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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.

Sunday, May 9, 2021

T is for Trek, No Star!

Another quick box-ticking of a board game, mentioned in passing a few times but it passed under my nose on it's way from the garage to a shipping container the other day so I fired-off a few shots, well; enough for a .gif (not spelled Jif!), and dug out some older shots which have been seen elsewhere, but not here before.

1169 Trek; Beast of Burden; Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Jungle Explorers; Jungle Game; Pack Mule; Packing Cases; Packing Crates; Playing Board; Playing Pieces; Playing Pieces Trek; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spear's Games; Spear's Trek; Trek Board Game; Trek Donkey; Trek Jeep;
It is what it is; a competitive collecting of stuff for a final race type mechanism, but the 'stuff ' is of real use to war-gamers, being a large number of jeeps, pack mules and stores crates, so - bargain!

1169 Trek; Beast of Burden; Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Jungle Explorers; Jungle Game; Pack Mule; Packing Cases; Packing Crates; Playing Board; Playing Pieces; Playing Pieces Trek; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spear's Games; Spear's Trek; Trek Board Game; Trek Donkey; Trek Jeep;
Playing pieces are 30mm flat explorers looking through telescopes, in a 'European Margarine Premium' style, made of a hard/brittle polystyrene, with provision for six players.

1169 Trek; Beast of Burden; Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Jungle Explorers; Jungle Game; Pack Mule; Packing Cases; Packing Crates; Playing Board; Playing Pieces; Playing Pieces Trek; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spear's Games; Spear's Trek; Trek Board Game; Trek Donkey; Trek Jeep;
Jeeps are good-enough for 20/25mm war gaming, the pack animals are brilliant, but sadly only the one pose, so need to be mixed in with Atlantic (three variations?) and Pegasus (one or two?) or even cast-metal beasts of burden. Strangely, while the player-pieces are so brittle, the rest is manufactured in soft polyethylene?

The stores are so brightly-bright and yellowy-yellow you can't tell which way up they are or read the 'STORES' stamped on the tops, but painted or heavy-washed/weathered they would make useful vehicle loads or objective-markers in gaming.

1169 Trek; Beast of Burden; Board Game; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Jungle Explorers; Jungle Game; Pack Mule; Packing Cases; Packing Crates; Playing Board; Playing Pieces; Playing Pieces Trek; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spear's Games; Spear's Trek; Trek Board Game; Trek Donkey; Trek Jeep;
With some conversions (Airfix ANZAC's married to commando legs) as a scaler, that’s yer' very actual Spear's board game; Trek, done and dusted!

4 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

Looks interesting. Any fun playing?

Hugh Walter said...

I don't know Jan, I've never played it! Really I aught to try and play them all once? It looks like the Geronimo game I had on the Blog years ago, you have to collect so much stuff to progress, and cards keep knocking you back?

H

Jan Ferris said...

Kind of reminds me of life.

Hugh Walter said...

Indeed Jan, indeed!
H