While I'm a bit down about modelling for me, I still have work to do, and for the Hornby Collectors Club, I plan to carry on building classic kits from the Hornby stable - the stable from the 1980s if possible.
High on my wishlist has been The Bell Inn, a classic British pub that appeared in the "Town & Country" range in the 1990s (I think, feel free to disagree, that's why I'm posting this). Like Dunster station from the same period, the building has plain sides, which are decorated with stickers for the stonework.
Unlike Dunster, it never made it to the Gaugemaster range.
The model originated in Germany, not West Germany, dating this from post 1990 and unlike other models produced in this way, actually looks like a British prototype. As I recall, Pola was the source of most of this range.
Finding the kit eventually came down to waiting for eBay. I snapped this one, still in its shrink wrap, up after months of leaving a watch out for it. And then within the next week, three others turned up!
Tha garage is an earlier product - produced in WEST Germany. The painting on the cover give this away as above the door is "Wagenpflege", which Google tells me means "Car care", and there is a Mercedes and an Audi shown. Fortuatly, Esso is the same in all langauges.
Inside, the stickers have been Anglicised to "Service Centre" for the benefit of Hornby customers.
Anyway, a couple of goodies for the Collectors Club - am I alone in being fascinated by this era of modelling? Is it because I dreamed of these when looking through catalogues as a kid?
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It is the late 60/early seventies Triang era that gets me. partly becuase it is what I knew, thruogh both the (often optimistic) catalogues and some of the models I owned and had great fun with. But also because they tell you something about how ralways were percieved in a period. not always an accurate depiction of relaity, but how people felt reality was.. Whilst modern image modelling was lamost absent from the mainstream model magazines of the time, it was always well represented at the toy end of the hobby.
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