Enough buildings for a whole village in war
gaming terms, while the card shows other recognisable Jean products - I have the earth-mover somewhere, or a copy of it!
A church and three chalet-style dwellings with shallow roofs for collecting
snow (both for insulation and for not falling in a heap suddenly and killing
someone!) are all very 'Bavarish', as they should be; it’s the home of Jean!
Construction is much simpler than the
diminutive HO-scaled buildings from Vollmer,
Faller, Nock and Co., so these are definitely cheaper, infant toys, they
are also quite robust so will take a fair bit of punishment, despite being
polystyrene rather than the polyethylene of the companies figure production.
These are all polystyrene as well, and the
vehicles can suffer from the kind of damage you would guess-at with such a
material, however smaller hands delver less stress, and they can (or could -
back in the day) provide good inspiration for conversion, I have a few from
some old war games army somewhere, stripped-down and painted matt olive!
All three vehicles are marked J&H, even
the Post Office (Bundespost) van! The service station has two pumps and a
car-wash . . . big enough for the lorries, which is why they are so shiny,
silly!
That's it, two carded Jean sets in the
collection, the trouble with this carded stuff is, that really they can
only sit there on the card, and there's only so many shots you can take (these
were shot in too bright sunlight and are a bit fuzzy as a result) but it would
be a crime to take them off the card now, not that they are as rare as the 1950's/60's
stuff,; one seems to be dated 1979
Couple of weeks later aaannnnnnd . . . TJF posts two (count them!) carded Jean sets! Nice to know he's paying such close attention!
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