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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.

Monday, October 29, 2018

M is for Multicoloured Miniature Motoring Marvels From Across 'La Manche'

We were going to have some Dinosaurs here but I ran out of time on Friday-gone and posted this quickly so there'd be something sitting here, come Monday morning!

1:43rd Scale 1:48th Scale; Diecast Toy Accessory; French Figures; French Toy Cars; Minialux; Old Fashioned Cars; Passengers; Personnage de Tacots; Seated Passengers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toys;
From the French concern Minialuxe, come these delightful 'Personnage de Tacots' which is like 'old-crocks people' or passengers for old-fashioned cars, scaled to 1:43rd and painted beatifully, I have seen some with plainer decoration, but mine all seem to be 'off to Henley' in their Regatta finest!

Obviously the top one is a part-set and I'm not sure about the packing on the bottom one, I think the figures pre-date the invention of bubble-wrap, let along its common usage!

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