And so to the teeming metropolis of
Farnborough for a month's supply of vapeing ancillaries, and a swift visit to a
couple of charity shops they have there . . .
This lot owes me the grand total of
£4.50p! and the most expensive item was the board-game from Ravensburger with the four fairies at
two-quid! The Carrara/Fontanini
(Italianate Fusilier?) from the other shop was a pound-and-a-half which even
I'll concede is a bargain; I usually have to pay 4-7-quid each for them, while the
Supreme Indian was thrown in with the
two dinosaurs for a quid; back in Fleet later the same day.
The Fontanini
was in the window along with about 9 ceramic ones of similar size, from two
sources, one having better paint, the other thinner bases. I didn't look at the
prices as I know I would have bought them all if they were a similar price to
the plastic one, and while it may be a bargain, I can't buy everything!
Also the Fontanini has a shop-sticker on his base saying Rotated
- Week 18, which means he's moved shop [unsold] at least three times -
stock tends to get four weeks in one store? As is own sticker is off-centre and
there's a chip to the other side of the plinth, I may remove him from the
marble and have him as a stand-alone 160mm figure - with plinth and headdress
plume he's currently 190-mil' in total.
The fairies - from the game Disney Fairies Magical Flower Garden Game
- all look similar but are different poses and I've already christened them
'Hot Pants' (white), 'Miniskirt' (pink), 'Twin Set' (yellow) and 'Grecian Wrap'
(blue), although they are almost impossible to photograph in that
semi-transparent/translucent 'jelly-baby' vinyl!
The Protoceratops was interesting as he/she
seems to be a pre-WHSmith version of
the ones I was buying from the same store a couple of years ago . . . last
year? Anyway, the previously purchased one is the left of each shot, and you
can see the new addition has better definition in the moulding, different eye
treatments and marginally better (or 'less lazy') paint.
I was buying them on-offer, occasionally, in
a three-for-a-fiver deal - I think - but can't remember if I posted them all? I
only got the nine, leaving a pterodactyl and plesiosaur that I remember -
probably a couple of others that didn't leap out at me - and which will come in
over time anyway, like the most recent recruit to the 'herd'!
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