Mokarex Coffee Chess Set: Louis XI vs Charles The Bold (1 Viewer)

[egonzinc]

I bought this set in the late 70s in Boston. I was going to paint the myself, but kept putting it off!
I have been in a “medieval surge” recently so decided to get these painted. I have been using a painting comoany in Sri Lanka called Fernando Enterprises to paint “flat” airplane castings. So decided to give them a shot with these figures.
These figures are made of hard plastic and they originally came inside Mokarex Coffee cans from the 49s until the esrly 60s . This chess set must have been a recast set.
The conflict represents a little known War of the Publuc Weal in 1465 berween King Louis XI and Charles “The Bold”. The respective “queens” and the knights are also historic personalities. Curious chouce of court jesters for the bishops! Jaja! And I just love the men at arms pawns.

 

[egonzinc]

Some more…

The chess board was bought “loose” on ebay…

 

[Obee]

That is a great looking set, I have only seen it as unpainted plastic, but the painters have really brought out the sculpting on them.

A local collector has used Fernando Enterprises for many of his flats, and a they are also 'pieces of art', when finished.

I have painted the four different Mokarex jesters (from 2 different sets) for my wife, who collects jesters, mainly from packs of cards.



Hope you like my work ???

John

 

[egonzinc]

Great job on your jesters! The figures have some nice casting detail and come alive once painted. I’m wondering if the figures from this chess set were ever included in coffee cans! Probably not as some have somewhat fragile details. Other Mokarex figures I remember were clearly designed to be able to survive the delivery inside coffee.

 

[29 Let's Go]

Beautifully painted.

Steve

 

[egonzinc]

That is a great looking set, I have only seen it as unpainted plastic, but the painters have really brought out the sculpting on them.

A local collector has used Fernando Enterprises for many of his flats, and a they are also 'pieces of art', when finished.

I have painted the four different Mokarex jesters (from 2 different sets) for my wife, who collects jesters, mainly from packs of cards.

View attachment 284841

Hope you like my work ???


John

Looking through eBay. some of the chess set figures are shown loose. You might be able to find some additional jesters as the ones in the chess set are different from the ones you already painted.

 

[Obee]

Great job on your jesters! The figures have some nice casting detail and come alive once painted. I’m wondering if the figures from this chess set were ever included in coffee cans! Probably not as some have somewhat fragile details. Other Mokarex figures I remember were clearly designed to be able to survive the delivery inside coffee.

This is a website showing all of the figures issued my Mokarex ..... http://www.mokarex.fr/figurine.html

Very interesting

John

 

[Obee]

Looking through eBay. some of the chess set figures are shown loose. You might be able to find some additional jesters as the ones in the chess set are different from the ones you already painted.

These only show 3 of the figures, I have two of the same there, but later I got the fourth on, so I'll take a pic of all of them and post that.

John

 

[Obee]

I'll take a pic of all of them and post that.

John

This is the 4 different Mokarex Jesters and a double up of one of them...



And the other ones I have painted by various other makers, mostly metal figures and LEGO (of course)



John

 

[Mirof]

This is the 4 different Mokarex Jesters and a double up of one of them...


And the other ones I have painted by various other makers, mostly metal figures and LEGO (of course)


John

The center one is a Sanderson edited by Greenwood & Ball in the 70ies came in a set of 4 named The Executioner
The joker, a demon, an executioner and a lady