Force on Force - scenery and concepts

Up until now I'd sorted my scenery - especially what I term "scatter" scenery into four rough periods:
a) Ancients, Dark Age and Medieval - when pretty much everything was expensive and had some value.  (There was a separate box for Samurai stuff because of the cultural differences).
b) Pre Industrial - the era from the English Civil wars through to the Napoleonic wars.  Some items have become substantially cheaper than in the earlier period but the full benefit of the industrial revolution and water and steam power and machines has yet to be felt.
c) Industrial - which loosely was when the benefits of the industrial revolution were felt by the people at large.
d) Science Fiction - the realm of the future and also the oddities like the Carnivorous plants etc.

Force on Force - and I now realise Post Apocalyptic - pushed things into a fifth grouping - namely modern.  Look at the following items...

The sofa is probably good for the Victorian era onwards (so fits into Industrial) as do the Mattresses since the circular bits represent coil springs.  "Wheelie Bin" - I would say 1990's onwards, although research on Wikepedia would put it at 1970 onwards in Western Europe...

Wheelie bin

And lastly metal beer kegs...

1950's onwards.  (The beer kegs came out of a model railway bargain bin - OK, so at OO/HO scale then a little tiny for 28mm but given that beer kegs come in all sorts of sizes, then perfectly acceptable).  

So, I think we are going to have a new category, probably "Modern Era".   

I see the Sofa as a hotel reject, with springs coming through the covers and now found outside a shanty hut having been "rescued" from the disposal lorry.  As one of the Gripping Beast boys said, what it really needs is a couple of children sitting on it who are playing.  

Whilst on Force on Force I've been looking at cheap scenery....

All three vehicles came from Poundland, and there's a few others already in the Force on Force Box.  The Humvee is 5mm too long for true 1/56tj scale on my calculations.  The Tractor - admittedly large although with a small seat I see as one of the new generation of "super tractors" - probably supplied by a kindly meaning but ill informed church/charity given African standards of maintenance and the cost of spare parts.   

Having just done a bit of surfing then might be time to go back and see if I can get a couple more of hte minibuses for use as Taxis with a respray...