These came from Peter Evans at the
beginning of August and although a bit tall and thin anatomically are still
rather nice and because they are a bit of a box-ticker I've jollied the post up
with some notes on storage!
These are the figures, presumably Museum
gift-shop or similar tourist-trap items, they are too similar in
height/appearance to be chess pieces (unless they are the pawns for a larger 'back-row'?) or something like that, poured resin and
70mm ignoring the base.
One of the reasons I'm not a fan of resin
figurines is that they damage or chip too easily; I broke a Mermaid the other
day, getting it off the hook in the pet shop and felt honor-bound to buy it! I
snuck-back when I saw a different girl on the tills through the plate-windows
and bought a second!
So storage has to prevent them rubbing
against each other, let alone any external influences, I do this with my two
standard click-shut or self-seal (they're not self-seal, you have to help
them!) bags, one 4x5½"
(100x150mm) per figure which were then top'n'tailed (like sardines) in a larger
5x9" (130x230mm) bag.
The
empty ends of all the bags are then folded under the figures before they are laid
in whatever is their final receptacle, this provides a bit of extra padding,
but - more importantly - all the layers of new plastic will slide around a bit if
the container is dropped or treated roughly for some reason, you know; gives
the whole parcel a bit of 'give'.
Also,
and I don't want to patronise anyone, but . . . it's a good idea to fold the
open bags over and give them a squeeze before you seal each of them to expel the maximum air -
otherwise you end-up with a pillow full of pillows and the figures WILL rattle
around and chip each-other through the plastic films!
Cheers
Peter - They're lovely and will be looked after!
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