About Me

My photo
No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

F is for Follow-up - A is for Another African!

Chris also sent this as a follow-up to aprevious post back in January-  he found another!

African Barers; African Bearers; African Natives; African Toy Figures; African Warrior Toy; Bowman; Cave Man; Cavemen; Chinasaurs; Contribution; Dinosaurs; Native Africans; Native Barers; Native Bearers; Native Costumes; Prehistoric Animals; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spearman; Unknown Toy Figures; Wild Animal Models; Wild Animals; Wildlife; Zoo Animals;
Now the hair is pointing not to the native practices of mud, henna or similar decoration, but rather Hong Kong's desire for colourful rack-toys . . . he's got blue hair!

Like the previously seen pair of sculpts, he has beach-bum shorts with a zip-fly and elasticated waistband (!) but the bow is a pointer to his being meant to be a hunter-gatherer type

African Barers; African Bearers; African Natives; African Toy Figures; African Warrior Toy; Bowman; Cave Man; Cavemen; Chinasaurs; Contribution; Dinosaurs; Native Africans; Native Barers; Native Bearers; Native Costumes; Prehistoric Animals; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spearman; Unknown Toy Figures; Wild Animal Models; Wild Animals; Wildlife; Zoo Animals;
If I remember Peter Evans' notes on the subject there is still one pose to find - do you have it loyal reader? I'm guessing he should have pink shorts and green hair?

African Barers; African Bearers; African Natives; African Toy Figures; African Warrior Toy; Bowman; Cave Man; Cavemen; Chinasaurs; Contribution; Dinosaurs; Native Africans; Native Barers; Native Bearers; Native Costumes; Prehistoric Animals; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spearman; Unknown Toy Figures; Wild Animal Models; Wild Animals; Wildlife; Zoo Animals;
From the same 'mini-season' of African/Cavemen posts, Gog may have spotted his figure's accompanying dinosaurs in a post on an Austrian auction site. Some of the dinosaurs are of the less accurately sculpted 'gape mouthed' variety, but some are better sculpts and they may just be a mixed lot from two (or more) sources . . . but it's a clue!

African Barers; African Bearers; African Natives; African Toy Figures; African Warrior Toy; Bowman; Cave Man; Cavemen; Chinasaurs; Contribution; Dinosaurs; Native Africans; Native Barers; Native Bearers; Native Costumes; Prehistoric Animals; Prehistoric Hunters; Prehistoric Man; Rhino; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Spearman; Unknown Toy Figures; Wild Animal Models; Wild Animals; Wildlife; Zoo Animals;
I added this as it's similar to the one Chris showed us in the same series of posts/follow-ups back in January, with the 'Albrecht Durer' style plating of an Asian Rhinoceros, I didn't note the marking and put it away weeks ago (the queue is getting out of control!), but it's a very dense polyethylene and a slightly different pose from Chris's, who reminded me yesterday - in a roundabout sort of way - that ZZ 'Reizen Zoo' carried a similar Rhino too!

No comments: