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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, November 3, 2018

T is for Tiberian Troops from Toyway

Bit of a cheat post, or even 'cheap' post, as I spent so much time on the Halloween stuff, I left myself with nothing for today, and no time to post it - if it had been ready - so quickly shot these, but they sort of ran-out of background and as I was being lazy, instead of setting-up a better 'set', I just shot them at a steeper angle - and definitely a box ticker!

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Three lightly-armed auxiliary types, their grannies have knitted them lovely surcoats from brown wool, look; an open chain stitch; you could use them as mail shirts in a movie! Joking apart; it's nice to see the mail a bit rusty looking, as I'm sure it got so, after a few weeks on campaign, especially in the cold, wet, Northern 'provinces'.

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Three 'proper' empire-era legionnaires with the lorica-segmata (or whatever the spelling is), overlapping plate armour, the only three in the set and looking like a reconnaissance patrol rather than a well drilled maniple.

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Four more of the lightly-armed troops make-up the ten figures of these Toyway sets, these all given a helmet and shield, but nothing else bar a baldric to hang their sword's scabbards' from - the centurion and the archer have both drawn a belt from the QM's stores though!

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All of them, from the rear, although mostly rather casual (all the sibling sets are the same) and lightly armed they are nice figures and I like them, they are also quite well-painted for china-troops.

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The one oddity with all these sets from Toyway, is the separate base with its small 'CHINA' in the hollowed-out underside, where a single mounting spigot is set very near the edge of the quite-wide disc, most figures having a choice of two holes (some only have one) they all end-up 'standing back' on their little piece of universe - the kneeling guy and the standing on a rock guy being the two exceptions; they are also the poses with only one hole!

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