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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.

Saturday, August 26, 2017

L is for Lazy Post

It's been a while since we had a genuine one of these but I was busy doing something-else yesterday and never got round to texting-up today's article, or what was going to be today's article, however I remembered I had these kicking around from a 2012 photo-session, so I'm just going to chuck them up here without ceremony as a follow-up/additional part of/to yesterday's post.

An earlier (?) [better finished; less holes drilled in it for plug-ins] version of the three-way hybrid A/C with sub-scale Land-Rover and jeep trailer in generic packaging along with a larger Jeep in ST (or more likely MST) branding.

Close-up; it's a much cleaner sculpt and the Land-Rover will be a copy of the Matchbox 1-75 series smallie.

The Willy's Jeep from the similar card, we'll be looking at them in a day or three!

Is it ST (something toys!) or MST - Mountain [something] Toys? Macau? . . . Probably a made-up brand so it doesn't matter, unless you are an obsessive, middle-aged, collector of toys . . . and lists!

- Probably - earlier packaging of the smaller models from the above range, and the A/C is now in 'enemy' brown!

Close-ups of the Land-Rover and trailer, while the Land-Rover is ex-Matchbox I'm not so sure about the trailer, it was issued in the small scale by Tai Sang/Blue Box (in hard plastic - theses, like yesterday's are all soft polyethylene), but someone must have produced a donor (they always did!), could it have been from an early kit? Monogram, Pyro; one of them?

Close-up of the brown-job, euschk! - No Plug-ins, no vehicle-commander.

A Reminder of yesterday's novelty/fair-ground prize or whatever with all attachments.

That's your lot - lazy post!

5 comments:

dkenner said...

Trailer is a M100 style trailer used by the American and Canadian Armies in WW@ and Korean Wars (if it has rounded fenders) Vietam War era is squared fenders

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers dkenner, I seem to remember somewhere seeing it called a 'Trojan' or something, but also recall that the reference wasn't that clear, M100 sounds like the re-order code of choice!

H

dkenner said...

Ever discover anything else about MST, or ST? That the toy is called a Jeep isn't surprising. All depends on the market.

Hugh Walter said...

No! The only likely candidate to date is the Ming Shing Metal & Plastic Factory Pty., ('Ming Shing Toys' could = MST) but they have a different logo!

H

Hugh Walter said...

While the ST-mark is the opposite case, so many it could be but they tended to change their logo's to fit fashion through the decades, so you've got about eight 'Stars', Silverlit Toys, Sewco Toys, Super Trade, Samrich, and Sheric Trading's, and many more . . . one day - he hopes!

H