This is a luscious thing, it's manufactured
in the same way as Matchbox or Hotwheel cars in a Zamac/k - Mazac
alloy, following a small tradition; with Monogram
(WWII and Vietnam) and Kenner (Star Wars) having both produced similar
figures in the 1980's.
But what sets this apart from those
previous stabs at 'die-cast smalls' (they're bang-on 40mm) is a coat of paint
which is as smooth and shiny as a smooth and shiny thing which has gone to
university and been elected professorial-head of the faculty of Smooth &
Shiny Things' department of Really Smooth & Really Shiny Things!
When I get something I really like I tend
to rip the arse out of the imagery, I really like this so here's a bunch more
images! Did I say it's (she's) really smooth and shiny? It's like she's been
enamelled in a kiln used for painting limousines!
The fact that it's mostly metallic paint
may have something to do with it, her hair is flat gloss and her flesh is a
semi-matt or silk finish, but the red and blue feel a mile deep!
Scan of the card, it's the card - I scanned
it! Joking aside I scan about 50/60 items per month for the archive (a lot of it will end-up on the A-Z Blogs as 'supporting paperwork'), once it's
scanned it can be thrown away, I don't throw anything away of course; I'm a
bloody squirrel, but I do collapse everything flat and pile it in A4 sized Really Useful boxes in no particular
order as 'long term' storage.
With perfect timing Terranova sent me
these the same day I started the two post's folders (goodbye to the Toysaurus later today) and they're
shelfies of the Disney figurines
(below) and more DC above. Cat-Babe
seems to be in flares - flares are back - again! And she seems to be about to
have a fist-fight with a lady trucker!
Again it seems The Riddler and the Girl Bat
both make use of the metallic finish to equally good effect, Batman's grey is
also a gunmetal I think, while the other two ladies are - or look to be - all
over flat gloss colours?
No squeaky-voiced rodents (phew!) but an
odd mix of Alice in Wonderland,
Donald Duck and what looks like a Manga character - Lilo - from Lilo and Stitch.
Metallics have again been used for all reds
and blues, but look at the Cheshire Cat, metallic pink fur with over-stripes in
a heliotrope puce-pink and candy -pink smile, these are really luscious
figurines! Also, it's never occurred to me but Bagpuss is - technically at least - an old Cheshire Cat
stuffed-toy, because I think the Disney
movie came first?
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