These are Hong Kong products and I always thought they were copies of the Manurba ones which are in more primary colours with polystyrene turrets (these are all-ethylene polymer), but I'm beginning to wonder if the Manurba ones weren't that rare thing; reverse piracy, with a Western company copying an HK product, the detail on these is very sharp, my Manurba one - if memory serves is not so well defined...that's the excuse to look at them again - when the Manurba ones come out of storage!
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I remember getting these in Australia and kept some. I loved them although they were much smaller than any of my toy soldier scales.
Hi James...yes I tagged them as 1:No Scale because they are not really any specific size, the bodies and turrets equating to different scales, somewhere between 1:100 and N-gauge /1:120?...ish!
I'm a bit late to the party but if you are still reading this blog then I thought I'd say that I've still got one of these little tanks in good condition. It's the "flat-sided" turret version with a green base but silver deck and turret. You are the first person I've found online talking about these tanks and even have photos! Thanks for saving my sanity as when I've described then to other people (especially the fact they had gum inside) all I've had is blank stares!
Always glad when it comes together Anon'!
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There was another image at the end of this post Anon:
https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2022/10/hk-is-for-chinatanks-ii.html
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