Paul, A short issue due to how close the last issue was to this one. Only a week. I’m working on the next one already, which is a really good one….Bill
COMMENT TIME # 26 MAY 1990
This list appears postmarked May 16, 1990 which is only seven days after the previous issue (#25) arrived. Not much has changed and the Comment Time section is very short.
SPOTLIGHT:
UN 609 Space Ranger X-200 silver HP space ship. Will go great with your Tom Corbett set ups……..$ 12.00
Herald Indian Sikhs Pre 1962. One of the hardest pose to find. Standing at attention. 80% paint……….$ 15.00
Nixon Reissue Now in stock.What can you do with him? Have him as the leader of you country or the head of a “Secret Empire”. I wonder where we’ve heard that before?
Bill’s NOTE….NO PRICE FOR NIXON? Stad’s response I was pushing these out with other human work I did not double check which I try to do now, but still miss.
MPC 6 ” POPHEAD monster reissue. 2 different figures per bag. Made in Mexico ………$ 4.00
Marx ACW Medical wagon top reissue with accessories. As you may have heard the wagon top is in reissue and it is GREAT. It come with the seat and the small accessories. This reissue does not contain the Red Cross so you can use it as a Sutlers wagon too………$10.00
Don’t forget that we have the wagon in reissue also.
ATLANTIC:
2 Indians. One seated the other skinning a Buffalo…….$ 3.50
7 TH Cavalry lot. Mounted Officer w/ sword, 3 horses and pots lined up on a bench. Metallic blue…….. $ 3.50
WW 2 Cannon………$ 4.00
WW 2 Russians 10 figures in 10 different pose plus heavy machine gun.
Dark red, 54 mm…………….$1.50
WW 2 GI hospital. 15 different figure and a stretcher. Docs, Nurses, Nuns and wounded. Olive green. 54 mm……….$ 15.00
WW 2 Italian infantry. 5 figures dark olive. 54 mm………$8.00
MISCELLANOUS:
PAL 100 Palmer Dracula. Hand painted, so you can soak off the paint……$ 35.00.
Peco Morgan the Pirate. Dirty. No acc’s……$ 12.00
4 Different 60 mm Indians. Made by Shamair of Spain……..$ 1.50
Nabisco Hippo and Camel. Silver……$ 12.00
COMMENT TIME
Warriors of the World.
Once again it is time to list another of those WOW cards. This one is David Dickson.
David was on of the bravest soldiers in the British Army. He showed his gallantry with General Washington at the Monongahole river forest.
There he was shot 5 times but refused to be taken to safety. His savage fighting spirit won him the honorable nickname “David the Fearless”.
He was later killed in a battle with the Americans near Boston.
PLAYSET UPDATE:
We are waiting just like you. The brokers and freight companies are in place. It is time for the company to ship the sets our way. As soon as they arrive we will have a flyer out to you.
PW Show:
The Plastic Warrior show date is June 2, a Saturday.The location is St James Hall. We will be there to meet with our fellow English collectors and to answer question. It will be a good time.
Back Orders
When we reorder newly produced figures and the supplier informs us that it is out of stock then it is a back ordered item.
Stad’s thoughts on Comment Time 26: I look at the prices back then the Atlantic went up in price while other items have gone down such as the Herald Sikh. The Herald Sikh was done before Britains bought the company from Zang. The Plastic Warrior Show is always a great show, sadly the cost to go the show has got to expensive to go every year. When I started going airfare was $200.00 round trip. Now it is $863.00 due to the taxes.
The playsets I was talking about were the Mexican playsets which I had ordered at Toy Fair. I had one party trying to block me on getting, but Mexico honored my order.
The last item on Back Orders had me laughing how everything today have to be spelled out. Take a look at gas pumps today with all the explanations they have to have up on the pumps
I love those Atlantic prices, I miss them ,but now of course…
oh well …
I always enjoyed getting Stads comment time list. Always a interesting read and lots of times I found some figures that I never knew exsisted to buy. The best figures I ever got from Stad’s list were some 1/32 Minimodel WW2 Japanese. They were so cool. I had never seen them before. The Japanese getting shot in MHO is one of the best sculpted figures I had ever seen. This started me on a quest to find more of them, but I always came up empty. It wasn’t until one of the last Big-D shows in Dallas that I came to a dealer who had a small radio box marked Airfix Multipose Germans. I was building Airfix multipose figures at the time so I looked inside the box. I was greeted instead by some 1/32 model Germans that I had never seen before. They were nicely sculpted with great poses, most with seperate arms. I noticed that the sculpting and seperate stands looked like the Minimodel Japanese I had got from Stad’s. The instructions said “Almark figures”. I bought them (almost a complete set.) for $15. I knew I wanted to find more of these. It took me a lot of searching but over the years I was able to find out that the Almark kits were made from the Minimodel figures and that there were three different kits. U.S. Infantry with 13 figures, German Infantry with 11 figures, and Japanese with 11 figures. They are some cool and prized figures in my collection and I would have never known about them if not for Stads Comment Time list.
Bobby G. Moore
I enjoyed the trips to Europe as I found figures that were different but could be used with your American figures. Many of these figures either did not or got poor marketing in the states. I have been glad to share these figures with other collectors.
Almark publisher, more common know for the long range of kit hobby related books did few WW2 sets figures under name brand Almark kit series , not long ago I saw a set of some on eBay but went very high. I agree they are better detail than Airfix multipose Japanese and other figures/sets.. The designer of the soldiers set was Charles Stadden
Almark is from UK and made most in early 70;they did /sold in limited sets and single poses too as far my research for short time. I guess Minimodel is the Almark version painted or else. I’m not positive in it. They also did airplanes and armor kits in 1.72 and 1.48 most. They published many books manual for kit builders and did only two WW2 sets in solid pieces on 1.72 scale. They made them in brittle stiff plastic contrary to Airfix ,Atlantic and ESCI 1.72 sets and it did not sold well. Stop producing right after any toy soldiers/kits sets.
Here in US are not common and I had search all over too
Two PW issue magazine had wrote about it too.
Ironical AIRFIX multipose Japanese sets is the hardest of all to find. I got one after many years trying.
Here is France Halmark kit eBay sale link of the WW2 German set.
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/ALMARK-KITS-GERMAN-PANZER-GRENADIERS-1939-45-vintage-kit-echelle-1-32-/141858980174?hash=item210774414e
I forgot,correct mention few more details.Name was Almark products LTD .
The 54mm hard styrene polymer figures were first sold factory painted as ‘Minimodels’ because it was the actual original maker of the molds before being supplied to Almark as unpainted kits. Now only three sets were released unpainted as kit by Almark.Some others such marines with mules, Italian alpines and others never were done unpainted under Almark brand.
Minimolds was part of Line group Triang Empire that supply many others minor companies such Almark,Capri,Corgi…
The plastic hallmark series were enchased with small (century series) which are part 3 additional plastic figures and part metal weapons and personal equipment , including helmets and gave the infantry in the boxed sets their support weapons such as mortar, antitank weapon and the third card was holding an LMG (light machine-gun) team.(3 different card with same additional 3 poses with 3 different support weapons per each army set made x boxes.Again designed by Stadden.