I was in Chinatown on business the other week and dropped by the infamous Divisoria mall, a sprawling, stinky hive of a market in downtown Manila. With the Christmas season in full swing already here, the place was filled to the brim with people selling their wares, people haggling and buying, people picking someone else's pockets etc.
The place is also filled with toy shops with wares coming in fromm China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among these toys are lots and lots of knock-offs selling at 1/10th of the originals. I soon found myself in the dirtier, more cramped and more chaotic basement where stores peddled party wares filled to the brim with cheap plastic toys. Toys here are packed twenty to a banig ( mat) ranging from a dollar to round two dollars for twenty pieces. among these, I found some I maybe able to use for gaming. Here's a transformable robot taht turns into a tank. It seems suitable for 15mm but since I dont game in that scale, they'll be drafted in my 20mm sci fi armies.
Presenting: the Miao Dao Heavy Tank (I named it in chinese in honor of the place; the names means "sprout sabre," a sword type used by ancient Chinese soldiers)
The tanks are seen here with 1/72 or 20mm figures from Orion's Space Battles set.
The place is also filled with toy shops with wares coming in fromm China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among these toys are lots and lots of knock-offs selling at 1/10th of the originals. I soon found myself in the dirtier, more cramped and more chaotic basement where stores peddled party wares filled to the brim with cheap plastic toys. Toys here are packed twenty to a banig ( mat) ranging from a dollar to round two dollars for twenty pieces. among these, I found some I maybe able to use for gaming. Here's a transformable robot taht turns into a tank. It seems suitable for 15mm but since I dont game in that scale, they'll be drafted in my 20mm sci fi armies.
Presenting: the Miao Dao Heavy Tank (I named it in chinese in honor of the place; the names means "sprout sabre," a sword type used by ancient Chinese soldiers)
The tanks are seen here with 1/72 or 20mm figures from Orion's Space Battles set.
What a great find! We have "Dollar Stores" here that I occasionally find a little gem suitable for wargaming.... Nothing quite so cool as those Sci-fi tanks, though!
ReplyDeletethanks, got a lot more finds to share:)
ReplyDeleteIf you're interested, I think this is a modified knockoff of the 2011 Transformers toy Warpath. (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Generationstoy-Warpath.jpg) It's clearly heavily simplified, but some of the details are definitely the same. I happened across this page randomly and thought "Hey, is that...?" :)
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