Japanese set has 6 poses five foot plus one mounted pose. I never had them in hard plastic but I know they were done. I only have them in window BB box with one cannon (hard plastic) that has fire spring mechanism. The cannon resemble a Japanese gun. I had seen one that looks like it, not similar in museum before. It was either copied from a similar Japanese toy cannon done in tin and plastic with different tires or from something else.
Figures were sold painted or not painted in dark yellow/mustard color. Horse come with seat (very simple rubber blanket).same horse appear in many other animal/farms BB sets too.
Figures bases either come with logo plus numerical order pose or not.
PICTURES 1 AND 2 Show Japanese set front and back view.
Picture 3 and 4 show Japanese officer mounted and way it attach on horse(missing blanket)
PICTURES 5 Shows the cannons( I have 3) .
PICTURE 6+ AND 7 Next to metal/plastic Japanese made- version,, Same type of cannon was repeated in a much larger scale by another Japanese company and is often sold at EBay. In 1978 a military trailer truck tin and plastic came out with cloned version of Blue Box cannon plus a jeep and tank in HO and few Payton copies Gi’s (all done in japan) by Kay-tHO-!?. So hard for me who did first the plastic version of the cannon but because Blue Box sets come before 1978 I will assume was Blue Box who did the first full plastic version.
Picture 8 and 9 show next to Airfix and DGN 52-54 mm scale plus rule measurements to show real size of standard figure
Correction note-6 poses plus one horse.
Japanese set was first with poses numerical base market as 1,2,3,4,5,6
Erwin
I have updated and corrected the posting.
thank you!!Admin
Not bad looking figures.
Nice post Paul,thanks for sharing,appears at least there are at three figures partly made up of Marx 6 inch figures ! I have some Marx 6 inch Japanes conversions I’am working on and will be sending some photos hopefully in a couple weeks
Mark
Mark. Some were copied ideas from Marx/others companies; in some case you can tell they swap two poses half body to create another, others they did a brand new figure. That was interesting in this company and same could be seen from the Germans regular infantry set were two poses were from Marx too.
In the Japanese the waving figure I guess come from HO- ESCI or Marx pose too??. The mounted I think is the first ever done in not HO back them if ever any other was done after in plastic.Japanese officer often used horses. I think is a good idea.
I like them! A mounted officer is a great idea. I’d done that with copy Airfix Japanese officers.