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Weet-Bix Battleship
I came across a listing for this 1955 Weet-Bix cereal premium and decided to redraw and update it. Files can be found here:
Weet-Bix Battleship |
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Thank you for an interesting old model.
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Ahh. This brings out the kid in me and that was a long, long time ago.
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Yes, building the airports, airplanes, ships, and trains from the backs of cereal boxes and collecting the informative cards with Indian crafts or airliner gliders that separated shredded wheat was one of the great pleasures of being kid in the late 40s and early 50s. And now much of that treasure is available to us through the Internet.
I must admit that this battleship is new to me, but we didn't get British breakfast cereals in post-WWII Baltimore (the one in Maryland, not the one on the Irish coast that was raided by Barbary pirates and Sale Rovers in the 17th century). Don |
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This is a beast to build!!! Sometime in the 1960s British breakfast cereals gave away free plastic models for three or four packet tops. I remember an oil rig, a hydrofoil and a C5 Galaxy. Now I work at a joint Spanish/US naval base and see Galaxies on a regular basis. And they make me feel old!!!!
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While it is obviously a caricature of an actual warship, this model has a vague resemblance to the Royal Navy's Revenge class battleships, with their highly compressed superstructures and narrow tripod foremasts (depicted as a single pole on the model). But by 1955, all four surviving ships were scrapped -- HMS Royal Oak was torpedoed in Scapa Flow in 1939.
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Just a detail: the British breakfast mix is called Weetabix, and still exists. An acquired taste...
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In Annapolis, MD, you can still get Weetabix at Trader Joes, but, unfortunately, no more models on the box. I does make one teary-eyed though.
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Weetabix is also available from Amazon and delivered to your door.
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This was a New Zeeland premium, not British (though I did offer it to a British premium paper toy archive site).
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