S is for Show Report - Not So Late - Sandown February

It's only 'not so late' because we're still in April, actually more time as passed since the show than between the September show and the January post I think? Hey-ho, it looks better! I got my purchases at the show and Adrian Little's (Mercator Trading) brought-for-me's mixed up in the packing so I've Blogged them all together.

The loot, the plunder, the ill-gotten gains, the 'stuff'! We'll look at most of it below, or the figural stuff, but I also bought three Weetabix 'Workshop' card premiums, an armored car, a DUKW and an RAF Queen Mary Recovery Trailer, only to also find a guy selling Micromodels who had a complete threshing team with steam engine, threshing machine and walker/elevator. the Thresher looks sufficiently like our Marshall's to guarantee a sale to me!

The Taiwanese Asterix figures (bag of blue) are bigger than (but based on) the Euro-premiums (Olá  et al.) and will be seen in their own post, while the SAM-2 Guideline from Airfix was going . . . reasonable, in a tatty box with loose parts, but it's all there and I'm hoping to pick-up a better one soon.

Bigger stuff, including an 80-mil' Blue Box radio-operator, three 40mm Comansi Wild West, the 'Spirit of '76' figures are the plastics here, a composition Land Girl (from a planter or binder's seat?) in composition is the sole representative of that material, and increasingly I raid Adrian's chepo-trays at the end of the show for a few unusual or 'example' hollow-cast metal pieces and this time it was a box of khaki infantry.

I haven't checked them against the books yet so I won't try to ID them, but I'm loveing the WWI'ish standard bearers! The sub-scale Arab on horse-back and Aluminium camp-fire were bonuses.

One seller was clearing his father's estate so we had a nice, if poignant chat and welled-up a bit, but he had beautiful things, and I bought these three, I think the spirit-painted tin horseman is from Japan and depicts an inter-war period Japanese policeman?

The composition post-coach could be a continental fairing? I really don't know, it comes under the generic moniker of 'novelty' I think! While the Christmassy box contains . . .

. . . Christmassy contents! Tiny little 10/11mm figures of Victorian types with an even smaller post-coach, also in a continental yellow, designed purely as a novelty vignette for the festive season, although they would look good in a larger-scale doll's house's play-room (you could actually have a dolls house, IN the dolls house!), and not too shabby on an N-gauge model railway layout! Probably also Japanese in origin?

These were all from Adrian I suspect, and we'll look at two closer in a minute, but the two racers were nice, one a pale-blue colour variation, the other one of the slightly different copies. A pair of cuckoo-clock barometer figurines, he's lost his head but it hadn't gone far and the glue was to hand when I got home.

Below the rustic couple is a Codeg Trumpton postman, three of the other version Battle Space figures from Triang, the irony being only the casualty is complete! 3 home-painted Slater's seated passengers, a premium flat of a ship, bits of a jig-puzzle car (I save all the bits until I can build whole ones!), a modern PVC horse, damaged Dinky die-cast driver and PVC firefighter make up the lot.

The aircraft in the previous shot was a Tudor Rose 'Tornado', not one I was familiar with, but it appears to be trying to represent the North American NA/B-45 Tornado bomber of the early Cold War?

Adrian had a whole fleet of these Quaker ships, but I knew I had a full set (seen on the Blog somewhere) so only took the one marbled example, although it's mud-brown running through herb-green and just looks dirty!

After I'd shown Adrian the bits I got from the chap passing on his late father's collection, he went and had a look and came back with this plane, which I promptly gave him a quick profit on!

I also got one of the two missing bases I need for my Cherilea Batman & Robin figures, along with the Kemlows 5.5" Gun which is towed behind a Bedford RL or a Saracen with limber in the Sentry Box series, where it's described as a 25lbr, but the recoil actuators are all 5.5"!

That plane; after cleaning . . . it's only another Palitoy, init! And very definitely a post-war model, which doesn't affect much of what I've said in the past about wartime production, this is a very different beast, with very different construction/realism and different materials, producing a fine rendition of a De Havilland Vampire, and it only just missed the war. It's also a solid where all the others are 'dimestore flats', and has no metal parts which most of the others do - axles and propeller-shafts.

I think this was all saved for me by Adrian as well, model railway bits, mostly metal with the bulk being Wardie / Mastermodels, the telephone kiosks, for instance, although the one at the top is entirely scratch-built in cartridge paper, with [I suspect] Superquick windows!

The plastic sheep are Merit (now PPP's Modelscene) copies of Britains Lilliput except the one outside the bag who's Airfix or Hong Kong - I didn’t check! The taller lady in red will be the Irish Comet-Gaeltec with three Britains and a Hornby below her. The copper-effect die-cast is Kinder, while the brass chap is more of a mystery, and may be from a larger 'thing'

Kwong Wah; contents of two sets of six, three each Jap's and Brit's, all copied from the Britains Deetail range, albeit with integral bases, they were pennies for the bag, and a useful gap-filler/box-ticker.

Feeling blue at the end; these were both from Adrian, and they're great! A whole carton of Blue Box toys (I haven't opened it yet!) and a Steven Manufacturing Co. take-off of Britains Twizzletown's demented horse, in blue, as the original!