A few shots of thing mentioned in passing or otherwise covered in recent posts;
It turned out I actually had the buildings, found on the cereal packet-backs, that were part of
the N-gauge promotion from
Graham Farish in
Shredded Wheat, hiding in the archive folders! They are based on existing structures from
Grafar, but simplified, the farmhouse having two chimneys in the case of the original, for instance, while I think I have the
BP garage as a small, plastic box, so we may return to these, one day?
The comparison shot
I meant to take at the time, but didn't manage to, when looking at the
Marx play-set tin, the other
Marx in the middle and the
Deluxe Reading (
Thomas in orange) on the right. And I was wrong to suggest they'd go with the other figures, as both a markedly smaller, but you could mix them in with a larger set-up!
IF - reading the minds of the locals!
I wasn't sure if we'd seen the figure in a post, but I don't think so, anyway, when I got home from the Sandown show, the red driver here had ended-up in a tray of smallies, but I knew it was part of this old
Tudor Rose dumper-truck, so I suggested to Adrian that next time I saw him I might as well get the truck, as I should have done so at the time!
Twelve parts including the driver, and we've seen him before, he's one of those chaps that keep turning-up in lose lots and donations, and I should have him in blue, green and yellow plastic too. We have actually seen this before, it was an
early post from archive material, shot with the blessing of John Begg, many years ago, with a multicoloured version in that set, one has to suspect all-one-colour versions were available in the other three colours as well?
Finally, combining the donation from Chris Smith with the Sandown purchase, on the little brittle polystyrene sub-piracies of what were probably early
Matchbox 1-75 series, as mentioned previously, gives us six models! And the point it's illustrating is that with all this stuff there is often more than one pile currently in the stash, and when it all gets brought together, we will start to see some definitive stuff, I hope!
I was looking at a rather nice 76-foot long-boat the other day for £45k, well within my budget?!!
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