^ very nice :)

Just remember to have the reins in yer teeth when firing over the nag's head 'cause fer sure, the startled beast will not stand still at the loud report!https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...db7z4&usqp=CAU The 'Duke' got it right! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ocj6oxn65fo/hqdefault.jpg Jeff Bridges did too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocj6oxn65foPSSSST note saddle rifle scabbards at 0:16 in video:yep:

I believe T E Lawrence was charging into battle on one occasion with both hands off the wheel, when he shot his unfortunate horse dead from under him with his revolver (probably a Webley)

As for the rifle scabbard, Britains Ltd produced at least one western saddle with this featured (I have one on a model somewhere) also a pistol holster at the front was featured on some other patterns. All this poor cowpoke has on his is a water canteen, a blanket and a box for his Gene Autry CDs

https://i.imgur.com/bncyY3l.jpg

You might be interested in this Eich. Don't see too many WW2 Japanese figures.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmj0ZHRnsY&t=229s

^ Thanks, August - these look at first sight to be copies of Airfix figures, who made my cowboy. Others made by Airfix but not featured in the bucket include Russians and British in jungle dress. I'll post a few from each set shortly as I think I have all of them - they are such good sculptings they often get used in dioramas

Edit: Now that I've watched the whole thing through, it turns out to be true that some of the figures poses were copied from Airfix and others (as I'd guessed) from Matchbox - i.e. the British officer in sheepskin coat and the piper

Then there are a whole load that I've never seen before and they are very good; the Japanese are not, it seems now, copies of either Airfix or Matchbox and would be very compatible with both

I also realise having looked at the Airfix sets closely (for the first time, some of them) that I don't have them all. I'll post a few examples of some Airfix soldiers (I don't yet have any Matchbox in my army)

I love the animations he does at the end!

Some of my Airfix 1/32 - as yet unpainted
 

https://i.imgur.com/FXdlr1o.jpg Japanese Infantry WW2

https://i.imgur.com/5012Sqt.jpg Aussies WW2

https://i.imgur.com/zL2htXu.jpg US Infantry WW2

https://i.imgur.com/IUL3OTW.jpg Russians WW2

https://i.imgur.com/eCcSjA9.jpg British Paras 1

https://i.imgur.com/e4acmSH.jpg British Paras 2

https://i.imgur.com/oJX4Rre.jpg Wehrmacht

https://i.imgur.com/S4tCLCO.jpg Afrika Korps

I only have these three WW2 German figures, believe it or not - I'll have to put that right

More up to date
 

https://i.imgur.com/q4onx3x.jpg 'Modern' British infantry

He wears the "invasion pattern" (or "turtle") helmet - I was once kitted out with this as an army cadet, along with the plain olive drab 1960 pattern combat uniform and FN FAL rifle - but this guy doesn't have a gas mask

https://i.imgur.com/dgIqkLu.jpg 'Modern' German infantry

Watch one video and now it's into my feed.



Look at this one, 3000 figures!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqS4ljVLBOw

^ I got to 17:47 then lost the will to live :yep:

:haha:

Timpo-Toyway Romans
 

https://i.imgur.com/Nfr4Vud.jpg One of my repainted Romans (see my post #89)

He has the later chain mail protection as opposed to the more familiar "Lorica-Segmenta" plate armour - the Romans were always willing to borrow good ideas from the locals

These guys were all over my neighbourhood 1700 odd years ago and I've begun to get interested in Roman coins, many of which are fetched up from the soil around here by detectorists - I'll maybe put some pics in Col7777's thread later

I got legions of Timpo toys figures, from medieval to the wild west.
I gave them all to my nephew, along time ago ..

^ I gave away a lot of stuff to nephews too (such as my complete collection of Britains zoo animals) - been busy replacing it ever since :haha:

https://i.imgur.com/z2qlEMq.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/qnOhCfp.jpg Lorica-Segmenta armour

https://i.imgur.com/CyJ1yrn.jpg

A collector friend told me that these figures were intended for sale in museums and the like, so were designed with a view to accuracy