28MM VBCW NAVAL (PART TEN) - BATTLEFLEET TOYS IDENTIFIED

It didn't take too long to identify the large scale plastic toy ships that the VBCW's original naval architect, Mr Tim Rose, used for his VBCW Home Fleet. Below is a toy aircraft carrier produced by REDBOX during the 1990s, still widely available on Ebay (usually in a bashed up state and usually for very cheap prices): 

A 31 inch long Redbox USS Enterprise. TR seems to have added a wooden flightdeck on top of this
carrier's hull, and dispensed with the control tower (which may, in the way of car boot sale finds, have been missing in the first place).

TR's accompanying battleships were based on another large plastic toy, a USS New Jersey produced by NEW RAY during the 1990s. At 28 inches long, it is pleasingly compatible with the Redbox Aircraft Carrier, and again occasionally available on Ebay at a cheap price:

Looks right - aircraft and battleship together.
The playworn battleship is missing its bridge and other
superstructure details. The background gives an idea of size.

The NEW RAY battleship in pristine condition. The accompanying
planes, trucks and soldiers are all too crude and too small a scale to
be of any use to the 28mm VBCW gamer
(or pretty much anyone else).

Interestingly enough (if you're interested at all, that is) a variant of the NEW RAY battleship has recently been re-issued (confusingly enough, by MOTORMAX), but with a different superstructure arrangement. Unfortunately, this new variant does not seem to have "crossed the pond" just as yet, but it is worth watching out for the "BattleZone Electronic Battleship":

BattleZone packaging for a revamped battleship!

The unboxed "battleship variant". The bridge is much better than the original variant,
but at the cost of two out of scale "multi-mortars" instead of turrets. Still, the mortars
can easily become "shore installations" and new turrets scratch built..