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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

W is for Weston Figures, then Campbell Scale Models, Now Gone?

I don't know enough about these to do more than post the scans as a guide, and to tick that box in this series of posts, they seem to have been around as Weston since the 1940's, and we looked at a few sleeper-car/restaurant-car figures back at the beginning of the Blog;


Unknown, but 1970's - from the price?


Mid 1950's flyer.

1960's US model railway magazine.

The 1975 Walther's catalogue has them as a division of Campbell Scale Models who also did building kits and a range of scenics, so they had obviously bought the old company, or its IP/mould-bank, to give them an instant figure range!
 
From a British model railway magazine about 20/25 years ago.
 
Walther's again, 2000's.
 
They seem to have finally folded in the early summer of last year, whether anyone will pick-up the tools seems to be for the birds, or the Gods to decide?

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