Odds Ends Publius Russian Army XVIII Century, I am going to start off with some new Publius figures. Next, Floyd Wilson gives feedback on the new LOD merrymen. Speaking of LOD they have Revolutionary War cavalry firing a pistol. Wayne Woods gives his thoughts to the HAT Austrians that were part of a Kickstarter-type program. Finally, Gary Dibello has put who made the figures.
Odds Ends Publius Russian Army XVIII Century
Count Alexander is considered an outstanding general who took care of his men.
Due to Ebay changing policy, Andrey has temporarily (for 2-3 month) closed his sales on eBay. Anybody who wants to buy this set for $72 plus $10 shipping please contact him through his Facebook group toy soldiers for all ages
Odds Ends Publius Russian Army Lod Merrymen
LOD Revolutionary War Cavalry
Hat Austrians
I just received my crowdfunded 1/32 7 YW Austrians from HaT today in the mail. They’re in white to match the Austrian Uniforms and are sized to match their Prussian counterparts; so we now at least have two infantry elements to oppose each other. Having painted their masters they’re well detailed and worth the price IMO if you’re into that era. We will have more photos from Wayne in future posts
Who Made This?
What is Ebay changing policy?
Brian, it only concerns russian sellers.
Ebay is affecting every body,specifically the sellers worldwide for long.But in last year far more in too aggressive way.
By instance if a seller do not sale enough they punishes seller by increasing fees after sales and also reducing amount listing per month.
Both measures are complete non sense as if you increase fees ,seller won’t sale much and if you reduce amount listing per month ,seller will too sale less.
So is absurd as it seems yet they do not learn.
There is a ever increasing rules affecting sellers while buyers have all rights and many sellers abuses these “”rights””
So many sellers are turning away from eBay and going off radar selling using FB else .
About recognition.
The viking Warrior type in 50 mm is by DFC made in 80s belong to Fantasy war playset call Dragonriders with many rare others figures,also sold in bags.
The hunter with is by BLUE BOX from Hong Kong or a later copied in 45 mm too.
The two factory painted moder soldiers are belong to 2 separated sets belong to series G.U.T.S by MATTEL from 80s also.
I think yellow cowboy is by IDEAL,brown long coat figure in 60 mm approx is MPC, viking in 54 mm with paint added is Marx…
From Kent’s Sprecher’s site
The mold was made by Lido and then sold to Ideal. Ideal made them in yellow and light blue for their frontier/western header card and blister card sets and in red for their frontier boxed playsets. In the late 60s and 70s they were made in green, silver, dark blue and perhaps other colors and sold in small header card bags by Ringo Toys who may have been a subsidiary of Ideal. Always look carefully as these figures were copied in Hong Kong.
Seen and owned the HK version clones of IDEAL Indians, cowboys and frontiersmen many times ,they should be marked so and a bit smaller ,yet they use alike IDEAL colors as well that confuses at far distance with original .They definitely looks like non Ideal artist style and definitely LIDO style ..
The soldier running is by ANDY GARD,the tall 75 mm firemen was sold with large fire truck by Gay toys and also other brands? ,there 4 poses with silver or white belts,helmets and tools that can be added to figures.
the red fireman is by Deluxe Reading. they sold their toys through grocery stores during Christmas.
The Deluxe Reading guys can throw you. We got their Cape Canaveral set for Christmas 1962; for years I thought it was a Marx set. It wasn’t until I grew up and found the net I even realized I was wrong or that they even existed. And I was usually pretty good about IDing my goodies even as a kid.
I just wish they had done more things along that line. Then again, perhaps they did and I am just unaware.
The DR brand firemen according to Kent are shown are very different .The big Fire truck with for firefighter I have show inside lower corner section the words GAY Toys and is very similar indeed to one sold under Deluxe Reading too .It come with same 4 Firemen poses shown as “unknown” in Kent site that were sold with DR firetruck too .Base in description and appearance of figures(more likely MPC style) these figures are of unknown source .I doubt much DR will had done two complete different set of FF in same decade of very two different style. Base in amount sets sold by DR with many copies or using alike other brands style toys it looks to me they may had used others makers toys as well
my thoughts
https://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/OtherUSA1.html
I lucked out and picked up a bag of the Andy Guard WW2? Figures at my local Savers. They are nicely sculpted and the faces/heads are outstanding but they are in awkward poses mostly due to the detachable guns. The uniform looks post war but lacking the side pockets on the trousers. I was thinking of updating them to Cold War troops either USA or British but there are no loose M-14 or L1A1 rifles in that scale (58mm or so).