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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.

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

PPP is for Perennial Plunder Pile! (PW1)

Catching up with things after the hiatus, we return to the merry month of May just-past, and the Plastic Warrior magazine show in Whitton, near Twickenham - and still referred to as Richmond by a lot of people! I didn't get as much as some years, but most of what I did get was useful, new or gap filling/box-ticking stuff, there was some duplication, there always is, but not much.

2019 Show Dates; Old Airfix Figures; Old Farm Toys; Old Motorcycle Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Novelty; Old Plastic Toy; Old Plastic Toys; Old Space Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Old Trojan Soldiers; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vinatge Bisque; Vintage Animals; Vintage Celluloid; Vintage Composition Toy; vintage Medieval Figures; Vintage Plastic; Vintage Plastic Cowboy Figures; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Styrol; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage Toys; Vintage Trojan Soldiers; vintage Wild Life; Vintage Wild West;
Hall purchases; what can you spot - it's not the best photograph, but we'll be looking at most of the interesting bits later today, or in the next few weeks, while some has been sorted away for another day.

Of note is the bag bottom-right, which has some more of the Comics Spain (and copy) Muppet and Robin Hood figures and some sort of Moomin-types? While the bag top-right was saved for my by a chap I think is called Kevin (mate of Mike Harding's?) which was very kind of him; a nice group of space stuff. He'd actually saved several things for me and I had some stuff from another bag (possibly the vehicles; bottom left, or cake decorations?) and I think I went with the bag of mostly Airfix small-scale from him for a couple of the odd figures included . . . but anyway, it was very kind of him!

The Cofalux motorcycle (top middle) came from Nicolas Aulnette who let me have it very cheap, but I'll return to Nicolas in a further post. You'll also recognise pirates (for ITLAPD), Airfix Farm copies and an interesting fisherman. Floor sweepings (top left) were very poor this year with a Timpo horse-base (which outlive the horses in increasing numbers!) and a Timpo head, being the only finds!

The unexpected bargain was the AMX13, which when I got it home was found to contain two complete kits, so I'll be able to make one up, and leave the other in the box!

2019 Show Dates; Old Airfix Figures; Old Farm Toys; Old Motorcycle Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Novelty; Old Plastic Toy; Old Plastic Toys; Old Space Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Old Trojan Soldiers; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vinatge Bisque; Vintage Animals; Vintage Celluloid; Vintage Composition Toy; vintage Medieval Figures; Vintage Plastic; Vintage Plastic Cowboy Figures; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Styrol; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage Toys; Vintage Trojan Soldiers; vintage Wild Life; Vintage Wild West;
I bought the 100mm Fontanini Napoleonic from Brian Carrick and he thrust the rest at me for nada, nicht, zilch . . . nothing. We've covered most of it in the past, but the runners of new-production 25/28mm stuff are useful gap-fillers, I've put them away now and can't remember who the maker is, Toy Solder Company, Perry or Warrior? While the HK Swoppet Indians are the better ones, with extra parts/separate jerkins.

2019 Show Dates; Old Airfix Figures; Old Farm Toys; Old Motorcycle Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Novelty; Old Plastic Toy; Old Plastic Toys; Old Space Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Old Trojan Soldiers; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vinatge Bisque; Vintage Animals; Vintage Celluloid; Vintage Composition Toy; vintage Medieval Figures; Vintage Plastic; Vintage Plastic Cowboy Figures; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Styrol; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage Toys; Vintage Trojan Soldiers; vintage Wild Life; Vintage Wild West;
Peter Evans chucked these at me ( he had already sent two lots to the Blog since last autumn), and we'll look at the 'Shearer'  in a while, the two carded sets will probably be opened and looked at in August (RTM) [here now!] but there's a lot to cover then, already in the queue now!

2019 Show Dates; Old Airfix Figures; Old Farm Toys; Old Motorcycle Toys; Old Plastic Figures; Old Plastic Novelty; Old Plastic Toy; Old Plastic Toys; Old Space Toys; Old Toy Soldiers; Old Trojan Soldiers; Plastic Warrior 34th Show; Plastic Warrior Show; Plastic Warrior Whitton; PW 34th Show; PW Magazine; PW Show; PW Whitton; Saturday 11th May 2019; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Vinatge Bisque; Vintage Animals; Vintage Celluloid; Vintage Composition Toy; vintage Medieval Figures; Vintage Plastic; Vintage Plastic Cowboy Figures; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage Styrol; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage Toys; Vintage Trojan Soldiers; vintage Wild Life; Vintage Wild West;
This was all from Adrian Little's table, where the plastic is always widely diverse and interestingly different! A lot of it is in forthcoming posts already 'in the bag', but jewels to spot include a Kleeware locomotive whistle, a Beeju lorry with Beeju 'logo board' on the cab which was new to me, a couple of Applause Star Wars, a set I've only just stated collecting (big and modern!), a bag of Cherilea's 54mm dancing loons, another blue Crescent 'khaki' infantryman and a couple more jig-toys.

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