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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.

Thursday, February 13, 2020

W is for West End Final

Although anyone who's commuted for any length of time will know that actually some 'West End Final's' have a different cover from other 'West End Final's', suggesting that at some point they issue a Final West End Final-final!

[For readers further afield; the London Evening Standard newspaper (which starts coming out mid-afternoon), runs to a West End Final as the supposedly last, most up-to-date version]

12 Army Figures; 12 Army Men; 12 Armymen; Anker Group; Army Men; Armymen; Blister Pack Toy Soldiers; Carded Rack Toy; Home Collection; Jaru Toys; Made In China; Matchbox US Infantry; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack Toy; Rack Toy Armymen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soma Toy Soldiers; The Anker Group; Bagged Rack Toy; Estonian Toy Soldiers; Railway Staff; Tallinn Toy Soldiers; Unknown NAZI Figures; Unknown Toy Figures; Unknown Toy Soldiers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Further to yesterday's post (and please read PeterE's comment below it) I promised Chris yesterday I'd check mine when I got home, and did so, only to find that the wasp-in-the-wood-pile was (or is) the 'berserker' from Crescent who is only 50mm! Anyway I deleted about 20 images trying to get Chris's to compare with my line-up, on-screen, and while this final attempt sort of works, I then remembered that in certain forms of Picacsa's collage tool . . .

12 Army Figures; 12 Army Men; 12 Armymen; Anker Group; Army Men; Armymen; Blister Pack Toy Soldiers; Carded Rack Toy; Home Collection; Jaru Toys; Made In China; Matchbox US Infantry; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack Toy; Rack Toy Armymen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soma Toy Soldiers; The Anker Group; Bagged Rack Toy; Estonian Toy Soldiers; Railway Staff; Tallinn Toy Soldiers; Unknown NAZI Figures; Unknown Toy Figures; Unknown Toy Soldiers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Ghosts in the machine!

. . . you can move one image around, over or under the other and the one becomes semi-transparent, so I tried that and as you can see it clearly reveals that both Chris's and my copies are roughly the same height while the original is a tad taller but nothing significant, a lesson for trying to second-guess different things in different places!

12 Army Figures; 12 Army Men; 12 Armymen; Anker Group; Army Men; Armymen; Blister Pack Toy Soldiers; Carded Rack Toy; Home Collection; Jaru Toys; Made In China; Matchbox US Infantry; Plastic Toy Soldiers; Rack Toy; Rack Toy Armymen; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Soma Toy Soldiers; The Anker Group; Bagged Rack Toy; Estonian Toy Soldiers; Railway Staff; Tallinn Toy Soldiers; Unknown NAZI Figures; Unknown Toy Figures; Unknown Toy Soldiers; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Next time I'll just trust Chris and assume I'm doing something wrong, because I was; by not measuring the Crescent dwarf! But we'll stick with him as he's still a reasonable guide.

Anyway, many thanks to Chris for his patience, and to Peter Evans who supplied the original Anker Group 'Home Collection' (which may be the home-furnishing stores added to Wickes builders-merchants' bigger outlets in recent years?) blister-card, I think.

Also with this pesky figure (now an Italian policeman!) and the Riesler copies we saw in another lot from Peter, it's clear that among the ever decreasing-quality copies of Airfix, Matchbox and generic 'Rambo' types, there are - increasingly - a wider spread of donor-figures?

2 comments:

Terranova47 said...

When the Evening Standard was a real newspaper and not a 'freebee' the first edition of the day would be the Racing Form for those who liked the horses (or dogs).

Is that still published?

Hugh Walter said...

Hummm . . . . methinks you doth betray you true age Terra! Never 'erd of it!

H