And on the green prairie:
 

https://i.imgur.com/Dy0znc0.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5f9yyvH.jpg

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

The true nature of corporeal entropy
 

^
I have enough permutations already - although I have a feeling they haven't done with me yet :timeout: I once told my doctor that I ought to be renamed "The King of Co-morbidity"

Cherilea 50mm
 

https://i.imgur.com/nLLapj0.jpg

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

https://i.imgur.com/sHO6sLk.jpg

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

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' ceremonyhttps://www.donsmaps.com/images28/potlatch2img_1382.jpg 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!
:shucks: https://4306738.fs1.hubspotuserconte...au-totem-1.jpg https://www.islandssounder.com/wp-co...9-totem2_1.jpg

Cultural appropriation?

Britains "Swoppets" - interchangeable figures
 

^ It was probably all they had at Walmart

https://i.imgur.com/YN82VKL.jpg Now the posse is close on the heels of that bank-robbing varmint

https://i.imgur.com/oPqE70a.jpg When suddenly he's away, quicker than a jackrabbit

https://i.imgur.com/hOvkBwQ.jpg Shoulda not wore a bright yeller shirt?

Siesta
 

https://i.imgur.com/WQXjih3.jpg

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

Gotta luv them https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._poster%29.jpgs!:yeah:

More Swoppet cowboys
 

https://i.imgur.com/uwQpgzZ.jpg These horses were those originally issued by 'Herald'

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

Britains 'Herald'
 

These are all Britains 'Herald' figures - one piece mouldings with no removable parts such as guns. All are common

https://i.imgur.com/wFQvMKK.jpg Most of these I've stripped & repainted

https://i.imgur.com/JQwS1aF.jpg The guy swinging his rifle is in original paint

https://i.imgur.com/Pq7dKCP.jpg

Imitations
 

https://i.imgur.com/32MlB0n.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6IFySzz.jpg

In both cases the Herald figures are on the right - but top left is a figure by Paramount and below left is Cherilea; this may well have come before the Herald figure but I think the Paramount cowboy was probably inspired by Herald's, I'm not too sure but I'll ask someone who knows. The hat on the Cherilea base is a nice touch

Some more 'Swoppet' dismounted cowboys
 

https://i.imgur.com/V06n1km.jpg This figure was always bareheaded but you can change that

https://i.imgur.com/mI1xihR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ekACKHI.jpeg

Montezuma's Revenge ????

Great Ceasar's Ghost!

They may want to check the operating manual for those rifles.
I think they missed an important point. :hmmm::O:

With the vinyl figures, have you considered using them as masters for RTV molds?
Nothing sticks to vinyl forever. Maybe a re-cast in resin would work better?

^ :haha:

I did a bit of RTV moulding years ago (for white metal casting) but as these figures are only kids' toys I wouldn't bother detailing them - realism takes a back seat here. And I'm only having a bit of fun with the diorama style backgrounds - I haven't done any serious model making for many years now

Cherilea Toys
 

https://i.imgur.com/y9QJFFx.jpg

These are from Cherilea at a time when makers seemed to be using a mix of old lead-casting moulds as well as newer ones which produced figures of a slightly larger size; it looks to me as though the riflemen are of the latter kind as I'm sure the gunfighter originally appeared as a metal toy

The home team
 

https://i.imgur.com/EwQaggQ.jpg Crescent Toy Co.

https://i.imgur.com/drDMM5g.jpg