H is for Holy Self-Signed Toy, Batman!

I bought this at Sandown Park, I won't tell you what it cost, but suffice to say it wasn't cheap as chips, and I was initially a little disappointed by it, suspecting a mug had been seen coming, a little buyer's remorse crept in, but, like last night's cartoon, that's something which often accompanies the post show sort-out!

 

Holy boxed battle-taxi, Batman!

First, it was sold to me as AHI (Azrak Hamway International) when it's not, it's the later Australian reissue from Len Hunter Trading, and dating from 1989 (AHI carried this in 1977), and that it was signed, which I quickly convinced myself was a bit dodgy? However, having seen the prices of a few unsigned ones, and enough samples of Adam West's signature to be slightly more convinced by its sloppiness, I'm much happier about the purchase now!

 

 Holy facsimile figurines, Batman!

 

The main body of the Batmobile is all-plastic, so it ticks one box, and has two figures, of The Batman and pesky Robin, The Boy Wonder, so it ticks another box there, and is clearly a scaled-up copy of the Corgi die-cast, where that was 1:43rd, this is closer to 1:35th/32nd scale.

 

Holy Batbath brum-brum, Batman!

 

The boat is the same, and while I initially though they were blow-moulds; so many of the bootlegs and knock-off's have been, it is actually a couple of lumps of polystyrene, the frangibility of which means they are far worse survivors, than the original Corgi die-casts.

 

Holy crime-fighting combination, Batman! 

 

I think the figures can be used in the Batboat, but the seats are closer together, so maybe only one at a time? I noticed, before purchase, the blister had been off at one point, and not replaced brilliantly, so there's an option to remove it again, in the future, photograph the combination in close-up, re-set the Batboat in it's trailer properly, and try resetting the blister a little better?

 

Does the fact that the autograph is 'To Robin' from Adam West, give it a little extra caché? And, as I said to the seller, with all its faults or potential faults, when was I going to see another one? Holy philosophical fuckwittery, Batman!

B is for Bristol Bloodhound

Managed to tick-off a smaller 'grail' at Sandown a month ago, with the purchase of this beast, I knew it existed, I can't remember when or where I saw it, but I had seen one, some years ago I think, anyway, I recognised the box and bought it quickly without checking the contents! I've also managed to shoot it twice, with some of the following 'seen elsewhere' soon after the purchase, so a few more images than usual, and no collaging!

 

The box; exactly the sort of thing I remember from Webb's The Newsagents in Hartley Wintney when I was a kid, colourful, but basic three-colour screen-printed on low quality card, reminiscent of early, cheap, post-war wallpaper like our grandparent's bathroom ducks! It leaves little doubt as to the contents and includes simple graphical instructions in the drawings.

 

Components; there's approximately 30+ pieces, all factory assembled in both polystyrene and polyethylene, with a couple of metal parts. Several small, plastic pivots/axle-pins allow for elevation/depression of the whole launcher, which also revolves on its baseplate, and a separate Bloodhound Missile with spring-firing mechanism can be locked in.

 

Ready to fire; The trigger is slightly damaged, so while I can set it up for a photograph, I can't fire it, and that's probably a good thing, as making such a model in frangible 'styrene was not a wise move, as far as longevity is concerned, and it's a bit of a miracle it's still this complete. And that white button on the back may have had a function, which I haven't yet worked-out!

 

When I first posted it elsewhere, I suggested in might be scaled-up from the Corgi die-cast, but rapidly came to the conclusion it's more likely to be based on the Frog kit, which will give my crew-figures, from that aforementioned kit, something useful to do! It's around 1:35th scale, or maybe a little smaller, I'll have to get the Frog kit, I've never previously been after, to compare! And obviously, no maker, or any clue to same!

C is for Catch-up - Sandown Park - November

And so to the most recent show, about a month ago, I was actually trying to be frugal (Christmas is coming and I knew I had parcels to post (all done now - phew!)), but managed to grab a big bag for a fiver at clearing-up time from one of the die-cast guys.

