Lunch was moved from Islington to Essex, and we got there via a van driven by none-other than Micheal Mordant-Smith (thoughts with him, as he goes through what I've just been through), and a boy's day-out ensued, with toys, dinosaurs and all-sorts. But, a bag of Carbooty had come as part of the package, courtesy of Peter Evans, and that's what we're looking at here.
Rack toy air-forces, I love the little helicopter, I think I remember them coming in Christmas crackers, while the larger version (both loosely Sea Knights, rather than Chinooks?) has its stickers. I used to chuck this stuff, now I keep it, to check against a 'master sample', so I - hopefully - have one of each in the end.
Matchbox, just coming-in as we got out of such toys, and the ferret erroneously described as a fictional Weasel, when it is really a Ferret, a Big-Wheeled Ferret (FV711) at that! Along with two of the recoilless-rifle armed Jeeps and the toylike matchstick-firing gun, it did come with blunt-ended 'slugs' but they soon vanished and a resupply of matchsticks was called-forwards!
The Jeeps, interestingly, have different body mouldings, with one having a catch-plate over the hook, to hold the towed gun on, while the (older?) one has the better registered sticker on the bonnet, but it has discoloured, possibly due to something in its own glue?
Also interesting, because while I think I have both already, on cards, coming loose, together like this, sort of confirms the tank is
Rado Industries as well, because the Armoured Car is marked
Ri-Toys on the base, with the tree-logo.
More rack-toy plunder, again, it will all be compared and sorted with existing samples, and where possible ID'd to sets or catalogue imagery. We have looked at the smaller tanks, in some depth, and, I think, the recently mentioned
Hans Postler was one of the issuers?
From the left, a Hong Kong copy of the
Crescent Roman, being shot, a nice
Lone Star spearman, with spear intact and the
Crescent knight, unchewed, but tatty paint!
There were fascinateing, they are the
Hilco sculpts, decorated as you'ed expect to find the
Hilco's, but the
HILCO mark itself, has clearly been removed in the factory, on the whole sample, so I must assume they are
Phoenix, or
Cherilea-for-Phoenix production, but useing the
Hilco outpainters?
Army-men! The larger 45/50mm French (copies of
Airfix WWI troops), being particularly welcome, I have lots of the HO-OO copies, but a very small sample of the larger versions. Behind, in the bags are various US Infantry and Paratroops, mostly
Airfix clones, to be checked against existing samples.
More of the same stuff, the pink one is fun! Russians in red are probably
Ri-Toys, the bag in the middle are Hong Kong knock-off's of
Ideal GI's, and two bags of
Airfix clones finish the line-up.
Current
Hing Fat, French Infantry attacking a German who seems wholly unconcerned by the imbalance of forces! Indeed, he's not paying any attention to his imminent demise!
A pair of paratroopers, both the
Rosebud sculpt (although I've found an equally good one with an American branding, so there may be a mould swap in there somewhere), both sub-piracies, one better than the other . . . sort of third- and fifth-generation copies.
Three more recognisable - Airfix, Cherilea and Britians.
Smallies, a couple of
Airfix, the
Matchbox pair which accompanied the guns above and some hollow-horsed Hong Kong Cowboys & Indians - a relatively clean, if small sample of Wavymane type two, I think. I did do the Intro to 'Wavymane' (ex-Crescent sculpt) on the
But is it Giant Blog, but I haven't got any further with it, the posts are in the queue . . . maybe over Christmas, between railway posts!
Two
Manurba clones, one better than the other, an
Airfix copy cowboy, in the middle, and one each of the protagonists in the
Condor game
The Blues and the Grey at the far ends. The Thomas-Poplar-Tudor Rose-Quaker Wild West.
Culpitt's Wild West, also
AHM,
Injectaplastic and Jouets Super Plastic, although only handled by the latter trio if with the separate bases, of which there is only one here, the Indian with the green base. I have a good sample of these, and we have looked at them in some detail in the past, but always worth a check against the master tub, to find the odd colour variations, orange-for-red being one.
Many thanks to Peter Evans again, and animals, civilians and space next time.
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