The upper shot shows the 'storage lot' of Spot-On polyethylene 1:43rd scale
figures we looked at years ago, with the recent acquisitions on the left in
bags, the lower shot shows them all sorted together with the colours in a
larger tub and all the whites in the old tub. When I get round to it we'll have
a better look reflecting the information published elsewhere since they were posted here.
Couple of tubs I shot while sorting last
Wednesday, armoured cars and German Wild West/ACW polyethylene, they are
already re-buried in the garage, but I will dig out the tin-plate A/C and get
it in before the weather gets too bad, the garage is dry and airy (now!) but
tin-plate will tend to get surface-rust in damp, foggy or misty conditions.
Label on the figures is a bit out, there's Manurba
and/or Heinerle in there as well!
Found the box I was looking for! It's
contents are the larger inset, with the stuff we've covered in the last couple
of years to be seen down the bottom right. Interestingly; I have a set of Sainsbury's party favours from 2010/11
which I think are the same as the Amscan
Para-animals Brian sent shelfies of, about a year ago.
The stuff building-up here was not well
annotated as I didn't know what would be duplicate, or already have a bag, in
the end there were only about six empty bags by the time I'd finished, however
I need to go through all my old posts and/or the dongles to get everything
labelled-up properly!
I think what I'll do with the parachute
toys is start a page like the Khaki Infantry one and they can all go there in
their 'family' groups, with the odds, novelty and space ones separated.
This tub (a 35-litre Really Useful Box) is a complete mystery, some of it is the
sorted small scale from the 2011 show, as seen here (2nd, 3rd and 4th images) but some of it is totally
un-memorable and not remembered, and when I got to the bottom of the tub I
found five OO-gauge passenger coaches and a diesel locomotive I have absolutely
no recollection of?
There's a wind-up mouse, Snoopy in a wind-up dog-house, a tub of
street-furniture, another of broken Timpo horses, the remains of the runner
from a set of Cherilea 50mm re-issues, two bags of HK/Blue-Box type farm, a small bag of Britain's Saracen sabres (and a lead torch?), a whole mass of stuff
- well; 30-odd liters of it!
It must have been the detritus of a junk
lot at SAS in October/Novemeber '11 and the unsorted from Birmingham at the
same time the both added to the broken bits from the 'Big Purchase' the year
earlier?
I will have fun 'processing' it over
Christmas, and getting a spare 35lt tub out of the exercise!
Even as I'm sorting/re-acquainting, I'm
also buying the odd bit, four mixed figures on Monday of this week
(snow-boarding Polar-bears! Board game?) and this nice card model of a windmill on Tuesday - both purchases from Charity shops.
Credited to a local firm, down the road in
Hurst, near Reading; English Village
Designs, and looking to be about HO-OO compatible - confirmed as they have an active
website here;
With the above model made-up, on the landing page! Very much in the home-spun style of Fiddler's Green and with [these] two sheets for
.50p; looking to make a nice model, you can't complain!
