The old
TimMee M48 (among other things) has been re-issued and a blog has been set-up to keep people apace with ongoing developments here;
TimMee Army, however; partly to prove that the British sounding aspect of the
Beverly post (below this one) could be a red herring, here's another British sounding name which is definitely Spanish in make and marketing (there's a couple of their pieces on FleaBay at the moment), here is a different take on the
TimMee tank...
...a push-and-go fly-wheel motor! This is clearly the
Tim Mee tank, even down to the two little cut-outs below the radiator grill under the rear deck, except it's marked
Shamber's. I guess they got the superstructures from
Tim Mee and mated them to their own belly-pan? Or maybe they got to borrow the moulds in one of these 1-on/11-off deals?
Shamber's seem to have been a bit like
Baravelli in Italy or
Exin (also Spanish) in bying-in stuff from elsewhere and/or re-badging, while also carrying a bit of Hong Kong rack-toy stuff.
Anyway, it's an improvement on the
Fairylite/Jimson copy of the
Airfix/Cohn M40-something and at around 1:48th scale, will sit well next to that one and the
Raphael Lipkin Conqueror. Apologies for the dust, but I was clearly too keen to get it blogged! And I love the colour, like some late
Beton figures, a rich golden olive-green.
[Added 13-05-2013] I suppose I should have shown the dratted motor having mentioned it! So here it is, along with a shot of the underside of the turret which is very similar to the Airfix/T Cohn/Jimson ones. Compare the riveting of the motor-body with the TAT Bren-gun Carrier (post above), it would appear that the Spanish company bought-in the motors from the Far East?
