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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, October 22, 2020

F is for Follow-up - Pyro Sailors

By way of a follow-up to his own donation to the Blog, Brian Berke has sent the following to add to the post with the Pyro sailors from April gone . . .

America's Cup; American Cup racer; Fishing Schooner; Gertrude Thebaud; Hobby Kits; Life Like; Life-Like; Lifelike Schooner; Lindberg Ship; Marines; Model Boats; Model Ships; Model Vessels; Plastic Model Kits; Pyro Plastics; Pyro Schooner; Pyro Toys; Sailing Ship Toy; Sailors; Ship Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
The Pyro Schooner model kit came with colour-matched runners of the figures we previously saw as stand-alone marine-modelling accessories and - for a second - I thought "What a swizz, you had to buy two packs (of the seperates) to get all of them!", then I realised the kit has two duplicate runners!

America's Cup; American Cup racer; Fishing Schooner; Gertrude Thebaud; Hobby Kits; Life Like; Life-Like; Lifelike Schooner; Lindberg Ship; Marines; Model Boats; Model Ships; Model Vessels; Plastic Model Kits; Pyro Plastics; Pyro Schooner; Pyro Toys; Sailing Ship Toy; Sailors; Ship Models; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
However Brian further reports that the later iterations of the kit (Life Like and Lindberg 'Classics' boxings above) don't have the figures included, which is odd as Pyro being gone (for the moulds to move-on/change hands) you wouldn't be able to source the little set we saw last time, or not with assumed ease?

I guess it was a separate mould, which would make it a smallish, man portable tool, which may have been nicked at some point, damaged or lost? Anyway, whatever happened to the figure mould; many thanks to Brian for the follow-up!

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