T is for There's Some Rack Toys in There Somewhere!

Traffic was up on the other two 'stash' posts and as I've been busy with other stuff, Rack Toy Month's plans have all gone a bit pear-shaped, so here's another sneak preview of stuff heading to Small Scale World in the weeks and months ahead.

Cowboys; enough of them, but nothing terribly exiting! I don't know why that 'bendy' is on top, he should be in the bag with the other three . . . maybe he's a last minute 5th? All the stuff from the last Birmingham show (2011) and quite a bit of the big-purchase in Portsmouth (a year earlier) was still unsorted when it all went into storage, and some of that will on top of these loose 'to be sorted' piles.

Injuns! A surprising amount of Crescent (or Kellogg's) in evidence, the rest pretty run-of-the-mill.

Siege Engines; emphasis on the small scale, but MPC's boxy hideousity is there and the Lone Star sets along with two early Kinder's (little bag bottom left) which Peter Bergner (PB Toys) gave me years ago.

Red-but-not-dead-yet commie rat-finks, sah; loads ov'em! Polish, Italian and East German-made figures along with Russia's own take on Warpact troops, two tubs of arctic stuff and Toyway's Greeks. All good box-ticking stuff!

I think I got most of the Toyway stuff in a single feebleBay purchase in 2009/10, which is ironic as I've started collecting them again in dribs and drabs here; they'll all be spares now!  But I seem to recall I needed some bases, so they may end-up baseless spares . . . Doh!

Next layer down, more Greeks, some barbarians (with presepi?), more Russians from France and Czechoslovakia this time along with Italy again, and two tubs of Natives/Africans, some African exploiters explorers, colonial troops and a German with a butterfly-net . . . natch!

Ditto! With added backwoodsmen and Vikings, sans butterfly-net! Two more layers can wait.

Another box! Nappie-types, 7 and 30 YW, ceremonials and Mounties along with some West Point'ers. The blow-mould is Fontanini's Hussar, right-royally ripped-off, wearing what looks very similar to HCF's little, gold, sticker, but printed with HK not 'Empire Made'

More of the same with some Mexicans!

Mexicans swapped for Greeks!

Again, there's two more layers of goodies underneath, and more boxes, I haven't even spotted the WWII boxes yet, all the 8th Army and DAK to come at some point . . .