At the recent Sandown Park show I picked up a parcel from our roving reporter in New York, Brian Berke, which was very useful, as while I've mentioned them once or twice over the years, I've never encountered the sample while transferring things between different places, so they've remained rather absent from the Blog, but we can now tick that box - Mohawk's mini 'dimestore dreams'.
The one on the right is the colour of all my sample, so the pale herb-green ones, to the left, which made-up the bulk of Brian's donation were new to me, and this is a slightly larger version of the jeep we've seen before here more than once.
Brian also included a few marked-
Lido mini's, so we can compare the two mouldings,
as a full-stop to this original post, here, which compared the other three contenders for who's the pirate, who's the licensee, and who did the first version!
So that's six (Kleeware, Lido x2, Merit, Pyro and Mohawk) in total now, with the soft plastic Hong Kong version, Lido seem to have sanctioned themselves, toward the end!
The lorry on the left, a sort of 1950's pantechnicon, is also a homage to other mini 'readymades' of the era (the
Pyro 'artic'), and also scaled-up, while the Ambulance is a more original moulding. I know I have a tanker, to look at another day, but I think I was missing the pantechnicon, so lovely to get both colours.
The car is also based on another model, and while less obvious, joins the
Empire-Ideal-Kleeware-Lido-
Pyro (2 sculpts)-
Wyandotte family of small post-war family saloons, for an eight-count! While Brian himself sent us the
Carzol coloured versions of the Tank not that long ago;
Lido on the left,
Mohawk on the right and there's more on the cars here;
Among the
Lido's was a lovely bronzed version of the '
StuG III' which was new to me, and while rather washed-out by camera-flash in this shot (left-hand tank), is - in daylight - a distinctive goldish-bronze colour plastic, like some of the
Captain Video figures!
At the same show Adrian had a few dime-store's saved for me, both of which are useful, having seen marked tractors and or guns from
Banner,
Bell and
Merit, I'm not sure who issued this unbranded pair (left, the tractor has a 'Made in England' which I'll compare to others in the collection at a later date), but in a batch of British stuff,
Kleeware,
Tudor Rose or
Merit (licensed or copy) are in the frame, and with the wreaker-truck a marked
Kleeware copy/mould-swap of the
Pyro, the clever money goes on
Kleeware?
As with the Jeeps and 'Staff Cars', we've looked at many versions of the gun here at
Small Scale World, already, but getting two new versions in one show is a feather in the collection's cap, with the unmarked green one, and a full-sized Hong Kong copy, in silver polymer, with eye-damaging ammunition!
There were a couple of more conventional/less contentious British 'Dime Store' AFV's from
Tudor Rose, not copied by five other people, or licensed to anyone, the rather good
Churchill IV, and the more dodgy armoured car.
Many thanks to Brian and Adrian, it’s all a dimestoretastic show-plunder and donations post, folks!
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