It's only 'not so late' because we're still
in April, actually more time as passed since the show than between the
September show and the January post I think? Hey-ho, it looks better! I got my
purchases at the show and Adrian Little's (Mercator Trading) brought-for-me's
mixed up in the packing so I've Blogged them all together.
The loot, the plunder, the ill-gotten
gains, the 'stuff'! We'll look at most of it below, or the figural stuff, but I
also bought three Weetabix 'Workshop' card premiums, an armored car,
a DUKW and an RAF Queen Mary Recovery Trailer, only to also find a guy selling Micromodels who had a complete threshing
team with steam engine, threshing machine and walker/elevator. the Thresher
looks sufficiently like our Marshall's to guarantee a sale to me!
The Taiwanese Asterix figures (bag of blue) are bigger than (but based on) the
Euro-premiums (Olá et al.) and will be seen in their own post,
while the SAM-2 Guideline from Airfix was going . . . reasonable, in a tatty box with
loose parts, but it's all there and I'm hoping to pick-up a better one soon.
Bigger stuff, including an 80-mil' Blue Box
radio-operator, three 40mm Comansi Wild West, the 'Spirit of '76' figures are
the plastics here, a composition Land Girl (from a planter or binder's seat?) in
composition is the sole representative of that material, and increasingly I
raid Adrian's chepo-trays at the end of the show for a few unusual or 'example'
hollow-cast metal pieces and this time it was a box of khaki infantry.
I haven't checked them against the books
yet so I won't try to ID them, but I'm loveing the WWI'ish standard bearers!
The sub-scale Arab on horse-back and Aluminium camp-fire were bonuses.
One seller was clearing his father's estate
so we had a nice, if poignant chat and welled-up a bit, but he had beautiful
things, and I bought these three, I think the spirit-painted tin horseman is
from Japan and depicts an inter-war period Japanese policeman?
The composition post-coach could be a continental
fairing? I really don't know, it comes under the generic moniker of 'novelty' I
think! While the Christmassy box contains . . .
. . . Christmassy contents! Tiny little
10/11mm figures of Victorian types with an even smaller post-coach, also in a
continental yellow, designed purely as a novelty vignette for the festive
season, although they would look good in a larger-scale doll's house's
play-room (you could actually have a dolls house, IN the dolls house!), and not too shabby on an N-gauge model railway layout! Probably also Japanese in origin?
These were all from Adrian I suspect, and
we'll look at two closer in a minute, but the two racers were nice, one a
pale-blue colour variation, the other one of the slightly different copies. A
pair of cuckoo-clock barometer figurines, he's lost his head but it hadn't gone
far and the glue was to hand when I got home.
Below the rustic couple is a Codeg Trumpton postman, three of the
other version Battle Space figures
from Triang, the irony being only the
casualty is complete! 3 home-painted Slater's
seated passengers, a premium flat of a ship, bits of a jig-puzzle car (I save
all the bits until I can build whole ones!), a modern PVC horse, damaged Dinky die-cast driver and PVC firefighter
make up the lot.
The aircraft in the previous shot was a Tudor Rose 'Tornado', not one I was
familiar with, but it appears to be trying to represent the North American NA/B-45 Tornado bomber of the early Cold War?Adrian had a whole fleet of these Quaker ships, but I knew I had a full
set (seen on the Blog somewhere) so only took the one marbled example, although
it's mud-brown running through herb-green and just looks dirty!
After I'd shown Adrian the bits I got from
the chap passing on his late father's collection, he went and had a look and
came back with this plane, which I promptly gave him a quick profit on!
I also got one of the two missing bases I
need for my Cherilea Batman & Robin
figures, along with the Kemlows 5.5" Gun which is towed behind a Bedford RL or a Saracen with limber in
the Sentry Box series, where it's described as a 25lbr, but the recoil
actuators are all 5.5"!
That plane; after cleaning . . . it's only
another Palitoy, init! And very definitely
a post-war model, which doesn't affect much of what I've said in the past about
wartime production, this is a very different beast, with very different
construction/realism and different materials, producing a fine rendition of a
De Havilland Vampire, and it only just missed the war. It's
also a solid where all the others are 'dimestore flats', and has no metal parts
which most of the others do - axles and propeller-shafts.
I think this was all saved for me by Adrian as
well, model railway bits, mostly metal with the bulk being Wardie /
Mastermodels, the telephone kiosks, for instance, although the one at the top
is entirely scratch-built in cartridge paper, with [I suspect] Superquick
windows!
The plastic sheep are Merit (now PPP's Modelscene) copies of Britains Lilliput except the one outside the bag who's Airfix or Hong Kong - I didn’t check! The taller lady in red will
be the Irish Comet-Gaeltec with three Britains and a Hornby below her. The copper-effect die-cast is Kinder, while
the brass chap is more of a mystery, and may be from a larger 'thing'
Kwong
Wah; contents of two sets of six, three each Jap's
and Brit's, all copied from the Britains Deetail range, albeit with integral
bases, they were pennies for the bag, and a useful gap-filler/box-ticker.
Feeling blue at the end; these were both
from Adrian, and they're great! A whole carton of Blue Box toys (I haven't opened it yet!) and a Steven Manufacturing Co. take-off of Britains Twizzletown's demented horse, in blue, as the original!