Unboxing Comansi Fort Part One Bill Nevins has decided to share this fort from Spain. Bill opened it and found some very interesting things. so we will let Bill share his findings.
Unboxing Comansi Fort Part One The Discovery
I thought that I would share the opening of a Comansi Fort Apace playset with our group. I don’t think that it’s a common set and many collectors may not be familiar with the set or it’s contents. I’m pretty sure I got these from John Stengel.
I have two of these, so I decide to open one up and check it out. I also have the 5 Comansi Western Town buildings in unopened boxes. I’ll get to them another time.
First up, is the box itself. It has different box art for the front and back. The box are doesn’t really match the contents of the set, but that’s getting ahead of ourselves here. I’ve included a side panel shot. Both side panels are the same.
The instruction sheet is also shown.
There is also a large card/paper playmat included, that has outlines and positions for all of the pieces to the set. I’ll show that when the fort is assembled and set up.
Unboxing Comansi Fort Part One Fort Walls
The next photo grouping displays the fort itself.
The Front Gate swings open with a one piece gate, unlike our own Marx Fort Apache, which has double doors. There are 4 wall sections that interlock
with 2 rather large “hooks” that connect to corresponding openings in the adjoining section. I’m not crazy about this. I prefer the more muted Marx
way of joing wall sections.
The sections themselves are wood grained on both sides and would look fantastic, except for the ridiculously large ejector rod circles that ruin the overall look. I’m sure that these could somehow be fixed by a determined collector.
These are so much better looking (even with the damn ejector rod circles) than the Marx FA walls. They are thick, solid plastic with firing platforms on each section. Quite a lot of potential for some modelers to improve these.
The 3 guard towers are next, with the large, timber built observation tower the center piece of it all. A ladder and a US flag, complete this unique piece.
The two smaller sections both include attached Cavalrymen, held in place by a small hole in the figures base and a corresponding plug, molded to the tower platform.
There is a rear wall piece is shown and that will have the HQ building attached to it.
It’s pictured here without the building. We will get to that in future parts.
Awesome!!!
Bill something not common, your pack has the grey and blue color soldiers!?
Or do I see the image wrong!?
If so..That is very rare, I will use pic if not mind to ask in Spaniard blog about it.
let me know if I can please
Wow! I had only seen small pictures of Comansi forts before and I was sure they were made of actual wood. The walls are so much better than Marx, Timpo and Jean Hoefler fort walls. Too bad about the ejector rod marks, but even so, these are great!
Comansi did early forts(above) in wood, today are very hard to find in that condition and very very value.
The early version usually come with wood carriage too.
Later-they did a mix (wall -light wood) and inside barracks in plastic with watch tower in plastic too full fort version in three sizes,by 70s till 1998.
I carry import those version here x sale with COMANSI ,6 houses ,wagons,stagecoath and Knights (85 mm ) big by then plus the last Nation soldiers series. The forts sold out super fast, so the soldiers.
The houses and carriages took years, the forts come with few soldiers Indian and cowboy poor distributed inside and in the two non match scales made by COMANSI ,very odd.
Today Comansi still sale a version of fort with new complete redesigned figures in 65 mm approx. in soft PVC ,the actual fort is medium size in plastic walls with original 70s barracks and watch tower plastic.
see link please.
http://www.comansi.com/home/en/comansi-far-west/20-fort-tin.html
…and I agree in walls much better than rest,JECSAN are also same style and made wood first, then plastic thick walls.
Jean Hoefler did an early vacuum wall forts, better than later one I think. I will have look and dig x photos too one day
Erwin you have blanket permission to use anything I post here. Feel free.
Thank you Sir!
I have a 6 Pc. Comansi West Town Still in box never opened. Any info or value on this would help.
If is the one with the small scaled down 54 mm plastic front building facade and not the 6 tall 65/70 mm scale full nice building i just to carry x sale here ,the town is very common and sale from 50 to 70.00 generally.
I had seen several go x it recently.If are the wood building older then will go higher price .Same for the forts.
Now one sample of the PLASTIC set is x sale at ebay ,there other international site as well with them if google.
.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Comansi-set-Todo-El-Oeste-Americano-/272876297961?hash=item3f88b1dee9:g:xnIAAOSwHIhZkbFn
Is there a way I can send you a pic.
I will ask admin send u my email..
Best