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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.

Friday, February 8, 2019

F is for Follow-up - Tim Mee's Fierce Fellows

Although I tagged them with Tim Mee, I forgot to mention in the text that the various HK-sourced figures we looked at the other day were copied from Tim Mee mouldings . . . I don't have many but here they are for a comparison...

Cave Man; Cavemen; Cro-Magnon Man; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Dinosaur Set; Early Man; Homonids; Humanoids; Prehistoric; Prehistoric Animals; Primitive Humans; Pterosaurus; Sinclair Gas Stations; Sinclair Gasoline; Sinclair Petroleum; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim Mee Dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus;
It's the figures we're interested in and all three poses are here, I'm not sure about the green dinosaur; he looks a bit too good? They are two or three millimetres taller than the largest of the copies, so they (the HK figures) were probably hand-copies rather than pantograph; the detail loss is also quite marked.

Cave Man; Cavemen; Cro-Magnon Man; Dinosaur Models; Dinosaur Dinosaur Set; Early Man; Homonids; Humanoids; Prehistoric; Prehistoric Animals; Primitive Humans; Pterosaurus; Sinclair Gas Stations; Sinclair Gasoline; Sinclair Petroleum; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim Mee Dinosaurs; Tyrannosaurus;
Coconut shy! Tim Mee/Processed Plastics made a second set (reissued by J Lloyd) and this is the sum total of my sample! He's about 45mm and the tree may not be right; there are so many versions of it now it's hard to place, but they came together!

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