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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.

Saturday, September 22, 2018

F is for Follow-up - Speedwell Medics and Ambulance Crew

As a follow-up to the recent Mettoy (et al) medic's post, Chris Smith sent me these shots of his Speedwell, suggesting that mine were correct in their paint, as his are as near mint as you can get with 50-year-old-plus gloss paint on shiny polyethylene!

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The doctor and patient with bed that I still have to track down! Interestingly, while the figures are among the most original of that group of British 'minor makes' we've looked at on the khaki Infantry page, the bed and the method of fixing the ends-on is very similar to the bed in the earlier, little boxed Mettoy Ward Ten set, which I also still have to track down.

I still think the lips of my nurse have been re-painted and possibly also the base, but the blue highlights now seem original, although the mouth here is not that different, so maybe they got orange on Monday morning and red the rest of the week, although why this nurse lent her lipstick to the doctor is - I suspect - a story for another day; the patient won't tell, he's clearly 'out of it'!

45mm Figures; Early British Toy Figures; Early British Toys; Polyethylene Toy Figures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Speedwell; Speedwell Ambulance Crew; Speedwell Hospital Toys; Speedwell Medics; 2 Follow-up to Speedwell Medics Plastic Toy Figures Stretcher Team Crew 1
Another view with a better angle on the bed, along with Chris's Speedwell stretcher team, he sent more on the stretcher/s which will go to the Khaki Infantry page when I get round to it, but I've been busy with pirates, sorting a huge box form Jim, show purchases and the storage stuff!

I love how happy the doctor and nurse look with their clearly quite poorly patient! Cheers Chris; they're lovely!

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