Spot the bar of posh, imported, scented, craft
soap . . .
. . . and the cat! This is definitely a
polymer, but I haven't the faintest idea what type or how it's done. The base
looks like a sanded resin figure, except there is no sign of the marbling
whatsoever, and the feel of the plastic is more like polyethylene. There is a
small ZEN mark near the base
Also, if you look at the marbling it has
the same fault-lines running through it as the old oil-on-water marbling of
ancient tome's end-papers or page-edges. This shouldn't be possible if the
marbling is formed by two colours being injected as a mix, as they would string
and swirl in the fashion we know from old toys? Or the spurious bar of Thai
soap above!
Therefore, however hard it is to believe -
and I can only guess at the techniques involved - it would appear that a single
colour moulding has been rolled or dipped in a polymer 'float' which has been
kept molten, or soft-enough, for long enough to add the fault-lines, probably
with wires - as you would with the oil-on-water method of yore?
It's large; about 60mm, and clearly some
kind of art or craft piece pretending to be an actual marble mantle-ornament
type thing, and will go with the miscellaneous cats, I'll Google it when I
upload the article and if I find anything the link will appear . . . here! Nothing! The choice of Zen as a mark not helping; pages of cat Buddha's!
Tom (of the music Blog) sent me these
back in the summer, I'm pretty sure it's the same Midori that we know/remember as KSN-Midori
(Sakai / Riko) from their
clip-together AFV's and space toys back in the 1970's, which had kinetic
flywheel push-and-go motors you could cut your fingers open-on; folding-back
the mounting tabs!
Tom posed them with an Airfix Multipose 'Tommy' who looks less than pleased to be sharing
his patrol duty with four well-fed felines! As Tom put it; "perhaps he’s allergic to cat fur"!
I'm not sure where the magnets are; they
look to be fully-round sculpting, so not yer'average fridge magnets? Maybe they
push and pull themselves around like the old novelty magnetic cars, Scottie-dogs
or kissing couples of yesteryear's joke shops?
I've tried finding them on t'Internet with
no luck, so you'll have to pop-over to Japan or Australia if you want some!
Meanwhile I've been waiting ages to have an
excuse to use these which Brian Berke sent to the blog back in February, a New
York store-cat who knows exactly which Very Important Place to guard!
Talk
& Train two-way wireless??? . . . "Calling all cats, calling all cats..."
What's interesting is that 'over-here' on
the other side of the pond we call the Temptations
shown above 'Dreamies', our Temptations are twice the size of Dreamies and come in Felix-logo cat head shaped, pink tubs!
Would I lie to you - it's like crack for cats! I was hoping to shoot
the cat-head Felix tub, but we're
out!
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