The bag's top right and explored below, but among the other things was another Tula Cartridge Works AFV, a BTR152 (I think?) 6x6 wheeled carrier, a boat-trailer which looks very Thomas/Poplar but still needs to be checked against the tractors and their equipment to see if any of the wheels match, I'll also have to find the right boat and a tower! I also picked-up a small VW-Beetle type from Hong Kong which may be Blue Box, or may be one of several imitators - although they were all copying Matchbox or similar. Then there's the WHS's I've already Blogged as a follow-up.

There were also a few Blue Box small scale Wild West including a wagon, less one horse, Magic Roundabout Ermentrude and Gladiator premiums, Marx HK lifeguard, the composition Guards and a few other things. I got the Cherilea Sheikh from Steve Vickers, I always have a look at his table as he always has such lovely stuff, but it's often a bit beyond my budget (high-end plastic, quality hollow-cast and the odd bit of European composition), so I was well-pleased to find something.

My big mistake was the Xandria Holland key-ring, the seller had at least five (and they weren't cheap!); I instantly recognised Brains clutching his model spaceship and Lady Penelope with her mauve costume-jewellery, there was a Parker (I think - don't remember seeing the mafia violin-case) and a darker blue Tracy boy I thought I had, but I couldn't remember any of mine having a radio, so thought I'd found a sixth pose and bought this one. needless to say I do have it and then imagined I'd seen three Tracy's and left the 'wrong' one, but I think that's wishful thinking, and the seller had the same group as me? So this one is available with a straight swap for an equally interesting thing, if anyone wants him!

The thing second-down from the left is a blow-moulded chicken with tin-legs, and why not!

I bought the bag of Wild West for these chaps; dead common in oxide brown or an off white (the two at the bottom), but less common in these bright colours. They are good quality Hong Kong copies of the Jean figures from Germany and I rather like them!

The bag also contained a mix of British plastic and Hong Kong figures, and in each shot the upper row were 'keeps', the lower row was in the recycling by midday on the Sunday! Except the Timpo Indians, where I decided to keep the two middle figures, until I've checked them against my box of bits, where I may or may not have them, if I need them I'll glue them.

I know - I've already posted a bigger shot! But Adrian had put these to one side for me, and it was in the collageing of these, here, that I got the idea for the other 'eye-candy' shot! All W. Germany-marked, four with integral wheels and five with separate wheels and . . . I can't get enough of them!

Adrian had also put the chariot aside for me, we have looked at one, which I debagged due to its having already broken-free, but this bag looks to be holding-up well, so will remain as a 'minter' although the bag is getting the fogging of a million micro-folds!

John Begg (PTS52 on eBay) managed to find me the WWII leaders, not in time for the posts earlier this year, but that was only because I'm an impatient git, there is another post on the Monogram legacy, on the way at some point, and I'll do these closer then.

Finally and for something completely different, with the Earth dying an'all that pink-monkey related shit, it was nice to see the plastic cutlery being replaced by wooden alternatives - I can report that the knife was bloody good and dealt with proper bacon - no problem - but the fork was a bit less successful and split after the first prod! It's probably steam-shaped and that weakens the grain?

Also - a big thanks to the management at Sandown Park for getting back to a full breakfast with drink (tea or coffee) for a fiver, it's been creeping up to seven or eight quid plus for the two this last year or so, and I began to wonder if the 'Saturday crew' knew what they were doing, let's hope it now stays back at a fiver-with-drink for a while?

So four shows, four posts, filled a weekend if nothing else! Some of it we've already seen in close-up, some of it we won't see again for years, like that trailer, for instance - I really will have to find the boat and the towing vehicle before it can be Blogged properly; right now I don't now whether to put it with the unknown boats & ships, or with the 'Car Ferry' farm sets!

It's all grist to the mill - more tomorrow, if I remember!

