They can then be stacked in a 9-litre Really Useful Box (I'm not
being paid for this, they're just brilliant boxes), without damage, and bent or
damaged flats can be carefully straitened by being pushed onto the sheet with a
block of hard-wood, safe in the knowledge they won't get bent again.
Obviously, if I get a whole set, they get
their own sheet, if I have a bunch of similar small samples (semi-flat
red-coats in 20-30mm; camp scenes and marching, seem common 'odds') they go
together on one sheet, which leaves a couple of sheets for everything else . .
.
. . . of which this is the non-military
'Bits & Bobs' sheet!
And it's a real mixed bag; I have meandered
over it - conversationally - planning the blurb in my head, but it'll be easier
for you if I work left-to-right, top-to-bottom -
The shrub-line and hedge are actually just
as likely to be from larger scale toy soldier boxed sets as they are from sets
of flats, while the archer's pavise between them is not technically
a 'flat', being a 25mm war-games accessory for fully round figures (Gisby -
recognise it?), but it fits as a flat!
Two obvious game-playing pieces, then one
of the most interesting things in my whole collection, it is in point of fact
actually nearly fully-round, but the nature of the sculpt and the base means
this is the best place to store it. It appears to be two sheets of brass,
beaten into shape (against a steel former, or pair of steel formers?), which
have then been braised together to create a hollow 'tin' model . . . but it's
not clear. If it wasn't for the razor-sharp base I'd assume an old penny-priced
bracelet-charm?
The next three (which came from Adrian
Little I think?) are semi-flat and - in part - 'spirit-painted' (a kind of ink
which shines metallic from the bare-metal showing through) in the fashion of
old penny-toys, so I guess some kind of penny-toy group, incomplete, possibly
characters from a German folk-tale? But they could be early model-railway figures;
one seems to be holding a dipping-net . . . tadpole hunters!
The two cows we've seen here at Small Scale
World, they came in a mucked-about with Heinrichsen
box (I think) with an odd mix of Napoleonic casualty and colonial types.
Almost certainly board-game playing-pieces
for the whole row, and probably both incomplete sets, with the three larger
cars (also thanks Adrian!) being from a probable four, the smaller ones could
have more missing brothers? They (the small pair) are also die-cast mazac.
The petrol cans (cooking oil?) will be from
an early slush-cast vehicle (or dolls house accessory) set I suspect, while the
tatty fence-line could be from a larger-scale, boxed, farm set? The owl is a more-modern
casting, semi-professionally painted and seen here before - I think.
Doing the last two rows together - we've
seen the tree from the same Heinrichsen
set and the 'bikes this morning, which leaves another relatively modern animal
- the deer, a dog of unknown orphanage and three pieces of railing.
The round-tipped piece is lead and from an
unknown flat set, the two on the bottom row are a long-run and fragment of rigid
die-cast mazac, railway-station railing from Wardie - Mastermodels and therefore - again - not technically
'flats', but flat enough!
2 comments:
I don't know the pavise - any markings on the base?
I don't think it does, I'll try to have alook but it won't be for a day or a few, I only have three weeks to sort out my storage!
H
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