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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

F is for French Rack Toys

We looked at this very briefly back at the beginning of the Blog, so it's time for a closer look or a reminder, rack-toy, plastic, French . . . but not!

1:72nd; 1:72nd Scale Figures; Carded; Carded Rack Toy; Carded Toy; Dime Store Toy; French Wings; Jet Fighters; Les Ailes Francaises; Made In France; Matelotes; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Parachutist; Paratrooper; Plastic Airmen; Plastic Sailors; Plastic Toy Aeroplanes; Rack Toy MOC; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Wings of France; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys;
Les Ailes Francaises; 'The Wings of France'! Only, they all have British roundels! We saved them in 1914, we tried to save them in 1940 (but they didn't want saving and left us on the beach with 600,000 of their own troops!) and now it seems we helped save their toy industry in the 1950's! And what thanks do we get? Stroppy De Gaulle, "Rosbiffes" and 'English Overcoats' - charming!

[For the dimwitts in the PSTSM and Vichy - the above paragraph is meant to be humour]

1:72nd; 1:72nd Scale Figures; Carded; Carded Rack Toy; Carded Toy; Dime Store Toy; French Wings; Jet Fighters; Les Ailes Francaises; Made In France; Matelotes; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Parachutist; Paratrooper; Plastic Airmen; Plastic Sailors; Plastic Toy Aeroplanes; Rack Toy MOC; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Wings of France; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys;
Yeah! They 'aint British that's for sure, what appear to be two matelotes and a Tin Tin style paratrooper! Below them the confirmatory marking; MADE IN FRANCE (in English!), so only flown by Brit's?

1:72nd; 1:72nd Scale Figures; Carded; Carded Rack Toy; Carded Toy; Dime Store Toy; French Wings; Jet Fighters; Les Ailes Francaises; Made In France; Matelotes; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Parachutist; Paratrooper; Plastic Airmen; Plastic Sailors; Plastic Toy Aeroplanes; Rack Toy MOC; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Wings of France; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys;
Three views of the 'plane, it has no obvious means of propulsion, but is best described as a generic jet-fighter/trainer type of the mid-late 1950's. As far as I know it has no US (Lido, Banner &etc.) or British (Tudor Rose et al.) antecedent, and is a wholly French design, but Manurba and Siku were also producing this kind of thing, around the same time, so a mould-share can't be ruled-out?

1:72nd; 1:72nd Scale Figures; Carded; Carded Rack Toy; Carded Toy; Dime Store Toy; French Wings; Jet Fighters; Les Ailes Francaises; Made In France; Matelotes; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Toys; Parachutist; Paratrooper; Plastic Airmen; Plastic Sailors; Plastic Toy Aeroplanes; Rack Toy MOC; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; The Wings of France; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Toys;
I sometimes get bored sorting Blog posts (how dare I!) and have a play in Picasa with the rudimentary 'instant' effect tools. This is the result of one of those plays, and I was quite pleased with it, which I think looks like an Art Deco mural or mosaic of the kind you might find in Underground tube-stations (Metros, U-bahns). By-the-by it also manages to correct several of the roundels - see; the Brit's helping the French again!

Will we ever get to go off into the wilderness and be ourselves again . . . oh . . . well-done Boris you fucking cockwomble!

2 comments:

Maudlin Jack Tar said...

Cockwomble! Ha ha. The word beginning with C that came to my mind was shorter.

Hugh Walter said...

Call me melodramatic Maudlin', in fact call me barking at the moon mad and over-excitable, but I never realised through my 20's and 30' that I had in fact been given a ring-side seat to the end of humanity back in 1964, but it's starting to look like that might be what mum and dad kindly bestowed upon me!

H