. . . , a system you now know broke down
two days ago! In the meantime while I have resisted the urge to start
blanket-blogging everything sitting in the garage, I did spot this classic rack
toy in the 'Minor Makes F-J' box this evening (Tuesday), and had to post
it! And yes . . . I've cleaned my desktop since previous capcha's!
There are - among the grandees of the hobby
(whose coat-tails I hope I'm increasingly treading-on!) - those who have
suggested one or two companies did all the flocking, but in fact there
were many flocking flockers both in the UK and elsewhere, while others bought
the - relatively small - machines and did a bit of flocking themselves.
However, after the evidence of their
sourcing Wombles, Paddington and the recent heavy/cart-horse,
it's clear that as far as the colonies go, HCF
(of Essex) were the 'go-to' for flocking-flocker's to flog flocked flockings to!
The process is actually quite simple,
although there will be variations between machine-tool makers, with a
glue-sloughed product (stencilled, all-over sprayed or cut-in by hand) introduced
to a sealed-cabinet full of fine-fibres and given a shake, or blow, or a spin
while a static charge is applied to the atmosphere in the space. War-gamers can
attest to the simplicity of the tech' (if not its execution!), having
affordable hand-held equipment for flocking flat areas, or even small bases?*
Too cool for film school! Excellent
rendition of an M16 (which looks as if they were intending it to be threaded
with a sling at one point?) and if the Planet
of the Apes' movies weren't a few years earlier, you'd swear they'd used an
old Chewbacca head!
Blow-moulded polyethylene with a solid
plug-in head and the techniques are the same as for the cart-horse with
stencilled, airbrushed highlights to jacket and boots, and paper stickers for
the leather armband/gauntlet cuffs.
*Thinking out loud . . . has anyone flocked
a Leopard tank kit to represent the carpeting someone in the 1980's (Belgium,
Holland . . . or Denmark maybe?) placed
on them as a camouflage? You'd have to use very fine flock with a larger-scale
model as the carpeting was that thin-pile, carpet-tile, type stuff, I seem to
recall?
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