T is for Toy Fair 2019 Reports - J Perkins (JP)

JP may well be known to you from your work desk or table where they may be present as bottles or tins of glue, paint or solvent of one type or another, and while I wouldn't expect real-flying model aficionados to be following the blog, they would know them for their fuels, lubricants or coatings, however they currently have a small range of traditional 'novelty' gliders.

As it's over a year since we last looked at these here and less than 660-days to Christmas, time we looked at them again, and we'll start with another report from the January Toy Fair . . . it's been a funny year!

Ohhh! Pretty Lady, what happened to you?

Forty-years of Thatcherite-Raganomic, bigoted, middle-England, parochial, reactionary, Tory-policy, that's what, and what they did to you they're now doing to the whole country! Although we can't escape from the fact you were only ever a planet-destroying, Anglo-French vanity-project for the very rich, so maybe museums are the best place for you?

It's a Concord glider, in laser-cut, coated-balsa wood, too cool for aviation-school! In the background an even more traditional - undecorated, plain balsa - glider, but with the added gimmick of adjustable wing positions to provide what I believe they call 'variable flight-profiles'!

Two more; there aren't many 'Icons of the Air' you can collect the whole fleet-of, but Concord is definitely one, with a few rub-down letters and a bit of Tipex you could make the whole BA-fleet!

Meanwhile, in the background you can see two more Icons of the Air, namely Spitfires and Hurricanes from WWII.

My favourite, I know the Spitfire was prettier, faster, more manoeuvrable . . . yada, yada, yada, but this did the bulk of the work and could take more punishment, it's the 'British Bulldog' to the Spit's greyhound!

The other one! I don't know if you've realised from the camera-shots, but these are much bigger than the pocket-money, enveloped, expanded polystyrene ones we were looking at in the main last time, this is around 1:48th, even 1:32nd maybe? I suspect that both fighter-plane models are based on Battle of Britain Memorial flight airframes?

O is for Odd Squad!

Some, but not all the National leaders (neither US President), a couple of famous Generals, but most missing and two Göring's ('Goering'), this was always a bit of an strange line-up for a set, but it's quite popular (although not particularly rare in either size), and is overdue for a box-tick here!

271 Army Leaders World War II, also issued in the larger 1:35th scale a few years later as set 450, itself an odd act, as while it made them compatible with the Italeri and Heller kits of the day, there was no history of 50mm stuff from Austria (or Germany), nor any forthcoming range of matching vehicles or other kits from Roco.

The 'data list' on the back of the card is in a different order to the presentation of the figures on the other side, who are each in a separate blister with their title below. I seem to recall the large scale set come similarly packed, but in one row?

Two Göring's; there are two Göring's for some reason, a hundred allied or axis generals missing, but two sculpts of a fat face-feeding Nazi airforce arsehole, when Roco only made a few aircraft and all of them post-war helicopters - did they do a Storch? Where's Himmler? It's a very odd choice of figures, no Monty or MacArthur? Patton's absence explained by already being in the early US figure-sets (seen earlier today).

If you're going to have even one Göring, where's the Dowding or 'Bomber' Harris? A De Gaulle, but no Vichy? Speer, Franco, any Jap, Manstein, Guderian, poor old Paulus . . . Zhukov? It's an eclectic line-up to say the least, but they are very well sculpted and all pretty recognisable as to whom they are meant to be!

While back to the Goering thing; I guess the sculptor played with a few alternative sculpts and two of them - for the one personality - were considered so good, they couldn't choose which one to run with, so ran them both? It's also worth noting that the two figures are to all purposes the same sculpt - from the waist down! But even then - you have to ask - why didn't they then make-up the set to a ten-figure count?

US Army is for More Clones!

Because I've been editing all the current output over the last few months, things have happened which might otherwise have been 'follow-up's, but a few weeks after I had finished the earlier of today's posts, and the later post today, which was waiting on a set and had put both the finished ones on the back-burner for a while anyway, the following images dropping into my in-box, kindly sent by Dougal Hare (so many thanks' to him) who had no idea the other two posts were in the pipeline.

