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.
'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.
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.
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.
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!
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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