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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.

Monday, October 7, 2019

B is for Black Heads!

One of those little gap-fillers which are satisfying to track-down, but which are also a bit daft? Toward the end of their existence Timpo did a five-figure (I think it was five?) boxed-set of German Infantry, some of which got a black helmet rather than the usual grey body-matched one.

2nd Type Timpo Germans; Black Helmet German; German Infantry; German Officer; German Soldiers; German Toy Figurine; German Toy Figurines; Officer with Pistol; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Swoppet Germans; Swoppet Heads; Swoppet Toy Soldiers; Swoppets; Timpo Black Helmet; Timpo German Infantry; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys;
Being Timpo the head is removable, so you can - if you only have one - chose who wears it and I've stuck it on an officer, it came with a grenade-thrower sans weapons! The thing is; apart from the Liebstandart AH on parade, or post-war fire-service, no one used gloss-black helmets! It would have been better if they'd done the alternate helmets in GI-green, or that 'dunkel-gleb' sand used by the FFL?

2nd Type Timpo Germans; Black Helmet German; German Infantry; German Officer; German Soldiers; German Toy Figurine; German Toy Figurines; Officer with Pistol; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Swoppet Germans; Swoppet Heads; Swoppet Toy Soldiers; Swoppets; Timpo Black Helmet; Timpo German Infantry; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys;
Officer's conference; less Von Stauffenberg and his little suitcase! On the left the earlier figure with separate helmet, then the over-moulded version with red hair and finally the black-domed chap.

2nd Type Timpo Germans; Black Helmet German; German Infantry; German Officer; German Soldiers; German Toy Figurine; German Toy Figurines; Officer with Pistol; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Swoppet Germans; Swoppet Heads; Swoppet Toy Soldiers; Swoppets; Timpo Black Helmet; Timpo German Infantry; Timpo Swoppets; Timpo Toys;
Opps! I spoke too soon. looks like it's all going to get a bit messy in the bunker and we're not talking beer-cans and tourist's knickers!

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