Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four September 2018 Questions, Photos we will showed some figures that we have questions. Also we will show some interesting figures.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four September 2018 Questions, Photos Questions 
My first question is this Indian with a shield. First question is who made him? Second question is did he have a weapon in his right hand and if so what was it?
I know that this figure was made by Bullyland but do not know what series it is from. Do you?
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four September 2018 Questions, Photos Photos
This item I got a few years back at Big Lots. It is ambulance with stretcher party in 1/32 scale. It was made by Boley.
Here is another of the pirate flats from Italy. The pose is pirate advancing with knife. It is missing the base.
Here we have one of the Ideal Battle Action soldiers. Sadly he is missing the tip of his carbine. Ideal did eight different figures in this series three of them sitting poses. Figures are 70mm. They show up from time to time loose. 
We have already shown various Briadwood Indians. This time we have one of the Braidwood cowboys. They were supposely made by prisoners. I know I have other poses just have to find them. 
Remco did at least two different divers for their Voyage to the Bottom Sea set. The figures are hard plastic and had a tab on the bottom. Children broke the tab off so they use the figure. My figure is missing tip of the rifle. 
The figure on the left is by Bonux. This is a company from France that did a number of figures as premiums. I enjoy their quality. Some are copies of other companies. The figure is copy of the Timpo army firing automatic weapon. The figure could be Speedwell. This is the pose I saw in the Speedwell armor car on fire.
The GI on the left the last pic firing the reminds me of the 1/72 (or HO) pose in the ROCO mini-tanks figure sets; they came with separate bases. I also saw the pose (along with others from the ROCO set) in the Aurora “Rat Patrol” set. I always wished someone would have done them in 1/32. That looks more like 1/48, depending on what scale the other figure is. Didn’t Cohn come out with their own GIs, too; I’ve seen some on ebay and in other places – they look smaller scaled, too, so as tempted as I was I didn’t bite.
The figures you got in the Roco set were actually copies of Revell Monogram I believe. Revell Mongram did two sets of GI’s , the second series was a little larger in size than the first , the first series matches up well with the Eldon landing craft figures. I always assumed they were meant to be an add on or accompanying set to go with model tanks and related items . The second set were a more modern version of GI’s , the MG team had a M-60 and one of the figures looked to be carrying a M-14, they also had a motorcycle in the set. The earlier set was no doubt about it WWII with more dynamic poses.
I’d forgotten about Monogram. Thanks, Ed. They were nice figures, I wish someone had done them in 1/32 to match Marx.
I was hyped about the IDEAL Battle Action sets until I saw how big they were. Again, some beautiful figures; I just wished they were in scale with my other figures.
I was pretty picky about scale even as a kid. The only exception I really made was with the Andy Gard ACW figures – but they were so great…
the Bully figure is from a german fairy tail called Raeuber (robber) Hotzenplotz, it was one of my favorites, if I rememer right his pistol was filled with pepper. Was also made as a TV show, very funny. Gerd Froebe played him.
here is a link on character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robber_Hotzenplotz
The indian with shield is by French maker Clairet, it should be marked underneath the base or on the leg, the weapon was a spear.
I look under the base and either the magnifyier or light could not make it out.
The Braidwood figures were made by patients at BRAIDWOOD HOSPITAL near Glasgow, Scotland ,as a way of rehabilitating them to get back into work after serious health problems, mental and physical.
I could not remember which it was prisoners or patients as it has been so long since I was told that information.
Charbens figures were made in UK prisons at one time
Well i guess no much difference between person with mental problem lock in a asylums and a prisoner i guess when regarding to be literally forced enclosed with full restriction .
my thoughts
The ambulance was sold repack by New Ray but made by Boley as figures marked bellow in different large playset that bring 4 poses fire rescue and 4 police officer in early 90s with original Boley playset .
Sold at Kb TOYS ,others brand repack it as well.There is a nurse and Dr pose as well in my large playset.
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The Ideal soldiers are nice poses,the machine gun pose is awesome,yet they run in the 70/75 mm scale ,tanks to EXF they blend match as well the reissues Ideal Gi’s to use in the large scale scenes.Only odd in these playset poses were the helmet made hybrid German mix with american helmet and uniforms post WW2.Thy are nice x Korea.
the exploding road bridge and bunker machine gun nest were great toys .
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Yeah, the Battle Action sets are cool, but as someone stated they are rather large and they came without a clear enemy, the enemy was the same poses in different colors. I have beem tempted many times to pull the trigger and buy some of those sets as they aren’t outrageously expensive, but I know I’ll want to pull the string all the time and sooner or later they are going to stop functioning and then I have a set I paid $300.00 for that is now worth $30.00. I had a working Horrible Hamilton and of course I had to play with him and one after one pull too many the plastic piece that stopped the string from retreating into the bowel of Horrible Hamilton fell part and he ate the string. One day I have to find someone that has the skill to fix it.
Ed, I know the feeling. Many years ago I just had to own a Remco Whirlybird helicopter. The bottom of the helicopter featured a metal chain winch. Pulling on it one too many times I stripped the chain to the extended position. Half the fun of the copter was now gone. The EBAY price I paid was also gone. I figure I will end up selling it for parts.
One day I’ll find someone to fix Horrible Hamilton or I’ll have to resort to doing it myself. Someone out there must be more talented than I. Your story reminds me of my Golferino, they made the golfer operate with the same type of chain they use for cheap key chains, you know those little metal balls connected with string. Golferino worked as a functional game for about three weeks before it became a battlefield for my Giant Civil War figures. Golferino was one defensive posion the terrain piece for Moon Base was the other. Moon Base became boring about the same time as Golferino bought the farm.
Reminds me of when my mom bought me a Marx filling station for my birthday one year. It didn’t take long for the building to be converted into a strongpoint for my toy soldiers.
Hi Ed,
Believe it or not, when the Battle Action sets do not work great, they are not that hard to repair. As long as the parts aren’t smashed, one can usually take them apart, lube them up, and get them working again. I’ve done that with the booby trap and the sniper post. I’ve even rehabbed the twin howitzer set, but that was a bit more work.
That Braidwood cowboy isn’t bad, except his head seems overly large.
The Braidwood cowboy reminds me of the sculpting style of Italian Cromoplasto figures.
https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/232132061537_/Soldatino-Cromoplasto-Cowboys-Indiani-Nordisti-Sudisti-Far-West.jpg
Were Braidwood figures exported or were they only available in the UK? When were they on the market? I’m guessing late 60s-mid 70s?
When I first found the same voyage diver at a second hand store,I thought it may have belonged to a 20,000 Leagues set.Afew weeks later I recived My voyage to the bottom of the sea set. There was the diver plus an other one holding what appears to be a metal detector.The do make great non Disney divers.
I have always wondered why Remco made those figures to go with the Seaview. Unless they wore those outfits in the original movie I only remember the sleek AMF Voit skindiving suits. They do look like the underwater figures from the Disney 20,000 Leagues film.
The movie had the same diving suits as the television show. Most of the special effects footage was reused in the television show.