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^ 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!