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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.

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A is for All Hallows' Eve - Mummy Army

Imported by Dolgencorp for Dollar General stores in the 'States and sent to the Blog by our friend in New York, Mr B, just in time for Halloween, not that I was expecting them at all, but I had seen them on Shaun's Blog a while ago and was hoping they'd appear over here somewhere, but they didn't or haven't, or not so I know it!

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These are good value with 10 figures in 10 poses, all new and while I'd agree with everything Shaun said a while ago aboutthe sculpts I'd add that while there is [also] an obvious lack of ribs, the real reason they look so skinny or cartoonish is the lack of hip-bones under the bandages, but that's more to do with the skeleton models we've got used to in the Toy Soldier collecting world; the real mummy's - when they are found - are very skinny!

Strangely: the pen & ink artwork on the rear of the card shows fatter chaps!

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All ten, both sides, cool as a burial chamber! Two unarmed, two swordsmen, two axmen, two apprentice Death's with their scythes and a couple of ex-ninja's equipped with fighting-sticks, one of which looks to be a giraffe's shin-bone!

I quite like the two unarmed ones, while the one is trying really hard to scare Scooby-doo by waving his arms around and murmuring "whoo-hoo", the other is stood there, going "Hank, dude . . . really . . . it's not working . . . "

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Close-ups of the 'scarer' pose and the base mark, these are a standard polyethylene type with enough flexibility to take rough play, but relatively un-glue'able. The 'pipe-cleaner' legs are probably another factor in their cartoonishness!

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I gave the 'armed reconnaissance troop' a scorpion light MAFV (multiple-armed fighting varmint) for 'fire-support' from the pending insects/regular return post!

While below them a quick comparison with one of last year's Previews Exclusive Nazi zombies and one of this years SCS Direct zombies, you can see they are all pretty much of a muchness height-wise, and paint would bring them all together, better. The SCS are a bit chunky and the Nazi has more or finer, etched surface detailing.

Cheer's Brian, perfect timing!

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