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Hello!
I have one question about the plastic figures.
At first i will like to apologize because maybe my english is sound funny,but i am from Slovenia and English is not my country language,but i will try to write correct words,so you all will understand me.
So back to my question.
I remmember when i was a childreen i play with some nice indians and cowboys.There were about 54 mm size(or maybe little like 40mm),made from plastic or rubber i think both accualy.Because the head and down to waste it was rubber,the legs was from plastic(something like that).It was like half plastic half rubber.I remmember it was at least two colours in one figure.Like if there was indians,they have brown rubber body and than some of them have red legs,some of them have yelow legs,...the same story with cowboys,some of them have like blue shirts or yelow shirts,...and diferent colour of legs.Than you can remove a leg from one cowboy or indian and switch with another.Like if you wannt some one who have two pistols and you wannt that he ride a horse than you just switch the legs and put it on the some other cowboy.You can also switch the heads (that is why they have rubber parts that it can be remove and switch).Horses have this holes so you can put the rider on the horse.
So does anyone know what i am looking for?Ring any bells haha?
Do you know who produce this kind of cowboys and indians?What company?I will like to order more from them or buy old on ebay or something but i do not know the company who produce them.This was 20 years ago when i play with this cowboys and Indians so maybe they are no longer exist,but still if you can help me with informations i will be very happy.
Or at least tell me which company still produce rubber-plastic or just hard rubber figures with more colours not just in one colour(it does not neccesery to be removeable parts) it can be in one part just rubber and painted figures.
 
Hi Ales
Im not sure what figures you are talking about as i have never seen Rubber/Plastic.
Indian's with a brown upper body and red legs :eek:.
but you may want to type in TIMPO on Ebay and se what pops up.
 
haha,well i mean red pants.Brown body and red pants or yellow pants,...you can change parts of a body and pants,and head,...
i will go look for Timpo but i am not sure that it is Timpo.I think it must be from west Germany or Austria,...or at least it was bought there 20 years ago,...but i wannt to see if they make any new figures and if they exsist.
Well it does not need that have switched head and weapons and stuff,as long that they are painted rubber plastic something like that,because i do not mean the figures that are all in red or white,blue,...but normal painted,so that the head have one colour than the pants have another,shirt another,....like handpainted lead soldiers only rubber-plastic mixture,...
 
Hey Thanx Ragnar!!!
I really think they were Timpo.
Only problem is that now i do not take them so interesting that i was thinking i will.Hm,ok now is past 20 years or more when i play with them and at the time(when i was child) it looks great,but now it does not look so attractive to me no more.
Because now i am thinking on buying some to display them in to my living room,not for playing off course but i am not sure if that is what i wannt haha.
Well first i was thinking to buy some lead Britains like Zulu war but if i buy everything i wannt than i can bankropt haha,so i need to find a cheaper solution.
So do you know any other rubber plastic like Timpo but a little more quality?Maybe from one piece not like Timpo that can be removeable(it was interesting when i was a child) but now it looks to much "childish" haha.
I remmemebr that once i was going on School,my school comrade brings some Indians for me when she take from her Brother and it was very nice,more than this Timpo,i think it was the same material rubber plastic but in one piece,not removeable,painted,like 3,4 colour (face,pants,...all diferent colour),and it was some Apache Indian with knife,silver knife,....so it must be something else.
Tell me who except Timpo produce this kind of figures?
 
Welcome to the Forum, Timpo I believe was and still is very popular in Germany. You may also want to look for Britains Swoppets. They are like the Timpo ones you had but a LOT better. They are very popular and also very expensive and are no longer made unfortunately.
 
jac28 said:
Have you looked at Britains Deetail? They are plastic with metal bases painted in a variety of colors.. very nice for display...

Treefrog sells them.. here's the link:

http://www.treefrogtreasures.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=387

Hope this helps.

