In its entirety; there are 29 items, small
and large, 32 if you count the tractor/trailers and rocket separately, and at
half-price I must have paid £2.49p or - more likely - £2.50p! Which is no more
than 8p per item . . . bargain!
Shipped-in by Ackerman, this is SP
Toys/Supreme's sojourn into small scale, with decently scaled 1:72 scale
AFV's (for the most part), but with oversized figures and undersized aircraft.
The whole caboodle came in sand (as here)
or green plastics/paint-finishes and the jerry-cans are a triple-moulding (only
useful for vehicle-loads or enhancing SAS jeeps!), but the oil drums are
separate, both are more suitable to 1:35th scale modelling, while the figures
are the poorest thing Supreme have
churned-out to date and were only ever going to be box-tickers' in collector's
lists!
Because we've looked at the AFV's (a long
time ago, but fully; Tracked AFV's, Wheeled 'Softskins', Articulated Trucks and Engineering/Plant) and the figures (link at the start), and because I junked all the aircraft from
the sets I broke-up (leaving the one above!) the only things left to look at are
the street furniture (another day, there's a tub-full somewhere) and the low-relief
building fronts.
The small sets got one of the little
US-style 1930's urban 'station houses' with attached garage-door, with red and
blue versions for fire and police sets, the medium sets all got the equally
American-looking 'small-town municipal' town hall/public library type, while
the huge trays Wilkinson carried had two or all three, which sometimes included
the European barrack-style vehicle/MT shed or Fire Station with three garage units.
The flag is more often absent than present,
I suspect that due to its propensity to break-off, it was discontinued? And note you
get both unit command buildings and places where Henry VIII could store the
cerebral body-parts of his victims!
An alternative inclusion in the larger sets
was a ruined central-European farmhouse which came (as here) in dun and cream,
or a more traditional black timber on white, with red roof. There were other
buildings for the civilian sets, some of which we've seen, but there was also a
larger service-station/garage type thing.
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