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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

150 is for Comic Book Flat Civil War Soldiers

These have been Blogged elsewhere, so really just a box-ticker, I've said before, that "It will all appear here eventually", and from time to time that means covering stuff covered elsewhere, today it's some 'comic book flats'.

ACW; American Civil War; Artillery Cannon; Artillery Gun; Civil War; Comic Book Flats; Confederate States; Confederates; Federal States; Flat Figures; Flats; Gatling Gun Toy; Lincoln; Merrimac; Plastic Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Wagons; Union Forces; US Cavalry; US Infantry; US Plastic Soldiers; USS Monitor;
Lesser items; The guy second from the right in the middle row is - I think - supposed to be blowing a bugle, but all mine (on both sides of the fratricide) are moulded in such a way as to be open to interpretation, and it seems that taking a drink off a southern 'Belle' (actually a nurse) is preferable to swallowing a wasp or poking himself in the eye with a Remington, the other obvious explanations for what he looks like he may be doing instead of blowing a bugle!

ACW; American Civil War; Artillery Cannon; Artillery Gun; Civil War; Comic Book Flats; Confederate States; Confederates; Federal States; Flat Figures; Flats; Gatling Gun Toy; Lincoln; Merrimac; Plastic Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Wagons; Union Forces; US Cavalry; US Infantry; US Plastic Soldiers; USS Monitor;
You get a whole bunch of charging chaps, some of whom tend to have miss-moulded bayonets, there are quite a few cavalry and well and a second sword armed soldier; an officer to the NCO or dismounted cavalryman of the previous view.

Meanwhile you can send no less than three USS Monitor-class 'iron-clads' into maritime action against the same number of CSS Merrimac's! They should be  CSS Virginia's - the original built on the USS Merrimack (with a 'k'), comics huh? Like the Daily Mail but with better pictures!

ACW; American Civil War; Artillery Cannon; Artillery Gun; Civil War; Comic Book Flats; Confederate States; Confederates; Federal States; Flat Figures; Flats; Gatling Gun Toy; Lincoln; Merrimac; Plastic Flats; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Wagons; Union Forces; US Cavalry; US Infantry; US Plastic Soldiers; USS Monitor;
The opposition come in an electric blue polymer and apart from the three different vessels are the same mouldings in the same numbers.

USA                     CSA

   Monitor Ships x3 - 3x Merrimac Ships
Gatling Guns x3 - 3x Gatling Guns
Coast Mortars x3 - 3x Coast Mortars
Scouts (binoculars) x3 - 3x Scouts (binoculars)
Officers (Stetson) x3 - 3x Officers (Stetson)
Sergeants (kepi) x3 - 3x Sergeants (kepi)
Hospital Wagons x3 - 3x Hospital Wagons
Hospital Nurses x3 - 3x Hospital Nurses
Buglers x3 - 3x Buglers
Cannons x9 - 9x Cannons
Sharpshooters (kneeling firing) x9 - 9x Sharpshooters (kneeling firing)
Infantrymen (advancing) x15 - 15x Infantrymen (advancing)
Cavalry x15 - 15x Cavalry

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