April Figure Collection Time, Collection Time usually gets short shift as a filler. This time I am let it be the main piece. We have some new 14″ figures that Mike Schredl spotted. Finally, Rahway clued us in an update on the BMC Kickstarter project.
April Figure Collection Time
Toysmith 14 Inch Army Figures
Mike Schredl spotted on the Toysmith website 14-inch figures army figures. The figure set contains three different figures Saluting, standing firing bazooka, and reaching pistol. The figures are $19.99 plus postage.
BMC Kickstarter Update
The cannon is a copy of a die-cast metal one from Crescent of England. I got one in brown as a kid in the 70s with some Airfix Japanese clones. You can still get this cannon today in plastic, but the wheels are different.
WW1 British 18 pounder.
All very correct Mark.
The first copies was made by BLUE BOX
It was done in hard plastic dark olive color and firing shells in plastic.
Then by 70s Ry toys or RADO did the more common copy in soft plastic.
The copies were done with correct wheel.
The above is the 1990s Chinese copy w odd wheel and usually a bot bigger than HK early copies
The HK soft plastic copies are very common still if Ebay lots.
Space figure is By Texas- politoy company.
Set has 12 spacemen and 12 aliens/robots.
I have full collection.
They are very priced.
They were sold as premium first ..
Very hard find all poses in one lot. Took me years do so and many repeat poses.
I recently sold 15 repeated poses lot..
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Any chance of a pic of all the spacemen & alien poses or a website that contains them?
We will have to see if anyone can do it that.
I have all then.i will send pics of aliens first to admin today.
Space men I have to do photos.
Few years back PW magazine post all then from Dittman collection I guess..
But I will photo mine..
Here this italian blog site has most figures produced by APS-Politoys texas line
https://soldatini-ado.blogspot.com/2012/12/quelli-del-tide.html
Torgano semiflat and non space several sets are also very nice good blend with these ,not hard to find i will think,.i got all Torgano semiflta as well ..
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With a little imagination, that cannon can go a long way. It can be used as just about any 1890’s – 1920’s field piece. For WWII, I use it for Japanese and Italian artillery, or a British 25 Pdr. . I’ve found copies in 3 sizes, cast in olive, forest green and mustard tan. Painting them is not tough, either. After trimming the flash off of them, they look quite good.
I am bidding on a collection of figures at the moment on ebay. There are three blue metallic figures among the other figures that look like the Clairet sailor. I thought they looked like Russian naval troops. Then I thought maybe coma made them as they seem to have the same bases. Does anyone know what they are at all.
Send me the James..
I.may be able help..
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The figures are under bulk selection Airfix style plastic toy soldiers ebay seller id fblade954
Clairet 60mm hard plastic French sailor
Thera 10 poses
1 Sailor standing shooting rifle
2 Sailor bayoneting
3 Sailor advancing with rifle
4 Sailor advancing with submachine gun
5 Sailor kneeling rodio opertor
6 Officer with left hand up and map in the other
7 Sailor marching with rifle on right shoulder
8 Officer with pistol
9 Officer with binoculars and rifle
10 Sailor with flags
Thank you for the information
as has been pointed out, the cannon is a copy of the Crescent British WW1 quick firing cannon. i received a grey one with a set of Blue Box civil war Crescent clones. for some reason i always used it with my Marx Japanese troops.
Crescent made some great cannons for use with 54mm troops. their British 25 pounder is far superior to the Britains version, and for heavier artillery they made a 5.5″ gun. their 155mm Long Tom, however, seems too small.
here are some links:
25 pounder:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Crescent-Company-Die-Cast-Military-Cannon-5-long-Made-in-England/293537934722?hash=item4458396d82:g:YocAAOSwme9ei0eT
5.5″ gun:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CRESCENT-TOY-1251-5-5-HOWITZER-FIELD-GUN-CANNON-LIGHT-GREEN-WHEELS-MINT-BOXED-nn/332572603451?epid=20015834703&hash=item4d6edf343b:g:VosAAOSwR31al~Zw
155mm Long Tom:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CRESCENT-TOYS-155MM-LONG-TOM-ARTILLERY-GUN-/383415437640?hash=item5945574948%3Ag%3ANC0AAOSw8LZeQTcc&nma=true&si=I1Es8YcwOjzejmJnP4Jg1HTiWcI%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
I have my Silver color cannon copy too with the ACW BB set (no cloned from Crescent as they are different from Crescent ,some may resemble Crescent poses in idea ,not doubt but not cloned .The buglers by pose resemble more that of Herald or LIDO pose.
I post then here regarding the difference.
https://www.stadsstuff.com/?p=10127
Crescent here
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Crescent.html
BB also copied along the cannon the barricades from Crescent too
I agree Crescent pieces are better than Britain in most ..
Unfortunately i do not like mix metal with plastic in my collection .
BB also copy the LS metal trebuchet,catapult,ram medieval siege machines in plastic very well done .
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