a revell 1/144 sub is removed from a stand, broken and placed into a stormy sea. The ocean is styrofoam, a clay product, and an amazing paint job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YtgtqBFNk
These are neat, I can easily see using little sets like these to tell photo stories set in Ornria. Ornrian agatha Christie/Sherlock Holmes film noir inspired comic strips...
one of the rarer toy soldiers are figures called chalkware. formed of gypsum, ie. plaster of paris, chalkware was a depression era low cost medium for household objects , often carved or easily molded. Though figurines, lamps, wall hangings souveniers and bricacrac were the mainstay of the factory output cheap toys were a natural application of the art. Plaster was cheaper than ceramics, or plastics, or metals, and was easily molded, and when painted with oil paints, could develop an attractive finish.
THE ARMY BEAN. Tune- "Sweet Bye-and-Bye" There's a spot that the soldiers all love, The mess-tent's the place that we mean, And the dish that we like to see there Is the old-fashioned white army bean. Chorus. Tis the bean that we mean, And we'll eat as we ne'er ate before; The army bean, nice and clean, We'll stick to our beans evermore. Now the bean in its primitive state Is a plant we have all often met; And when cooked in the old army style, It has charms we can never forget.-Chorus.
Two examples of the unique style of Russian maker MKI Progress. These are from the 80s, and that exhausts my knowledge of them. Interesting woodcarving like stylization though. Not unlike the earliest Technolog fantasy figures.
Lucotte and Mignot began as rivals, but merged through marriage, anyway Lucotte figures were very similar in style to mignot, but were done in a way that included more soldered on details and were finished to a higher standard and pricepoint... included things like wire reins, and more paint changes, they are at the pinnicle when covering first empire cavalry, but these late Republic fellows are good too, anyway they have a beauty.
