Whether I've shown it here or not, it's
been cleaned-up and given a nice picture-frame, so it's worth a second-look, if
it's a second-look!
A complete Shepherd & Sheep set and looking at it, I think I may have
shown the dog as a question-mark Corgi
in the past, being the same scale (1:48th), size (40mm-compatible) and material
(PVC) as some of their [Corgi]'s
other stuff - I think it was darker brown as well?
The shepherd looks more like the Britains tractor-driver (he also seems
to be based-on) than a shepherd, and has stopped for a smoke, confident the
sheep aren't going to wander-off as they are rooted to the ground with those
long spikes of 'grass'!
The image from the door-hanger display
board sent out to retailers and photographed courtesy of John Begg - whose set
it may be as well!
As with this morning's diver set, the idea
was to separate the smaller ovoid bases from the larger plate, so increasing
the playability of the set, and to enable the mixing of elements from other
related sets.
Had Britains
stuck with the concept until they had issued more sets, I think they would have
taken-off, and might even have still been with us as a blind-bag or capsule
'thing', imagine; thousands of 40mm vignettes (20-per year for 50-odd years?),
with interchangeable parts!
But for whatever reason it was pulled soon
after the second tranche was issued, and while they sold well enough for plenty
of loose bits to turn-up in junk lots, they clearly didn't sell as well as Britains had hoped they would?
2 comments:
Nice find!
It would be if I'd found it Remaras, but I think I just photographed it round John's house years ago! I may have some of the pieces loose?
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