* The issue
kicks off with a wonderful four-page, evocative piece from Peter Nussbaum on Normans (and Saxons) using the imagery of the
Bayeux Tapestry to weave (sorry!) through the story
* An auction
report on a sale at Willington Auctions
reveals some interesting 'Britains
archive' figures with assistance from Sarah at the auction house
* Peter Evans studies Polytoys from Monaco, I can pink-text a
past post now!
* Daniel Morgan returns with an
unscheduled 'Herald Notes & Queries'
looking at the Robin Hood set and
some of its anomalies
* While Michael T. Hyde also returns with
another of his lovely round-ups of ecclesiastical subjects, looking - this time
- at Nuns
* Recent
production under the Lineol branding
is compared to its Airfix donors by Andreas Dittmann
* A return to
Napoleon from PL Cunha is most
welcome, I still remember the first one (issue 154) and this is another fine
line-up of Emperor-corporals!
* Fred Barratt expands on
his Elastolin cover shots with more
of the same and some blurb!
'What The
!&*$?' has five queries for subscribers' to ponder-over.
- Anon seeks help on two cowboys who look very Crescent compatible but aren't!
- Brian Heaps asks a pertinent question about the Olympic Sportsmen and who actually made them - I would add they come is different sets, colours and sizes!
- Marx-alikes (or Heimo-alikes!) need further identification for Rainer Maul
- Mathias Berthoux seeks more on RP variants
- The figures we saw here from Chris Smith (link) still need further work, it looks like they may prove to be SAE!
* Replicants are looked at by Tom Stark, with revised Highlanders of
the '15 and the '45
* The plastic
version of Barrett & Sons
coronation coach is discovered by Colin
Penn
* A follow-up
to Scalextric shows some of the
figures on David Pomeroy's bench,
highlighted by the editor.
Regular Features
* 'NEWS
and VIEWS and other stuff ' covers
- There's some data protection nonsense
- The death of toy show promoter Bill Lango is reported by Paul Stadinger
- Tiger Hobbies announce a shipment of Plastic Platoon into the UK
- C&T Auctions next date is posted (12th December 2018)
- A request for pictures of Solido Belge boxed or carded sets - to the Editor please
- An explanation of the small ads regimen!
* 'Readers
Letters' include
- Peter Cole muses on boxing and figure size
- Thanks for the recent PW show from Brian Heap
- Graham Apperly likewise waxes lyrical on both show and magazine
- Memories of Airfix's diminutive figures comes from John Purse
- Colin Penn discovers Klutz figures with card play-sets in charity shops
- Peter Watson follows up on Pirates with reference to the movies
- More on box sizing from Thomas Stark and John Rafferty who also asks about suitable glues for figures
- Pascal Crouchet follow-up on his own previous Hugonnet Elizabethans with some Café Pecheur ones!
- Chris Goddard ID's figures from two articles in PW171
- Brian Shorthouse attempts to drink too much rum - the editor tells him you can't!
* 'What's
New' covers recent releases from;
- Plastic Platoon - Vietnam era GI's (with news of scenics; available from Tiger Hobbies in the UK)
- Chintoys / Engineer Basevich (via Steve Weston)
o
Conquistadores (Chintoys set 009)
o
Zapotec's Azteks (Chintoys set 015)
o
Russian Medieval Nomads (EB set 23)
Plus all the usual readers small-ads and a
commercial supplement
Covers - Elastolin
Scenes by Yves Escarre photographed
by Fred Barrett
Contact details, as always, are . . .
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
And they are on Paypal.
