4D is for Famemaster

Just a quick one from the full-scale world, it looked better in the 'flesh' as it were; I promise, the colours were richer and worth getting the camera out for!

We have reached the point where more than half the leaves still on the trees becomes more than half the leaves on the ground, and the switching between rain and frost over this weekend will do for autumn and it'll be winter for a while.

I shot the 1st picture above on a trip to Basingrad to pick-up stollen-bites from Lidl last Thursday! They are much nicer than stollen-loaf or stollen-roll both of which are too bready and too marzipany for me, but Lidl's stollen-bites are biscuity yet soft . . . like little spiced rock-cakes; excellent. Four packs in the stash . . . well three-and-a-bit packs, I opened one on the way home!

I popped into the charity shops while I was walking through town and picked this up for 45p! It's by 4D Master who made the puzzle Tiger (tank) we looked at over seven years ago (link), and this is really quite exquisite; 22 pre-decorated pieces which have to be assembled.

Undergoing construction, it was relatively easy for me but then I'm over the hill; it should be; a younger person would get more fun from it, but the finished product is worth the effort whatever your skill level.

Normally I wouldn't buy stuff like this and they haven't featured in The Works as far as I know (as the tanks did), but when it's in a Charity shop for pennies; it's a must and something different for the Blog.

A very fine model of a Red Kangaroo, certainly giving Mr. William Britains' old grey model a run for its money, both heads turn and while the Joey can be removed you only have his upper-half and a square, peg hole scar in Mum's pouch.

Without the packaging I'm assuming (again!) it's supposed to be a red kangaroo as . . . err . . . it's not grey! But I know there are lots of kangaroos, including Giant ones, while nobody's explained Wallabies to me, are they somehow different in shape; or just small kangaroos?

And if they are just small kangaroos, how come the giant kangaroo hasn't got its own name like 'wallaby', but suggesting largeness as opposed to smallness . . . this stuff should keep you awake at night; we've put men on the moon, but the jumping-mice are all mix-named!

He's definitely a giant, red or not! A few I had near to hand as a comparison, obviously the larger you get the better the detail and the more accurate the sculpt ought to be (tell that to Cherilea's UN forces!), and the puzzle joins don't detract too much from the whole; although the camera-flash helped with this shot - compare with the four-angle above...

As I was putting away the previous lot I remembered I had more Hong Kong produced generics, so a panic shot, posed on the bottom of the box ensued!