I said the other day that I'd misplaced
both the Speedwell 'master' tub and
the spares bag . . .
. . . well, the spares bag is in the
foreground here, the master-tub is to the right, the stuff we looked at the
other day is mostly in the rear centre tub with the little walls in their own
carded bag. Another bag of bits is to the left and the box - the missing bits
all turned-up in - had a few other bits for this or the next Post, so the
follow-up has come more rapidly than I imagined it would the other day!
The 'Speedwell'
master-tubs contents, unlike other Speedwell
scenics these are all unmarked, and further, in the catalogue used by Plastic Warrior magazine they are separately
listed under farm and military groupings, but these all came together as -
presumably - ex-shop stock with the ones in the spares bag, in two shades of
red, but the same three mouldings in the darker maroon-red (were the three on
the same tool?), the rest in a flat red.
The one bottom-centre, seems to be a
doorway blocked with a hay-bale and along with the lapped-fence (middle-right)
is unlisted, but as you can see; are both painted in the same pale-green and
came in the same large, 'mint' batch.
Note - the church-door, broken gate/corner
and hay-pile weren't in the [sizable] sample, so could they also be on a single
mould-tool, not used the day my 'order' was made-up and shipped-out?
[And if anyone has swaps of those three, I
have most of the others, mint to near mint in the bag of spares, happy to do a
one-for-one swap - eMail me]
Contemporary offering from Timpo Toys, a two-part, plug-together,
corner piece, which; judging from the number of small holes in it provides little
or no protection for troops or sheltering civilians - cinder-blocks!
These are modern I think - a sort of
stiff-but-bendy PVC type material, possibly 21st
Century or Unimax? The two larger
pieces are identical, they can be braced in either of two positions, either
side (dotted lines) to make a verity of ruins or a single piece, the sandbag
emplacements are the same - slightly-bendy - stuff.
We looked at two of these the other week,
and I said they couldn't be Speedwell
because of the loopholes, well, the Speedwell
is on the right (upper image), and a copy has turned up, I've pencilled Trojan
in as it's too glossy for the chalky production of Kentoy or UNA/VP, but
could be any of them or someone else?
Along with the Charbens (really a dry-stone wall, but with loop-holes) another two
smooth-backed copies have also turned-up, both with a gloss-green grass
highlight in paint. And; to be honest, they both look like they were made
yesterday in China! I'm not sugegsting they were, the other one (top centre)
looks 'Early British' production - but they are very clean, and presumably also
ex-shop stock, or very un-played-with?
Hillco shell-crater on the left, unknown pile of rocks on the right, might
be Gemodels, but not known to be, and
the sort of thing all sort of people would throw in a window-boxed set for
visual effect?
Likewise this; the clue here, such as it
is, is the little ears either side of the main product moulding, which would
have either located in slots in the card base of a boxed-set, or have been used
to tie-down, with thread or elastic. Some Charbens
pieces have similar 'ears' but they are less obvious or geometrical?
