Our budget Polar Express made a Christmas appearance on the Christmas lunch table, quickly assembled with whatever there was to hand …
Trains don’t usually run on Christmas Day but this special one did.
The centrepiece of our Christmas table and family lunch today.
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Delivering the Tiny Christmas Tree, the wobbly jelly and the iced Christmas cake ….
Past the large Colman’s Mint Sauce advertising hoarding, HG Wells style …
A few passengers and staff wait on platforms, along with barrels and wine.
Past the Polar Bear and the Snowman and the Frozen Reindeer …
Past the forest of lovely wooden fir trees …
Past the old wooden horse bus or waggon
Then back in the box after Christmas!
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The track and rolling stock is a mixture of my instant battery Train in a Tin and the larger set from Fred Aldous, seen here in my 2017 post:
https://sidetracked2017blog.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/deconstructing-trains-train-in-a-tin-vs-train-in-a-box/
Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Blog post by Mark Man Of TIN, 25 December 2022
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Author: 26soldiersoftin
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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