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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.

Saturday, September 21, 2019

F is for Follow-up - Ackerman-Lollipop (LP) / Silvercorn

We've pretty much done these to death now, with help from other quarters, but I found mine the other day and shot-off a few close-ups;

1998; 5 021947 502230; 502230; Ackerman; Ackerman Group Plc.; Army Men; Army War Games; Armymen; Brick Walls; Fritz Helmet; Lollipop; LP - Lollipop; Made in China; Military Case Soldier Unit; Military Miniatures; Road Sign Toys; Sandbag Defence; Scenic Accessories; Silvercorn; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Street Furniture; US; US GI's; Warzone Playmat;
The case, in the UK it seems all forms of these sets were handled by Ackerman, but with the Silvercorn branding remaining visible, strangely Ackerman have a US office, but as we saw last-but-last time, they were Lollipop/LP in the 'States.

1998; 5 021947 502230; 502230; Ackerman; Ackerman Group Plc.; Army Men; Army War Games; Armymen; Brick Walls; Fritz Helmet; Lollipop; LP - Lollipop; Made in China; Military Case Soldier Unit; Military Miniatures; Road Sign Toys; Sandbag Defence; Scenic Accessories; Silvercorn; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Street Furniture; US; US GI's; Warzone Playmat;
The three figure-runners from both sides, it looks as if each set got about four of the shooters (above left), two of the marchers (below left) and one command runner (right hand side) which had to be photographed twice! The prone guy is meant to be firing a pistol (I think?) but looks more like he's pointing at something.

1998; 5 021947 502230; 502230; Ackerman; Ackerman Group Plc.; Army Men; Army War Games; Armymen; Brick Walls; Fritz Helmet; Lollipop; LP - Lollipop; Made in China; Military Case Soldier Unit; Military Miniatures; Road Sign Toys; Sandbag Defence; Scenic Accessories; Silvercorn; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; SPG Model; SPG Toy; Street Furniture; US; US GI's; Warzone Playmat;
There are two runners of accessories, although the two dark grey signs (see posts passim) weren’t in here, so I guess I recognised them from some tub of lose signs I may have somewhere, and that they were added to the other set?

These sit in the lid, over a pile of the rubbery figure-runners, who are themselves piled on top of a large coated-paper play-mat, hence the have two little cut-outs moulded into the outer frame-runner, to make room for the slide-lock mechanism.

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