I encountered them in the mid/late-1990's
as HO-gauge compatible sets of civilian farm and construction vehicles, or
Micro-machine clones, both with HO figures of the 18/20mm bracket. These are
some of the military sets in the two sizes I found them.
Plant, with some of the civilian figures,
there is a definite parallel with the contiguous production of New Ray at the
time, and there may be some cross-fertilisation, but I suspect just 'copying'
for the same market/price-points?
A couple of tractors from the farm range
and a blister of aggregate piles, clearly aimed at the model railway layout
people, what you would do with that many identical piles is anyone's guess, but
the sculpting is so crude and lumpy they could double for potato's or
sugar-beet on a farm . . . with a bit of paint!
Every military set in the 20mm range came
with a tent bearing a red-cross on one end, so they will be a feature of mixed
lots till the dusk of time!
In the meantime the marked figures in a 28/30mm
bracket have started turning-up in loose lots, and I've found a few of the
vehicles (to look at, not buy) on feebleBay; an odd mix of late Cold-War stuff
in approximately 1:72nd scale - German Unimog, French-looking tanker-lorry
(ex-civilian?) that kind of thing, I haven't found heavy AFV's yet?
Both samples are of limited pose-range, and
one suspects that as a pocket-money/rack-toy line, they weren't expected to
gather in 'collected' numbers, but rather to be more impulse/pester-power
purchases at checkouts or in corner shops (where I was picking them up back at
the time? And rather nicely showing how a smaller size allows for a larger
campaign!
The smaller figures are definitely aimed at
Galoob Micro Machines customers, the
larger ones are not so close to either size of the 'believed to be' Pioneer we looked at last time, so more
stand-alone? Obviously the MG fits in a vehicle mount, but is super-glued to
the operator's hands!
2 comments:
Fuck off troll; see yah, wouldn't want ta' be yah!
Everyone else - don't click on his name he's selling McAfee, get Avira instead, it's free and it's German - so better!
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