. . . Brian, being in fact Uncle Brian of A Fistful of Plastic! Helping us return to Silvercorn quicker than I anticipated.
Always happy to be proved wrong, especially
when it gets more figures on the 'wants' list, you may remember the exchange of
comments last time we looked at Silvercorn,
well I got
this from Brian a while later:
With the intriguing note "Please find attached a picture of the green
and tan Silver Corn figures. I have found my set of the Silver Corn aircraft
and will send you pictures of them soon." So, that puts my
question-mark over the sandy chaps to bed - they do exist! But then: Aircraft?
Only for these to turn up a month or so after that . . .
. . . same little suitcase as already seen over
at PSR, the contents . . .
. . . pretty-much as I predicted, but a
little bigger perhaps, I was thinking of something more in line with the ships at
three or four models to a frame - around 1:300; what you get is at least 8
different aircraft types somewhere between 1:144th scale or 1:200th (?) scale,
packed as randomly as the ships or figures, with some doubled-up and some
singlies.
I love those little Chinooks; I think I've
said before - one of the few times in my life I was really shit-scared-frightened
was in a Chinook with a Bedford 4-Ton'er as a slung load, and feeling the wagon
pulling my seat away from my butt as the chopper banked, I really thought we
were going to fall out of the sky! Or at least be pulled out of the sky by our
load, 'Ginge' Hyatt - the MT driver I was 'guarding' looked as white as a sheet
too; while the load-master just grinned at us - the fucker!
Construction is as simple as the vessels,
basically necessitated by the getting of a maximum set of frames into each case
rather than for constructional/hobby purposes; just laying the sticky-up bits
flat!
Not that you'd know that from the packaging,
reading it in the shop:
WARNING CHOKING HAZARD - WITH FUNCTIONAL SHARP
POINTS/EDGES - THERE IS A DANGER OF CUTS, ABBRASIONS AND SIMILAR INJURIES
'Similar Injuries'? I think I'll take my
chances in a Chinook, thanks!
And thanks indeed to Uncle Brian tor sending these to the blog.
Oddly enough, I have the Silvercorn vehicles set: It IS green and tan, no extra coloured bits. 2 kinds of tank, lorries, APCs and sorta-Hummvees, but the quantities of each differ between the two colours.
ReplyDeleteAh! Do they have little wheel/axle pieces that are pinched between the two halves of the vehicles?
ReplyDeleteAny chance of some photo's?
Thanks for the confirm anyway!
H
Check your inbox, photos are sent.
ReplyDeleteNothing there and I checked my junk folder too?
ReplyDeleteH
Re-sent, but to the correct address!
ReplyDeleteHugh! When you look at the pictures, I just found another tan HumVee and turretless APC. So they weren't all in the box. Still not, I guess, I left them downstairs.
ReplyDeleteHugh, did you get the pictures?
ReplyDeleteI'm eMailing you in a minute! yes is the short answer!
ReplyDeleteH
7 HUGE emails sent. I had to re-edit from the camera, I only had the smaller images on my PC. Remember, I have since found a tan turretless APC and HumVee, not shown.
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