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Saturday, September 21, 2024

M is for More Model Matlots

Seen before, both as contributed images and as a donation to the Blog, Brian Berke(who was behind the previous two viewings) sent these a while ago, ostensively off the back of the HO-railway figure season, and I know it's really only, and all about the imagery with this blogging marlarky, so here's some more!
 


Pyro's diminutive ship's crew; as I've mentioned before, there was back in the 50/60's (and to this day some of the mouldings are around) a series of vessel kits of tugs and similar vessels in scales around 1:86/7, 1:90 or even 1:100'ish, mostly copies of each other, and these chaps, are ideal for those kits, most of which had no figures (one had a couple, who are in the stash somewhere!), and a couple of Brian's are painted and serving on the tug-boat in the background!
 
It's the 1:87th scale Pyro Diesel Tug, later carried by Lifelike (briefly) and Lindberg, which could be motorised and taken down to the municipal boating pond for a putter-about, not many left now, but Basingrad still has quite a large one down at Eastrop Park! The beauty of the slightly smaller scale is that they take up less room on an OO-gauge railway layout, while retaining substantiality, and if you need more;
 
 
Many thanks to Brian for the images.

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