However there is a small question-mark over
these for the time being as back when I was a Philistine (or even more
Philistinical than I am now!) I used to chuck the crappy guns in the recycling
or send them off to charity without the gunners, as I saw myself as 'only'
collecting small scale figures.
I am pretty sure I removed both G1 and G2
gunners from Kositoy guns, and am equally sure that these are earlier than the
others (due to A) having a smaller sample and B) not finding them on Google
when the later (?) G2's are easy to find), however I always kept one of each 'intactum', so there will be a pair of
confirmation samples in storage to return to at some point.
I did mock-up a brace for this post and
while the G2's will fit the early gun without forcing, the G1's are loose in
the later gun's seats, suggesting A) I've got them the right way round and B)
that they are the two generations of Kamley/Kositoy.
As you can see he looks like a
high-altitude pilot or astronaut/spaceman (but only a torso) with a full Gemini type or early Cosmonaut rig of straps across the front of his pressure-suit.
It wouldn't surprise me if he turned up in
a rack-toy aeroplane, space-ship or racing-car at some point, and I have a
feeling I may have removed some (of both G1's and G2's) from jeeps, but neither
of the jeeps being listed today in other posts take drivers and I'm not listing
such until I get the rest out of storage or find some on the internet to
confirm.
Colours so far found. These are a softer
ethylene than the G2's and when shook - as a handful - sound like Airfix HO/OO figures, unlike the G2's
who sound like dice!
While I shall leave the question marks in
the first part of this post I noticed that the index card is clear that these
are Kositoy, which means they must
have come with a Kositoy lot, this
card predates 2006 having survived the 2008 storage-unit flood!
September 2022 - If Kamley; now known to be brand/brand-mark/s of Kwong Shing - added to tags.
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But is it Giant
No; the earliest KS-coded generics probably didn't appear until ten years after Giant had ceased to be as a going
concern, possibly as long as 14 or 15-years after, and there are no Ginat recognised items or pieces in any
of Kositoy's sets.
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