tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7943326856537848542024-03-19T09:30:32.893+00:00Small Scale WorldHugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.comBlogger4913125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-10356416269405082082024-03-19T09:30:00.001+00:002024-03-19T09:30:00.130+00:00J is for Jumps, More JumpsWe've had a brief look at some of the Britains stuff, and better looks at the other two main producers of show jumping equipment in 1:32, but if you, or a younger relative are looking to make a full arena circuit there is a need for 10-15 actual jumps, even 16 or more, and they all need to look different, as part of the test of the horse, it to visually stun or confuse it!Except that you usually Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-88990540598562385772024-03-18T15:02:00.007+00:002024-03-18T15:02:57.719+00:00E is for Easter Bunnies The gathering of the Clan!Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-48707522751241787032024-03-17T23:33:00.000+00:002024-03-17T23:33:12.660+00:00M is for Mes Matelots de la Marine!Well, I nearly published these this afternoon, since when two other posts have published Starlux of one sort or another, that's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes, never sure if it's coincidence or synergy? Not sure if we've had a brief look at these before or not, either, maybe as an early show-plunder post?, anyway, here they are, again? I have a similar box of WWII/post-war French Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-41762242122855478362024-03-16T23:10:00.005+00:002024-03-16T23:22:46.293+00:00S is for Seen Elsewhere - Lone Star's Swivel AnimalsI didn't manage to shoot the brown cows before they sold, however the cart-horse and a white cow, came home with me, and I think we saw a black one here at Small Scale World years ago, from the 'archive' shots? The cart horse is actually the best of the five, as it's got the extra knee joints, lacking in both the other four animals and the similar Noddy licesnsed figures, also seen here in Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-57661950678644359722024-03-16T14:52:00.002+00:002024-03-16T14:52:46.530+00:00T is for Two - Rack-Toy Dino'cardsI had occasion to stop at one of the few independent convenience-stores/corner shops the other evening (Lower Bourne, Farnham/Aldershot hinterlands - dodgy part of the world!), with the intention of grabbing a fizzy drink, and I came away with two BJ's . . . ooh'err missus!The ones on the left look like a larger set we saw a few years ago, as a generic, stiff polyethylene hollows, pegged togetherHugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-86388794707234520362024-03-16T09:30:00.002+00:002024-03-16T11:55:12.375+00:00S is for Selley Manufacturing Company 'Finishing Touches'Another one I don't know enough about to more than present the archive imagery, which will form the basis of the eventual A-Z blog entry, but for now, and because I mentioned it in association with Weston's as 'coming soon' in a comment the other week, they can follow the Weston figures in this sequence!1940's, I think?1950's, this could be the 5-cent list mentioned above, but is more likely to Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-66175581809523689482024-03-15T23:55:00.002+00:002024-03-16T12:15:47.719+00:00B is for Blasting off Again!My evilBay treat to myself this month was the other configuration of the Blast Off eraser set from TJM, for nine-quid-odd with postage on a Buy-It-Now. It was preferable to drive to Basingrad to see if the Home Bargains there had taken delivery of the other set (Fleet's branch of the TKMaxx subsidiary still has a stack of the set we looked at last time!), only to find they haven't, which would Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-58826185876563349782024-03-15T13:57:00.007+00:002024-03-16T11:46:35.138+00:00P is for Potted Plant Problems and Phuqing Phungus PhliesWe haven't had as much garden or insect stuff as I'd imagined I'd post, but that may change at some point, as it's all piling up on the PC, but here's one I've been battling with which might be of some help to some of you. One of the most depressing things of the last few years has been the loss of the garden, which will obviously go to the new owners of the house, and while I managed to getHugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-21981741651836790322024-03-15T02:31:00.002+00:002024-03-15T14:05:44.438+00:00H is for Here's Something a Little Different!Loot bags! A modern thing, for those 'consolation' presents I mentioned back on the Marx 6" figure post a week or so ago, in our day we just carried our Indian home, letting him look out of the window of the Morris Traveller. Now they get so much stuff, toys, sweets, a sticker sheet, gods - and harassed parents - know what, that they get a bag to put it all in! I'm sure it's just a Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-30409365898774842912024-03-14T23:30:00.005+00:002024-03-14T23:32:52.015+00:00D is for Damn Shelfies!I swear to God (with something more believable as my witness) these shelfies are hiding in Picasa, and every time I think I've rounded them all up, three more pop out of the woodwork! These are from October, December and the other day!We looked at these infant-like Teamster trucks in a previous shelfie post, but I had shot another of the 'water tank' version with sharks in, really just a box Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-4324726306028217832024-03-14T15:01:00.004+00:002024-03-15T02:36:24.981+00:00N is for Nursery Rymes!Whatsisname Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on a Tuesday,
Married on a Wednesday,
Took ill on a Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,Still believing Stevens International (US importer/jobber) and Sunjade (wholesaler/shipper) were the names behind the output of Supreme - SP Toys, poor chap! How does such ignorance persevere in a hobby where the facts are known? Is it that a Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-51849610353600837742024-03-14T14:18:00.005+00:002024-03-14T15:04:36.217+00:00T is for Two - Freebies!Except at £4, 5, or 6.99, these modern kid's periodicals aren't exactly cheap, so whatever they Sellotape to the cover is not entirely 'free', but it brings down the unit cost, and none more so than this rather generic mag' I found back in November - Everything Jungle!Two stories and forty-four stickers, sort of explains why we are going extinct, doesn't it? Sort of explains why we aren't riotingHugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-11072189746612171672024-03-14T01:27:00.003+00:002024-03-15T01:38:50.568+00:00P is for PetroleumOn one level this is just a nostalgia hit for people of a certain age, and not a young one, as this is from a mid-1970's colour