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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Showing posts with label Keshi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keshi. Show all posts

Thursday, September 4, 2025

L is for Last May's Lots of Lovely Loot - Vehicles

Before I can get on to the very late Plastic Warrior show reports, I need to get the previous, and even later, Sandown Park's loot out of the way, which was purloined a few weeks before the PW show, so let's get them out of the way sharpish! Although I don't think you can say sharpish, when the posts are three months overdue!
 
A small Gescha/Gama style tin-plate tank, bearing more resemblance to some early post-war APC's, with a small turret, and high superstructure. I can't remember if it had branding, or if someone gave me a brand? Space Tank!
 
Two mystery (when I saw them) die-cast military vehicles. a nice inter-war armoured car, actually Charbens, it is die-cast alloy, but has lead wheels, and a British tanker-truck, which was marked Britain or England I think, the trouble with doing these posts so long after the event, is you forget stuff! But while in the style of Dinky, it's not, and is probably a re-painted Benbros Esso tanker - note the red on the paint-chips! Interestingly, a re-issue of an old Timpo mould.
 
Vintage Tootsie-Toys AFV's, one marked the other anonymous (can't remember which was/is which), I think the lorry may be pre-war (1930's), while the Armoured-car might be just post-war? But that's going on the wheels/tyres (or 'tires', they're American after all!), which could, just as easily, be replacements? You won't believe the trouble I had, getting the two MG's to look right, they are suspended, free-floating or hanging, between small bumps in the moulding, and loose with age, and were a bugger to get right!
 
Another Charbens, this all die-cast, wheels and body, and darker green than some I've seen, and while not the most accurate version of Humber out there, it's a darn-sight better than the plastic one they did later!
 
Two more French 'readymades', one each Noreda (front, Jeep-like) and Injectaplastic (behind, DKW with Jeep trailer), we've seen them both before, but they were clean, and cheap, so I took them home with me!

Banner 'row-crop' tractor in military green, possibly depicting an Oliver tractor (US Readers?), and two copies, the copies are slightly smaller all-round, and have a few detail differences, unmarked, I hope they are in Bill Hanlon's book!
 
Again, newish to me, similar to some Archer space cars from the 'States, I was told these were actually British so Kleeware or Tudor Rose, but the larger one is a Marx future car, the smaller however is a Pyro/Kleeware moulding, so could the Marx also be a mould-swap with Kleeware?
 
Two teeny-tiny battleships, probably from a late-Edwardian board game, and a larger lead yacht, which could also be a board-game piece, or a smaller component of something more decorative? It's covered in what appears to be black paint, but which could just be severe oxidation?
 
Because they came with a T4, these two reprobates have got themselves into the vehicle post! In the style of MUSCLE or Kinnukiman, these two Thunderbirds Keshi are new to the collection, along with the little Thunderbird Four.
 
A damaged Manurba coach and spare helmet crest for a Lone Star knight are snuck in at the end, just to get them off the laptop!

Friday, November 26, 2021

H is for How They Come In - December 2020 - II Chris - Space & Sci-Fi

I should have added the TV/Movie image to this post to balance them better, but sometimes I lose the wood for the trees with the number of Toy Soldier posts currently in Picasa!

So a swifter read than the others, but heay-ho; there's a shot in the next post which probably should have gone with the cartoon stuff in the previous post (which was the TV/Movie image!), that's how it shakes down!

Airfix Astronauts; Astronaut; Astronauts; Blue Shield; Bruder/Giodi/Kinder; Galoob Micromachines; Giodi Spaceships; Hasbro Air Raiders; Kinder Spaceships; LB Astronauts; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Sci-Fi Figures; Mixed Space Toys; Mixed Toy Figurines; Pop-up Spaceman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Warriors; Spaceman; Spaceship;
Smaller scales/sizes - from the left; an interesting figure who looks capsul'ey to me? A Putty from Galoob; another capsule-toy type I think (is he a character anyone recognises?); possibly another Galoob Micromachine, a character from Marvel or DC, which might make him late Kenner; a nice mini-Keshi of a sort of lobster-man, and a figure who looks like one of Hasbro's Air Raiders, but doesn't actually appear to be one?

Airfix Astronauts; Astronaut; Astronauts; Blue Shield; Bruder/Giodi/Kinder; Galoob Micromachines; Giodi Spaceships; Hasbro Air Raiders; Kinder Spaceships; LB Astronauts; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Sci-Fi Figures; Mixed Space Toys; Mixed Toy Figurines; Pop-up Spaceman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Warriors; Spaceman; Spaceship;
A small group of space vehicles - fact and fiction; with two Bruder/Giodi/Kinder types, an Apollo Eagle Lander cake decoration (issued by Blue Shield in the 'States) and the lower half of Airfix's funny little Bell Aeronautics LFV.

Airfix Astronauts; Astronaut; Astronauts; Blue Shield; Bruder/Giodi/Kinder; Galoob Micromachines; Giodi Spaceships; Hasbro Air Raiders; Kinder Spaceships; LB Astronauts; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Sci-Fi Figures; Mixed Space Toys; Mixed Toy Figurines; Pop-up Spaceman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Warriors; Spaceman; Spaceship;
This is nice, I haven't ID'd it yet (probably a die-cast or play-set accessory), about 30mm and PVC, I can't make my mind-up whether the visor is meant, or a home enhancement with a marker pen - I suspect the later.

Airfix Astronauts; Astronaut; Astronauts; Blue Shield; Bruder/Giodi/Kinder; Galoob Micromachines; Giodi Spaceships; Hasbro Air Raiders; Kinder Spaceships; LB Astronauts; Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Sci-Fi Figures; Mixed Space Toys; Mixed Toy Figurines; Pop-up Spaceman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Space Warriors; Spaceman; Spaceship;
I have apologised to Chris for not crediting him the first time I blogged this, but it was obviously because having shot it for these posts in December last, I then sorted it away, and found it again months later, with some surprise! A pop-up knock-off of an LB astronaut/spaceman! Cheers Chris!