Like the increasingly hard to fine Bandai 1/48th scale figure kits; this is not a common thing! I had no idea it even existed and I have quite a good Fujimi Mokei archive including all sorts of listings, imagery and several catalogues including an old one. A set of eight figures taken ostensibly from the Revell set but with several figures closer to the Monogram originals; Fujimi F:KIT No.U1.

Classic 1960/70's (I think this is the 1970's boxing?) instruction sheet "...paint the soldiers with civility"! OK? No rude painting of these figures please! No loud colours, no swearing at the cat and do your dressing-gown or smoking-jacket up properly before you sit down at your work station . . . and don't forget to say grace!

The figures, the kit element is limited (as it is/was with both donor sets) to a few small parts; here - attaching the flamethrower tanks and fixing the figures to their bases. The 'modelling' came from the cleaning-up of often quite flashy figures, heavy gate-mark removal and such like, which you can see from the images - in the case with this set.

We looked at their 1:76th scale cousins here (link) and they were equally in need of cleaning-up to get them to a photogenic state! Thanks again to Dougal for sharing this rare set with the rest of us.

M is for Monogram's Many Mates

This post only tells a part of the story of the Monogram sculpts, not least because it mostly deals with the Revell versions, which are quite different, through the Roco-Minitanks copies - which are the wrong scale! The post came out of an eMail conversation with Gisby, but I'm not blaming him for any of this complicated drivel!

Original Instruction Sheet

Although not as obvious as other much pirated figures (Airfix, Lido Wild West, Elastolin Romans, Britains animals et al), the original Monogram set US Army Military Figures, is up there with them and there are at least three main 'families' of figures to look at.

Firstly there is the original 'kit-figure' set and the various derivatives from (in a possible. vague order of appearance) Pyro, Renwall, Hawk, Adams, San/Marusan, Revell, SNAP, UPC and Life-Like (among others!) Lesser players include MPC, Strombecker (four figure set) - and IMC?

Then there are the soft polyethylene Hong Kong piracies, from around 10-or-so definable sources, most were sold as generics but one or two can be attributed, not least a small set carried by Marx. Small Scale World briefly looked at some of these (the generic carded sets) in the past.

Note; the 1973 IPMS/MAP kit list is no help at all in this matter, listing only the Tamiya set and the Monogram (as 1:32nd scale!), but most of the sets branded to the above were out (and still around) at that time, the SNAP/Adams/Hawk set came with a howitzer and sandbag emplacement and appears separately in the listing though.

Re-boxing under Revell ownership

Still the Monogram tool and brand-mark

The final group contains the ones we're mainly looking at here - the Revell-sculpts' based Roco-Minitanks copies and their UPC piracies in nominal HO-Scales. Giant also lifted them in an HO-compatible size, but we're not looking at them today; they'll go on the HK Blog . . . one day!

Revell used the Monogram set as a basis for their own (this box was probably issued sometime between the two above?), but kneeling-down the radio and flamethrower operator's, straitening a couple of other poses and both dropping some and adding newer sculpts. It was this latter set which Roco used as the basis for three of their 'HO' sets, the only sets they produced in soft polyethylene.

However, in the Roco sets, the sculpts were divided, some duplicated and the sets contain a few other poses, including original Monogram sculpts, variously taken from AFV crewmen which can be found in military model-kits (of various scales) from one or more of the companies (in the first 'family') listed above.

So, set 117 US Soldiers Combat Group was the first outing, and it contained the fighting 'infantry platoon' poses, along with the flamethrower, bazooka-man and mine-detector, but not the No.2 on the bazooka, who would be held over for set 141 US Artillery Group.

This is the type two packaging with the AHM/Airfix panels removed and a white panel/flash where the earlier sets had had a blue one (see below), I think the 'Z' prefix on the codes is the AHM designator for Roco, they used a 'U' prefix for the MinimoverS which were supplied by Umex/Roskopf. Walther's used similar coding for their suppliers, but only for the Terminal Hobby Shop (and now online) cataloguing . . . I think; not on actual packaging?

