Variously taken from the 1972, 3 and '75-79 catalogue scans the other day, they are sort of eye-candy, but mostly low-res, or not that clear, so to draw the curtain on the recent miniseries, and to get them off Picasa, here they are with a few notes, and in no particular order!
Larger playsets.
This shot was reversed in the 1976 catalogue, obvious from the red beret!
Window boxes.
More art-department shenanigans here, some of the bases are wrong!
A bit silly, the Centurion turret is underscale and won't go through tunnels!
More art-department shenanigans here, some of the bases are wrong!
Have I already said that?
That's it, I could have done a few more, but the effort of cropping them all was a faff!
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Later the same day -
I've added the Timpo paratroopers to the Parachute toy page, which you can find here;
Some great sets there,and i
ReplyDeleteHad a few.Even as a youngster used to find it annoying they mixed
Modern and ww2 stuff a bit like
Airfix and their habit of putting
Post ww2 vehicles in what where
Clearly meant to be ww2 sets.
Also a photo from the catalogue
Of the legendary prone 7th cavalry
Trooper.To this day never seen
One.
Yes, the history of the Airfix 'readymades' is an odd one! It was pure coincidence the crop left the shooter in shot! There was an auction lot of prone confederates a few years ago, wasn’t there? But it turned out they were fake bollocks, this blog ignored the excitement, but many fell for it, and much shite was uttered on forums and Blogs!
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