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.
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!
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'!
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.
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?
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.
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:
Hugh I'm pretty certain the Cherilea corner wall is the base from one of those awful UN troops.
It might well be Chris - I hadn't thought of that, I'll inspect it's 'baselettes' for damage?
Cheers
H
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