowboys and Indians mold are as off now and still produced?
I got then from mexico long ago but in nicer colors,so did a Bill Nevin too recently.
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I think forthe moment it is from Mexico, but who knows as the person gets lots of goodies from sources.
Interesting the tan Timmee figure. Did they also sell them in green in Germany? I find as I get older, I appreciate the figures I had when I was a kid. Timmee’s were most common arround my area and I had tons of the G.I.’s, the Airforce and Navy figures and some of the western figures. I have some of them in my collection now. Lido was next most common. I loved their G.I.’s and still like their poses, good solid action poses. Next most common were Mpc. I remember when I first saw bags of the Mpc Soldiers of the World. It was in a store called Gipsons and there was a whole section of bagged figures. I spotted some bags with figures I had never seen before. They had Germans, Japanese, and Russians together in the bags and I looked through all the bags to find one with the most different poses. I picked a large bag and a small bag, and went to find my Mother. my ideal being that if I couldn’t talk her into getting the large bag, maybe she would go for the small bag. Well, I got the small bag. To me, these still are the best figures Mpc ever made. The next most common figures to find in my area was Payton and Auburn. I had a few of those. I only saw MARX figures in the Christmas catalogs. I didn’t get any MARX G.I.’s and Germans till I was 8 yrs old. While I love the figures by Conte, TSSD, CTS, ect. the old figures I grew up with still have a special place in my collection.