I’m afraid my Blue Knight didn’t turn out quite like this.
The toy universe, back when I lived in it with my brother and sister, was very rich in knights, armor and all. Imagine our delight when we got these model kits for Christmas.
Alas, plastic swords and battle-axes wouldn’t even cut yarn; the yarn cut them when we tried. My Blue Knight of Milan never did stand quite straight–probably needed a lamp-post to lean on.
Even so–model kits were fun! I don’t know how popular they are today, but back then they gave us many happy (and peaceful!) hours. And there’s very much to be said for that.
I don’t remember ever seeing these, but they are certainly interesting.
I don’t think I ever saw these either, but when I was little I got a set of snow white and the seven dwarfs made of ceramic. I really treasured those, and wouldn’t allow any rough kids to even handle them.
Do you still have them?
I never had knight kits, but I remember having bird kits – mostly balsa wood, as I recall, and a chart of how to paint them. I sort of remember a red bird and a yellow one, and maybe evan a black-with-white-markings but I never had one that was too complicated to paint. I don’t think I’d have managed a pigeon, for example.
Those bird models came back in plastic when I was a boy. Once or twice my parakeet model was mistaken for the real thing.
I do not have my snow white set- no, in one of our many moves, they got lost somewhere, somehow.
Ditto my complete set of 1967 baseball cards.