Aaaand, take a deep breath and return to
English as it was intended (typos excluded!). ITLAPD is really an excuse
for faceplanter's and tweet-twits to talk silly to each other in Starbucks
or at work, here at Small Scale World it's a hook I've used to hang Pirate posts on over the years .
. . when I remember to!
The key ring was sent by Mr. Berke of New
York with the others we looked at ages ago, but this one had to be saved for
today! I think the eye pops-out when you squeeze it! Can't quite make out the
importer's brand-logo but it looks like Kalan
(or Kalin)? Cheers Brian!
On the left an unmarked resin pirate bear
which was included in a mixed lot from somewhere recently; Charity shop I
think? On the right a yellow version of some silver ones I thing we've seen
before, in every other way (than not being a Ninja) he is the same as those
Ninja's Peter Evans sent a couple of months ago, so probably RedBox elsewhere and HGL here?
Similar fodder, no idea as to origins - beyond
'China' - but there will be more of them and I'll track them down for next
year's ITLAPD maybe, or the year after! Thanks to Peter for these three too!
These are all over feebleBay at the moment
(BIN, free direct-post from China), and looking at the common'ish accessories,
the figures are on the large size; 60/70mm? I have been tempted to get them for
this year's ITLAPD but the low number of figures per lot and the unknown
quantity of poses sort of put me off, again; maybe for next year!
Looking at them again just now made me
wonder if they mightn't be propylene copies of old Schleich or Papo sculpts, they both 'do' this size, and both have (or have had) a man carrying a cannon on his shoulder, not exact copies, but based-on?
This chap is also in the large bracket and
is one of the few figures you can still find in older corner shops being sold
loose from a shop-stock box, softish PVC-substitute and a bit cartoony, he's
the only one I've got so far, but you see them (and a similar, equally base-less, set with poorer
paint) on eBay quite a bit, so another one we'll return to when I get more of
the set.
Picked this up at PW's show in May, my first small scale pirate from Fontanini (got
the African warriors out of storage the other day, so we'll see them here in
the autumn). He's a creamy white ('ivorene') polyethylene, stained down by way
of 'antiquing' or aging with a sepia wash and is one of the better pirates
we'll look at here all day!
Oh!
Are we sorting pirate's boss? I'll look in here to see if it's big enough for
me...ny, err, 'many' pirates to fit in!
Nah!
Too small, but that plastic one looks better for cats...taing lots of pirates
boss! Just need to empty it so someone in admin can . . . err . . . try it for size. I'd
delegate, but . . . YAWWN . . . as I'm here, I might as well . . . ?
So that's the 'Odd's and Sods' up-first this year; next-up - Soma's dwarfen fatties, or is it the PSTSM in mufti?!! Do you suppose Dildoheft Hildabrand had to pose his cat on that pile of stuff, or is it entirely co-incidence they keep publishing stuff that resembles stuff seen here first? They are too funny, in their transparent stupidity . . . pirates really!
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