The four sets in the Wild West accessory or
scenics range were an eclectic assortment of buildings and 'vehicles', with a
chunky fort, small village of timber-frame commercial properties, a wagon train
and some Gatling-guns!
The artwork for Abilene West-City makes the
content look much better than they are, the wagon train (with misplaced comma
and dodgy syntax) tends towards brittleness when found these days, which seems
to be down to a lot of 'minters' coming back from the Middle East in the
2000's, it also has the same cavalry crew as the Gatling-gun limbers.
The fort paint's up better than the heavy
moulding would suggest while god knows what's happened to the gun-battery, but
they've lost a team or two, with one man crushed under the horses - dead horses
- and corpses littering the battlefield, the remaining teams rushing in two
directions and a last-stand happening in the background . . . how can you be
having a 'last stand' with four Gatling-guns at your disposal, you should be
destroying the opposition!
The backs of the boxes are very-much
'after' the pattern of Airfix's forts
and play-sets with a basic assembly diagram in black-line, but on a 'scroll';
both Abilene and Riley (the earlier pair issued) also get their titles on the
back and Riley benefits from some red arrows!
They suffer here from flash-reflection (one
reason they've sat in Picasa for so long!), and next-time I'll scan them, but I
need to source an A3 scanner with depth of field first!
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