Articles
* An
editorial delivers the potted history of Atlantic's
UK-arm and a number of the adverts from the press of the day
* A double-helping
of Cherilea begins with Barney Brown's third visit to the early
farm animals as he studies the Feeding Horse
* Which is
followed promptly by a boxed Cherilea Farm Set from Chris Goodard
* The third
part of Adrian Norman's - Scalextric series finds him looking at
the TV crew, camera tower and race-starter
* George Nixon digs out old Cereal Offer Ad's
from equally-old Eagle comics for Britians
Lifeguards (Lifeguard cosmetics?) and
Airfix's diminutive 'Combat Group' (Sugar Puffs)
* A Lone Star
boxed set of divers is shown from C&T
Auction's last auction catalogue
* An old Black
and white article on Spanish Conquistador types from Paul Stadinger is resurrected in colour with additional information
from Juan Hermida
'What The
!&*$?' this quarter is an extended question-fest as;
- Joe Bellis asks after a Cowboy and Indians (Segal?) and shows a Riding set he thinks may be Malleable Moulding
- There's a Diver and Indians from Daniel Lepers
- David Pye seeks more info on the Pepsi athletes
- Brain Petrin asks about his mini caricature bandsmen
- Brian Carrick has a Quaker Oat's Quaker, a deer and a Grenadier
- A gondolier in search of a brand is presented by Barney Brown
- Gian Piero Larizza asks after a paratrooper
- And Andre Schell is seeking more on his unmarked, fully-boxed fort
* Peter Evans muses on Cherilea/Hugonnet Elizabethans and
Francis Drake's additional pose
* There's a
feature on the late John Clarke's
Diorama's
* This
quarter's three-pager is an insightful piece from Colin Penn on Lone Star's
production; specifically in white plastic
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Regular Features
* 'NEWS
and VIEWS and other stuff ' covers
- The forthcoming Plastic Warrior show
- GeModels' museum being up for sale
- More on the Toys R Us saga of woe
- Plea-for/details on contributions
- Belgian readers willing to cover Solido
- Cover beg for info.?
* 'We
Know Wot' has Daniel Lepers
ID'ing Nardi as being responsible for
the previous issue's knight's horse
* 'Book Review' is actually Book
Reviews with two tomes covered
- A precis of Jürgen R. Schüler's Militärisches Spielzeug aus der DDR by Andreas Dittmann make the book look very interesting
- Alain Thomas's latest work Soldats Plastique, Tome 3 Acedo & JSF is reviewed by the editorial team
* 'Readers
Letters' include
- Bob Legget on Daz/Crescent packaging
- A. Pedant waxing lyrical on Elastolin's equine maths
- Owen Hoye with a request for 1:35th Russians to man some kits
- James Peter Young follows up on the Sally Army band sets . . . with a sorry tale of hungry ants
- David Pye gives an Antipodean angle on the same Salvation Army sets
- Andreas Dittman and Daniel Lepers both write in on Koho Knights
- Another letter seemed both political and at odds with the facts!
* 'What's
New' covers recent releases from Expeditionary
Force
- Napoleonic French Lancers
- Napoleonic French Dragoons
- Napoleonic French Chasseurs
- War of 1812 American Militia (in civil dress)
- War of 1812 Royal Marines
- War of 1812 Highlanders
Plus all the usual readers small-ads and a
commercial supplement
Front Cover - shows a couple of unknown - probably
French - conquistador figures
Back Cover - Another Atlantic scan
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And - of course - it's just over a month to the best Plastic Toy Soldier Show in the world!
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