Anyone remember these?

[valiant]

Hi guys,

Just flitting about the net when I remembered these from my childhood,

http://www.die-cast-toys.com/plastic-soldiers/crescent/cereal.html

I practised my first face painting on the kings and queens busts - dont know whatever became of them!!

Can anyone else remember these?!

Steve

 

[LVM]

I had these one : http://www.die-cast-toys.com/plastic-soldiers/crescent/kelloggs/pop.jpg

Good reminder

Laurent

 

[billyturnip]

Wow!! Yes, it's these I remember. Busts - Kings / Queens of England (Cleveland)

Roger

 

[Oldironsides]

Seeing these figures again brought back childhood memories of Timpo Wild West figures and buildings. Many a time I threw a baddy into the Timpo 'Jail House' durng the games I played.

 

[polyphemus]

Ah real nostalgia!
I'm old enough (just) to remember the likes of Woolworths selling lead cast soldiers and their subsequent replacement by plastic soldiers. Some of the early plastics were terrible at holding paint and that's when I started slapping paint on little soldiers. Within a year or two Crescent started selling their figures unpainted which of course was great; they were cheaper but they needed painting.
I remember the day I came across the Timpo Waterloo soldiers and yes the shop and damn this getting sad but I do think that some of this deep rooted enjoyment of messing about with model soldiers from way back might be why I still slap paint on little soldiers.

Just a separate thought but how many of us are only children? I once came across a brilliant phrase "had an only child's capacity for infinite futility" which is maybe why I can spend endless hours painting when I'm left alone, that is when my wife's out at work.

Geoff

 

[valiant]

Too right! I could lose days painting and modelling if I were allowed to! I still have a sizable collection of Britains and Timpo figures and can remember when and where each one came from!!
Regarding the kings and queens busts, I seem to remember they were quite well sculpted, although that could be the "Bigger Mars Bars and Waggon Wheels Phenomenon" of childhood!!

Steve

 

[Gunthwaite]

I painted a complete set of the King & Queen busts for my uncle who had collected them. I was expecting to be paid hansonly but he gave me a medal to commemerate England winning the World Cup (1966). I've still got the medal - I would have spent the money.

Al

 

[bagelman1952]

In the late 50's my late brother got a job painting plastic soldiers/cowboys for a model making firm in Holborn, London. He was still at school and would cycle into London every saturday and get a bag of figures and lay a couple of colours on each one and take them back the following week. When he left school he started work with them as an apprentice but changed to dental technician because the pay was better. In the early 70's the firm advertised for a modeler and I applied. I took a case full of my work to the interview. The boss refused to take me on because I was self taught and although my work was far better than his apprentices, I had not been to college and the unions would be up in arms (pre Thatcher union stranglehold). Anyway he bought half my models for his own collection so it wasn't entirely wasted and I became a Prison Officer instead lol.