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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, November 26, 2017

F is for Follow-up to P is for Paint Your Own

Brian Berke responding to the 'Paint Your own' posts last week; sent these shelfies to Small Scale World earlier this week! Having thought there may not be Paint Your Own's on the other side of the pond he proved himself wrong by finding Decorate-Your-Own's and produced a follow-up post into the bargain!

From an outfit called Melissa & Doug, they are a bit cartoony and judging by the paint-pots; larger than the ones we looked at the other day, which explains the similar pricing, although these still come in a little cheaper than the UK sets we looked at, but equivalence in polymer used is there to be seen!

As with the more cartoony ones last week; paint will hide a multitude of sins, as the caricature'ness of them is mostly in the expression which can be hidden. Also note that the paint-strips looks very familiar, here we get lots of useful desert colours! And the brush too, is a better one than the old stiff craft things I mentioned last time.

Sea creatures, again, fill the goggle-eyes and paint well; you'll lose the slight daftness, and a lovely choice of colours with this set.

Thanks to Brian - as always; and are there any paint-your-own (or decorate!) sets in your neck of the woods?

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