C is for Canoes - 21 - Others, Known

Scraping the tail-ends fo the folders now, and we've missed loads, but it's been a reasonable wizz round some of what's out there, and here are a few shots, mostly from the Internet, of other brand's canoes.

 

Alphabetically, we start with the Lego canoe from the Wild West range, pretty-much gone now, and started after my Brother and I had given-up Lego, it's obviously marred by the locating-studs in the bottom of the boat, but could provide the basis of a reasonable conversion into something more realistic! 

Safari . . . humm . . . I'm not sure that it's even a vessel to be placed on water, as it might be a cooking/washing utensil? That half-hollowed log next to the boy, centre-right is what I'm looking at, more of an Amazonian Indian practice piece I fear!

Schleich go with their usual larger scaled piece, but it's nicely finished and would make a good war canoe for war-gamers, as it would take a shed-load of 54mm Native Americans!

 

Starlux chose a sort of vac-formed piece which has more of the look of a Nile Vessel, of several thousand years earlier, made from bundles of reed-straw! But, it was only ever meant to be a toy, and its fragile nature means it doesn't turn up often.

 

This is the smaller, earlier Tim Mee again, I somehow missed the image when doing their post a week or so ago, my bad! It's got those weird pins on either side to hold it level and upright, which makes you wonder why it took until Britains/Timpo to come-up with waterline versions, until you realise many hollow-cast and solid metal makers had flat-bottomed canoes, for years or decades prior, and that Tim Mee were just guilty of trying to be too clever!