Odds, Ends Part Six Starlux Knight, Mokarex Reader’s Question as get to the end of the month. First up is a StarluxMounted Knight. Second we have a Mokarex figure and the interest story behind who it represents. Nicole Calas sent a photo of some figures to see if you know who made them. Floyd wilson share a photo of the special figure of ron Barzso with the 60mm Marx Robin Hood
Odds, Ends Part Six Starlux Knight, Mokarex Reader’s Question Starlux
As I go sorting through things, I keep finding things. In one spot I found the Starlux mounted knight. Another spot came up with the Starlux knight horse. Hopefully this is right horse.
I really like Starlux knights. One of the castles I owed is from Starlux. sadly it sits still in the box. One of these days I will find a spot for it.
Odds, Ends Part Six Starlux Knight, Mokarex Reader’s Question Mokarex
Every so often when I am listing a Mokarex figure I get interested in the story behind the figure. An example of this is the above figure. The name on the figure is Joseph Bara. Checking Wikipedia, I found out that Joseph was a drummer boy during the French Revolution. Joseph was too young for the army so he served with a group of counter revolutionaries. He was caught by some brigands and killed. Bara was turned into a martyr by Robespierre. the pose seems to be based on a painting showing Joseph being shot.
Odds, Ends Part Six Starlux Knight, Mokarex Reader’s Question Question
I received this photo from a Nicole Calas. She was trying to find out who made them. Over the years I get lots of photos to see if I know the figures. In this case I have not seen them before. Have you seen these figures?
My only gripe about Starlux is they don’t/didn’t do scales I collected. Some beautiful figures – almost makes me want to expand my collecting. I also find Mokarex interesting, I’ve managed to get some of their figures over the years. Some great character figures that really can add variety to a scene. Great shares, Paul.
The top figure in Nicole’s picture appears to be a rather crude copy of an Authenticast Confederate infantryman marching. The other figures in green look to be Italians, going by the flag, and under the chips in the paint they seem to be made of a plaster composition material, rather than plastic, with rifles cast in metal which has a fairly high lead content. This would fit with the type of material most Italian “pasta” composition figures were made of.
The style of the drummer and bugler are reminiscent of the of the poorer quality German composition figures of the 1920’s but I would say they are later maybe post war copies in that style. I have an extensive collection of books and figures made in composition materials but I can’t find anything that looks quite like these.
The semi flat or flat marching infantry Italian soldiers are made in Italy post 1948 by several makers and generic ,they are lead or cast in different metal and composition material as well ,sold in wood box sets or loose ,they are missing 5 poses plus a mounted officer ,they are believe extracted from generic poses from a XIX century army set mold converted over and painted in this set with post 1947 army colors and new Italian flag colors .These mold and figures are cast still today by smaller makers in Europe and South America as well.
the sets had been showed in Italian model magazine and books, same sets in different color had been list in south American blogs as well
The same had been used and is sold as many army bands for many armies/marines such Mexican army as well.
They can be made today repeated as these molds had been redone all over and can be done flat in plastic, ceramic type, resin or lead metal material.
The other figure need a better photo ,barely can see any like that and angle .
It looks like Kresge composition 40s/50s figures but hard to say
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Great looking Knight !
I think the mounted knights is part of knight of camelot set/series ,the one with round shield looks like base in prince valiant .The pose was done with different ar shiels and painted version .Figures does not look like early production base in horse type base that is rectangular.Early horses have terrain with grass irregular bases and color of figures was done much deep and detailed.
While i got few starlux had been a long miss in my collection because so high priced to get so many then ,same as elastolin .
Once i start a set i like get it complete.Starlux fragility is another stop x me too.
yet they made nice series poses while other were too 2D dimensional,crossbow posees were very well done in some.
My thoughts.
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Bara was with Revolutionary army and has been killed by royalist counter revolutionaries (not brigands) in Vendée (West of France).
Brigands is the word used by Robespierre in his propaganda talking
According to others were peasants…
Any how he was kill very joung.
the word Brigands was used in the Wikipedia article.
Robespierre the Incorruptible (his contemporary nickname) and Berthoux are BOTH correct: the killers were brigands AND royalist counter-revolutionaries, determined to bring down the newly created Republic by restoring a decadent, outdated monarchy. Fortunately, for the cause of Liberty, Equality, & Fraternity, the reactionary aristocrats failed. And today France remains a republic, despite the efforts of royalists and a few deluded peasants who didn’t know any better. The great majority of France supported what was to become one of the first, great democratic revolutions in replacing a monarchy with a republic.
But poor, young drummer-boy Joseph Bara had to die at their hands. He was rightly eulogised by Robespierre, as a martyr to a free France, in a revolution supported by Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and the Marquise de LaFayette.