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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Monday, September 24, 2018

HO is for Lone Star Germans


Just a box ticker to get something up here for this afternoon! The Lone Star Germans reduced somewhat!

25mm Lone Star; Afrika Korps; DAK; German Infantry; German Soldiers; HO - OO Figures; Land Rovers; Landy; Lone Star; Lone Star German Infantry; Lone Star HO; Lone Star Land Rover; Lone Star Nazis; N-Gauge Land Rovers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Treble-O-Trains; War Games Figures;
This is the contents of a full set, almost certainly from the D-Day play-set with large vac-form, you get (got; 60+-years ago!) eight each of the six figure poses downscaled to an HO-gauge compatible 23-odd millimetre size along with two of the sub-scale (N-gauge) Land Rovers from the Treble-O-Trains range range, but in a dark olive, satin finish, rather than the bright, gloss red, black or British racing-green of the railway versions, giving a 50-piece count - 100 with the Paratrooper opo's; we'll look at another day.

The painting here has been restricted to a stab-and-hope dash of matt, flesh-pink in the vague areas of the face and hands - check-out the flame-thrower operators!

25mm Lone Star; Afrika Korps; DAK; German Infantry; German Soldiers; HO - OO Figures; Land Rovers; Landy; Lone Star; Lone Star German Infantry; Lone Star HO; Lone Star Land Rover; Lone Star Nazis; N-Gauge Land Rovers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Treble-O-Trains; War Games Figures;
Later they seem to have done service as Chinese troops (probably referring to the Korean conflict) with an all-over gloss-red hat and while one might be tempted to imagine that this headgear embellishment was home painting; note that A) the flesh (better registered) is also now gloss and . . .

25mm Lone Star; Afrika Korps; DAK; German Infantry; German Soldiers; HO - OO Figures; Land Rovers; Landy; Lone Star; Lone Star German Infantry; Lone Star HO; Lone Star Land Rover; Lone Star Nazis; N-Gauge Land Rovers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Treble-O-Trains; War Games Figures;
. . . B) another out-painter has gone with a more detailed attempt at the red-star, Chinese troops (and later the Vietcong) carried on their soft hats; both colours are also in a gloss-finish.

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