Not as many vehicles as some shows, but then Sandown has always been the show for vehicular stuff, while PW really is about figures, although there were enough in the end to split them into two posts, land stuff this time!!
I'd like to think this might be
Tri-Ang Minic, but I can't find it described as such anywhere, among all the other
Minic-branded tanks in at least three size groups, so it may well be a knock-off, or rival, trying to look like
Minic?
The 'Centurion' turret in particular has a lot in common with several Minic efforts, but the whole machine is a soft polyethylene, against the early phenolic, or less stable 'styrene, which gives us the mostly - these days - warped, Minic originals?
Around 1:48th and almost impossible to decide which end is the front, I went with the end having more rivets as possibly being the back, with inspection hatches, and the motor under it! And the wheels reveal it got some serious play, probably over some time and was somebody's much-loved toy.
Seen before here at
Small Scale World, many years ago, as I have a loose one, and put it on a transporter for a photo-shoot, this one is pristine, and generic-boxed, although the box has seen better days and will get a damp ironing at some point to restore its shape a tad!
Based reasonably accurately on a French Panhard EBR of the early Cold War, probably taken-off the Dinky die-cast, the barrel is a plug-in to allow for a smaller box, a common trope with these Hong Kong tanks, as we saw with the Blue Box one, the other day.
Hong Kong smallies and the remnants of a die-cast artillery piece, all grist to the mill, with the
Humber truck being the version I called Type 1B, the Hong Kong marked second-generation copies of the
Kleeware originals, with the solid windows and steel axles.
Navy or Air Force? There were civilian sets of these, and with signs of reinforcing of the tool, on the bed-underside, I'm suspecting, without checking, second generation copy of the
Kamley (
KS,
Kwong Shing) rack-toy trucks?
Horse-drawn transport bits, including various spare horses/horse-teams, and some of the smallest die-cast figures you will find anywhere. The bronze horse is a French SR (Simon & Rivollet)
scale-down, probably from a Tom Smith cracker.
So soon after we looked at them here, another Charbens 'Old Crock', and another Panhard! This one seems a bit larger than most of the others. A small plastic novelty/charm with a chromed coating and a game-playing piece in an antiqued base-metal, which is similar to, but not the Monopoly one, so it'll be another race or touring game?
A Kellogg's Coco-Pops cereal premium, of the Triumph TR3, I have most of the set now, I think, but they suffer from brittle axle-stubs so several of mine are definitely in the garage, and likely to stay there forever!
A couple of Kinder to be filtered into that sub-pile, and two novelty finger-skateboards, which while outside the general scope of the collection, will nevertheless enhance some future overview of the 'boarders', of which there are quite a few!
Again thanking Adrian Little, Brian Carrick, Colin Penn, Isaac, Matt Murphy, Martin
Fahie, Michael Mordant-Smith, Paul, Peter Evans and Trevor Rudkin, for everything they did at the show.
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