Handy barrel, rope and cannonball scenery feature as well as duelling figures in the Safari Toob pirate set.
Some really useful Treasure Island type figures here, some that no doubt early gaming writer Robert Louis Stevenson would have enjoyed.
A tiny Pirate ship in the background, this Skeleton Compass leads these two Toob pirate figures onwards in their map hunt for buried treasure. Palm tree is a Tiger stores cocktail stick. (Photo: Man of TIN)
Safari’s Pirate Toob set has some interesting and useful 54mm or 1:32 plastic prepainted figures for gaming in the 18th and 19th Century.
The duelling figures with swords out would work really well with Donald Featherstone’s simple sword fight rules in one of my favourite Featherstone chapters “Wargaming in Bed” in his book Solo Wargaming.
Nice touches like the monkey on the shoulder.This Toob pirate reminds me of a pirate book illustration by American painter Howard Pyle. Shame about the wonky musket.
“The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow” by Howard Pyle is the oil painting, which the illustration was of, was sold in 1905 under the title The Buccaneer, and is currently part of the Delaware Art Museum’s collection.
Howard Pyle’s The Buccaneer. (Source image: Wikipedia)Again, nice detail seen from the back like the pirate parrot or macaw. Useful atmospheric barrels, cannon balls and rope cluster.Excellent injured pirate or veteranGood back details on this peg leg pirate.Hmmm. Something vaguely 1980s pop star or biker about this pirate. One for a paint conversion … nice cannon though!
Female pirate based on Ann Bonny, less scantily clad than the engraving.Ann BonnyContemporary image or engraving of Ann Bonny (Source image: Wikipedia)
Safari Toob figure sets or Toobs are not cheap so probably do not qualify for inclusion on my Pound Store Plastic Warriors website:
They are about $12 dollars from Safari Ltd.com or from Amazon UK about £12 (to £15 RRP).
This gets you 6 figures, 7 if you count the skeleton, along with the cannon, barrels and the tiny ship.
I will post further Safari Toob figure set reviews over the next few weeks, the Jamestown settlers and Powhatan Indians and Native American Indian / Wild West set.
American customers have access to a range of Civil War and Revolutionary War figure Safari Toobs.
Posted by Mark, Mr MIN Man of TIN blog, December 2016.
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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