Collection 1: Favorite Polish produced plastic toy figures (PZG)

Battle of Grunwald - Siege of Vienna - Napoleonic - World War 2

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Ulrich von Jungingen
Two versions of Ulrich von Jungingen.
(Teutonic hochmeister at battle of Grunwald). The horse is marked PZG within hollow belly and is the correct one for these figures.

 

Armored foot knights
Armored foot knights
PZG set marked 2 - 1 to 6 on base

Crossbowmen
Crossbowmen
PZG set marked 3 - 1 to 6 on base
(1 figure missing)

Un-armoured foot soldiers

Unarmored foot soldiers.
PZG set marked 1 – 1 to 6 on base
(3 figures missing)

Mounted knights
Mounted knights.
3 very similar mounted knights, almost identical except for 

heads and lances, on standard medieval horses with base.

Medieval foot knights
Medieval foot knights.

Unmarked Men-at-arms, the top row show how easy it is to miss variants, note the difference in bases. All bases on  PZG figures are unmarked except for the sets described in other pictures.

Medieval unarmored footsoldiers
Unarmored figures.

Unmarked unarmored figures, note how some variants have only different shield designs. All PZG figures were produced  between mid 1960's and early 1980's.

More unmarked medieval figures
More unmarked medieval figures

 More unmarked medieval crossbowmen
More unmarked medieval crossbowmen

Another crossbowman
Another crossbowman
Notice the two variations, the left one has a mail hood and the 
right one a helmet, and the back view.

Polish knights
Two more polish knights.
The unarmored one is a personality figure

and has a separate lance (missing)


Vytautas at Grunwald


17c 80mm Great Northern Wars figures

Polish artillery
17c polish artillery and figures

These are approx 80mm

Winged Hussar on standing horse.
Winged Hussars on standing horses.
The larger is 1st quality and is marked PZG on horse's belly. Both have separate figure, horse, saddlecloth and lance.

Husar and officer
Hussar and officer.
Two great examples of the charging polish winged hussar and officer figure

Husar cavalery
Polish hussar cavalry command group and one dragoon
All late 17c. Sprayed gold for tourist market, the drummer is a version without a base, it has not been cut off.

Polish napoleonic figures
Polish Napoleonic figures

This is the most common set

Napoleonics
More Napoleonic's
 I suspect there are many more types to be found.

Napoleonic cavalry
Two Napoleonic cavalrymen


2 figures from the marked set


Examples of yet another set


A different Napoleonic 52mm set’

Polish revolutionary figures
Mid 19c Polish revolutionary figures
... really unusual figures.

More revolutionary figures
More revolutionary figures
They originally had very flimsy pole-arms, but it is unusual to find any with them now.


48mm mounted figures 
From late Napoleonic and Polish uprising era

WW2 Polish cavalry
WWII: Polish cavalry


WWII: Polish Cavalry mounted and dismounted

WW2_polish_Warsaw_uprising
WWII: Polish Warsaw uprising

WW2 boys
WWII: Small boys
1 with petrol bomb and 1 courier. 2 super figures from the Warsaw uprising set

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WWII: Girl guide nurse & boy scout with Molotov cocktail


WWII: Two polish resistance fighters
Notice how this set has been designed to mimic WW2 Elastolin and Lineol figures