Dark green trees, both fluffy (deciduous?)
and evergreen firs, and a length of hedging or shrub which seems to have lost
its bases. The bases are a two-ply or 'three-mil' plywood and are stained,
against the full painting of the trees themselves - the same is true of the
figures we will be looking at.
I quite like the kink in the trunk of the
deciduous or 'broadleaved' tree, most of these erzgebirge trees have -
traditionally - an axis of symmetry, while other details are the brown trunks,
2nd green tufts at ground level and additional bases, both usually lacking in
these types.
Light green stuff; no firs, but solid
elm/oak/chestnut types, along with longer lengths of hedge in two designs and an
immigrant shrub from the compartment next-door! Looking like they were made yesterday,
it's only the accrued dust down the compartment-edge which hints at the true age
of this case and its contents.
Like most of the stuff in this set, these
are all produced on the bread-slice principle we looked at here at Small
Scale World years ago and which is still used by erzgebirge (and Bavarian,
Tyrolean, Baden Württemberger, Black Forest . . . ) makers today.
Indeed ignoring the Dubai thing, Dusyma are based near Stuttgart, but I
can never remember if Stuttgart is in Baden Württemberg or Baden-Baden - very
important if you live there, I'm sure - no 'Hampshire Hog' wants to be labeled
a Surreyman, they're all posh and 'up' themselves!
More hedges in dark green are in with the
farm fencing. There is also a packet of picket-fencing (there's a silly rhyme
in there somewhere!), which is shown originally being in-with the train, one
wonders if someone in the factory said to the salesman "Dude, you haven't got any picket fence,
we’ve already packed them, here; you better take a pack" (except - in
German) before sticking a 'finished' product in the case?
More likely he deliberately carried it to
show a sample of the packaging available to the shopkeepers/buyers, as they played
with carefully studied everything else!
60-65mm is quite large for these types,
which part-explains the extra colours and the bases, they will need something
to hold them upright on runs or carpets, and something to break-up what whould
otherwise be a large piece of green!
Also; you can see in the reflected
flash-light, on the deciduous tree, how crudely or pooly-finished these are;
modern examples, pre-war examples . . . and the train well see in a later set,
are much better finished with a smooth, even coating, the inference being
austerity conditions and/or shortages, in the factory.
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