B is for Beatrix Potter's Sniper's Nest!

Now there's a title you wouldn't have expected to see on Small Scale World if someone had asked you yesterday!

So I've had a few days off - Crimbo stuff to do - and the world doesn't seem to have changed greatly, Mark-of-men-of-tin' seems to have invented a new country, which is fun! And I've got a few bits to schedule today for the next few days, but I'm easing off for Christmas, now I can see I won't manage 600+ on the posting total!

Picked this up the other day for reasons that will become obvious and it may still be findable if you fancy one, however - I can't remember what the title of the publication was?

One of those carded novelty sets taped to a kid's magazine, you get an Iwako style ladybird, two of the two-part polystyrene figures common on these mag's and a hiding tree, all credited to Kennedy Enterprises of Avon. I think it was a CeeBeebies mag, but it went in a bin so quickly I didn't register it!

Peter Rabbit and Mr. Todd, the Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman! If nothing else they will join the Phidal and Timpo figures in a future Beatrix Potter figures' round-up.

But this is what decided me on an impulse purchase which had me buying a five-year-old's publication on the way back from town the other day and dumping it unread in the bin outside McColl's . . . a 'hiding tree', which while being an amusing novelty plaything for five-year olds, also looks like . . .

. . . the sort of thing both sides would hide near their trenches under cover of artillery barrages in World War One. Here posed with a South American copy of an Elastolin composition figure, you can see it would look better - or just as good - with a 54m figure!