The 14-figure count includes two identical marching poses and an officer we will return to at the end of the article. The second radio-operator (large set) and officer are additional to the two donor sets, but I don't know which kits they are taken from - yet!

The earlier packaging, seen here on the second polyethylene figure set with the blue-panels on the obverse and AHM box on the reverse, they were imported into the UK by Airfix to begin with (you can - in good light - just read 'Airfix Products' under the "United Kingdom"), while Roco-Peetzy handled European sales. I seem to recall Riko took-over the UK marketing as Airfix dropped Roco in favour of their own growing lines of 1:76th scale AFV kits and the more 1:72nd scale ('OO-HO') readymade polyethylene vehicles?

The larger figure-25 suffix in the product-code is the US price-designator; twenty-five cents, US Airfix used the same system, as did UPC, below.

Again we have other figures from new sources; the seated figure with the rifle is from the original Monogram set, but I suspect the guy holding his 'bum-roll' is a Revell sculpt, while the various artillerymen will have been taken from various older 1:35, 1:40th or 'box-scale' AFV model-kits from the list of companies above - Adams had the 120mmAA I think?. The MG and Mortar vignettes are from the Revell version, and we get the missing bazooka-crew No.2.

I have no idea if Roco had a licence to reproduce the figures, or just copied them on-the-fly, I don't think Revell had taken over Monograme at the time they first appeared, and the fact that Roco would join Esci in later copying Tamiya sculpts (Esci also plagiarised Airfix and downscaled their sister company Italeri's 1:35th figures) suggests piracy?

Also neither Revell nor Monogram showed any interest in the smaller-scales at the time; although Revell would turn to it later (with re-boxed Esci!), so may have turned a blind-eye, or even tipped-a-wink at a toy fair, but equally they could have been fully-licensed? The figure next to the two seated figures is Patton.

UPC's box-art; above (large scale, channelling the Revell artwork) supplied by Gisby, below (small scale) from my collection appears to show basic training helmet markings and an oversized Hotchkiss on a Vickers' tripod!

I fired a Vickers once; I must have been five or six? Dad woke us in the middle of the night and  drove us to the School of Infantry at Brecon, where his staff (he was commandant) had set up the gun on the small pistol range/SMG butts at the back of the old wooden barracks (which would be unchanged fifteen-odd-years later when I stayed in them, winter 1984/5!), he then had my brother (four or five?) and I fire a 50-round belt each into the sand to wake the garrison - all totally illegal; even in those days! I coughed in the fog and nearly broke my teeth on the firing handles!

They (UPC) copy both the previously seen sets for a 27-figure count (even to the duplicate marchers!), probably pantographed; all the detail is there, but they are a tad-smaller, they are also the only polyethylene set in a polystyrene line-up, and the funny little bases (more Revell than Monogram, but all Roco) were copied as well.

#3039-29 - US Combat Group Soldiers, miss-attributed elsewhere to 3022 (actually a crewless/figureless artillery kit); I have set them out in the photograph  as they are laid-out on the instruction sheet - numbered top-left to bottom-right from No. 1 Bazooka man, to No. 28 seated, with the machine-gun as No. 26 and the mortar unnumbered/un-illustrated on the sheet. Full US catalogue listing with price in cents; 29¢

The third and last set manufactured in the soft polyethylene by Roco was 154 US Parade Group, 16 figures, but only a few new sculpts, again taken from Revell or Monogram (I assume) and probably from the various Jeep kits available in the larger sizes.

Contents give us a fourth 'George C Patton'esque officer standing, a variation of the 'actual' Patton figure from 141, but with standard combat trousers instead of the cavalry jodhpurs, two drivers and seated solder and officer, I guess the officer is the one in a side-hat, pointing?

