A beautiful Lledo horse bus and an old BHF Christmas card backdrop (Christmas Shopping by David Underwood).
Good old fashioned Jumble sales are a bit rarer now in the age of EBay, collectables fairs, table top and car boot sales. I bumped into one today in my local Village Hall whilst out for a walk.
Was it worth the cheeky fundraising 20p entry fee?
An attractive Ford Model T van promotional model – this one might keep its attractive Cornish or Christmas livery.
My new red Ford Model T (£1 in the jumble today) meets one similar Corgi Ford Model T jumble item from last year that I have painted a khaki undercoat colour … and an old Lowryesque flat railway OO/HO passenger figure.
Another such jumble recently turned up this attractive Corgi stagecoach, a recent gift from a family member.
A recent gift – a Corgi stagecoach meets some of my Airfix Waggon Train and High Chaparral figures, more ACW veterans from my childhood games.
What I like about the horse bus and stagecoach is the detail of figures, seats to add more sitting railway passenger figures and the baggage and “riding shotgun” waeponry.
The two cowboy figures inside will be difficult to paint, working through the windows! What great supply, ambush and bandit scenarios this Corgi toy model opens up for ACW and Western games.
These weary Airfix 1914 Tommies, veterans from my childhood, meet their new transport in its hastily requisitioned and under coated khaki paintwork.
As well as the horse bus and attractive red Ford Model T van, both £1 each, I also picked up some old ‘Fahnenpicker’ or cocktail stick flags (Fahnen – flags) for 50p, that may one day come in useful somehow.
Not a bad haul of two Lledo vehicles and the flags all for £2.50 – lovely to step aback and watch a proper old rummage through the jumble in my local Village Hall.
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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