Jim
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Hello Jim!
Yes i was looking at them too and yesterday i get an WBritain Catalog 2009 and i see them inside,and i see that there is 48 pieces of them and Mounted 18 pieces and stonewall 12 pieces,...so i am very much thinking to buy them.Can you tell me which is the height if them? Are they 54 mm like lead or any other measure?
And if they are 48 pieces but in th ephoto it is only 11,so that mean that the rest of them are douibled or tripled like this 11 or they are diferent batling position?
The same question about the stonewall?It is the same or it can be put together and make an fort,castle,...?
Well anybody who knows can answered haha.
 
Dear Aleš,
The large Britains plastics sets that you see in the 2009 catalog are what are called 'counter packs.' This means they come loose altogether in one large box that is to be set out in a store for collectors to pick out singly the pieces they want to buy.
The assortment is 'weighted' meaning that there is not an equal number of each pose in each box. There are more of each of the most popular poses and less of others. As an example, in a WWII box there might be more standing firing poses than radiomen because a person would usually want multiples of standing firing and maybe only one or two radiomen.
At Treefrog Treasures we have counterpacks in our showroom for customers to browse through or we sell partial counterpacks on our website. You can also arrange with us to buy an entire counterpack.
The walls are almost 3" high and are not meant to be stacked on top of each other.
I hope I have answered your questions to your satisfaction.
Best regards,
 
I think these are the figures your talking about in the photo below? There very similar to Timpo figures also in the the photo but the legs are plastic and the body is more of a rubber type plastic.
Are these the ones your talking about?
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I Now have some more figures for you guys to ID for me now! Anyone know who makes these knights????
There in the same multi piece style as the Timpo also. I got these as a kid back in the 70,s for x-mas one year.
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And while I was digging through my old figures these guys were in there also! These came packed on a blister card back in the 70,s labeled Men of 76! They were packaged a few figures to a pack, some with mounted figures some with cannons. I still have a lot of these guys Including a bunch of mounted figures not pictured. They were one of my favorites as a kid.
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Shannon Reuss said:
Dear Aleš,
The large Britains plastics sets that you see in the 2009 catalog are what are called 'counter packs.' This means they come loose altogether in one large box that is to be set out in a store for collectors to pick out singly the pieces they want to buy.
The assortment is 'weighted' meaning that there is not an equal number of each pose in each box. There are more of each of the most popular poses and less of others. As an example, in a WWII box there might be more standing firing poses than radiomen because a person would usually want multiples of standing firing and maybe only one or two radiomen.
At Treefrog Treasures we have counterpacks in our showroom for customers to browse through or we sell partial counterpacks on our website. You can also arrange with us to buy an entire counterpack.
The walls are almost 3" high and are not meant to be stacked on top of each other.
I hope I have answered your questions to your satisfaction.
Best regards,
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Yes thank you,you answered ok i understand now.Well now i just need to decide it what to buy,plastic or lead.
At first i rather buy plastic because it is cheaper and i can get a lot of them,display them,maybe make a castle with (i do not know the english word for material that could make pots) and than it will be look nice,but in the other hand This Zulu mate or gloss(matte a little more interested) look very good but it will take a lot of monney and for the monney i can buy whol esets of plastic i can buy only 5-6 mate,which is sad haha.
I really need to think about it.
I also read somewhere that it can be bought plastic or lead NO PAINTED knights and i can painted my self.I think it can be good busines to painted in the colors of my town because in the town where i was born in the 15 century they were very famous earls and i can painted their shields and colours and maybe sale them in the turistic shop.
Hm,where can i see those unpainted knights?
 
fishead19690 said:
I think these are the figures your talking about in the photo below? There very similar to Timpo figures also in the the photo but the legs are plastic and the body is more of a rubber type plastic.
Are these the ones your talking about?
024.jpg

022.jpg

I Now have some more figures for you guys to ID for me now! Anyone know who makes these knights????
There in the same multi piece style as the Timpo also. I got these as a kid back in the 70,s for x-mas one year.
013.jpg

