Continuing to look at Elephants with a view to scotching a few myths or just generating a better understanding of the practicabilities of us...

I was thinking of doing more Starlux or more Elephants tonight, but then these turned-up and I thought I'd do a quick "Look what ca...

I know! But now that I've combined this page with the 'Other Collectables' page you'll just have to bare with it on the odd ...

More Toy-Soldiery stuff on that there Inter-web thingy... Armyman by Tim Rietenbach. Deployment - in the name of art I think!? Murder Silh...

As well as collecting things some might be embarrassed to have in their collections, I have always picked-up and added to my own collection ...

So to something completely different - Pencil Toppers! I originally started 'collecting' so that I could get as many poses as possib...

Right - That's enough ships, back to Starlux for a quick look at what was - in my opinion - one of the best sets they did, lots of poses...

...but not the owner - who was gunned down in public by the Triad's after he failed to repay them some money he owed! Lucky Toys (...

These are my favourites of all the Hong Kong ship sets, they have a toy charm that you can't put your finger on, they seem to be origina...

This set/range is by far the commonest of the Hong Kong stuff, not least because being made of polyethylene is relatively indestructible, al...

So - to a few other bits and bobs of a naval persuasion... The metal; As the submarine (84mm in length) is clearly marked Crescent , we can ...

Looking at some of the larger vessels, we have something a bit special from Germany; an S-boat and some nice Celluloid bits form Japan, both...

As we have seen before on the Blog; Montaplex are not too bothered about scale when it comes to the contents of their little envelopes and T...

Finishing this seven-part overview of small toy vessels finds us looking at the very small ones, mostly board game playing pieces, but also ...

A round-up that will serve as an introduction as it will always appear at the top of the posts below in tag-searches for Starlux . The top i...