The doll matched the Lifeguard I picked up
a few weeks ago, with the same hand and head sculpts, and as I was planning a
Beefeater round-up at some point, I grabbed him - not knowing an interesting
one (Beefeater, not doll!) was in the postal-system from Chris Smith, although
there was an interesting mini-doll from Chris too!
I have run searches for Morph figures in
the past occasionally; feeling sure there must have been some, if only
key-rings or similar so I was chuffed-to-nuts to find the big bendy toy!
Bau-ouhh!
The SPG (as close to war as you'll get on SSW at this time of year!) is a late model (still in service)
M109-upgrade, made in China, around 1:50th or 1:55th maybe? The 'Santa' is
either the worst resin teddy-bear Santa you ever saw, or the worst resin mouse
Santa you ever saw, it really isn't clear, but it was 50p!
The Robot! He' a bit simplistic, but he's a
Robot, and an eraser, so into the collection he goes, made in a clever fashion
too, the pieces are both extrusions and over moulds, achieved by setting
several injector heads together, each feeding through a shaped chamber beyond
the end of the injection nozzle.
The whole is then carefully laid on a
timed-speed conveyor to produce a long, bi- or multi-coloured 'loaf' which is
then sliced to produce the components. Easy'ish (I once operated an extruder at
Rotamould in Camberly) on the arms
and legs which only require two injectors, but the body is far harder, although I suspect the
control-panel was formed separately and then fed through a cold gate as the
grey and black was formed around-it?
As I would have heat-problems with just the
one nozzel at least twice a day, god knows how much down-time this lot
generated, and that's before you consider the conveyor speeding-up and
stretching the product, keeping several hoppers filled with base-material,
watching the eyes move as the heat and pressure bends the fine shaped injector,
etc . . . etc . . .!
But . . . it may be a cold-setting
material, more like working with play-dough? I don't know how this eraser
rubber is made! It would still need multiple shaped gates and extruders, so the
long-winded bit above still has reason!!
He's a Tobar
item so Hawkin's Bazaar and therefore might be Accoutrements/Archie McFee in the US?
Ha-ha-ha-ha-Haah! My Robot eraser army is
invincible and you can add the Diener
Industries ones we looked at ten
years ago at the start of the blog and a couple of other smaller ones in the
unknown robot box from storage to these!
These have all come in in the last two or
three years, and with duplicates there are now nine here, so they were in need
of . . .
. . . a new home! Standard deep-sided
takeaway-tub will do for now.
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