Interesting accessories (1 Viewer)

[larso]

Over the years I've come across some cool accessories to go with my plastic guys. This thread is to show a few off and see what else might be around.

The first one is by Atlantic, I imagine from the 1970s? It appears to be the quad 20mm anti-air gun. The barrels are oversized but really, this is a great little piece that I was lucky to pick up.




I imagine Timpo made heaps of these but in terms of playability, there wasn't much to beat it in the day (when I was a lad in the 70s).

 

[arditi]

Interesting.

 

[The Katzie Kid]

Over the years I've come across some cool accessories to go with my plastic guys. This thread is to show a few off and see what else might be around.

The first one is by Atlantic, I imagine from the 1970s? It appears to be the quad 20mm anti-air gun. The barrels are oversized but really, this is a great little piece that I was lucky to pick up.

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I have one that's "Blue"

I imagine Timpo made heaps of these but in terms of playability, there wasn't much to beat it in the day (when I was a lad in the 70s).

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Whenever you spot one of these on Ebay seller always wants a LOT for it!

 

[Bid_kahuna]

I just bought the Toys R Us Legendary Warrior fantasy bucket yesterday for my son and I to use in a large-scale D&D adventure I am working on. I was kind of disappointed in the small size of the figures and the fact that there really aren't any poses beyond "character" figures, but the 4 different low broken stone walls in that set are amazing! They could be used for any setting, from medieval to Napoleonics to Alamo and western adobe walls to WW2 and modern. They are even better than the walls you could get in the old Marx and Britains sets. They look like they came from a Conte or TSSD set. They are highly detailed and cast in a tan dense hard rubber material. The whole bucket cost $10.00 and I would easily have paid $2.50 each for the 4 stone walls. I don't have a camera working right now so here are stock pictures of the set. The walls can be linked together as in one pic or used alone. The trees are very nice too.

 

[larso]

Are these the ones by 'Blue Box'? Stad had something about them recently.

 

[Bid_kahuna]

Are these the ones by 'Blue Box'? Stad had something about them recently.

This set is from the "True Legends" line from Toys R Us. The competing Blue Box ones on Stad's are going to be from Target. I think the figures in the Blue Box set are going to be much more useful and hopefully more in line with 54mm. They are also all warriors in fighting poses. This True Legends set is really just multiple copies of character figures and you can't have a really good battle with it. This set is OK, but I have to say I was so disappointed in the "Conan" figure. Although it is a great sculpt, he is about the size of a child when placed next to a 54mm figure. I guess if you have a bunch of those DFC fantasy figures from the 80s he'd fit in with them very well.

 

[larso]

I wrote to Blue Box through their website and asked if the figures would be available through Australian Target and heard nothing. I'll keep an eye out for them.

Another piece I've had since I was a kid is this Buddy L cannon. It came with a steel jeep and although that was too big for 54mm, the cannon looked perfect. Of course back then I had no cannon crew. Here it is shown with a TSSD fig. I've seen them on ebay for quite reasonable prices. I have no idea if it's based on a real gun but the detail is great. It is very robust too.

 

[Oldallamerican]

I wrote to Blue Box through their website and asked if the figures would be available through Australian Target and heard nothing. I'll keep an eye out for them.

Another piece I've had since I was a kid is this Buddy L cannon. It came with a steel jeep and although that was too big for 54mm, the cannon looked perfect. Of course back then I had no cannon crew. Here it is shown with a TSSD fig. I've seen them on ebay for quite reasonable prices. I have no idea if it's based on a real gun but the detail is great. It is very robust too.

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That gun always reminded me of a toy version of the US M114 155mm Towed Howitzer; those of us who worked the beast called it "The Pig Iron" or "Pig" for short. It was a total bear to work - a bear to unhook from its prime mover, a bear in emplace, and a bear to shoot. But the trunnions, equilibrator, barrel (though a bit short and the pig didn't have what looks to be a flash suppressor), and breech all look like the pig - only the trails look a bit short to me. But that's the toy aspect of it.