A title I fear we have had before at least once, but after that vintage Soviet-bloc stuff, we're going the other way entirely with this little post, we looked at the figures from "the other" Kentoys before, here, but the rest of the play-set had some stuff of interest; primarily to war-gamers and/or modellers/dioramists in the 1:72nd-scale bracket.
No matter how hard you tug your brain when doing rocket-launchers (the other month) there will always be a few who fall through the net (I found some other green ones while looking for this lot's tub!), and here another one, not cap-firing, but sprung-loaded and ready to scare some kittens!
I think the truck and bottom - green part - of the rocket's cradle started life as a fire appliance/ladder-truck, in red plastic! It's a sort of late-FROG or Scud mounted on a vehicle which would disintegrate if asked to actually launch the thing, but for a bit of battlefield tactical-support in an 'old school' game, it's ready to run!
That's it; another box ticked, Kentoys (the other one!) NO 29645 - Military Base 1:72 play set.
4 comments:
Love the fire engine/rocket launcher.
But I wouldn't like to drive it more than 5-miles-an-hour round a bend!
H
I am so sad this company is pretty much unknown. I got the Vaccuformed folding military playset from Tuesday Mornings when I was a little kid and I loved it so much. I still have the launcher and the panzer. They are sitting right in front of me now. I went through my old toys to find them and googled the name for a while but kept just getting construction toys and those Tonka playsets that were like slot cars that went around a track. I really wanted one of those as well. It's a shame that this is the only place that has an documentation on their military toys. I was hoping I could find someone selling some on ebay but haven't had any luck.
Hi Cyber - I do occasionally see them on fleaBay, but searching for them is not easy, best to try 'Plastic Army vehicles' or 'Plastic Military Vehicles' and set the results to "Ending Soonest" so the first few pages of results are the auctions and all the buy-it-ow dross is further down the results!
H
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