^ Very interesting - the style of sculpting of these looks highly similar to that of Conte Collectibles, who model their 60mm figures in a soft rubbery material. Conte's toy soldiers are so good as to make them very suitable for use in dioramas as models, as well as toys

https://i.imgur.com/SxgPW29.jpg https://i.imgur.com/9AXwmIQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Qja5utu.jpg

Saw a rant disguised as a review complaining about some American Indian toy soldier sculpts being make exclusively in "red" plastic. :har:

Amazingly resilient, they were still being used in WW2. :03:

You should go watch the guy eat a Boer War ration in the prepping thread. :har:

"Where are we now Sailor, plus 6 or minus 18 Zulu?"


"Dunno Sir, it's too dark thirty to see my watch!"

Crescent Toys 60mm Modern Army
 

The real main provider of carpet cannon fodder back in the 1960s was probably british maker Crescent Toys. And for a few of their ranges they produced figures in two distinct sets and scales - 54mm and 60mm. Although on the same themes (i.e. Army, cowboys, red indian warriors) the figures are quite different and clearly by two different sculptors

https://i.imgur.com/1b3Iiir.jpg They are very different


https://i.imgur.com/WgYc0b2.jpg

This is the large sized 'Modern Army' set and, as with the Herald figures, the accurate portrayal of weapons was not over important

"Lone Star" Normans
 

These guys from Lone Star's 'Harvey' series were very familiar to those of us making war in our short pants in the 1960s. They came in green plastic so have always been associated with the 'Robin Hood' set which are in exactly the same colour and have identical bases. This has often seen them described as 'the Sheriff's men', although they were designed to crew Lone Star's two siege machines, so what the Sheriff of Nottingham's men would be doing playing with these I don't rightly know; the catapult in my photos is not by Lone Star - I used it just to display the figures as it looks near the right scale

See my earlier post here for more info: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...4&postcount=64

I love the Norman captain who seems to be directing the crew - he's a great looking figure just on his own. I resisted the temptation to give them colourful heraldic surcoats and opted instead for this overall colour of dark leather with some metallic bronze mixed in - I wanted them to look more like battle-worn veterans than men-at-arms at a tournament

https://i.imgur.com/GJhUBS2.jpg https://i.imgur.com/tloST6Y.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4rkmDU5.jpg

I think the Captain's head would make a great Genghis Khan. :up:

Yes he would - I did tickle a little bit of colour into his 'tache since it's a generous one

Lone Star
 

https://i.imgur.com/9QXxCg5.jpg

Lone Star warrior king from the same 'Harvey' series. Normally this figure will have a chewed sword, so here's one that hasn't - also a link to two of the knights in armour from the series I posted already:

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...1&postcount=43

Cherilea Toys
 

https://i.imgur.com/40zic2e.jpg

My favourite figure from Cherilea's Elizabethan set. There's a similar group of cavaliers and roundheads from the English Civil War, all in dynamic and dramatic poses - mainly fencing

Cherilea Toys
 

https://i.imgur.com/ikCPy2w.jpg https://i.imgur.com/A2EVKDr.jpg Repainted!

Monty - one-eyed, battle-worn and in need of a repaint. I know some folks believe you should leave original paint alone - even if there's hardly any of it left - but I don't like looking at a scruffy figure, especially when he's a general

Rommel is in my toy box too, somewhere, so I'll re post when they've beem smartened up

Beg pardon sire, but wasn't he a "Field Marshal"? The Damn Yankees were ''over there, over paid! and over sexed" and had to create the 5-star 'General of the Army' rank to stay equal to the British rank in SHEAF dealings; particularly when Eisenhower picked Monty to hold the northern shoulder of the Ardennes over 4-star Omar Bradley against the German's Battle-of-the-Bulge futile thrust on Antwerp as 4-star Patton advanced from the south into the German left flank...:hmmm:

^ Well he was technically a field marshal but essentially also a general - just as his opponent Rommel was a "generalfeldmarschall"

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

Cherilea Toys
 

https://i.imgur.com/ts4BdtT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/HGI4GZk.jpg


I found Rommel hiding behind a sand dune along with a couple of surrendering Afrika Korps. The one on the left ts pretty mediocre but The Desert Fox himself is worth a repaint I think

Looks like James Mason to me. :D

Did you clock the monocle? And he does look like JM now you mention it :haha:

...nonsense; that's what he looked like after inbibing the cyanide capsule!??:oops::dead:...his blue Max does need touching up though!:shucks: