U is for Updates - Various

I've added, or started a wants/swaps page above, as and when I will add things I'm after, and things I have to swap in the hope of mutually filling gaps in collections, it's not got much on it, but it will grow, and the pictures of the swaps will disappear once a deal is done!

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/p/wants-swaps.html

 

 

I added a Type 3 copy Astronaut set from Grandmother Stover's to the Giant Blog, a week ago, here;

https://butisitgiant.blogspot.com/2023/11/grandmother-stovers-c3-spacemen.html

 

 

And a whole bunch of HO-OO additions went in on the Airfix Blog a few weeks ago, can't remember what they all were now, but about 12 pages got new text, images or scans.

http://airfixfigs.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

I've also dealt with a couple of recent comments over there and will check the other Blogs later, at the moment I'm not getting the notifications, and tend to only cheak this 'Home Blog' daily, it's because of the Hotmail problem, so it's still maverickatlarge[at]gmail[dot]com for the time being!

 

 

And here's a gratuitous picture of something . . . I'm just going to find in Picasa!

 

Hamley's 1972

G is for Grandmother Stover's

I know I've mentioned them in passing a few times - like SSCO's items - they turn-up on feebleBay (US [.com]) all the time and I shove the image in the folder for future reference and the odd sideways mention, but I've had this for years, and though it was about time to show it!

The smallest version (of 20+) copies of either the Britains (in this case) or Fontanini dancers I have yet encountered are these bitty-babes; they come in at a very good 1:76th scale! I keep one 'mint', and have opened the other - in case I have to decorate a Swan Lake cake one day . . . of course!

Hank suspected th't that last Messerschmitt had broken the back of 'Painted Lady' and set-off the bomb-load at 18,000 feet, but the sadness he felt, momentarily, for his mother and sweetheart was somewhat salved by the fact that things were clearly looking-up - wherever he'd found himself . . .

N is for New Finds, Pt.3 - Here and There

Some other bits that have come in over the last 18/24 months or so (it's all got a bit behind!), some of which I can't even remember the source of, but they should all be available off a Google search!

These (Homade iSoldier) were reduced somewhere, designed to be some sort of a ipad/ifone/isnob prop thing, I couldn't see how they would work that well but hey, I wasn't buying them for an ithingy, I was buying them as a couple of GI's on pitchers mounds!

The four on the left all came from Wilkinson's before Christmas, the natural successor to Woolworth's, they often have useful toys, and these were obviously meant to catch the eye of parents looking for stocking-fillers. The bag of China rip-offs was a mix of ex-Matchbox DAK poses in herb-green, While I can never resist a bag of paratroopers.

The space vehicle erasers were broken when I go them home but a bit of glue sorted that and the wooden guardsman was a trip down memory lane. The two to the right...did I say I can't resist paratroopers...top from Asda a year or so ago, the lower from a discount store in the Autumn.

The two to the left here were both bought from a new cake decorating supply shop, sadly the shop has already folded, but they managed to find two interesting items; The Goofy is a late Culpitts vinyl with the Culpitt moulded into the rear of the figure, while the other one looks like Grandmother Stover, the character for a brand of cake decorations and dolls-house accessories from the US of the 1960's? How they ended-up in the window of a new unit is anyone's guess.

The blind box was one of the last (?) and came from what used to be Esdevium Games in Aldershot - again - over a year ago and I can't remember what the new name of the store is . The angels came from a Christian Charity pop-up, just before Christmas and went on to special people.

More Toy Story (check the link-list) GI's, I ripped into the silly train with a small tool kit and scalpel and ended-up with three nice 70mm 'Disney' figures for the collection and a pile of bits for the spares box!