January 2020 Plastic Figure Showcase, we start off the first look at a future release from Plastic Platoon. Next, we will look at some items from the collection and my Ebay offerings.
January 2020 Plastic Figure Showcase Plastic Platoon
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Some of LIDO aliens were copied and sold by European firms as well.Two from Spain ,one from Italy did.Even one from Argentina copied then
I like the rarity of these aliens and robots versus more common made by other maker of the era .PP as usually nice looking mini statue .The style pose defending w lay down, death or wounded horse near so far was made first by Brumer from Spain then the set with death horse near made by Atlantic as well.All very unique combo poses .Too bad not made in cheap production to recreate larger scenarios with same poses .
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Paramount from the UK did a cowboy behind a dead or laying horse.
I think the cowboy behind a dead horse or laying horse was actually made by Hilco.
James, you are very likely right too many figures to remember.
WOW!!! The PP soldier behind the horse is beyond comparison. These figures are amazing works of art and worth every penny that they cost. Can’t wait until they are released. Replicants just made a Texas Ranger firing over a prone horse also. Steve Weston’s Gatling Gun Logo Set also had a kneeling soldier firing over a dead horse. A few different Marx ACW soldiers could be displayed behind the classic Marx “dead horse” as well. I’m sure there were others, but these are just off the top of my head. The Hilco set is also a good example of the pair,
While I applaud plastic platoons new offering I’m puzzled by certain details assuming the figure is for The Little Bighorn and a Custer grouping.
First, not a real problem, but the wounded horse bears the brand 7H.
That makes it under Benteens command.
Funnily he decided not to follow orders and joined Reno on the bluffs.
The figure has sergeant major stripes, I know easily removable, but the sevenths sergeant major, Sharrow I think from memory, died on Custer hill.
Then there’s more with the hat.
It’s more Pershing into Mexico decades later.
Where’s that wonderful droopy hat you could fold up as a bicorne?
There’s tons of uniform and information available.
Personally I would recommend Randy Steffans five volume opus on the US Cavalry.
I don’t like nit picking but I had it when sculpting Artefacts, quite correct to, and had to accept then that there is no real excuse.
With Plastic Platoon especially at these prices ,it is a magnificent study, the same Maxim applies.
Just a little more research would have helped the sculptor.
Sorry to be a grouch but I write from experience.
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Alan
Yes, about the hat. Nobody used the ‘Montana Peak’ crown shape until the Spanish American War in 1898. It actually has nothing to do with Montana except maybe it reminded the troopers of the shape of mountains there. The soldiers exposed to the torrential tropical rains in Cuba and the Philippines found their hats would shed water better if they pinched the crown into that shape.
The shape became regulation by the time of Pershing’s expedition into Mexico.
I wasn’t going to say (I’m not paying that price for a plastic figure so figured I didn’t have a dog in the hunt), but I agree on every point made about the picture.
Personally, I would love to have the figure, it’s beautiful and I could forgive a minor mistake here or there. But at these prices (and here I’m not carping about expense (again)) you’re not talking about toys anymore. As has been stated in defense of the “new” trend in figures we are no longer talking toy soldiers anymore.
I (as are many of us) am of the Marx generation – Louis Marx worked his figures to death. I remember my excitement when I saw my first 1/32 scale Airfix Afrika Korps after using my Marx Desert Patrol generic Germans for years. But again, these are no longer just toy soldiers. They are really mini works of art.
And I think that requires a bit more attention to historic detail. And if anyone thinks I’m being nit-picky, you ought to check the 1/72 scale forums where folks get their pants in a tight over a button – at 1/72 scale. And folks aren’t paying ten-plus dollars a figure.
So will these details you mention prevent you from buying the figures?
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the crazy professor is from Brabo. They are called Parafools and there are six different figures to which a parachute was attached. They would have to be from the 70s because I had the pirate from the series as a child.
Detlef ..
Interesting Detlef,thank for let us know .
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I agree with Erwin thanks. I like him better as just a figure. Where I got it who knows?
The fact that PP claim been super historical accurate figurines and not toy soldiers figures indicate they supposedly make a lot research before producing figures.
While I will ignore smaller such bottom,implement wrong depiction(such viet nam figures) or else ,others such wrong hat and represent jumping Germans paras with weapons in hands at moment land and few others found before show they are not quite historical accurate figurines or research not well defined indicated before finish sculpting is done and the price justification has some doubts .Yet they still sale out there very well.
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Emblem of unit.
Not implemented as phone cell correction did.
Sorry