ITLAPD is for It's That Lingo-Affectation Post's Day . . . Aahhaarrrrr!

It'be thart toime o'yere again! Interr'national Talk Loik a Poirate Day! Which in this'ere neck o'the woods means moiself,  troi'in to wroit a West-contrymaan's aahkcent . . . poorrrly! Aahhaarrrrr . . . to the Poirates, mee'harrrtiees; to the Poirates . . .

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!