011.jpg

015.jpg


And while I was digging through my old figures these guys were in there also! These came packed on a blister card back in the 70,s labeled Men of 76! They were packaged a few figures to a pack, some with mounted figures some with cannons. I still have a lot of these guys Including a bunch of mounted figures not pictured. They were one of my favorites as a kid.
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036.jpg

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Yes you are right,they look something like this,but this is also what the timpo look like so you all are right haha.
But i am not so interested in this no more because they make me interested when i was a child.They look so good that time an di have them in my mind that they still look so cool but now they do not haha.Welll than was diferent times and now is much better figures.
But i will still like to know who produce this other figures i mention that they are like plastic rubber soimething material but in one piece.look like this but in one piece,i think that they are also without this green standings,at least this apache that i have in my mind was not in the green standing,i think this was more valuable than this with two pieces.But maybe thsi apache was a horse rider but i am not sure i remember he have this silver knife inhis hand.Hm now this we need to crak the mistery haha-WHO PRODUCE THEM
 
Fish, Those Knights are Cherilia swoppetts.
Christmas 1970 I got the BIG King arthurs Castle set from Germany { Sears wishbook} and a 20 figure boxed set of those knights. Mine were almost all in deep metallic blue though. Had many a battle for the castle with those guys. When I started collecting "TOY" figures again maybe 12 years ago, thats what I went for , the old BIG castle , plastic Knights.
I managed to find all manner of toy knights in plastics, timpos, by the buckets, deetails, Britains swppoetts ect ect. Never did find those Cherilia Knh\ights again though.

FUB
 
Hi - the knights are by Cherilea and made in Manchester, England in the mid 1970's.
The American War of Independence were on sale in the USA in 1976 - the name is on the tip of my tongue but cant quite recall it properly - possibly INNOVATIVE - they were featured in Plastic Warrior magazine a few years ago

Regards,
9th
 
By the way - the AWI figures are quite uncommon and are worth quite a few greenbacks
9th
 
Aleš said:
Hey Thanx Ragnar!!!
I really think they were Timpo.
Only problem is that now i do not take them so interesting that i was thinking i will.Hm,ok now is past 20 years or more when i play with them and at the time(when i was child) it looks great,but now it does not look so attractive to me no more.
Because now i am thinking on buying some to display them in to my living room,not for playing off course but i am not sure if that is what i wannt haha.
Well first i was thinking to buy some lead Britains like Zulu war but if i buy everything i wannt than i can bankropt haha,so i need to find a cheaper solution.
So do you know any other rubber plastic like Timpo but a little more quality?Maybe from one piece not like Timpo that can be removeable(it was interesting when i was a child) but now it looks to much "childish" haha.
I remmemebr that once i was going on School,my school comrade brings some Indians for me when she take from her Brother and it was very nice,more than this Timpo,i think it was the same material rubber plastic but in one piece,not removeable,painted,like 3,4 colour (face,pants,...all diferent colour),and it was some Apache Indian with knife,silver knife,....so it must be something else.
Tell me who except Timpo produce this kind of figures?
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Here's some sites for plastic soldiers of all kinds lots of pictures so you can see what you like.

http://www.sdsoldiers.com/

http://www.hobbybunker.com

http://www.barzso.com/

http://www.classictoysoldiers.com/
 
Thank you all for helping me.
I think i am very close to find what i am looking for.I think it is Elastolin Hausser the company.Because i was looking at the websites you give me and i think this can be the company i am looking for.
So is there any website adress of this ELASTOLIN HAUSSER where i can look at their products,katalogs,...?
 
Aleš said:
Thank you all for helping me.
I think i am very close to find what i am looking for.I think it is Elastolin Hausser the company.Because i was looking at the websites you give me and i think this can be the company i am looking for.
So is there any website adress of this ELASTOLIN HAUSSER where i can look at their products,katalogs,...?
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Hausser closed up shop in 1983 and sold their molds to Preiser. If I can find the address for Preiser, I'll post it back here.

Prost!
Brad
 
Fish what great collection of old plastics you got going there.
I had some of those Cowboys when i was a kid...long gone now :(.
I like them RevWar figs,
 
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