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Gents, I was hoping someone in the forum might help me identify an
item that I'm looking for. I had it as a kid, inherited from an
older brother with a box of Roco Minitanks, and Airfix figure sets.
The item is a vacuform ruined building; memory says it was about 8.5"
by 11", pretty good sized. The building walls were the edges of the
piece, all in ruins, and the interior was also completely wrecked, but
the individual rooms could still be distinguished. It had about 10
rooms, with a larger, hall-like space in the middle of one end. It
was two level, in the sense that one end of the piece was a little
higher, with an internal stairs going down to the lower section. The
lower end, on the short side, had a gap in the exterior wall where a
tracked vehicle had crashed through - the tread marks were visible in
the molding. The higher short end also had a set of exterior entrance
stairs.
I've been collection the old Bellona Miniscene pieces via Ebay; these
are similar vacuform items, same scale (HO), but all the Bellona
pieces appear to have been molded in tan plastic. I distinctly
remember this piece as a dark green - similar to the plastic used in
the Minitanks vehicles, in fact.
We're probably talking as much as 30 years ago, maybe a few more. I'm
hoping someone might remember it, or perhaps a company name that made
similar pieces at that time. Or, if anybody can confirm that the
Bellona pieces were molded in green as well as tan, that would also be
a help. Maybe I'll get really lucky and there's a collector out there
that knows exactly what I'm talking about.
For what it's worth, it's not an Airfix or MPC piece. I have catalogs
and collections of all those lines, and know it's definitely not
there. I don't have any Bellona catalogs, so can't be sure about
that.
I'd appreciate it if you could respond to the list directly, rather
than to my email.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice,
Chris
Kansas City
Gents, I was hoping someone in the forum might help me identify an
item that I'm looking for. I had it as a kid, inherited from an
older brother with a box of Roco Minitanks, and Airfix figure sets.
The item is a vacuform ruined building; memory says it was about 8.5"
by 11", pretty good sized. The building walls were the edges of the
piece, all in ruins, and the interior was also completely wrecked, but
the individual rooms could still be distinguished. It had about 10
rooms, with a larger, hall-like space in the middle of one end. It
was two level, in the sense that one end of the piece was a little
higher, with an internal stairs going down to the lower section. The
lower end, on the short side, had a gap in the exterior wall where a
tracked vehicle had crashed through - the tread marks were visible in
the molding. The higher short end also had a set of exterior entrance
stairs.
I've been collection the old Bellona Miniscene pieces via Ebay; these
are similar vacuform items, same scale (HO), but all the Bellona
pieces appear to have been molded in tan plastic. I distinctly
remember this piece as a dark green - similar to the plastic used in
the Minitanks vehicles, in fact.
We're probably talking as much as 30 years ago, maybe a few more. I'm
hoping someone might remember it, or perhaps a company name that made
similar pieces at that time. Or, if anybody can confirm that the
Bellona pieces were molded in green as well as tan, that would also be
a help. Maybe I'll get really lucky and there's a collector out there
that knows exactly what I'm talking about.
For what it's worth, it's not an Airfix or MPC piece. I have catalogs
and collections of all those lines, and know it's definitely not
there. I don't have any Bellona catalogs, so can't be sure about
that.
I'd appreciate it if you could respond to the list directly, rather
than to my email.
Thanks in advance for any help or advice,
Chris
Kansas City
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