[MoMo]

Interesting thread 1250,ships.

In the early 60s I had a nice little collection of Triang Minic Ships, which were manufactured here in the U.K. as die casts. The detail was pretty basic, but the range covered a wide field. They were mostly R.N. ships of that era. I remember the Leander class Frigates, The Tiger, The Queen Mary, though I don't remember the rest. I do recall, though, that Triang also marketed die cast docks, quays and dock instalations to complement the ship models. I don't remember the scale, but it must have been about 1.1200, or there abouts.

At an auction a couple of years ago I picked up a small collection of 1200 models from various manufactures.

HMS Bulwark; The Bismark ( both Minic ) and some plastic and metal monstrosity made by Matchbox called a Battleship!
Of more interest, possibly, were the 8 or 9 ships which were very basic and represented destroyers and cruisers of WW1 and WW2. These were very basic, but I could discern quite clearly the various classes of ships which they represented.

I only paid about £12.00 at the time, so I wasn't too concerned that some of them were so anonymous , with no markings underneath.

One interesting model seemed to represent a pre-Dreadnought type, but was a very rough casting.

cheers,

MoMo