W
e looked at bigger than HO/OO railway
figures from Leyla right back at the
start of the Blog; just shy of nine-years ago, now we're going to look at
smaller than HO/OO from the same maker! I can only presume they are aimed at
TT-gauge layouts, which were always more popular on the continent than here in
the UK, and particularly so on the other side of the wire.
Sharing poses with the larger set we looked
at back when, the newspaper-seller is also harking back to Leyla's 45mm pre-war O-gauge composition range
Heavily copied (I have three or four types
of these as piracies in storage) by Hong Kong and - possibly - somewhere like
Spain; there are good quality copies with neater bases, here we see some HK
copies along with a set of three full flats (the Leyla are semi-flat) heading toward N-gauge, which look like
margarine premiums but are I expect from a set of railway accessories or even a
kit, given the plain white styrene?
The railway staffer/postal worker with trolley
also looks like the sort of thing you find in some margarine, laundry-powder or
coffee-premium sets, but again seems not to be; having a factory-looking
paint-job, but him and the three white ones are still in the unknown 'pile'.
With the older (to the collection and
judging by the packaging) set in storage I had to do this by eye/memory, so
it's an approximation only, but it's about right! An Airfix platform figure would come between the two, but that only
gives me a reason to return to them for better comparisons one day, we will
return to them!
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