About Me
- Hugh Walter
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Saturday 1 August 2015
Armtec
Ahco - ARCO - Arcotoys - Arcotoys Inc. - Arco Toys Ltd. - Argo - Mattel
Friday 31 July 2015
AdP - ADP - Adp - adp
Produced/handled handmade models of German vehicles of the 1930's-1950's, they also import from a Russian/Ukrainian producer, all piracies/conversion piracies, an internet source credited them with models of ‘Eastern European prototype trucks, buses and automobiles’.
On-line photographs of the vehicles show slightly rough-finished models which may be white metal. But they are nice-looking none-the-less, some with glazing and are of some unusual subjects.
Figure listing (and code numbering) bares a similarity to ADM figures, see both that entry and PB Toys for comparison, figures are the LW imports/piracies, see the LW entry for better idea of that range.
Figures (known Sets)
Links
87th Scale Info. Page
Contact details/company history
Source/s of vehicle range
Scale/material of vehicle kits
Fuller listings
ADM - ADM Modellbau - ADM-Modelle
Tuesday 28 July 2015
Adams Action Model
Hawthorne, California, USA
Flourished: mid-late1950's-1960's
Model kits in injection moulded plastic, some of the AFV range were re-issued under the Snap-kit trade-name, moulds passed to, copied or inherited by Life-Like and Lindburg, some having possibly been copied from Revell (which may explain the Snap-kit marketing exercise?). May all have come via Japanese Pirate, issued around 1958, with a catalogue in that year. The '…80 Days' balloon wasn't in that catalogue, but the film was released in 1958, so the model was likely issued as a late addition in 1958 or in early 1959
Listing
WWII/Modern Armour and Missiles (1:40th scale)
K-150 - ‘Honest John’ Missile
K-151 - Self-propelled Gun (M-40 155mm SPG)
K-152 - 105mm Gun Emplacement (105mm Howitzer)
K-153 - Atomic Cannon
K-154 - ‘Hawk’ Missile Battery (1x K-159, + launcher and rangefinder/radar trailer)
K-155 - ?
K-156 - Anti-Aircraft Gun
K-157 - Marine LVT (A) (4) (also; 'Marine Landing Craft'?)
K-158 - Aerial Missile Transporter (some boxings just; 'Missile Transporter', a ridiculous aerodynamic helicopter thing [Cessna YH-41?] with 3 over-scale Hawk missiles slung underneath)
K-159 - ‘Hawk’ Missile Carrier
- Operation Missile Support Gift Set (1 each; K-150, K151, and K-152, (with jeep?))
K-160 - ?
K-162 - ‘Thor’ Missile
K-161 - ‘Vanguard’ Missile
Horse drawn transport (re-issued by Life-Like)
K-230 - Stage Coach
K-231 - Covered Wagon
K-232 - Ranch Wagon
K-235 - Chuck Wagon
K-450 - “Ben Hur” Chariot
Other
K-320 - N.S. Savannah (Nuclear-powered ship 1/424th scale, re-issued by Life-Like)
K-80:98 - 'La Coquette' The Balloon from 'Around The World in 80 Days' (no scale given, figures around 1:48/50th scale, accurate model of inaccurate movie balloon)
- Saab AJ.35 Draken (1:51st scale)
What This Entry Wants
More company history
Relationship with Japanese mould-pirates
Other kit's listing
Useful links
Accoutrements LLC. - Archie McPhee
Accoutrements LLC., (wholesaler, brand-mark)
Seattle
Washington State
WA 98103
USA
Tel: (425) 349-3838 (customer service)
Tel: (800) 886-2221(order line)
Fax: (425) 349-5188
Website: http://accoutrements.com/shop/ (retail customers)
McPhee.com (trade sales)
eMail: info@accoutrements.com (general inquiries)
eMail: webmaster@accoutrements.com (webmasters/trade)
Early-1990's(?)-Present
See also; Blue Box, BuM / BuM Slot and; Giant
US based novelty jobber/importer - online and mail-order - shipping HK/China production to the US, full inventory is somewhere between a 1960’s joke shop and a modern ‘Party’ store, with a few bits of home ware, religious iconography, tourist trinket and general novelty thrown on to the pile of ‘executive toys’, also operated with a physical shop under the Archie Mcfee title, from whence came the mail-order catalogue in the early 1990's.
Listings (Figural)
Toss Sets (35/40mm figures with catapult)
11487 - Boss Toss (4 figures)
11499 - Executives (4 figures, no catapult, ammo for Boss Toss)
11799 - Mini Flying Monkeys (4figures)
? - Mini Flying Ninjas (4 figures)
? - Mini Flying Nuns (4 figures)
11751 - Mini Marauding Pirates (4 figures, no catapult, ammo for Pirate Attack)
11738 - Pirate Attack (4x40mm figures)
11550 - Wedding Couples (tub of 72 figures, no catapult, ammo for Wedding Slinger)
11546 - Wedding Slinger, the (4 figures)
11642 - B-Movie Victimes
? - Paparazzi
12468 - You’re The Star (smaller version of Paparazzi)
Glow in the Dark Aliens
10292 - Glow Alien Babies (x4 different, approximately 54mm)
10299 - Alien Autopsy (4” Streatchy Alien)
10253 - Glow Alien Keyring (x4 90mm, jewel eyes)
Single Items
- Fashion Models (4 poses, 70mm)
- Nun (54mm)
- St. Maria (54mm)
Bagged Figures Etc...
- Farmers (40mm)
- Monster Women (54mm)
- Monsters (50mm)
- Spacemen (50mm)
- US V's Commies (54mm Tim Mee copies in green and red)
YFNo.810 - Mongols and Castle (ex-Giant tools, later issued by BuM)
? - Knights (50 Figure bag, ex-Giant tools)
#10675 - Cocktail Swizzles (6x Hula dancers approximately 1:76/72nd attached to cocktail sticks, 2000)
11571 - Mini Camelot Play Set (25mm action figure knights, dragons etc...ex-Blue Box)
- Chicken Coop (mixed scales/sizes)
- Evolving Darwin Play Set ("From 'fish-man' to 'genius' in only 350 million years", approximately 60mm)
- Hula Girl
- Mona Lisa
M5252 - Alien and Spaceship Invasion (x12, PVC knock-offs of Colorforms (54mm) & Thunderbirds)
09947 - Monster Women (x6, fantasy figures, 54mm)
Links
Archduke Piccalo's review of: Commies V's USA
What They Say
"For over 25 years we've provided the world with amazing products that provoke, challenge and entertain. From our Yodelling Pickle to our Bacon Bandages, we create things that people need to have!
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What This Entry Needs
Better product listing.