A small fleet; including submarines, two
sizes of warship, a carrier, a liner in use as a troop ship and a couple of
bog-standard tramp-steamers. Writing in the past of my theory re- the 'Zang for Timpo' being wartime rather than post-war, I suspect the same is
true of these, they seem to be early-war (or
pre-/inter-war) designs?
Close-ups of the large liner/troopship and
aircraft carrier, a three-stack liner could be RMS Queen Mary or the ill-fated RMS Empress of Britain, while the distinctive twin-stack carrier with huge searchlight might be HMS Eagle, while the under-shots are liner to the left, carrier to the right.
The underside of the submarine (top left)
shows the instantly recognisable mauve-grey of Zang's pumice-mix composition.
Battleship is top-left and bottom-right, with the smaller warship in the
centre. Finally the tramp-steamers . . . err . . . steaming along!
They're all quite crude and finish is poor
with a khaki wash on most and a stab-and-hope paint scheme on the two prime
vessels, these would have been pretty unsellable after the war finished, but in the
high-austerity of wartime, if stuff like Forrest
Toys was beyond your budget, these would have filled a niche at Christmas,
and very patriotic!
Another shot of the carrier group, no
German or Italian vessels were spotted in the editing of this post . . . see
previous posts! Given the - one each of the two biggies and two each of
everything else - vessel-count; possibly the contents of a full, single-set?
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