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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, October 29, 2019

F is for Follow-up - Cherilea Walls and Various Fences

As stated above, a quick look at Cheilea's little window-box enhancers' first;

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
Very crude, single-sided detailing, and among the earliest 'large scale' things to be collected by me as they are better suited to small scale scenarios! With the exception of the corner piece they are all stood on small 'pod-feet', the corner piece has a more amorphous base arrangement.

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
Comparing the Cherilea corner with Speedwell's shows how 'small scale' it is, but then these pieces were mostly used with the 45 and 50mm medieval and 'khaki' infantry window boxes, so it sort of makes sense!

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
I've shown this question-mark castle before, years ago, but it remains a question-mark! having features in common with various British makers, I assume it is a British piece, but it could be Spanish. Colour is similar to one of the sand-bagged emplacements we've looked at, the 'ear' baselettes however are pretty unique, and scale is 'sub'!

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
Speedwell, top/front left, with a mystery piece behind it. The mystery piece has the whole Speedwell moulding to the left of its moulding (yellow and red rings) with an extension to the right (beyond dotted-line). Elements of the 'original' are repeated (yellow boxes) but not the whole 'run', and the longer moulding has only the one central foot, which is more formal or engineered than the landscaped blobs of the known Speedwell version.

Which of the two is the original and which the copyist is anyone's guess and they may both be Speedwell? The smaller one is - I'm pretty sure - Taylor &/or Barratt.

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
These are all recent in-comer's, I have yet to find the small-fences box, where I know I have some in cornflower-blue. I say 'I'm pretty sure' as I seem to recall you get a pair (same colour) tapped together with Sellotape (or a similar proprietary sticky-backed plastic!) inside the small T, T&B or B thatched-cottage/hovel?

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
This is from Codeg's Camberwick Green sets which we looked at here and is one of the scenic pieces from the boxed sets which each had a building, two or three figures and a couple of scenic elements one of which is this charming little dry-stone wall with cottage gate.

Barratt & Sons; Battlefield Accessories; Benbros Scenics; Camberwick Green; Charbens Scenics; Charbens Toy Farm; Cherilea Plastic Scenics; Cherilea Toy Scenery; Cherilea Walls; Codeg; Farm Fencing; Fences; FG Taylor & Sons; Scenic Accessories; Scenic Model; Scenic Model Photography; Scenic Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell - Trojan; Speedwell Scenery; Taylor & Barratt; Trojan Scenery; Una - VP; Una Scenics; Unknown Castle Toy; Unknown Fort; Unknown Scenic Model; VP - Speedwell; VP Scenery; VP Scenics; Walling; Walls;
I suppose these are from something like Playmobile or Sylvian? But I took the shot, so it might as well go here! Useful as an unpainted picket-fence in large-scale, or a substantial, but more toy-like barrier in small scale - at about 25mm high.

2 comments:

Chris Smith said...

Hugh I'm pretty certain the Cherilea corner wall is the base from one of those awful UN troops.

Hugh Walter said...

It might well be Chris - I hadn't thought of that, I'll inspect it's 'baselettes' for damage?

Cheers
H