Roughly in the order they've come in or
been shot since we last looked at them excluding a lead flat I think we
looked-at separately . . .
Upon the demise of PoundworldPlus back in the summer, this was reduced to 50p with a
further reduction at the till taking it to 43p or something! It was worth a
punt for a small plastic motorcycle, of Kinder-egg
quality? It needed squeezing together properly which I didn't notice until
after the photo-shoot, branded to their ITP
Imports and coming with a reasonable rendition of an executive type
helicopter and a really crappy jeepney-thing which - if pink - would look like
Barbie's beach-buggy!
I can't tell you what this cost as it was a
present for my Brother on his Birthday! He's one of those people who has
everything he wants, and if he really wants something else tends to go and get
exactly what he wants himself, so he's very difficult to buy for, but he likes
his motorcycles, so when I saw this . . . bingo! Noki are the same people who did the novelty egg-cup and
toast-soldier sets, see Small Scale World passim.
I think this is the third time out for this
chap, and the second involving contributions from Peter Evans, who recently
sent me a very interesting set, with the unpainted black-plastic version. In
the meantime I found another (slight colour variation) in the Storage lot, so
shot all four together and they now have a new tub, all to themselves, although
the black one is still in the bag awaiting next year's RTM.
CHiPs! From storage,
from Kentoys, but not the Kenway Cycle Shop of 1950's London, but
rather the 1990's Kentoys with a
half-mile-long factory in Shatin, New Territories! Now into high-end,
larger-scaled, die-casts, they started (as so many HK companies did) with
cheaper plastics, these came with blistered sets or singly with larger trucks,
in this specific case the 'Wheelers'
fire-engine set. They were announced at 1:72 and - basically - would have been in
competition with the similar New Ray
and Supreme sets of that time; among
others.
Is it a Harley Electra-Glide or a Honda
Goldwing Aspencade? Now - there's a question for my Brother! Judging from
the full-tank and headlight-fairing; I recon a Honda?
Old solid-lead motorcyclist (Postman?), I
don't know if it's in Joplin and I haven't looked as I know it's not
particularly rated (Adrian had it in his cheapie-tray at Sandown last), so
probably a copy of anything similar-looking in the aforementioned tome, or more
likely a home-cast which may have been made commercially available? The
lead-guys dismiss this stuff (and melt it down!) like some in our polymer-branch
of the hobby still dismiss HK stuff, but you know me; I'll post anything!
A bicycle, Cakeboards, resin, cake decoration, the resin pile is piling-up!
Nice 54mm and a female subject which is never that common, so pleasantly
unusual!
Mr. Berke sent a whole box of donations to
the blog the other day with his uncommon generosity, and we will be looking at
bits from it over the next few days, as some of it was very timely, but there
was also this, Greenbrier/DTSC. I
don't know if he and Mr Evans are in competition with their contributions, but
this is an even larger scale than the candy-container bicycle we looked at in
Rack Toy Month! Guy's; I don't know where to put them!
Thanks again to Brian, Peter and Adrian for
some of the above!
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