M is for Merry Mass of Malleable Model Mayhem! 8 - Transport

There was a lot of interesting traffic in Chris Smith's recent donation to the Blog, and in this penultimate post on the parcel's contents, that's what we're looking at, right now, as soon as I've loaded the photo's!

Mostly mini-cars, with four Kinder types at the bottom, a Blue Box Jaguar and a funny little kiddy-thing which might have carried a water-based paint pastille in a little tray (?), also Kinder, while the one at the top may be a cereal premium of some age?

 

Four of those educational supplies vehicles, one taxi and three racing cars, along with a soft polyethylene - probably Christmas Cracker - copy of the premium cars in brown, with a maroon original next to it, and another of the lesser version Formula One cars in front.

Below is a bicycle which I fear failed a battle against the mores of Postie! But they are clean cuts, and it'll go back together easily enough as it's polystyrene, although the cross handle-bar is missing. It's big too, occupying, probably. the same area as the three 'beetle' cars, so sort of 60mm compatible, and no sign of a base, so, roof-rack load from a Hong Kong big-box jobbie?

A Pair of modernish rack-toy fighters and a rubber-catapult glider, it's a long term goal to take them all outside and test them, as there are a few now, including the Hornby Battle Space one!

 

Marked W.Germany, this will be KUM, ooh-err missus! Still going, and nearly 100 years old (the firm, not the sharpener), and there's another in the queue. It's in need of new propellers, and is missing it's front/cockpit, which is detachable to empty the scrapings . . . sharpenings? Shavings. Planeings! And very unusual.

 

 

Two rack toy 'planes, sans cockpits and propellers, but useful spares against not having the type in/or the colour, if you know what I mean and plug-ins can be moved about for photo-seshes! The deck-plane is from Airfix's HMS Victorious I think, and should be a Sea Vixen, it'll be on Scalemates or Britmodeller I'm sure. The Concord was a Christmas cracker novelty, with a bomb and a rack-toy which looks like a Cessna A-37 Dragonfly, workhorse of the Vietnam war?

 

 

The orange gun is one of those things I keep forgetting, If I recall correctly, it's a smaller copy of an American piece from the dime-stor era, should be German (DOM Plastik?, but might be a sobre type thing, the attribution is in the archive, and may be on the Blog - somewhere?! While the little wooden one is probbaly homemade, but the red-ends have half a look of commercial 'meant' about them, so I don't know, it might be an erzgebirge Christmas tree-hanger?

Horse-drawn equipment includes my favourite, a Christmas cracker cart, body orientation corrected in the lower shot, a small wagon (mine cart?) from a play-set of some kind and a Blue Box canopy from the small scale copy of Crescent's Wild West pioneer wagon.

Military matters include the Hong Kong (and Speedwell) tank, a blue box motorcycle whos seen better days, but is polystyrene,, so modifiable, and off to the spares, a mini Humber truck and a wooden wheel which must be off something like out childhood staff-car, but it looks unplayed with, so must have been lost quite soon?

 

To their right are a bunch of the micro-vehicles which used to fill a blister in early rack-toys, as seen here passim, the blue one however is the cracker version with better wheels - a future post, there are three varients of A/C, two of the gun, only the one 'amphi-carrier'!

And finally - this lovely little thing from Hungary, it will have been from those mixed-content kiosk bags as we saw here a while ago from Vorsas Games, in fact something quite similar was illustrated on the header? Half-T34, half Jagdpanther, all cool!

A lovely thing to find in a parcel of free-stuff, from Chris and I thank him for it all, we will finish off with the Wild West in a day or two, but then the posting rate may drop off for a while, I pick up my new uniform tomorrow, then I'm off out, on the road for my sins!