Marx Training Center Figures - Putting Them To Use: Goin' To Work

 

Cave Finds: Marx Training Center Metallic Blue Accessories - Pt 4 (Final) 30cal MG on Tripod

This is the last detail piece I'll be covering for the Marx Training Center playsets. Hopefully the next post will be the one in which I put everything together  to show you what my playset ended up containing.

Ed

Cave Finds: Marx Training Center Metallic Blue Accessories - Pt 3 Non-firing 50cal Water Cooled MG on Tripod

Marx made two versions of the 50cal machine gun: a larger firing version, and this smaller non-firing version. The firing gun came in silver and OD HP while the non-firing guns came in silver, olive green, and metallic blue SP. There may have been an olive drab or brown version as well - that needs to be verified.

Ed

Cave Finds: Marx Training Center Metallic Blue Accessories - Pt 2 Recoilless Rifle on Tripod

The recoilless rifle looks awfully big when next to Marx's 45mm figures but they were in  fact a rather large-ish weapon. Marx's version appears to be the M20 which didn't become common until 1945.

Ed

Culled from the Internet

Cave Finds: Marx Training Center Metallic Blue Accessories - Pt 1

Along with the plethora of figures I found out in The Cave, there were a bunch of metallic blue accessories in the same box. This comes just a couple of weeks after a friend sent me a couple of blue pieces I didn't realize I already had! DOH! Sorry Billy!

These would have been in early Training Center playsets and I believe represent all of the metallic blue accessories Marx produced. Let me know if you know of any more (did they do the office furniture in metallic blue???). 

Here's the rundown:

- Pup tent

-Garbage cans

-Rifle stack

-Bazooka

-Recoilless rifle on tripod

-50cal water-cooled machine gun on tripod

-30cal machine gun on tripod

Ed

1954 Sears Wishbook extract.

While this is in black-&-white, I'm surmising that the accessories shown near the USAF figures in the lower half of the photo, may have been the metallic blue ones.

My metallic blue accessory collection to-date

Tent and garbage can shown with USAF figure for size comparison

Pup Tent

Marx hallmark on inside

Garbage Cans

Marx hallmark on underside

Rifle Stack

Bazooka

Shown here with USAF figure for size comparison