F is for Forts

A couple of 'seen elsewhere's and a more recent scan from . . . probably Military Modelling, I can't remember! Forts and things, mostly wooden, all scanned from the archive.

Some confusion over this one, I thought it had come from the James Chase collection and been supplied to Plastic Warrior at the same time I got mine, but in fact it was an A. Hood of Cumbria, who sent it to PW (issue 62, 1997!), my cutting (with surrounding articles) came into my possession around 2005/6? I thought it was probably die-cut, printed, pressed hardboard, but Mr. Carrick reports that they are individual slats tacked into place, probably box-wood or a similar knotless-softwood?

 

This was in the James Chase ephemera, and I think it's a FAO Schwarz catalogue, but I can't swear to it, as there was a fair bit of SS Kresege stuff as well. And we have the Crescent Hollow-cast, Tudor Rose (?), Lido et al., here as T Cohn, wild west figures, with those comedic pot-bellied cannons which can fire both matchsticks and BB pellets! The fort and rock emplacements are tin-plate.

 

While this is card, and designed for displays/shelf backgrounds, with a shallow countenance and two shelf-battlements, I don't know what happened to CTA, but they advertised for a while in the modelling press, around the turn of the 1980's?

 

And as a bonus, to bring a bit of colour to a grey post, here's an old Hamley's catalogue page from 1972, with a mix of commercial (Britains [riding school], Exin [fairy-tale castle] and Blue Box [garage, I think, or Fisher Price?]) and more locally sourced/craft stuff in wood, ply I suspect, certainly for the slot-together Western fort, not so sure about the medieval castle, while the farmyard is probably that pressed hardboard.