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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 23, 2017

C is for Countdown to Halloween - 8 - Wilko's Pack of Bugs . . . seen before!

These were also (like yesterday's) bought a few weeks ago, and are a repacking of the slimy bugs we looked at a year or so ago, last time in The Works, but now with . . .

. . . added polyethylene ants! That's it, Wilko from Wilkinson's; another pound; more mag'gits and some ants!

Comparison shots with the previous lot from The Works, the new worms are a tad browner, and the maggots are a purer white, the unit-cost differential of extra ants is equalised by dropping a few pupae - six over the original ten + three ants!

Halloween - barely!
Scary - hardly!
Realistic - yes actually; the worms and maggots are!
Bargain - 11 critters for £1, yeah, I think so!
Original copy and images published by & (C) - Hugh Walter at 12:00 PM
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2 comments:

JohnnyRockets said...

I'm thinking that the ants make that a pretty cool back.

I could see using the ants in some kind of insect attack diorama(?)


Nice find!


Johnny

October 25, 2017 at 7:00 PM
Hugh Walter said...

The beauty of all this stuff John is it can be used with any scale of figures, those worms would make nice baby spice-worms in HO/OO, but real spice-worms in 1:300 or even 1:1200 space-ship gaming!

I never really looked into it but I rememberer back at the start of the blog John put me on to HOTT which is a free download and you can use armies of anything!

H

October 26, 2017 at 2:18 PM

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