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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.

Friday, April 12, 2024

T is for Two K's!

There should be another round-up of American makes here, but I'm starting to lose where we are in this odyssey, so I'm going to start getting the final post together, as a 'page', at the top of this page, so it can stay out of the way, in edit for a few weeks! Purely, in order to get the order back, in my own head and make sense of it all.
 
However, here's a couple of K's, just to get them up here! And they can then share the link, with Kibri appearing below them on the final listing page!
 
Kato taken straight from a Walther's catalogue, I was wondering if we weren't missing a bunch of Japanese makers, but with Minikin now covered, and most of the miniature artists we have looked-at elsewhere seemingly using Preiser or Noch for their wonderful creations, I'm suspecting the Japanese market was either quite small, or dominated by Western Imports, prior to the proliferation of Chinese knock-offs we all now have, but Kato was a domestic producer, with a small line of figures who exported the other way!
 
While these - image gratefully received from Jon Attwood - aren't strictly model-railway figures at all, being instead Kemlow's die-cast vehicle accessories, but, obviously, coming from the same stable as BJ Ward's Wardie Mastermodels, and at around 25/30mm useable on a home layout in the 1950/60's! Morestone/Benbros also produced a number of HO or OO-compatible die-cast figures with their wagons and carts.

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