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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Sunday, August 29, 2021

The Five P's is for Prior Preparation Prevents Piss-poor Performance!

Yes it's six, but officialdom doesn't like to count the [unnecessary] cuss-word!

I hadn't realised how bad the images for this article were; I've just rejected most of them and deleted half, sticking the rest in an 'unused' sub-folder against probably never using them again! But I need this up here for the next article, can't reshoot as it's off in the storage unit and we've seen Kentoys before, so it'll add something and the weaknesses won't count for much in the grand scheme of things.

1:72; 1:72nd Scale; Boxed Set; Fire Appliance; Fire Engine; Fire Engine Series; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Helicopter Toy; HO 57845; Kentoys; Kentoys Scenics; Kentoys Wheelers; Play-Sets; Playset; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wheelers;
'Big Box' play set; dating from about the same time the large Supreme sets were in Wilkinson's each Christmas (about three or four years on the trot - have the dates somewhere) and Argos were carrying the Redbox one, so about 20 years ago? And, let's give credit where credit is due; there's a whole Christmas's worth of play-value in this set.

1:72; 1:72nd Scale; Boxed Set; Fire Appliance; Fire Engine; Fire Engine Series; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Helicopter Toy; HO 57845; Kentoys; Kentoys Scenics; Kentoys Wheelers; Play-Sets; Playset; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wheelers;
We've seen most of these before, but the two firefighter's are new, having an Anglo-French look to them, but mid-70's in a 1990-2000's set, and at the larger end of the 1:76th-1:72nd spectrum they will go with OO-layouts better then HO ones.

1:72; 1:72nd Scale; Boxed Set; Fire Appliance; Fire Engine; Fire Engine Series; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Helicopter Toy; HO 57845; Kentoys; Kentoys Scenics; Kentoys Wheelers; Play-Sets; Playset; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wheelers;
The VW 'camper' is as good as anything fromPraline, Roco, Brekina, Siku or the like with high tolerances on the production values, no flash and tight decoration/finishing, apart from the rather plain and unpainted wheels/tyres.

1:72; 1:72nd Scale; Boxed Set; Fire Appliance; Fire Engine; Fire Engine Series; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Helicopter Toy; HO 57845; Kentoys; Kentoys Scenics; Kentoys Wheelers; Play-Sets; Playset; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wheelers;
A lot of the contents have little to do with all but the biggest fire; cargo vehicles and the like, but again it's about play-value not realism!

1:72; 1:72nd Scale; Boxed Set; Fire Appliance; Fire Engine; Fire Engine Series; Firefighter Toys; Firefighters; Helicopter Toy; HO 57845; Kentoys; Kentoys Scenics; Kentoys Wheelers; Play-Sets; Playset; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wheelers;
Along with all the usual street-furniture 'make-weights', come these - not even in scale for the set - they will make very useful accessories for modern war-games, being scaled somewhere between 1:35th and 1:48th, they can be useful barricades or more general scatter scenery for games between 28mm role playing and 1:32nd scale garden war sizes.

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