Eichhörnchen's Armies - Page 18

Eichhörnchen · 12-19-23, 06:45 AM

He better watch out for these guys though

Eisenwurst · 12-19-23, 06:54 AM

Scratchbuilt cactus ??? If so then good job. I got a big one ( cactus ) growing by the letterboxes. I think they flower very rarely. It shot up a big flowery stalk about 12 foot high ( true ) and had pretty yellow flowers. I got a photo somewhere, but the bastard building gardener cut it off.

Eichhörnchen · 12-19-23, 07:40 AM

Nah - that cactus behind the two chiefs is a plastic toy from "Timpo" - I've got quite a few cacti over the years

Gorpet · 12-21-23, 12:13 AM

I was in the neighborhood and want to say Merry Christmas to your family, from Gorpet and his family.

Eichhörnchen · 12-29-23, 02:00 PM

Right backatcha, buddy

Eichhörnchen · 12-31-23, 12:20 PM

Wm Britains Ltd. bought out the smaller comany 'Herald Toys' in the 1960's, bringing into their fold some of the nicest toys ever produced. These included wild west figures such as this cowpoke and - later on & clearly inspired by these - they introduced their own 'Swoppet' range featuring novelties like guns removable from holsters and interchangeable heads, legs and torsos, allowing for endless permutations; I'll post some of these later

Aktungbby · 12-31-23, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by desireable artist

...allowing for endless permutations...interchangeable heads

...no one actually dies of old age; but rather one of the 'endless permutations" suddenly... isn't!

Eichhörnchen · 12-31-23, 12:52 PM

^
I have enough permutations already - although I have a feeling they haven't done with me yet

I once told my doctor that I ought to be renamed "The King of Co-morbidity"

Eichhörnchen · 01-01-24, 06:24 AM

Two of Cherilea's early 50mm plastics - completely different to the later 60mm figures

Eichhörnchen · 01-01-24, 10:33 AM

Crescent's medicine man dances around Herald Toys' totem pole

Aktungbby · 01-01-24, 12:15 PM

what is an Eskimo, Kalispell or Lummi tribe totem-pole doing in a treeless Plains buffalo-hide teepee village?...Much less dancing a traditional pole raising 'potlatch' ceremony

in an eagle-feather'd warbonnet or cape? Just finding suitable long tent-poles also used for travois on tribal migrations in search of bison tenderloin, humps and hides was hard enough in them-thar daze much less toting 90' weighty wooden statuary on the trip!

Buddahaid · 01-01-24, 12:23 PM

Cultural appropriation?

Eichhörnchen · 01-01-24, 12:35 PM

^ It was probably all they had at Walmart

Now the posse is close on the heels of that bank-robbing varmint

When suddenly he's away, quicker than a jackrabbit

Shoulda not wore a bright yeller shirt?

Eichhörnchen · 01-01-24, 01:05 PM

Later Swoppets were often produced in a bendy vinyl-like material, as was this one, and vinyl- based paints were used increasingly for better adhesion; polythene plastic figures were always prone to flaking paintwork

Aktungbby · 01-01-24, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

Gotta luv them

s!

12-19-23, 06:45 AM	#256
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Britains "Herald" He better watch out for these guys though __________________

12-19-23, 06:54 AM	#257
Eisenwurst Silent Hunter Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 3,633 Downloads: 58 Uploads: 0	Scratchbuilt cactus ??? If so then good job. I got a big one ( cactus ) growing by the letterboxes. I think they flower very rarely. It shot up a big flowery stalk about 12 foot high ( true ) and had pretty yellow flowers. I got a photo somewhere, but the bastard building gardener cut it off. __________________ Last edited by Eisenwurst; 12-19-23 at 07:24 AM.

12-19-23, 07:40 AM	#258
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Nah - that cactus behind the two chiefs is a plastic toy from "Timpo" - I've got quite a few cacti over the years __________________

12-29-23, 02:00 PM	#260
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Right backatcha, buddy __________________

12-31-23, 12:20 PM	#261
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	And on the green prairie: Wm Britains Ltd. bought out the smaller comany 'Herald Toys' in the 1960's, bringing into their fold some of the nicest toys ever produced. These included wild west figures such as this cowpoke and - later on & clearly inspired by these - they introduced their own 'Swoppet' range featuring novelties like guns removable from holsters and interchangeable heads, legs and torsos, allowing for endless permutations; I'll post some of these later __________________ Last edited by Eichhörnchen; 12-31-23 at 12:57 PM.

12-21-23, 12:13 AM	#259
Gorpet Still Searching Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: A country in Evolution Posts: 764 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	I was in the neighborhood and want to say Merry Christmas to your family, from Gorpet and his family.

12-31-23, 12:52 PM	#263
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ I have enough permutations already - although I have a feeling they haven't done with me yet I once told my doctor that I ought to be renamed "The King of Co-morbidity" __________________

01-01-24, 06:24 AM	#264
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Cherilea 50mm Two of Cherilea's early 50mm plastics - completely different to the later 60mm figures __________________

01-01-24, 10:33 AM	#265
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Crescent's medicine man dances around Herald Toys' totem pole __________________

01-01-24, 12:15 PM	#266
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,911 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	what is an Eskimo, Kalispell or Lummi tribe totem-pole doing in a treeless Plains buffalo-hide teepee village?...Much less dancing a traditional pole raising 'potlatch' ceremony in an eagle-feather'd warbonnet or cape? Just finding suitable long tent-poles also used for travois on tribal migrations in search of bison tenderloin, humps and hides was hard enough in them-thar daze much less toting 90' weighty wooden statuary on the trip! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 01-01-24 at 01:15 PM.

01-01-24, 12:23 PM	#267
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,566 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	Cultural appropriation? __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

01-01-24, 12:35 PM	#268
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Britains "Swoppets" - interchangeable figures ^ It was probably all they had at Walmart Now the posse is close on the heels of that bank-robbing varmint When suddenly he's away, quicker than a jackrabbit Shoulda not wore a bright yeller shirt? __________________

01-01-24, 01:05 PM	#269
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,763 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Siesta Later Swoppets were often produced in a bendy vinyl-like material, as was this one, and vinyl- based paints were used increasingly for better adhesion; polythene plastic figures were always prone to flaking paintwork __________________