A family tragedy means no urge to write for a few days, this will have to do...

Having mentioned 50p bags somewhere in the comments section, I dug out this old article I prepared for posting just before my old Lap-top cr...

More Culpitt's - These are 45mm 'Beatles' era musicians, if you want a collection they turn up all the time on eBay, however, d...

Can any one tell me what the following means, or what company used this marking on its products? B TE S.G.D.G This is on the draw-bar of a W...

Generally I am not much of a fan of the mass hysteria and rivet counting that surrounds the bigger companies on the toy/model soldier horizo...

I covered the Paramount tractor when I did a post on tractors a while ago (about a year!), but here is most (?) of the rest of the series. ...

Covered some smaller versions of these a while ago, Here and dug out the original photo I took a couple of years ago. Picture shows painte...

Back's still hurting from the ladder incident the other day and now I have a cold so like most men, I'm monging about the house use...

So - Bluebird Toys (UK) Ltd Huh? They came, they made, they went! And contributed more to the small scale world in their short time than mu...

So let's look at the most useful series for small scale enthusiasts, the Zero Hour range of futuristic/post apocalyptic rubber men! Goo...

Mighty Max followed the success of Polly pocket and was clearly aimed at the male members of the household, in little (and bigger playsets...

The oddest range I have from Bluebird is the Manta Force , only two (or three? see note on yellow figure) poses, in a few colours, and thre...

In 1997 Bluebird produced what could have been a real runner against Games Workshop , however they managed to tie the launch in to the UK ...

This is how they came from Argos , two random packets, in this case Nexus Tribunes and Pteravore Razors. Here we see most of the units fie...

I'm not some Klingon learning died-in-the-wool sci-fi fanatic, but I do have a soft spot for the "Increasingly inaccurately named...