Small Scale World: News, Views Etc...Plastic Warrior No.170

The first true day of Spring! I saw several Brimstones, but there's a chilly evening breeze getting up now; it's almost like living on an islan . . . oh! Well - big one!

Technically a month behind this time; another bumper issue brings us . . .

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!