Lone Star Sailors and Others
These were figures I did not have as a child but acquired second hand later. As with other Lone Star figures I like their chunkiness and also their animation. The sailors look like they mean business, with their aggressive and determined poses. Judging by their equipment they look like WW2 era. They are most likely intended as British but could serve for other navies. Toyway also made remoulds. The following pictures are of originals and remoulds. Some of the originals I have repainted in their original colours. Others, along with remoulds I have painted in more detail, with facial features and tattoos.
The sailor with sack is a remould of either Charbens or Timpo. The smaller figure I have no idea of its origin.
Below: The figure with binoculars is Lone Star but the other is another Charbens. It looks remarkably like Winston Churchill. The figure was brittle and the leg and scabbard broken. I Araldited the figure back together, coated it in PVA and painted it in the original colours.
Hi James, the sailor with kit bag was originally made by Timpo as part of a set of railway station passengers, the figure was reproduced in plastic in recent years by Replicants by permission of Roy Selwyn Smith who sculpted the original. The smaller figure is a petty officer from a short set of 40/45mm sailors by GEMODELS, they were made as cake decorations.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes, Brian