I'm not too sure what make these figures are, but they have been around sometime. I picked them up for what was just about an acceptable price, £14.50 delivered. OK, some needed firearm repair work, and I was going to have to paint strip them if I wanted my collection to have something more appropriately khaki. But I think its a nice collection, and includes an officer. (There was also three WW1 British and a single WW2 American making up the sixteen figures.)
MGB
The core poses of many of these WW2 figures are Britain's hollowcast (downward stabbing with bayonet, Officer, Tommy gun, kneeling firing? ) but they also crop up quite often as home cast copies in solid metal.
ReplyDeleteGood to see Private Pike with his scarf and Tommy gun.
Thanks Mark, I suspected they might be Britains, and they are hollow cast, but they just had 'made in Britain', so I wasn't sure. I have no plans to increase the collection but I was watching the DVD series of Dads Army and..... I saw these, and was the only bidder.
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Great looking figures. The interwar period is fascinating and there are lots of suitable figures available on eBay.
ReplyDeleteYes, I too think the pre-39 period is interesting, I'm about to post an item on a fictional early 1930s collection. Will also be sorting out my links to sites I visit for 54mm stuff, and yours is on it.
DeleteMichael
The kneeling GI is by Crescent. The hollow cast Bren gunner, standing firing rifle and two of the kneeling riflemen are Johillco. The Britains figures that Mark has identified are made of mazak and were an early experiment by Britains in 1947 at diecasting.
ReplyDeleteThank you Brian. That is a great help, its part of my quirky character that to fully enjoy these figures I must now know who produced them, and when. I had heard of 'mazak', but did not know how it fitted in to the manufacturing history.
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