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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

A is for Airfix Posting - Jeeps

A new recurring title, for a while at least; I must get the rest of the Airfix stuff up, or at least enough to get each page-post going! Then I can look at finishing the blurb on the existing posts!!

Airfix; Airfix 1652; Airfix Attack Force; American Jeep; Ammunition Trailer; Attack Force Lines; GP Jeep; Hong Kong Jeeps; Jeep & Trailer; Jeep and Trailer; Kinder Jeep; Kinder Maxxi-Egg Jeep; Marx Jeep; Motormax Jeep; Pattern No. 1652; Poly Vehicles; Polyprops; Readymades; Redbox Jeep; Spear's Games; Spear's Jeep; Spear's Trek; Trek Jeep; USA; Willy's Jeep; Zee Jeep; Zyl Jeep; Zylmex Jeep;
Jeeps today, the Airfix Attack Force Jeep, with comparisons of a bunch of others, there will be more to come, these were the ones in the 'Jeep Tub' which doesn't include a lot of the named stuff, nor most of the larger Hong Kong/China pieces, but it's a starter guide!

Airfix; Airfix 1652; Airfix Attack Force; American Jeep; Ammunition Trailer; Attack Force Lines; GP Jeep; Hong Kong Jeeps; Jeep & Trailer; Jeep and Trailer; Kinder Jeep; Kinder Maxxi-Egg Jeep; Marx Jeep; Motormax Jeep; Pattern No. 1652; Poly Vehicles; Polyprops; Readymades; Redbox Jeep; Spear's Games; Spear's Jeep; Spear's Trek; Trek Jeep; USA; Willy's Jeep; Zee Jeep; Zyl Jeep; Zylmex Jeep;
A few points beyond the Airfix aspect of the linked-post; I missed a small silver one (upper image) which comes somewhere between the Spear's Trek (left) and Kinder 'minis' (right) Jeeps; I've also shown the three colours of Kinder Jeep.

Below left image puts the two Marx mini's next to each other, the die-cast offering has the slightly more realistic windscreen position, but both are overall pretty poor sculpts, and copies of the larger-scaled one from the big playsets.

The bottom-right picture compares the two Zee/Zyl/Zylmex and/or Motormax/Redbox Jeeps, one of which has a MASH sticker. They are also different colours and have slightly different wheels.

Airfix; Airfix 1652; Airfix Attack Force; American Jeep; Ammunition Trailer; Attack Force Lines; GP Jeep; Hong Kong Jeeps; Jeep & Trailer; Jeep and Trailer; Kinder Jeep; Kinder Maxxi-Egg Jeep; Marx Jeep; Motormax Jeep; Pattern No. 1652; Poly Vehicles; Polyprops; Readymades; Redbox Jeep; Spear's Games; Spear's Jeep; Spear's Trek; Trek Jeep; USA; Willy's Jeep; Zee Jeep; Zyl Jeep; Zylmex Jeep;
The little silver Jeep seems to go with the two silver/gold cars we looked at a few Christmases ago, to which I've added blue and green ones which were in storage, although they are both cleaner sculpts with fatter tyres and an undercut on the wheel-arch and may be from an earlier/separate issue [wave]. They show all the 'hallmarks' (small, inexpensive, monoblock design) of being gum-ball machine capsule-prizes or Christmas cracker-novelties?

No Dulcop racing cars (or are they PRB or Crescent. . . heh-heh-heh-heh!), but - obviously - they're in the long queue. Too funny, their 'idea factory' now seems to be my 'forthcoming' posts, but I already knew that from the other day . . . all the stupidies sticking together like a pack of mangy dogs!

And now he's bleating he should be allowed to get things wrong, oblivious to the hypocrisy of correcting my Jecsan with the hysteria he did? Too funny, the loons are trying to run the asylum with the support of more loons!

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