Blood for the Baron!

For your viewing pleasure, I took some shots of an early French Meccano Trade Catalogue featuring the first series of Action Force.

It's picture heavy, but there are some nice close up's of prototypes seen in previous Palitoy Trade Catalogues.

Enjoy,

Dave.












and here's a French version of the Buy 3 Get One Free advert:

these are great Dave, thanks for posting

Nice pics, thanks for sharing.

is it known what happened to these prototypes ?

Andy1672 wrote: is it known what happened to these prototypes ?

Not that I've been able to find out so far, but hopefully these are closer shots for some of your awesome customs

is that extra equipment on the german stormtroopers left side??, i cant really make out the image

Yes, its his gas mask canister and entrenching tool. Seems the model makers at Palitoy made the prototype more accurate. Anyhow, the actual figure and later Red Shadows has this equipment molded onto his back.

I wished they'd made his helmet removable. Used to have one of these fellas....when I was a kid that is! Its like a monkey pissing gold now trying to find a loose one! Nevermind!

P.S. If I recall Jonesy posted pics of other trade catalogues....what happened to the pics? Any chance of a re-upload? Im particularly interested in seen the Action Man stuff.....

All of the catalogues submitted so far can be found in the main archives:

http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/00 ... index.html
http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/00 ... index.html
http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/toys/00 ... index.html

I'm not sure if Jonesy ever upped the Action Man stuff, or just offered to.

sf1378 wrote:Used to have one of these fellas....when I was a kid that is! Its like a monkey pissing gold now trying to find a loose one! Nevermind!

There's one on ebay, Buy it Now £9.99

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ACTION-FORCE-GERM ... 240%3A1318

Guy's the term Meccano Af has been used before but not sure what it means. Is it the company who distributed the toys in France?