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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.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

T is for Tanks, Rack Toy Tanks

Hard to find enough blurb for a set with no data, which is available right now on feeBay, Amazon and Ali Baba (among other sources/platforms) and which I've over-photographed! So I won't say much!

Airfix Elephant Gun; Airfix Ferdinand; Assault Gun; Bagged Rack Toy; Carded Rack Toy; German WWII tank; Made In China; Military Free Match; Panzer V Panther; Panzer VI Tiger I; Pz.Kpfw.IV; Pz.Kpfw.V; Pz.Kpfw.VI; Rack Toy; RTM; Self-Propelled Gun; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soviet Extended-Range Fuel-Tanks; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Stürmtiger; StuG IV SPG; T34 Hybrid; Tank Hull Superstructures; Tank Models; Tank Set; Toy Tanks;
'Military Free Match', an interesting combination of three reasonable German WWII tank hull/superstructures (two with Soviet extended-range fuel-tanks!) and one piss-poor excuse for a Panther/T34 hybrid, all four on a very poor set of generic tracks/running gear.

Airfix Elephant Gun; Airfix Ferdinand; Assault Gun; Bagged Rack Toy; Carded Rack Toy; German WWII tank; Made In China; Military Free Match; Panzer V Panther; Panzer VI Tiger I; Pz.Kpfw.IV; Pz.Kpfw.V; Pz.Kpfw.VI; Rack Toy; RTM; Self-Propelled Gun; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soviet Extended-Range Fuel-Tanks; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Stürmtiger; StuG IV SPG; T34 Hybrid; Tank Hull Superstructures; Tank Models; Tank Set; Toy Tanks;

Airfix Elephant Gun; Airfix Ferdinand; Assault Gun; Bagged Rack Toy; Carded Rack Toy; German WWII tank; Made In China; Military Free Match; Panzer V Panther; Panzer VI Tiger I; Pz.Kpfw.IV; Pz.Kpfw.V; Pz.Kpfw.VI; Rack Toy; RTM; Self-Propelled Gun; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soviet Extended-Range Fuel-Tanks; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Stürmtiger; StuG IV SPG; T34 Hybrid; Tank Hull Superstructures; Tank Models; Tank Set; Toy Tanks;

Airfix Elephant Gun; Airfix Ferdinand; Assault Gun; Bagged Rack Toy; Carded Rack Toy; German WWII tank; Made In China; Military Free Match; Panzer V Panther; Panzer VI Tiger I; Pz.Kpfw.IV; Pz.Kpfw.V; Pz.Kpfw.VI; Rack Toy; RTM; Self-Propelled Gun; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soviet Extended-Range Fuel-Tanks; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Stürmtiger; StuG IV SPG; T34 Hybrid; Tank Hull Superstructures; Tank Models; Tank Set; Toy Tanks;
The worst one on the left, to its right; the StuG IV, Tiger I and Stürmtiger, being quite passable for quick-building of war-games armies (around 1:72nd scale), and all going for  a song either as a set of four, in various bagged rack-toy 'play sets' or as bulk, wholesale.

Airfix Elephant Gun; Airfix Ferdinand; Assault Gun; Bagged Rack Toy; Carded Rack Toy; German WWII tank; Made In China; Military Free Match; Panzer V Panther; Panzer VI Tiger I; Pz.Kpfw.IV; Pz.Kpfw.V; Pz.Kpfw.VI; Rack Toy; RTM; Self-Propelled Gun; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soviet Extended-Range Fuel-Tanks; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Stürmtiger; StuG IV SPG; T34 Hybrid; Tank Hull Superstructures; Tank Models; Tank Set; Toy Tanks;
Airfix comparison - they're not to be sniffed at, and you could probably retro-fit some Esci or Hasegawa running gear, (with a couple of wood screws and a hot glue gun!) if you had some bashed-ones in the spares-box?

But the Panther is a bit shit, not shite; proper shit! Cut the front mud-guards off and re-drill for a new barrel it'll still look like an ugly-duckling road-kill. And you can see from the photographs - the StuG is a bit over scale, probably closer to a 28mm role-play size?

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