On the far left (where Mr. O'Connell puts me!) is the 154 version, you can see he's been pantograph-copied from the larger 141 figure to his right. In the other shot is a usable miss-mould on the left, next to the standard figure. I could probably get him back with a bit of hot water, but I like to keep them, in hundreds of figures he's the only one who's turned-up! He looks like he's just spotted something dodgy and is about to un-shoulder his rifle?

Returning to the officers, there must be one [early?] Roco AFV which came with a crew-figure (US half-track?) as two of these (left hand figure) slightly larger versions have turned-up in polystyrene, but they could be further piracies? The base seems to be Roco, but could have been added by the owner, and I've found no other poses (from all three sets) in the same material.

Standard Roco-Minitanks in the middle and UPC copy to the right.

One day I will tackle the big-job properly, but for now, just a couple of shots which have been in Picasa for a year or three since a sorting-out. I have dozens of samples of this type of thing, along with one boxed set (may be Adams or SNAP?) still in the garage somewhere, and they range from the big 60+mm box-scale 1:24/5th or 1:30th figures from . . . not sure; Aurora, Pyro (?) or Renwall, through the standard 'early kit' sizes equating to 1:35 or 1:40th and the smaller 1:48th or 1:50th of the late Aurora and others, but with dozens of copies - sometimes in different sizes - it will be a major undertaking!

What we have here is - I think - on the left: Revell late/reissue in paler green marked (1) and 1st generation copy (Hawk/Adams/SNAP ?) at (2), with the same copies to the right compared to sub-piracies (Marusan/UPC ?) numbered (3). But - and I stress; they could all be by other people!

You can see that each copying reduces the size slightly, and the detail noticeably, especially on the 3's, it doesn't help that the pale flamethrower isn't in-line, but I can assure you the 2's are slightly smaller, the 3's measurably so!

Like I say; it's a big job, but not impossible! All the Aurora and Bandai 1:48th-scale smallies are elsewhere and a few are ID'd and in their company's box or tub, but these are the bulk of those early US model-kit makers' US troops. 30 to properly attribute, the supposed Stromberg set (I can only find die-cast Landser and a plastic pit-crew!) may be the pale grey-green foursome, bottom right?

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As well as the three polyethylene sets seen above, Roco-Minitanks produced a number of figure sets in the harder, glue'able polystyrene, and therefore I've put together a quick listing of those non-vehicular sets that might be most use to 1:76/72nd gamers, HO gamers should already be familiar with them . . .

Roco Minitanks Listing - Figures & Accessories Only

117 - USA Infantry Combat Group (polyethylene, ex-Revell/Monogram)
118 - US Assault Craft/Raft (Hong Kong piracies exist, same as 239? See also 363)
118A - Life Buoys/Floatation Rings (dealer's-list foul-up or late-90's reuse of the code with different contents? See also 363)

132 - Anti-Tank Obstacles ('Dragons Teeth' in various sizes + barriers)

141 - US Artillery Personnel Support Group (polyethylene, ex-Revell/Monogram)

154 - US Infantry Parade Group (polyethylene, ex-Revell/Monogram)

185 - Pine Tree Assortment (6 trees, like Faller, Merit et al)

218 - Tents & Cargo/Supplies (German WWII Zeltbahnen, copied by Eidai)

- single tent (four-joined Zeltbahn)

- double tent (eight-joined Zeltbahn)

- 2 drums

- barrel

- 2 different boxes/crates

- sack

233 - 2 Motorcycles (one with dispatch satchels, one without)

238 - BMW Motorcycle with Sidecar

239 - Large Rubber Dinghy (Hong Kong piracies exist, same as 118? See also 363))

249 - Bases for Battle Scenes (supplied by Bellona/Micromould)

251 - USSR/East German Tank Crewmen (10 figures)
252 - USA/NATO Tank Crewmen (10 figures, ex-Tamiya)

255 - 10-Man Tent (NATO 12x12)

258 - Guardhouse with Gate (figure, sentry-box and barrier, also issued as 851?)

