You may remember back in June/July, when I
finally got round to the PW Show
reports that one of the items I highlighted was a Hong Kong copy of the Crescent Santa' sleigh, well, you may
have guessed that that wouldn't be the end of the matter, indeed I may even
have said as much at the time . . . here they both are together;
The copy is slightly smaller, with an
unpainted St. Nick' but is in every other way a perfect clone of the Crescent parcel-delivery service vehicle
and it's moss-munching motive member . . . I should have tried to get that in
the title!
I assume from the Hong Kong effort than the
Crescent one should also have a wire
draw-bar arrangement, missing from mine? When I find my high-tencile wire-rod
(read when I find all the modelling materials in the garage!) I'll make one,
using the HK one as a template.
While the sleigh and deer are smaller on
the clone, the Santa Clause figures are pretty-much the same size, although the
unmarked base and larger hole give-away the plagiarist origins of the
doppelganger.
The wire reins clip into the front of the clone,
but was fed-through the hole in the Crescent
Toys original.
When you narrow-down the subject of a post
there's only so many shots you can take and so much blurb you can produce
without starting to sound like a half-wit, so we'll say that's them; done.
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