This quarter's delights include . . .
Articles
* Andreas Dittman kicking-off the issue
with a look at boxed sets of Dom Plastik
landsknechts, which is very useful - helped me ID a halberd, now I just need
the figure to hold it!
* Part 2 of Cherilea's plastic animals by Barney Brown finds us studying the
larger animals and people
* PL Cuna covers the recent issue of Portuguese and Spanish General Staff
from Chintoys
* Echoing
recent posts here, Peter Watson
inspects an HTI (Halsall) rack-toy set of knights and compares them to their
diminutive donors
* A lovely Gulliver set of Brazilian Revolutionary
figures, recently offered through an auction-house, is shown in an editorial
* Gerald Edwards returns to Kellogg's
and Crescent with an update on
medieval cereal premiums
* For Airfix aficionados there is a
fascinating piece of previously unknown information on pp21 . . . no . . .
subscribe!
* The second
part of Adrian Norman's Scalextric articles deals with the 'long
box' figure sets in the original painted ethylene series'.
* Alwyn Brice's Elastolin at 40 (part 7 9) is similar to parts one to six
eight, only . . . a bit different - Huns now.
* Another
editorial piece builds on contributions to illuminate the relationship between Lido and Selcol through the knights (one of whom - in my collection - is
currently in possession of my Dom
halberd!)
* Peter Evans closes the issue by comparing horse-flesh sandbags and
Christopher Columbus; if that sounds more than a little cryptic, you still need
to subscribe!
Regulars
* This
issue's 'Converters Corner' has Brain Carrick creating a 'forlorn hope'
from Marksmen British Grenadiers (ex-Marx) for enlisting in the Seven Year's
War, while Claude Hart supplies a
nice vignette/diorama of Replicant's
smuggler's being apprehended by revenue troopers!
* 'What's New' covers recent releases from:
·
Engineer Basevitch - 70 years of
the Soviet Army (actually all late WWII/early Cold War poses, but presumably
part of a series)
·
Mars - Ex Lintek
Napoleonic figures, ARVN (South Vietnam) forces
·
TSSD - Roman testudo vignette
·
Chintoys - ACW Staff for Union and
Confederates
·
Expeditionary Force - French Napoleonic Fusiliers
and Grenadiers
·
all available from Steve Weston
(Weston Toy Soldiers) now
* There is no
room left for 'What The !&*$?'
this quarter!
Editorial Bits
* 'NEWS and VIEWS and other stuff ' has
news of . . .
·
Games Workshop facing a lawsuit, and not for
small potatoes
·
The ongoing Toy 'R Us bankruptcy
·
The availability of the last of
the late Geoffrey Ambridge's Lone Star Books
·
Toy logo key-rings
·
And a brief obituary for John
Clarke*†
* 'Readers Letters' is particularly busy
this issue with . . .
·
A report on ACOTS 30th annual shindig down-under from James O'Connell
·
Musings on the figures in the Dulux adverts on TV from Norman Nevard
·
More on left-handed figures from Les White
·
Erik Keggings reports on Retro-branded figures which look like a new source of the Poundland/99p Stores 30mm stuff)
·
David Buchanan asks about Britains Trojan moulds
·
Acedo moulding and other re-issues are
provided by yours-truly as a follow-up to PW's passim.
·
A Robinson Crusoe from Kinder is provided by way of another
follow-up, Daniel Lepers the contributor; also asks about Cherilea horses.
·
Peter Evans recounts an interesting memory
of Timpo, concerning the (apparently:
ever less rare!) prone type-3 cavalrymen
·
Bob Baker requests Barzo articles
·
Paul Stadinger reports on Barzo news
* Feedback on
previous issues 'What The !&*$?',
includes contributions from Peter Cole, Daniel Lepers, Jean-Marc de Vion, Erwin Sell, Paul Stadinger and
O. Adamsberry; between them identifying Speedwell, JSF, PZG and Heimo's Travels of Gulliver set.
Plus all the usual small-ads
Front Cover (and recipe) will need pun'ishment
directed at one P. Evans
Back Cover - An interesting Timpo catalogue scan with Lindberg
tie-in
Remember also; for subscription details or to
're-up', for contributions, letters or queries, Plastic Warrior is now on-line
through various platforms:
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
And they are on Paypal.
*† Saddened greatly by the news of
John's passing he was a lovely man, he carried the enthusiasm of three,
incredibly intelligent and friendly despite treading a rocky road, and his loss
is proof of the old adage that 'the best go first'.
We once had a minor disagreement about the contents
of certain Monopoly sets (some of us
are living right on the edge!), a couple of weeks later he sent me a letter
through our mutual friend John Begg (because he didn't have my address and John
had been party to the chat), apologising for being slightly wrong, and this
wasn't a three-line whip, this was a full, handwritten, page of prose,
explaining how he had gone about proving the facts, a REAL letter in the age of
the email missives - like wot peepel rote
in the oldun daes!
Truly a charming man; we're the poorer for his
passing.
There is a cryptic hint at John's diorama's having been
shot by the PW editor so hopefully they will be forthcoming in future
issues of Plastic Warrior?