Articles
* The opening
article has Colin Penn show-and-telling
on a purchase of a Britains
Zoo eagle conversion.
* Staying
with Britains, there's a brilliant
editorial on Summer County premiums
with contributions from Jonathan Stevens
and Barney Brown.
* Certain
err . . . coincidental images in Timpo
publicity material/packaging are examined by Steve Pugh.
* Erwin
Sell looks at 1980's copies of Crescent
and Cherilea medieval foot and
mounted, re-done as Romans.
* Best
article this month (even: ever?) is Andreas
Dittmann's Koziol bazooka-man . .
. cowboy! Yes - you read that right, and with two other make's similarly
cannon-equipped cowboys and a lovely Indian wall plaque arrow-firer. . . stuff
you otherwise probably never see; brilliant.
* Tom Stark looks at the hobby as it
relates to 'counter price' vs value and such like.
* H.G.
Wells is brought to life by a lovely diorama from the hand of Joseph W. Svec III, depicting events in
Woking, Surry all those future-past years ago.
* The
third pose-example of a Lone Star
Musketeer turns up (that's three poses and about ten figures that we know about
now), as I say every time: it's only a matter of time before a whole box
turns-up!
'What The !&*$?' has four question
marks this quarter;
·
An
early-looking (French?) mounted knight in armour from Jack Shalatain
·
A seated
AFV crewman/motor cyclist/tractor driver/passenger type of military appearance
from Joe Bellis . . . Penny Farthing
rider?!!
·
Barney Brown's large
scale cowboys and Indians are still looking for a positive ID
·
A
moustached French actress/circus lady in her underwear whipping a mike . . .
all very Parisian!
* Les Collier looks at a set of figures
from Toltoys which I found
fascinating as I thought they were French and possibly premiums.
* Tom Stark returns for a second
contribution, looking at Publius new sets and new retail arrangements.
Regular Features
'NEWS and VIEWS and other stuff ' has a
follow-up on the unknown figures from the previous 'NEWS...', being Nordplast, news on C&T auctions, a
new French show and news on Papo
moving into 54mm.
'Book Review' this issue is very busy with reviews of four new
titles
1. Sixty Years of Airfix
2. The A-Z of Timpo
3. Farming in Miniature Vol. 1
4. Farming in Miniature Vol. 2
'Readers Letters' this time is a four
page fest, including mentions for:
·
Management
change at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show
(Janice and Rodger Garfield)
·
Books on
Guards (Claude R, Hart)
·
Herald/Zang (Dan Morgan)
·
Marx (B. Nielson, JC. Martin and
K Sprecher)
·
Engineer Basevich (Peter
Cole)
·
Kellogg's (Kent Sprecher)
·
Dull Men
of Great Britain (Tim Barker)
·
Ideal 'Justice League' and Wilton 'Batman' figures (Paul Stadinger)
'What's New' (as part of 'letters' this
issue) mention releases from:
- Nagant - Anarchists (Mathias/Stads)
- Mars - Ex-Oritet Taliban, Russians in Afghanistan and Vietcong (Mathias Berthoux)
- Big Bad Toy Store - MOFO's (Mathias Berthoux)
Plus all
the usual small-ads and a four page 'Plastic
Advertiser' insert.
Covers
are: on the front, lovely French moveable-arm figures from Miniajouets courtesy of Andy
Partridge (nice, but not as nice as Andreas's figures!), with a further War of the Worlds shot on the back
cover.
Remember
also; for subscription details or re-up, contributions or queries, Plastic Warrior is now on-line here:
eMail;
pw.editor@ntlworld.com
And they
are on Paypal.
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