261 - 20-Man Tent (two NATO 12x12's joined, many Hong Kong piaracies)

263 - WW II German Soldiers (15 figures seated and marching)
264 - US/NATO/Bundeswehr Soldiers (15 figures seated and marching)
265 - Russian Soldiers (marching, 2 officers, 8 soldiers, side-caps)

271 - Set of WWII Personalities (9 figures, 2 Goring's)
272 - US/NATO/ Bundeswehr Soldiers (20 marching GI's, ex-264, small set, off the runner)

272 - US/NATO/ Bundeswehr Soldiers (20 marching GI's, ex-264, large set, on the runner)

288 - Assorted Sheets of Modeller's Plastic

298 - US/NATO/Bundeswehr Soldiers [sitting] (, ex-264
299 - German WWII Soldiers

300 - 8 Officers, 2 Map Tables and Chairs (6 standing, 2 seated/stools, Vietnam-era, ex-Tamiya)
301 - British WWII Gun Crew (6 kneeling/squatting, ex-Tamiya)
302 - 16 Soldiers Infantry Group (Bundeswehr types)

308 - US Gun Crew (6 figures)
309 - 16 Tank Commanders/Drivers (NATO/Bundeswehr types, upper-torso's only; for hatches)
310S - Infantry Group 'Afrika' (German WWII Afrika Korps - limited edition)

317 - Barbed Wire

319 - 28pc Set of Ammo Boxes

342 - Fence and Gates

363 - Assault Rafts with Life Rings

450 - WW II Personalities (set 271 reproduced in 1:35th scale)

463 - US / NATO Tank Commander Figures (Gulf War? ex-Tamiya?)

542 - Sandbags

550 - Artillery/Munitions Accessories Set

614 - Nissan-hut (US; 'Quonset-Shelter', standard accommodation hut)
615 - Nissan-hut (US; 'Quonset-Shelter', extended administration/facility/classroom building)

851 - See 258

Roco Railways

40000 - Station (24 undecorated civilian figures, also supplied to/issued by Kibri)

40001 - Loco Crew (painted engineer and fireman from the steam-age)

Might as well do the UPC as well . . .

'HO Pocket Combat Series' Military Vehicles (definite pirates of Roco Minitanks, not sure if Marusan carried the whole line, and supplied UPC or if UPC were the pirates; supplying Marusan with a limited range?)

#3011-29 - German Armored Car 234/2 (also ex-Marusan)
#3012-29 - German Armored Car 234/1 (also ex-Marusan)
#3013-29 - U.S. 2 1/2 Ton Truck 6x6
#3014-29 - U.S. 2 1/2 Ton Truck
#3015-29 - Self-Propelled Howitzer
#3016-29 - General Patton M-48
#3017-29 - Self-Propelled 155-mm Gun, T-245
#3018-29 - Tank Medium PzKfw.V Panther (also ex-Marusan)
#3019-29 - General Patton M-47
#3020-29 - Half-Track Rocket Carrier
#3021-29 - General Sherman Tank M-4
#3022-29 - 120-mm Anti-Aircraft Gun M1A3 (not US Combat Group Soldiers, see #3034)
#3023-29 - German AA Gun 37mm
#3024-29 - German Tank Mark IV/Fl (also ex-Marusan)
#3025-29 - German Tank Mark IV/F2 (also ex-Marusan)
#3026-29 - German Tank Mark IV/H
#3027-29 - German 20mm Quad AA Gun
#3028-29 - Half-Track Munitions Carrier
#3029-29 - Sound Detector (also ex-Marusan)
#3030-29 - Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns (also ex-Marusan)
#3031-29 - Half-Track Quad AA Gun
#3032-29 - 2 Jeeps M38A1
#3033-29 - 155mm Gun M2
#3034-29 - US Combat Group Soldiers (combined contents of Roco sets 117 & 141)
#3035-29 - Honest John Rocket
#3036-29 - Tiger II
#3037-29 - Self-Propelled 8-inch Howitzer