"Help me identify this old plastic miniature" Topic

Gentlemen, I have one plastic soldier, 1/72, rather on the small side (true 20mm? maybe a little larger) that I have with me for longer than I can actually remember. I do not now where I got it from, and at one point I thought I found out the manufacturer, but cannot find the information anymore.

link [sorry, why does TMP link to the picture but does not show the picture directly ?]

It must be old, late seventies I guess (give or take, early 80's at best), it's kind of golden/bronze soft plastic.

Have you seen it or similar miniatures and can give any information?

Greatly appreciated

Elastolin maybe.

Ah, jim, thank you. I deleted the post because got frustrated that the photo would not show, only the link. I'll check Elastolin.

Britains perhaps.

Where did he go?

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Yessss, this ist it. How come it took (you) a couple of minutes to solve a mystery that bugged me for years?
Thank's man

Those Britains/Herald figures were 1/32, though; if Olivero's is as stated 1/72 or 20mm it may be a pirated copy.

There were 1/72nd copies of the Herald figures, I had loads of them as a child.

Here they are, maybe still available?

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Yessss, this ist it. How come it took (you) a couple of minutes to solve a mystery that bugged me for years?

Google Images and Mark 1 Eyeball.

The 20mm (more or less) versions were by the Giant Toy Company of Hong Kong. I bought them from Kresge's and Grant's back in the day. Somehow one doubts they were licensed. But the ancients were cute figures.

Yes, those were definitely Giant figures, pirated from the Herald orignals and made in Hong Kong. They first started appearing in the 60's. They are long out of production, so long that someone started pirating the Giant figures, they have Hong Kong on the bottom of the base or nothing at all. They made all different figures ( see nnascati's link ) most of which were pirated from someone else's figures. The ACW's were taken from the Marx figures. These days you might be able to find some cowboys and indians or the knights and mongols. These are generally knockoffs of the knockoffs. I fondly remember them and still have a few hundred of them around somewhere.
Bob

Robert Piepenbrink has it!

Giant toys "Romans"
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About 1/4 the way down:

Unpainted from:
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Slightly more detail:

Could be "Lucky Clover Toys"

the figures have the chariot mounting-hole filled in with the 'HONG KONG' in a semi-circle round the 'scab' of the chariot mounting-hole.

I had a mix of these, including in gold, as hand-me-downs in the mid 1960s. At one point "Giant Toys" cowboys came in boxes of Honeycombs cereal.

I had quite a few of these in the late 1960s and have fond memories of playing with the them in the garden in the back yard… I later replaced some of the spears with insect pins and painted them with, if I recall, Imre Risley enamel paints.

I'd love to see the box art for the castle set!

I remember getting mine at Woolworth's here in Canada. Blister card packs.

Still remember the "wow!" factor seeing them on the rack.

I have the 1/32 versions that I got at dime store in 1959. They came painted. I also have lots of.the 1/72 Hong Kong knockoffs. I just gave most of them to a younger Wargamer. I loved these figures. The Hong Kong company also made copies of the Marx 1/32 ACW set into 1/72.