This is the whole set, there was one of each in the tray, and they
appeared to be new production (rather than a 'member of the public' donation),
at a pound each it was worth a punt on one of them and I chose the AH-64 Apache.
Eight little boxes; each containing a bag of bits and a rudimentary
instruction sheet. They seem to be about 1:100 (or box-scale?) and branded - as
imports - on the blank panel to Candy
Toys, who keep popping-up these days.
The bag of bits contains two small runners, one a frame-runner with
transparent pieces and the other a branch-runner with the rotor blades, there's
also a two-part stand and a handful of helicopter body-parts; both de-'sprued'.
More interesting is the fact that the bag is marked-up for 4D, but I suspect not the same 4D Master who was responsible for the
PVC-type tank available from The Works
a few years ago, the recent Kangaroo and other stuff seen around.
The packaging also usefully tells us what the model is made of; ABS (Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene);
probably the rotors, and GPPS (General-purpose polystyrene) also known by the
trade name Akurate; the green parts
and transparencies.
They (4D) have been seen on
various (antipodeans'?) Blogs issuing simplified, but useful AFV's in similar
hard-plastic materials. Note: they are using the bags from Oker, also seen here at Small Scale World in relation to other brands/makers
toy packaging!
It's a reasonable model, although a bit small, construction being
similar to 4D Master (who they may be
a part of, it's only a suspicion they're more clone'ish) and an excellent
budget source of air-power for some of the modern 'corporate' gaming systems?
What was odd about it? On Wednesday the same tray appeared in the Scope charity shop, but with a price of
£1.20p per set, that's another £1.60p per dispenser's contents which seemed a
little greedy!
The Apache was still there so it wasn't a question of buying the remains
of the tray from next-door but four and marking it up - obviously there's a
batch of these doing the rounds of the charity community as some sort of corporate
clearance/tax write-off; there's similar card-construction sets from PMS (one of the defunct 99p Stores' brands) in Help The Aged [Age Concern] at the moment, in both cases - get 'em before they're
gone - I got a haunted house; with six figures!
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The local version of pound world was selling these and the tanks together they were in the same carton that had come from Kandy but packed and sealed in China
Sorry forgot to add all the tanks sold out in all 7 shops within 2 days the planes are still sitting in the shops 2 years later.
The tray I got this from went the next day, but the one down the road was still there yesterday, clearly the extra 20p is the stump!
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