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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, March 9, 2019

V is for Vintage - Waddington's

Sorry Germans, that's a toughie of a title! Because Parker bought Waddington's they share the KPH box, and this is the tail-end of the photo-shoot, we'll look at more Waddington's another day, and Parker's Risk figures will need a post of their own one day.

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Waddington's Table Soccer carries 28/30mm statuette type figures of footballers which we looked at just over a year ago, the 'master collection' is only a bag of oddments which have come in, but there is a boxed set somewhere in the garage along with a set of the next lot (below) so we'll return to them here one day for completeness sake!

I think the yellow and brown figure is an early goalkeeper, but the other may be home painted, and I can't remember if the black ones are referees or late version 'reduced paint' goalies? Another reason to return to the set when I find the big boxes of games!

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As a playing mechanism Camelot is a sort of simplified draughts (checkers) / fox & geese hybrid, but with the kings present from the start! These are the 'pawns' and are a reasonable 25/28mm-compatable knight, relaxed, in full armour, there are ten each (of both colours) of them and I bet a few of you have some of these in your junk, WTF or TBS (to be sorted) pile!

Board Game; Board Game Knight; Board Game Playing Pieces; Boardgame Pieces; Camelot; Camelot Board Game; Football Game; Knight In Armour; Knight Playing Piece; Knights; Medieval Figures; Medieval Toy Figure; Old Plastic Toys; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Table Soccer; Table Soccer Board Game; Vintage Plastic Figures; Waddington's; Waddington's Camelot; Waddington's Table Soccer;
The 'kings' are closer to 15/20mm-compatible for those looking to beef-up their armies with unusual figures, and you get four of each, this one is an earlier version on a double-plinth base with ogeed edges, manufactured in a softer polystyrene or phenolic of some type, compare with the sharper single disc in brittle 'kit' polystyrene above.

Again I have a set somewhere, so I'll replace the vague description with something more solid when I return to them someday.

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