When these job lot of figures arrived for repair, I noticed three distinctive 1950s Crescent made lead Guardsmen on horseback.
The mounted trumpeter with hand on hip looks like he should be in the music video for Gangnam Style, the much parodied dance 2012 hit by Korea’s favourite musical son PSY. (Earworm alert!)
When this music video and tune came out in 2012, lots of American college marching bands did their own musical marching band versions with dance routines for Gangnam Style which were great fun.
I’m not sure if any of these amazing outfits are made by the US toy band figure maker Little Band Man but these toy band figures are attractive figures nonetheless http://littlebandman.com/welcome
An inexpensive job lot of figures for repair.
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN Advent Day 2 Sunday 2nd December 2018
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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