. . . here we have the Triang-Minic push-and-go mini-tank (loosely, very loosely based on a Centurion tank) pirated in polyethylene, in a reduced size and sold as a ersatz Matchbox 1-75 type! Simplified with a pair of carpet wheels, it can't have come from anywhere else, as no one else made such a monstrosity of the accurists art! To accompany it, here's a vague take on the Britains 'Beetle lorry', done as an ambulance. There's no obvious brand on either, a letter 'F' on the ambulance being probably a cavity mark, and an imagination-medal on the box ends holding no clue. A US pattern 6x6 truck and Jeep (probably ex-Dinky) were also available, to my knowledge. These are in similar 'matchboxes', and are branded to ELM or Elm, a company which was known for producing small vehicular novelties for Louis Marx, in the Dinsneykin size. Indeed, some US sources would have it implied or have you believe Elm were a subsidiary of Marx, but these and what we're about to look-at, would seem to suggest they were only sub-contractors for Marx, free to issue their own production under different brand-marks. As they are also sold under the Empress Toys label, as kits, now this is where this post falls-down somewhat and could have stayed in Picasa for another year or two, the photo's get a bit muddled/poor, shots weren't taken which I meant to take, and we'll have to return to them at some point, but heay! What the hell!
Anyway, here we have, from the box above, the dark green M44 ('ish) SPG with its corresponding kit, and a loose vaguely Staghound armoured car I had, with its kit. The bi-coloured A/C suggests a third issue at least, at some point?
2-days later - the other one's here!
* When you have to start sending them to Ukraine, with called-up, old-man crews, you're scrapping the bottom of the war-losing barrel Vladimir Vladimirovitch you barking mad-dog fuck. We don't want a nuclear war, and if you start one we will vaporise Russia, you realise that?
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Lovely little models.
I had the EBR and the M44 as small kits in the mid 1960s, when they were in long (narrow and small) coloured card boxes, hadn't seen them since. Found them on a market stall. There were also some aircraft in the series, I remember an ME 109.
Interesting Andy! And if yours were in sensible colours, that could be pointing to a possible four issues; getting their money's worth out of the mould-tool!
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They AFVs were in mid to dark green, I have a feeling the plane was in red plastic! There was also a model X-15 rocket plane, also I think in dark green.
Nice finds. I like those fiddly projects. I find them very relaxing.
Cheers Andy, I'll be looking out for them. I have some nice Italian planes in the queue, although, when I say 'queue' I may not have actually shot them yet? There's a lot of these micro-kits which aren't R&L, evenn though they all get labeled R&L!
Cheers Jan, they ARE small! The Minic-copy is probably the biggest, ad the DUKW is probably the longest? More to come, but a bit bigger!
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