B is for British Bobby

It's a funny one, but occasionally something so stupid comes out of Paul Stadinger's tiny mind it's worth a laugh, and this is one of those occasions.

I try quite hard not to park my tanks on other people's lawns, and if I have to, or think I'm going to I will usually post a link of homage to the earlier event, or tip a nod to the site I feel I may otherwise offend, the obvious example would be Halloween.

And - for the same reasons - if someone posts something I also have in the queue, I will usually hold-off on my post for a while until the dust settles, and probably re-write the blurb to give it a different 'take', theme or angle to the other, earlier post.

Sometimes - in the case of stadsshite - I have ignored that 'rule' and  with purpose as I did with the Asian flats (and something else recently I've already forgotten) as I'm keen to see this mythical collection of TJF's and having seen precious little evidence of it so far; try to encourage him, which seems to work - witness this post and all his plinth'ed Marx recently!

But a while ago, I was preparing an article which meandered rather from nurses, through medics to stretcher bearers and ended up with policemen. A week or two before I posted, the shitestuff blog happened to show - as a 'don't know' (he doesn't know much it seems from the last 12 months activities there, or even the last few weeks!) - one of the policemen I, too, was about to show! Mr Carrick of this parish (but firmly affiliated to the PSTSM) identified it as Cavendish.

"Well (I thought) I'm not pulling a post for the sake of a couple of common-enough figures, on that twits site" and ran with it regardless, it was more about the Mettoy hospital stuff anyway, but I ID'd mine as Kentoy or Cavendish as I wasn't sure which one I had or how to tell between the two. Then two days later . . .

. . . this happened! Let's play 'I've got one of those too!' shall we? Yes - lets!

Pathetic on several levels, firstly; that a 'legend' (his word not mine) feels the need to prove himself against an amateur like me, second; I'd shown three versions, so he's only actually saying 'I haven't got as many as him' anyway, third; waxing lyrical about something he'd know nothing about, a few weeks earlier and needed prompting on, and  . . .

. . . finally he's not going to believe the other one is from Hong Kong until somebody - he trusts - holds his hand and tells him it's going to be alright! It's too funny. In attempting to question my knowledge, he ends up looking both childish and stupid; I only look childish in these posts!

As I'm sure he receives all the PW Specials he seems to have missed all the 'knowledge base' contained within both the Kentoy and Cavendish publications on the subject, remaining in the dark and needing help?

Of course not - he's having a dig and why not; he has to save-face somehow! It's just that he keeps choosing the wrong way to go about it, or the wrong targets . . . or both! That reminds me - I have to return to Tatra (deal with his pre-Crimbo nonsense), but in the meantime; if it's 'I've got one of those' we're playing . . .

. . . I've got four! Because another one came in at some point after the last post! I'm pretty sure - for reasons that will become clear - mine (far left figure) is in fact a Kentoy issued/painted moulding, but that doesn't mean it wasn't issued by Cavendish as I believe they obtained all the Kentoy stock, which would have included finished, ready-to-retail figures.

The second figure looks as if it's been removed from one of the Guard's sentry boxes, but I suspect it's been torn from a snow-globe?

WRONG! I've got six, some more have come in - that's what happens when you're a collector, rather than a dealer; you accrue stuff - sometimes at an alarming rate!

No, not really, I'm lying (for the cause of dramatic effect!); the 'storage' stuff has been added to the 'here' stuff along with the figures erroneously left in the mixed constabulary tub, while a boxed-set I was waiting-on from Christmas came-in at Sandown Park the other day!

From the left, Kentoy, Cavendish, Hong Kong 60mm copy and three paint-treatments of the HK 54mm piracy. The reason I believe the left hand one is Kentoy's is down to the matt-green base; Cavendish - although using matt paint for Guards bandsmen and Henry VIII bases, seem to have preferred gloss for most of their lines?

The base marking of the 60mm's is similar to Blue Box road-menders, but also some Lucky stuff (or sub-Lucky?), so it proves nothing, the three above being numbered 2 (policeman), 3 (Guardsman) and 4 (Houshold Cavalry - in this case Horse Guards, or 'Blues'). The Number 5 mark goes to the Beefeater (seen here [nine] years ago), which leaves a hunt for number 1?

Strangely - it was the Lifeguard ('The Royals'), who although resembling the Horse Guard in every other respect needed to be run in a different colour polymer, which would leave a single mould suffering twice as much wear as the other 'three'? A duplicate tool for a five count left them all ageing/wearing at the same rate!

Now, they were probably five cavities in a single tool (I've assumed five . . . or two (red and blue) tools for the sake of argument in the previous paragraph!) which might mean that a lot of red policemen and blue Guards and Beefeaters went straight-back for re-grind, but I suspect the cavities could be blanked-off between colour-runs.

I seem to have shot this in 2013, probably when it came in (PW show?) and if I don't use it now, it will never be used and just sit there on the dongle like the proverbial 'spare penis' at a wedding!

Returning to the jabbering fuckwit, back in October of last year he accused me of telling him not to copy me;

"One final thing don’t tell me not to copy you. First I will not copy your information Hugh. Second if  I cover the same item it will be on a different aspect of the figure.  Final he does not bother me at all.  Just very sad person who needs to channel his hate somewhere else."

That'll be two final things then! Too funny . . . or 'two' funny! But I what actually said was;

"If you're going to sit in my dust copying my recent output, at least try to get it right!"

Accepting both that he would continue to take his lead from my blog (which he is consistently so doing) and accepting that he keeps getting it wrong, which he consistently continues to!

He added nothing - by way of a 'new aspect' to the police reprise, except to name-drop and act knowledgeable about a subject which had been strange to him a few weeks earlier (without crediting the person who put him right), and in recent weeks he has failed to identify Chromoplasto (some of the most distinctive Spanish rubber out there) despite correcting me - a year ago - on 70-year old odd Spanish rubber figures I was 100% sure I didn't know, he's substituted one company's name for another and he got his Cherilea and Charbens mixed-up . . . again!

That knowledge-base of his [not] working overtime! I don't know why he bothers with Cherilea or Charbens, he always gets them wrong* - despite presumably having the PW Specials? What a legend . . . Ladies and Gentlemen; call me a 'pesky kid' if you must, but I'm telling you - the 'Emperor' has no clothes! The mighty 'legend' is a straw-dog.

In conclusion; the message seems to be - don't trust what I say, ring somebody else in the UK you can trust and ask them, don't ask TJF; he doesn’t know!

*I've got them wrong too; with the [Cherilea] foal, but there's a follow-up on that, forming in the long-queue!