Two small all-over, one-colour
factory-painted, die-cast alloy bikes and two much larger un-decorated
machines, one a copy of the other and you can see that the two small ones have
tiny little side spikes to help them stand up, but nothing to keep them firmly
in the slots I cut in the foam boards, while the two larger motorcycles have
large chunky stub-bases (or 'stands') which would force huge holes/dents in the
slots rendering the sheet unusable further-on, as they do get moved around as
other things come in.
Close-ups of the small ones, there's a
chance they are different generations of the same board game's pieces, but I
suspect they are from two different board-games, I'm not sure if we've seen
these two before, I know I have shown the other one, which goes with other
vehicles, and I'll try to drag them out and do a comparison between all three
HO/OO gauge-compatible pieces.
These are informative, as the shiny one is
the better of the two, with the oxidised one clearly a poorer copy, but the dim
one is old, the shiny one much newer and possibly still available as a
home-casting mould somewhere. The fact that it's so shiny though is down to the
low or non-existent lead content in modern moulding alloys, as opposed to the
high lead content of the older one, which has grayed with oxidising-age.
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