Another useful Safari Toob set of figures are The Jamestown Settlers set in 1:32 or 54mm scale, which contains some interesting and useful ‘character’ figures for modelling or gaming.
Educational descriptions of each figure. 12 Jamestown pieces includes 3 farm animals, log fire and a wonky ship, so each figure is between £1 and 2 pounds or dollars effectively.
These Safari Toob figures are produced in cooperation with the Jamestown Settlement Museum in Williamsburg Virginia.
For American customers the Toob set is around $12 dollars, but can also buy ‘bulk bags’ of some of these Safari Toob figures too.
Amazon UK retails these Toob sets for £12 to £15.
Captain John Smith of Pocahontas fame. Pocahontas features in the Powhatan Toob set. 54mm Jamestown Settler workman with ax(e) by Safari Toob. Twig log collected by Man of TIN.54mm Jamestown blacksmith (without an anvil) but useful Fire. A 54mm anvil could be made from Fimo / Sculpy or suitable white metal one found.
Safari Toob figures are ‘educational’ and come with short caption texts. We will feature more about the Powhatan Indian set (left) in another blog review post.
The Safari Toob website reliably informs that:
Arguably one of America’s most important landmarks, Jamestown was founded in 1607 by English settlers. While Jamestown is now celebrated as an important location for the development of the early American colonies, it wasn’t without its trials.
From 1609 to 1610, James struggled through a crippling lack of food known as the “Starving Time” which diminished the population by nearly 60%. However, the settlers were resilient, and over time Jamestown developed into one of the premier bastions of English civilization in America.
Useful 54mm accessories (cannon) matches with the pirate set barrels and cannonballs.Wonky musket aside, this is a useful 54mm musketeer figure from the Safari Toob Jamestown settler set.54mm Navigator with cross staff figure from the Safari Toob Jamestown Settler set. Pirate chest from a pound store plastic set.
Especially useful in both the Powhatan Indian figures (to be featured in next blogpost) and the Jamestown Settlers sets are the tradesmen and the civilian women.
54mm Jamestown settler woman cooking that can be used for many periods and nationalities.Jamestown cook54mm Jamestown Settler woman gardening.
There are equally good figures (shown) from the later Wild West settlers Toob set.
54mm Safari Toob Wild West settler and child with Jamestown settler with hoe. Toob sets often match together well.
Musketeer with wonky musketMusketeer with wonky musketWonky and tiny thin 2D out of scale ship suitable for setting the background.
Expensive but interesting character figures, full of conversion possibilities.
Several other companies produce plastic 17th Century figures, but you can always mass produce your own with Doug Shand’s brilliant idea of dollar store conversions of Airfix Australians:
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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