There were a few smaller pieces and loose figures picked up at the Last Sandown Part show, which was, in some respects, one of my best yet for purchaes, but in conversation, there's a feeling that while prices are down, this stuff is coming out of the woodwork at the moment, I got a really nice, never seen before piece off of that evilBay the other day.
I've never really followed this stuff, nor felt the need to, poorly acted 'C' movies, for kids, in the 'over the top' style of kids programming, never grabbed me, but there is a big following for the whole
Kaiju,
Gojira,
Ultraman,
Atomic-boy stuff, and these are probably quite modern 'Ultramen', and may be from one source, but two are realistic 54mm'ish solids, well within the scope of the collection, the other two are a super-deform (right) and big-head (left), both of which, leave me pretty cold.
A Christmas cracker bike, and two micro-trucks from Italy, another
1-ton Humber knock-off, too close to the
Dinky original to be considered the donor for all the Hong Kong copies, but could be based on the
Pyro/Kleeware minis? And a post-war US 'duce-and-a-half' probably an
M39 era/generation?
Very obviously an ex-
Giant chariot, we looked at them on the Romans page (above), and eventually will look at them again on the
But is it Giant sub-Blog, in greater detail, but for now, this one needs a good clean, or at least, the horses do!
A couple of bags of odds I picked up on a wander, the gum-ball robot will go in a bag with several others and bits, in the hope his arm turns up one day! Two lesser characters from the larger, 'styrene set of
Noddy figures, a
Fozzie Bear pencil top, and another of the
Rupert Bear pencil-top torsos, I think I have four now, two
Kinder and an
LB for
Culpitt spaceman!
Adrian found these two for me, French clowns in hard plastic of the polystyrene type, but being French could be Phenolic or a formaldehyde resin of some kind, although both are stable.
Cyrnos,
Clairet; someone like that?
A bit of fun, it links a common-enough piece of scenery to a specific animal, so not that useful, but it also links marks together.
Swoppet knock-offs!
A nice, early piece of, probbaly German composition, around 45mm, and unmarked, he's obviously a WWI-era German soldier, and I rather like him, as a possibly very old survivor . . . 1920/30's?
Isaac gave me these two lots, the
Cherilea 60mm's are clean, but have lost 90%+ of their paint, while the karki infantry might have all been home-painted to match, or are a new-to-me paint scheme, the radio-operator is
Benbros.
Seen in a recent book-post, useful little monograph on Selwyn Miniatures.
I'm guessing this is American, but it could be French, or from down the road! It's a solid lump of die-cast Mazac / Zamak or pure aluminium (not light enough?) with wooden wheels, and may once have been a penny-toy . . . a whole penny!
Make your own caption! How cake-decorations are born!