Branded to the museum, this gun is too big
for 54mm; Brian reports, but it may be fine for larger figurines, Elastolin's 70mm's maybe? It's almost a
scale-up of the old pencil-sharpener 'standard' of museum gift-shops in the
1970's and '80's, albeit without the sharpener! But the decoration (a sort of
antiqued bronze effect and gilded barrel) is very similar to those older
novelties.
I'm rather intrigued by the hint of working,
wooden cannon - off stage right! It's just what you need for 'Little Wars'.
Brian was equally disappointed by this lump
of poured resin, which - conversely - is smaller than 54mm! As you know I'm no
fan of resin, it's a cheap technology which ends-up in High Street 'jewellers'
windows as over-priced series of 'adult collectables' and at $12.99 this is
about ten-dollars more than I think it's worth! Paperweight?
However, resin has its place and I do show
it from time to time (Brian's Kung Fu/Ninjas the other day and we'll be seeing
another bear soon!) and if you were to find one in a junk shop for a couple of
dollars it'd paint-up well; it's a reasonable sculpt?
And that was it for 'Toy Soldier'-related
stuff in the gift shop. Thanks again Brian.
Hugh, your 'imagining' is accurate. With such a great diorama the lack of follow-up by the shop was sad.
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