Shouldn't be too much blurb today as the
photo's will speak for themselves, second visit to Oxford Diecast's stand at
the [not so] recent British Toy Fair at Kensington Olympia, and the various
vehicles I shot there.
An assortment of 1:76th scaled vehicles
including a nice group of steam traction engines and road-rollers, and some
very nice Glenfrome (?) 6x6 Range
Rovers in various liveries. I also like the AEC Armoured Command Vehicle in err
. . . both liveries!
Further down the line-up sees nice
soft-skins from World War Two and the Cold War and an intricate looking Bofors,
along with a totally fictional 1-ton Land-Rover! In the background are some
lovely showman's wagons and circus vehicles, which could help bring the lovely
Preiser sets up to OO-compatibility for UK layouts.
AFV;'s in the guise of Churchill IV's (?)
and both short-76mm and 'Firefly' Shermans, the fictional lanny again with
another in what looks like 1:48th scale, both the 'rovers are fictional in two
ways, but there'll be a post on them later!
Catalogue page with a plethora of AFV's,
ancient and modern, the tele-porter 'Long Reach' is an interesting and
different model; it would look good serving either a modern jet or an artillery
piece/SPG in a little vignette? And we've seen the Post Office version of the
BSA here on the Blog in the past.
I thought the RAF centenary set was a bit
lame; three modern/late type 'rovers, a JCB and and WWII truck with the
ubiquitous Spitfire? They could have done better from what they already list,
with a bit of paint!
More Land Rovers, I'd love this set, but
it's got another fictional one to be repainted! The three one-tons's are the
best thing about this set, along with the little desert theatre paint-finished,
series-one. In the background can be seen boxed-sets of thematic commercials,
military and civil vehicles.
As well as the odd 1:48th scale vehicle or
two, Oxford have a growing range of
N-gauge vehicles and I'm rather taken by the trio of little tractors!
Knowing next to nothing of N-gauge (I had
the non-powered Treble-O trains from Triang Lone Star as a kid) I can't be sure, but
the Churchill looks too wide to make a useful flat-bed load, which would seem
to be the main-point of making one at this size? Especially as I think they had
to have the side-sponson engine/air-intake louvres removed for rail-trooping
anyway? And - is the turret on backwards?
2 comments:
CORRECTION TO: non-powered Treble-O trains from Triang as a kid.
The die-cast Treblo-O trains were Lone Star (DCMT)
Typo! Of course they were, one of my big regrets is letting them go at North camp car-boot for £17 quid! But I kept the Land-Rovers and the little Jaguar-Citroen things!
H
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