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Old 06-13-22, 04:53 PM   #31
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Default Unknown Deep Sea Diver



The words "Made in Hong Kong" used to mean cheap tat when we were kids - rubbish toys knocked out for next to nothing. But this little diver I picked up recently looks like a real treasure after his makeover. I'm still trying to find out something about his background

He is less than two inches tall too, so the modelling here was very good for something from HK. There's even a little skull & crossbones moulded onto the lid of the pirates chest


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Old 06-22-22, 08:17 AM   #32
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Default Two more of my Britains Ltd 'Swoppet' knights

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Old 06-22-22, 10:57 AM   #33
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Nice! I'll delete my sarcastic first post for a -900 point penalty in the last Wacky-o-Skell game......

This Metatron dude has lot's of figures on his shelves (ooops).
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What'a a jouster with a frog mouth helmet doing fighting another knight who has a sword?
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Old 06-23-22, 04:25 AM   #36
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Old 06-23-22, 06:04 AM   #37
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Probably an early type of corona mask?

Seriously, they look good, and some fitting background for those photos!
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Old 06-23-22, 07:10 AM   #38
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Old 06-24-22, 12:59 AM   #39
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An old fashioned single-shot knight from Cherilea Toys. As a kid, I always found this figure a bit sinister for some reason. He's quite scarce, too, since he was only available in boxed sets - so fewer were produced and sold than others in this range. Original paintwork
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Old 06-24-22, 11:27 AM   #40
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Default Reamsa 11th Century knight

One of my favourite 1960s figures, this was by Reamsa of Spain. I shall not want to repaint this knight as he has almost 100% of his original paint remaining. What a great pose!



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Are you going to build some diorama over some famous battle from that era 11-1500 AC ?

If so-What famous battle do you have in mind ?

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Old 06-24-22, 01:13 PM   #42
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No, Markus - I collect these soft plastic toy figures simply for their own beauty and interest. I've put a printed pictorial background into these just to show them off in a more attractive setting - I have no plans to expand into dioramas except for perhaps adding a model tree or cactus plant here and there.

I have in the past built small dioramas when model-making with plastic kits, and I do have a friend who likes to amass his toy soldiers into very large dioramas with sculpted landscape and wooden buildings he makes himself. He constructed a huge diorama one time showing the battle for Rorkes Drift, in the Zulu wars. That's how he likes to display his toy soldiers but I have to say that it holds no interest for me





Here is an example of one of my military modelling dioramas - but it doesn't actually belong in this thread because these aren't toy soldiers
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Old 06-26-22, 04:14 AM   #43
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My favourite two from the small number of knights made by Lone Star in the 60s
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Old 09-20-22, 01:33 PM   #44
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Very charming "Gentleman-at-Arms" and a "Yeoman of The Guard", both seen in high profile during HM the Queen's funeral yesterday, produced by Cavendish Miniatures over many years and aimed squarely at the tourist market. Also in this series there is a London 'bobby', a guardsman and a couple of Household Cavalry troopers
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Old 09-25-22, 08:53 AM   #45
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Default Hilco plastic knights

The one in the middle of these very old (1950s) figures looks very like the Cherilea knight in post #39 but was actually a copy - slightly smaller and with a different style of base. These 3 have been repainted by me



Here's the Cherilea version again, now also repainted and in company with another scarce figure - 'Prince Valiant' - scarce because these two were only available in boxed sets so fewer were produced and sold

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