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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

T is for Toy Fair 2019 Reports - J Perkins (JP)

JP may well be known to you from your work desk or table where they may be present as bottles or tins of glue, paint or solvent of one type or another, and while I wouldn't expect real-flying model aficionados to be following the blog, they would know them for their fuels, lubricants or coatings, however they currently have a small range of traditional 'novelty' gliders.

As it's over a year since we last looked at these here and less than 660-days to Christmas, time we looked at them again, and we'll start with another report from the January Toy Fair . . . it's been a funny year!

BAC Concord; Balsa Gliders; Balsa Planes; Balsa Wood Gliders; Balsa Wood Modelling; Concord; Concord Glider Toy; Glider Toys; Hawker Hurricane Glider; Hurricane; Hurricane Mk I; J Perkins; JP Modelling; JP Mpdels; Model Planes; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spitfire; Spitfire Mk IXc; Supermarine Spitfire Glider; Toy Gliders;
Ohhh! Pretty Lady, what happened to you?

Forty-years of Thatcherite-Raganomic, bigoted, middle-England, parochial, reactionary, Tory-policy, that's what, and what they did to you they're now doing to the whole country! Although we can't escape from the fact you were only ever a planet-destroying, Anglo-French vanity-project for the very rich, so maybe museums are the best place for you?

It's a Concord glider, in laser-cut, coated-balsa wood, too cool for aviation-school! In the background an even more traditional - undecorated, plain balsa - glider, but with the added gimmick of adjustable wing positions to provide what I believe they call 'variable flight-profiles'!

BAC Concord; Balsa Gliders; Balsa Planes; Balsa Wood Gliders; Balsa Wood Modelling; Concord; Concord Glider Toy; Glider Toys; Hawker Hurricane Glider; Hurricane; Hurricane Mk I; J Perkins; JP Modelling; JP Mpdels; Model Planes; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spitfire; Spitfire Mk IXc; Supermarine Spitfire Glider; Toy Gliders;
Two more; there aren't many 'Icons of the Air' you can collect the whole fleet-of, but Concord is definitely one, with a few rub-down letters and a bit of Tipex you could make the whole BA-fleet!

Meanwhile, in the background you can see two more Icons of the Air, namely Spitfires and Hurricanes from WWII.

BAC Concord; Balsa Gliders; Balsa Planes; Balsa Wood Gliders; Balsa Wood Modelling; Concord; Concord Glider Toy; Glider Toys; Hawker Hurricane Glider; Hurricane; Hurricane Mk I; J Perkins; JP Modelling; JP Mpdels; Model Planes; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spitfire; Spitfire Mk IXc; Supermarine Spitfire Glider; Toy Gliders;
My favourite, I know the Spitfire was prettier, faster, more manoeuvrable . . . yada, yada, yada, but this did the bulk of the work and could take more punishment, it's the 'British Bulldog' to the Spit's greyhound!

BAC Concord; Balsa Gliders; Balsa Planes; Balsa Wood Gliders; Balsa Wood Modelling; Concord; Concord Glider Toy; Glider Toys; Hawker Hurricane Glider; Hurricane; Hurricane Mk I; J Perkins; JP Modelling; JP Mpdels; Model Planes; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spitfire; Spitfire Mk IXc; Supermarine Spitfire Glider; Toy Gliders;
The other one! I don't know if you've realised from the camera-shots, but these are much bigger than the pocket-money, enveloped, expanded polystyrene ones we were looking at in the main last time, this is around 1:48th, even 1:32nd maybe? I suspect that both fighter-plane models are based on Battle of Britain Memorial flight airframes?

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