The Hong Kong one I referenced in the above link is the grey one seen here, and it's not quite the copy I thought it was, so it may be more akin to a Dutch tourist keepsake like the one we saw more recently here, also a Sandown find. Although that yellow one isn't the HK's donor either having a round base marked-up as brickwork.
I guess there must be many of these, and the HK-copy is after one of the many! There is more similarity between the sails of the two illustrated above though, so some cross-pollination was going on, if only to save a bit on production costs. Typically the yellow one's gone away now, but wasn't here for the comparison shots either, so we will return to then all another time!
The three together, suitably painted, would give a lot of atmosphere to war-gaming the invasion of the Low Countries in 1940 though, a bit small for 1:144, a bit large for 1:300 micro-armour, but covering both!
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