tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post3839381134142292852..comments2023-09-07T08:55:48.015+01:00Comments on Vintage Wargaming: Bellona Rubber BuildingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-77548356302418346042020-04-24T16:09:26.036+01:002020-04-24T16:09:26.036+01:00Thanks, that’s very interesting.Thanks, that’s very interesting.Vintage Wargaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251018372867101509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-61796658934931603312020-04-24T15:45:12.750+01:002020-04-24T15:45:12.750+01:00They are all Bellona rubber - the haystack is C1, ...They are all Bellona rubber - the haystack is C1, Dormer Cottage H3, Dormer Cottage Damaged H3D, Toll House H4 and Concrete Pillbox M4. They all correspond exactly to line drawings in a catalogue I have, brown ink on buff manilla card, 8 pages (C) Merberlen Ltd 1965. Stamped from (Tony Newton's) Post Office / St Mark's Models, St Marks Road, Maidenhead.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-55694534376118839332015-07-20T10:09:30.659+01:002015-07-20T10:09:30.659+01:00Not having seeen them in the flesh (rubber?) my un...Not having seeen them in the flesh (rubber?) my understanding is thatthey are simi;ar in sicale to the Triang Countryside ones or the Bellona vac formed ones/Vintage Wargaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251018372867101509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-9585480507940719752015-07-20T09:47:09.024+01:002015-07-20T09:47:09.024+01:00I didn't realise that Bellona ever produced ru...I didn't realise that Bellona ever produced rubber buildings, that being the province of Triang in their Trackside series. I know Bellona featured plastic vac-form, cut out, self assembly items, designed by Terry Wise (?) and the front left house in the photograph appears to be one such item, but the rest I really do not recogonise. Fascinating stuff. Well done.<br />Stuart AsquithStuart Asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04978710389803033486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-67568086850519488032015-07-20T08:40:11.799+01:002015-07-20T08:40:11.799+01:00I've never seen those before. What sort of sc...I've never seen those before. What sort of scale are they?Tim Gowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00561988214539953646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-38458932300575120402015-07-20T05:05:52.748+01:002015-07-20T05:05:52.748+01:00Happy memories of Bellona rubber buildings. They w...Happy memories of Bellona rubber buildings. They were state of the art in their day and still look great.Michael "Reggie" Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15401007175677899683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-63030117869275220382015-07-20T01:35:14.814+01:002015-07-20T01:35:14.814+01:00The pill-box had a separate roof, but it was there...The pill-box had a separate roof, but it was there - BB11.<br /><br />http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x0lX220booY/TAeg01sbSNI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/6rEKWfHkAgo/s1600/Bellona+Battleground+Battle-ho-rama+Vac+Forms+3.jpg<br /><br />Agree with you on the er...corn heap! Stack from bales! But the others are all from Bellona sheets, or at least if the destroyed farmhouse wasn't Bellona (BB10?) it was one of the other makes, as it's in at least one of the war games books?<br /><br />HHugh Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-81297343307687545322015-07-19T17:46:00.019+01:002015-07-19T17:46:00.019+01:00Hugh my understanding is these are definitely as m...Hugh my understanding is these are definitely as manufactured and are clearly marked Bellona on the piece (except for the haystack, which may be from another maker. The small house (marked H4) looks very similar to the vac form lodge in the Country HOuse and Lodge (vac form) set and it is possible the larger house is the same as the Country House - my catalogue shows only the rear of this piece and I only have a photo of the fromnt of the rubber version. So Bellona may have reused their own design but I don't think any one has been home casting rubber buildings using the vac form set as a mould. There is no indication of the destroyed house or the pill box being in any of the Bellona catalogues I have.Vintage Wargaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251018372867101509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399255049115922694.post-76870386299008676812015-07-19T16:34:58.787+01:002015-07-19T16:34:58.787+01:00I can confirm the Bell-tent was also made in [late...I can confirm the Bell-tent was also made in [latex?] rubber, as I have some. Do we know they were definitely Bellona, or just 'after', I ask because the detail on my examples would suggest they are castings from the insides of the styrene product rather than anything to do with the mould.Hugh Walterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689023221814673819noreply@blogger.com