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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.

Sunday, July 25, 2021

F is for Follow-ups; Recent'ish Posts!

A trio of shots I've taken in the last few months which add a little to posts seen here in the second half of last year.

1 Soma Holdings Industries Space Riders Spacemen Astronauts Aliens Warriors DSCN0616
In August last year we looked at the Star Rider Space City play set by Soma, to which I have added a few of the missing green versions to the loose figure stash, giving the above line-up. There is - at time of publishing - another one on feeBay, which has the outer box-lining missing from mine, unfortunately the postage from Australia is a bit sheesh!

1870's; Flat Figures; Flats; Gebruder Schneider; Polish Copy; Polish Flats; Polish Plastic Toys; Polish Production; Polish Toy Soldiers; Polish ZW; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; PZG ZSP; Schneider Brothers; Schneider Molds; Schneider Moulds; Shilam Miniatures; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; ZW Poland;
While in November 2020 a quick post on some Polish swaps and a Russian gun covered some plastic flats which I mentioned were from old home-casting moulds, probably Schneider, the above shows one of the plastics against a modern home-casting mould catalogue, to show they are still around!

Taken from the Shilham Miniatures catalogue, Google suggests they are no longer around, but they were about ten years ago and other suppliers still exist.

Birds; Culpitt Doves; Kettle Whistle; Novelty Birds; Owl; Plastic Birds; Plastic Ducks; Plastic Vulture; Resin Owl; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Songbirds; Toy Birds; Toy Ducks; Toy Flamingo; Toy Geese; Toy Owl; Toy Penguins; Toy Poultry; Wedding Cake Decoration; Wedding Rings;
Finally, last November I did a quick post on 'what had come in' re. birds/poultry, and within weeks of posting it had found the above! Anti-clockwise from the top left; a resin owl (who's trying to escape the photograph?!!); a novelty kettle-whistle (possibly French); a Culpitt (et al) 'love-doves' wedding-cake decoration; a vinyl duck (possibly Macau-via-Portugal), and another PVC piece; a vulture of unknown origin, which could be Wild West toy related? It keeps coming in!

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