Can anybody direct me to steel tins like the biscuit selection tins that turned up every Christmas?
About a foot square and 3 or 4 inches deep.
I've found them useful for storing larger magnetized pieces.
Of late all the bikkies seems to be packed in cardboard (Some of those trees were my friends), cellophane or plastic (heartless polluters of the seas).
So an appeal for any current sources of that type of tin.
Thanks
https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/mcvities-biscuit-selection-tin-400g/p/0485505?nst=0&gclid=Cj0KCQjwoKzsBRC5ARIsAITcwXFR3zNdTDhxYOMoELH-lzWoNfqDaMgHlBzBsI4XUwVv367ckqfaYMUaAguJEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Loads on eBay
There's usually a better selection around Christmas time. Be patient, there'll be in the shops shortly.
BTW I'm after Quality Street tins for my 6mm aircraft. I'll be scouring the shelves going forward.
I have loads that Mrs Lemmey hordes, first person to Leighton Buzzard can have 6! :P
No post in that part of the country ? Too primitive I suppose !
Quote from: slugbalancer on 26 September 2019, 06:47:34 AM
BTW I'm after Quality Street tins for my 6mm aircraft. I'll be scouring the shelves going forward.
Quality St. (& others) 'tins' of sweets have been plastic for a fair few years now, haven't they?
Have a look at your local pound / dollar stores (depending on location), they often do the same tins as christmas baking tins and you can pick them up for a pittance.
Thanks for all the tips.
As a service I'll summarise suggestions here.
- Wilko's online store: It looks like a steel tin. The site has column inches on allergens, but no details on the packaging. I'm also slightly concerned that the depth of 4.9cm represents a downsizing form the tins that delighted us in our childhood.
- Pound stores: Well worth a look since they've often got other stuff that only a wargamer could find a use for.
- Wait for Christmas, since tins of biccies are now a seasonal delight.
- One that occurred to me later: Mooncake* tins form your friendly local Chinese cash and carry. Another seasonal source, and I've missed the September 13th deadline this year
* The Wagon Wheel (tm) of the East.
Quote from: Raider4 on 26 September 2019, 09:46:38 AM
Quality St. (& others) 'tins' of sweets have been plastic for a fair few years now, haven't they?
There are QS tins around, The larger sized offerings.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=quality+street&ref=nb_sb_noss (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=quality+street&ref=nb_sb_noss)
I like the look of the 2.9kg one. :)
Quote from: slugbalancer on 26 September 2019, 04:28:42 PM
There are QS tins around, The larger sized offerings.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=quality+street&ref=nb_sb_noss (https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=quality+street&ref=nb_sb_noss)
I like the look of the 2.9kg one. :)
Now if only they had made their tins hexagonal instead of octagonal.
A quick update.
Swizzles / Swizzlers - a vintage sweet assortment of sherbety goodness are in the shops.
Still using the classic almost square metal tin.
Spotted yesterday at Home Bargains, but present in other stores too.
Quote from: Raider4 on 26 September 2019, 09:46:38 AM
Quality St. (& others) 'tins' of sweets have been plastic for a fair few years now, haven't they?
My daughter has bought me a 1kg QS tin for Christmas from Sainsburys. More hanger space for my 6mm aircraft.
Running out of storage space for my expanding ECW collection, I bought two tin boxes of Belgian chocolate biscuits from M&S. It's amazing how quickly you can go off Belgian chocolate biscuits. But also exciting (sad life that I lead) when the boxes were empty and became available for my toys. :-[
Denis - my opponent on Thursday - had a short bread tin for his markers for sword point, complained about having to eat the short bread !!
IanS
Quote from: Westmarcher on 17 November 2019, 09:51:11 AM
Running out of storage space for my expanding ECW collection, I bought two tin boxes of Belgian chocolate biscuits from M&S. It's amazing how quickly you can go off Belgian chocolate biscuits. But also exciting (sad life that I lead) when the boxes were empty and became available for my toys.
Can you imagine having to live in a country filled with those ;D
Quote from: petercooman on 17 November 2019, 10:18:35 AM
Can you imagine having to live in a country filled with those ;D
If you want rid of all the unhealthy chocolate, I'm sure your forum-mates can help out.
It's what friends do.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 17 November 2019, 10:24:27 AM
If you want rid of all the unhealthy chocolate, I'm sure your forum-mates can help out.
It's what friends do.
;D
In hindsight, I should have brought along one of the tins for scoffing during our last game .... #-o
p.s. I still like Belgian chocolates, Peter. If you need any help there .....
No no, it's very polite of you gents, but this is my burden and i shall carry it with pride. ;)
Belgian chocolate would be the best in the world if it weren't for the French.
Odd....isn't it ? ;)
How all our 'tastes' are different. ;D ;D ;D
I don't tend to eat that much 'choccy'....But if I do, my personal taste tends towards over sugery (?) milk chocolate...Like Cadbury's.
'Posh' choccys....Like folk give as prezzies around Christmas.....To me, are YUK ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Your sense of taste changes with age.
As part of an exercise with staff, I do a blind taste test with different brands of chocolate. It's funny how some of the cheaper brands are quite popular UNTIL you reveal what they are.
Nobody ever likes Hershey's.
I don't like the Lindor Truffle things. but Mrs Orcs loves them. So I buy her them as it stops me eating them
Foucher, in Paris. No other existing chocolate will ever live up to them.