supplement (I forgot to note which one/when), and the mid 1970's were, now, fifty years ago!So which ones do you remember, these were all brands at the time, and the article makes clear there were more besides. Mex and Maxol are obviously sibling brands, while Sky and Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-43835185400144382062024-03-13T23:15:00.005+00:002024-03-13T23:15:53.750+00:00W is for Weston Figures, then Campbell Scale Models, Now Gone?I don't know enough about these to do more than post the scans as a guide, and to tick that box in this series of posts, they seem to have been around as Weston since the 1940's, and we looked at a few sleeper-car/restaurant-car figures back at the beginning of the Blog;https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2009/02/w-is-also-for-weston.htmlUnknown, but 1970's - from the price?Mid 1950's flyer.1960Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-71882422397705643522024-03-13T13:51:00.003+00:002024-03-13T22:25:46.387+00:00E is for Expelling a Few Myths!Not exactly the best spacemen ever made, being very toy-like, but in common with the 60mm Knights from the same Cherilea stable, having a charm all of their own, and as they are quite common, with a relatively convoluted history, worth collecting, for their position on the oeuvre. Well, that's a bit metaphysical! I don't have that many, when I had the chance to grab a few I was Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-36436262620787838602024-03-13T01:28:00.000+00:002024-03-13T01:28:04.088+00:00T is for That Was My Idea, That Was!Except it was Vic Reeves! And these aren't his at all! Something a little different tonight, these are my Lego improvement ideas, and they fall into two groups, those I sent to Lego back in the 1990's (before I knew they were the Evil Empire!), and those I probably didn't! Sent to Lego I can't now remember if it was before or after they had released their
own footballer sets, I have a Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-36066589793485331872024-03-12T13:14:00.004+00:002024-03-12T13:16:51.389+00:00News, Views etc . . . Housekeeping!It was the Italian riders I had in mind on the Britains post the other day (thank you FitzjamesHorse), and I had scanned a cutting for adding to the post, but forgot it, it's now been added, to the post here;https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/b-is-for-brush-rail-britians-show.htmlI also forgot to thank David Fisher for letting me photograph his carded Jungle set from Grendon at the Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-30512815045945191222024-03-12T00:09:00.000+00:002024-03-12T00:09:09.588+00:00M is for Musings on Multiple MountsThis post is a narrative conversation with myself, and you, if you're reading, and comes out of a conversation I had with Chris Smith before Christmas, at which time, I think I said I'd publish this in January, or at least that sort of 'after Christmas' which might lead someone to think it was imminent, but with 120 posts in less than 90-days, I can hardly be accused of idleness! And I say 'Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-77296859483805077272024-03-11T12:16:00.002+00:002024-03-11T12:18:37.494+00:00T is for Thomas SalterA Scottish toy firm with a convoluted history of its constituent parts following bankruptcy in the early 1980's, which had little to do with the failure of Linka to set the hobby world alight, and more to do with mismanagement, but, while better known for their science and chemistry sets (friendly (?) rivals to Merit and Lott's), they carried, for quite a while, this 'approved' show jumping set, Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-63990747091984487442024-03-10T17:55:00.003+00:002024-03-10T21:09:58.977+00:00C is for Comet: Comet-Authenticast and Comet-GaeltachtA play in two acts, opening in New York and closing in Eire! That's Eire with a 'F'!! I won't bore you with the history today, that's one for the A-Z entry one day, but there is a book which deals well with most of it, and we're really box-ticking here, although with a lovely set from Jon Attwood to start us off!Their HO scale figure set, as produced and carded in the Republic of Ireland, there Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-5135548855420297432024-03-10T13:17:00.000+00:002024-03-10T13:17:01.207+00:00P is for Partially Seen Elsewhere - Acédo African SceneI posted my small sample of these elsewhere, the same day, I think, but I shot a better sample on Mercator Trading's stall at the show (last London show of last year?), so we can have a better look at this French production now.Ac<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-74694359267160370962024-03-09T23:58:00.003+00:002024-03-09T23:59:43.164+00:00I is for I Was Going to Post Something Toy-Related Tonight, But Went and Did This for Faceplant Instead!The
West is ethically and morally bankrupt, wedded to a broken economic
system which is working for no one but a few billionaires, and sliding
in to a sort of everyday-workaday, fake-news fascism! Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-61747890785923142782024-03-09T12:21:00.001+00:002024-03-10T11:04:43.348+00:00C is for Christmas Cracker CosmonautsThese were first identified in Plastic Warrior magazine a while ago now, with the presentation of the original ad' in a trade publication, I think, there is another one kicking around, but that's for the Thomas (or more likely Poplar ethylene's) spacemen, issued in Tom Smith crackers, if I recall correctly these were in a more generic advertisement, but I've forgotten the issue number! Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-91807101998284764632024-03-09T02:38:00.002+00:002024-03-09T02:46:38.358+00:00L is for Lido's Louche Luna LadsNot a mystery, although they were to me for a while, as they turned-up in 'Blast Off' the other day when I was looking-up Jet Cars! I used to think they might be the French Rex, but they weren't and for a long time I didn't have a clue, but they are to be seen in the aforementioned tome (pp.142) in a Lido 'Toy Parade' header card as Captain Video Space Rangers, which reminded me these were in theHugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794332685653784854.post-36758482305234812362024-03-08T01:03:00.001+00:002024-03-08T01:03:55.416+00:00S is for Seen Elswhere - Juguetes ALB I wasn't sure if these were the Argentinian ALB figures or not, as the only other sample I know of, didn't have any sailors! However, I posted them elsewhere - or at least the dirty line-up, I've since cleaned them - and they were confirmed by another Walter; Walter Rodriguez!Best described as baby-faced, they are clearly little caricatures, rather in the same vein as the terracotta figures from Hugh Walterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com0