Brain recently obtained these as part of
his 'nostalgia collecting' (the best kind as it limits you to things you
remember - rather than the mountain of shite I'm accruing!), although he didn't
remember the multi-barreled mortar/rocket launchers.
Points to note ON the lot - Mint! Apart from
some mildew on the tyres (common with these when they've been in storage), they
are about as good as it gets, with perfect paint on all three crewmen and the
wagon/trailers.
Points to note ABOUT the lot - Blue Box took the whole deck (including
the control console) for their small-scale Bedford RL's and MK's. The Bren Gun
Carrier passenger is used as gunner/operator and I wouldn't like to call 'who
copied who' vis-à-vis the Wells Brimtoy
version. Pyro-Kleeware gave us the bodies/loads of the other HK stuff, but Lone Star gave us the Blue Box mountings.
There were about six bodies I think . . . 9-barrel
and Radar seen here, searchlight, twin-Bofors, spring-firing pom-pom
cannon/rocket launcher with elevation 'table' (much copied in the world of
space toys), that's five? I'm sure there's one or two missing? There was also a
different 'well wagon' bodied trailer which housed a larger rocket launcher,
and a plain flatbed trailer sold with a civilian Land Rover in the die-cast
range.
They (the military vehicles) also come in
an orangey-sand as desert/8th Army or as Afrika Korps with Balkan-cross
stickers, and I seem to recall some green ones get German marking to go with
the dark grey Germans? Later issues in bright blue with 'go-faster'
chrome-plate enhanced, balloon-wheels were also sold as more general toys.
*Fling/flung, sing/sung, swing/swung . . .
I'm just following the rules of English!
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