About Me

My photo
No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Friday, April 9, 2021

T is for Two - Mighty Antar's & Conquerors

We looked at both these back near the start of the blog and have revisited features of them once or twice I think, but the opportunity to do 'full line-ups' wasn't to be ignored, indeed; sorting and packing was held-up for a day while I struggled to find the Matchbox one, the others all lined up on the green-baize, with a gap ready!

Airfix Attack Force; Antar Transporter; Armoured Car; Battle Space; Budgie Toys; Centurion Tank; Conqueror Tank; Dinky Toys; Hornby Triang; Matchbox 1-75; Mighty Antar; Minic Motorways; Minic Push and Go; No. 106V; Pippin Toys; Push & Go; Push-and-Go; Raphael Lipkin; Rocket Launcher; Scotia Micro Armour; Skytrex Davco; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tank Transporter; The Lucky Toys; Thornycroft Mighty Antar; Tri Ang Toys; Tri-ang Toys; Triang Minic; Triang Toys;
From the rear/right; Raphael Lipkin/Pipin Toys (1:30th'ish), Dinky (1:43rd), Airfix (1:76th), Budgie (damaged), Matchbox (painted, badly!), unknown - might be Scotia? The last being two at approximately 1:125th 'box scale' and one 1:300th 'micro-armour' scale.

Anomalies include the Lipkin load being an FV 214 Conqueror rather than the Centurion (from Mk.5/1 - FV 4011) everyone else went with, the Budgie having the later cab design of the Mk.III [not 'mighty'] Antar with narrower bonnet and Matchbox having a simple rendition of the Sankey 50-Ton Tank Transporter trailer along with the error of the name 'Thornycroft' as "Thorneycroft" moulded on the base of the tractor-unit.

The micro-armour one is a curates egg, seemingly based on a ballast-body variant (draw-bar trailers, for the use of) it nevertheless has an articulated, fifth-wheel, DAF style trailer like the others, and may be based on the RAF's lone C6T variant, but with added 'saddle' fuel-tanks? The fuel tanks being used as tool-bins on the Lipkin biggie!

Airfix Attack Force; Antar Transporter; Armoured Car; Battle Space; Budgie Toys; Centurion Tank; Conqueror Tank; Dinky Toys; Hornby Triang; Matchbox 1-75; Mighty Antar; Minic Motorways; Minic Push and Go; No. 106V; Pippin Toys; Push & Go; Push-and-Go; Raphael Lipkin; Rocket Launcher; Scotia Micro Armour; Skytrex Davco; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tank Transporter; The Lucky Toys; Thornycroft Mighty Antar; Tri Ang Toys; Tri-ang Toys; Triang Minic; Triang Toys;
The recent purchase of another Conqueror from [The] Lucky Toys meant that while the Lipkin was out . . . anti-clockwise from the top left; the red version I got at Richmond-call-me-Whitton (the . . . no . . . THE Plastic Warrior show!) a couple of three-years ago!

Then the standard green Lipkin one that came with the transporter (you may remember we looked at the individually boxed version a while ago and both colours were on the box-art), while bottom left is the new Lucky one - I believe a home paint in gray over the chromium-finish still visible on the tracks and running gear, and about the same as the Dinky Centurion at around 1:43rd scale.

Then the two version of Tri-Ang Conqueror (approximately 1:72nd [00-guage compatible]), one from the Minic Motorway sets (I believe) as a tank, the other from the latterly Hornby-Triang 'Battle-Space' line of the wider railway range, as a well-wagon/flat-car load with twin rocket-launcher turret and finally two box-scale (1:76th'ish or smaller?) Tri-Ang Minic's configured as imagi-nation armoured cars but with scaled-down Conqueror turrets!

Instead of an anomaly, we have a coincidence with these; they are all equipped with push-and-go motors! Actually - maybe the train one isn't; just free-rolling? I've sent them to the storage unit now!

Airfix Attack Force; Antar Transporter; Armoured Car; Battle Space; Budgie Toys; Centurion Tank; Conqueror Tank; Dinky Toys; Hornby Triang; Matchbox 1-75; Mighty Antar; Minic Motorways; Minic Push and Go; No. 106V; Pippin Toys; Push & Go; Push-and-Go; Raphael Lipkin; Rocket Launcher; Scotia Micro Armour; Skytrex Davco; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tank Transporter; The Lucky Toys; Thornycroft Mighty Antar; Tri Ang Toys; Tri-ang Toys; Triang Minic; Triang Toys;
For those who don't know the Conqueror; it was a post-war super-heavy tank in the same family as the Soviet Russian Joseph Stalin - JSIII and American M103. The Lipkin is probably the closest to the real thing, turret-wise, but none of them really do the actual vehicle full-justice.

The Lucky Toy's model (new to me when I saw it on evilBay for no money! What else is out there?) is clearly a copy of the Tri-Ang rendition, scaled-up and with an integrally-moulded, non-revolving turret and equally integral radio-aerial.

Airfix Attack Force; Antar Transporter; Armoured Car; Battle Space; Budgie Toys; Centurion Tank; Conqueror Tank; Dinky Toys; Hornby Triang; Matchbox 1-75; Mighty Antar; Minic Motorways; Minic Push and Go; No. 106V; Pippin Toys; Push & Go; Push-and-Go; Raphael Lipkin; Rocket Launcher; Scotia Micro Armour; Skytrex Davco; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tank Transporter; The Lucky Toys; Thornycroft Mighty Antar; Tri Ang Toys; Tri-ang Toys; Triang Minic; Triang Toys;
Base-mark; aft of the forward axle's push-and-go motor housing, which is very similar to the one fitted to TAT (see tags)'s Universal/Bren-carrier, and their dime-store lorry-copy. I don't know if there is any significance to the 'v' suffix of the model-number, or if it just means 'v-ehicle' range?

No comments: