Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2017 we have two interesting photos from Peter Begner. Next I will show some items I found in a junk box. Finally we show some other figures as well.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2017 Peter Bergner
Peter Bergner got two strange items. The first blister card is by Jean of Germany. The card is called Puppies.
The second blister card Peter got was copies of Elastolin Romans and Vikings. The figures are 54mm. He got the figures from Greece with some space figures for his collection.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2017 Figures from a Junk Box
As everyone knows I like junk boxes. You never what you find in it. In the latest junk box there were these two conversion. The one on the right is Marx 60mm Pioneer woman. she originally had a rifle. That has been removed. I do not recognized the figure on right. do you know?
Here are two figures of the Ideal Fort Cheyenne. The mounted figure as noted before is a copy of Timpo Mounted figure. The foot figure is copy Britains Herald Civil War.
The two cowboys are 45mm copies of the Ajax five inch cowboys. The five inch figures were later made by Joy toy and Tootisetoy. (Source Toy Headquarters) The clown is a copy of the Fontanni clown.
The last figure is mounted cowboy with lasso. Do you recognize him.
Plastic Figure Showcase Part Four July 2017 Other Figures
I am picking up Dulcop figures when I see them. Here we have the 60mm medicine man. The pirate is a copy of the Marx 60mm pirate. This figure was very likely sold as a cake decoration.
The last figure is a mystery figure for me. I thought it might be from Ajax, but checking Kent’s site I could not find it. do you know who made it.
I think the cowboy is a fairly recent China-made figure. They are also available in painted versions. The other figures in the set are mostly altered copies of Airfix 1/32 and one Marx 6 inch cowboy, with a few original poses. Here is a set on Amazon that has the painted version of the cowboy converted to a foot figure with the addition of a base. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51RlZ92NsIL.jpg
Andy and Mark thanks for the update on the figure. I figure it was made in China. I am just not famaliar as with more recent figures as I have not been going to stores. I got tired of finding nothing.
This guy has been around for probably 15 years.
Blue mounted cowboy is cheap current common Chinese product
seen here in yellow with some paint:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/COWBOYS-and-INDIANS-GIANT-42-Pc-Play-Set-Teepees-Canoes-Chiefs-Indian-/232330023895?epid=2000370598&hash=item3617f2d3d7:g:ylUAAOSwR29ZEr4K
The conversion on the right of the Marx Pioneer woman looks like it was originally the Herald Robin Hood figure, I’m going by the base, the boots and stance of the pose. Someone has gone to a lot of effort to make a really bad figure out of a good one, but I guess we’ve all done that! I have a case full of conversions that seemed like a good idea at the time but just didn’t work out.
I confess to making conversions I don’t like or sometimes at a show someone will point one out that doesn’t quite look right. In those cases I disassemble and start again or he goes into the parts department. Other times I start out with an idea and half way through I find my idea sucks so he ends up being something else, often much better than my orginal idea.
The romans/viking pack is interesting, I have them but mine are mark HK below and there areother poses as well Huns copies too .
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Peter’s card is very likely from hong Kong. He noted he got it from Greece along with some space toys.
When I was a kid, I had a set of Hong Kong made Elastolin Roman and Viking clones in the same poses, but mine were blue, purple, pink and yellow soft plastic figures with orange hard plastic swords and spears for the ring hands. I forget if they were in a bag or on a card like that one. I think it was a card, but the packaging only lasted about two minutes after I got them home. I remember I got them from a spin rack at a privately owned corner convenience store in Ottawa, Canada.
About the Jean “Puppies” figures. On looking at them, you immediately note that there are, in fact, no puppies in the set. However, the German word for “dolls” is “puppen” so maybe “puppies” means “dollies” in German?
Yes you are correct.
Mark, If you search here there are pix of those Elastolin copies that I sent in. Twice in one day, I picked up bags of them at the flea market.
I hadn’t seen them in 25 years at least and then I find 2 bags on the same day.
What are the odds?
The JH card is belong to sets
of Lego style series launch by company, they did in scale toy type trucks,construction sets,doll house,farms ,animals.
Then went to the series BIG where they went more to try match the Playmobil series in competition with AIRGAM but soon after abandon it.
It is from this last series they did the nice huge Viking ship I got 3 of then.
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The odd figure next to the Marx pioneer woman conversion is also a conversion using the Britains Herald Robin Hood figure cropping off the bow and hat and re-positioning the arms. Red Air Force figure was made by Processed Plastic about 1962 before they took over Tim-Mee Toys (in 1964).