One of the smaller gifts I received this year is a vintage 1972 Britains Mini Set. Britains introduced these odd sets in the mid seventies to a mixed response and closed production of them after about three years.
They are self contained dioramas, with figures, scenery and backdrop on the box. The flaw in the company plan was the scale, as all the figures were a good half inch smaller than the standard soldier at 1:42 instead of the standard 1:32.
The figures clip onto the base and can be separated into individual stands. This set of two beleaguered cowboys has an indian sneaking up on them from behind a mesa. The indian figure comes with a paper adhesive headress, which I have decided not to apply, as the set was completely mib.
I had the Civil War set as a kid and my favourites the divers and shark and frogmen and octopus.
I've also found a loose German field gun since too. I wonder if the line had continued, would they have included some astronaut figures and a crater?
A very nice set. I never saw any of these in NZ in the 1970s, and have never seen any of them in the flesh. I am sure the odd scale, which did not match anything but British O Gauge model trains and die-cast cars, did not help sales.
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