Let's Chat: Play Along Toys - Mouth of Sauron

The basis for this chat was Play Along Toys AOME LOTR 'Warriors and Battle Beasts' series, 'The Mouth of Sauron'. This was originally posted back in 2011 as a basic photo essay, but Chat GPT has given my old photos new life.

You'll notice I don't delve into LOTR lore in these posts. There's just too much and I can end up spending all my time just researching. I'll let y'all do that!!

While we're talking about photos, I've been busy taking a lot of new photos! Back in the day I posted a ton of snaps but they were all the figure sets. For whatever reason, I took very few photos of larger sets, or the sets with heavy gear, like ballista's and catapults, and such, so that's what I've been busy doing. It's slow going I can tell you and I'll post what I can, when I can!

Ed

Forces of Valor (FOV) / Unimax #82003 1/32 Scale Diecast U.S. Jeep Willys - Normandy 1944 (2003) - Pt 1 Box and Contents

Ya know, I've gotten a lot of stuff ready for the blog so why is it I don't feel like I did? What's goin' on anyway?? Must be the full moon acting up on me. 😆

Here's another one of my Cave finds - a toy that has been sitting out there in The Cave for years before I finally got off me bloody arse and did something. As a fatter-of-mact, I just put the finishing touches on all the photos and scans like, an hour ago.

Ed

Box

-Driver

-Large ruined wall (straight)

-30cal MG on Jeep mount

-50cal MG on tripod

-Antenna

-Field radio

-Spare tire

-4 ammo cans

-2 mines

-2 small tarps

-two large 'X' Jerry cans

-one small 'Square X' Jerry can

Insert

Large Ruined Wall (Straight)

I must have enough of these ruined walls to encircle a 1/32 scale city block!

'Smalls'

I followed the box photos as well as the photo on the insert when taking my snaps but I believe the guys at Unimax may have gotten things a bit mixed up. The heavier 50cal MG should be on the Jeep mount, while the lighter 30cal MG would be on the tripod. Battlefield mods??

Culled from the Internet

50cal MG on tripod

30cal MG on Jeep mount

Ammo cans

Field Radio

Unusual Jerry Cans

The Jerry can to the right is the normal sized can I've gotten in every other set of FOV figures or vehicles. The one on the left is larger and fits exactly into the bracket on the rear of the Jeep

Mines (x2)

Spare Tire

Small Tarps

Play Along Toys AOME LOTR - Heroes & Villains of Middle-earth - Rohan Soldier

This is the last of my Play Along Toys 'Heroes & Villains of Middle-earth' packs, but it appears as if I'm missing the 'Prologue Elves Warrior' figure. Again, these photos were taken a long time ago - 2015 to be exact - but are just now being posted. Putting the cart before the horse, the Chat image for this figure was blogged back on 3 September.

Ed

Let's Chat: New Ray King Tiger Tank

Let's put that freshly blogged New Ray King Tiger in a setting befitting its stature.

Ed

TOYSCAPES: New Colony

By combining different background planets and starscapes, the 'Moon'-scape diorama board can be anything from the Moon, a moon, or just an asteroid. I pulled out a few toys from the Montgomery Wards Miniature Apollo Exploration Set - which is a treasure trove of small space toys suitable for the diorama base - and after a few snaps and a bit of Photoshoppery, I had a new colony! The photo shows just another workday on...

...on?

Oh heck, wherever this is s'posed to be! An asteroid circling Mars? Another solar system?

I noticed the Moonscape on the box-top photo is very similar to what I ended up building - hmmmm subliminal suggestion at play for when I made mine?

Ed