Tanks for Everything

Back in the day - that being about '69 - in between stuffing my fat 8 year old face with Orbit lollies, Zooms and Skyrays, frequent trips to the corner shop were always punctuated with a peep over the counter to see what goodies sat waiting to be impulsively bought with the weekly shop. Jars of penny sweets and counter-top boxes of goodies were rolled out on a regular basis and each week when I snuck in to spend my threepenny bit, there was always something new and fascinating to buy.

Gum cards, sweet cigarettes, rubber jigglers and on one memorable occasion I discovered some tiny plastic tanks with a slice of tasty bubblegum inside. As far as I recall, there were two different turret types and three colours, a reddish pink, metallic green and steel blue. I bought dozens of them and hooked them together with their integral tow hooks. The top of the tank popped off, making a neat little treaded unit, not dissimilar to a Matt Mason Uni-Tred, so they fitted nicely in with the Spacex 00/HO spacemen too!

I gave up hope of ever seeing these tanks again, until I was cruising Mavericks cool blog: http://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/  and spotted one! Alongside it were other fabulous mini tanks from the sixties too. Maverick kindly donated these fabulous little pieces of nostalgia to the Wotan Archive and filled another niche in the collection!