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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.

Friday, July 19, 2019

W is for Wimblebum!

I don't know why we called it Wimblebum, I guess it was all part of the small boys' mentality of 'urrh, girls' and those frilly-knickers they wore so obviously back in the 70's to hide their modesty, like pink meringue-nappies? Now they display the contours of their labia and we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed - which is odd, because Linford Christie* got tons of sniggery-flack from the tabloids, for his 'lunchbox'?

100mm Doll-Scale; 50mm Gem; 65mm Plastic Figures; 70mm Wilton's; 90mm Doll-Scale; Cake Decoration; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decoration Sportsmen; Cake Tennis Players; Cakeboards; Cullpits; Culpitt; Culpitt's; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Culpitt's Tennis Players; Frilly-Knickers; Gem; Gem's Sports Figures; Gem's Sportsmen; Gemodels; GeModels Tennis Players; Hong Kong for Culpitt; Kat 817 2; Kat 817A 1; Knightsbridge PME Ltd.; Lunchbox; Plastic Tennis Players; PME Cake Decorations; PVC bases; Small Scale; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sportswomen; Tennis Players; Vintage PVC Figures; Vintage Tennis Players; Wilton; Wilton Tennis Players; Wilton's Tennis Players; Wimblebum; Wimbledon;
In cake decoration-land they are still back in the '70's so I won't have to activate the adult-content button just yet! On the left in each shot are Gemodels/Culpitt's (larger example above and smaller pair below) older figure, on the right the current replacements; findable under different brands including PME Knightsbridge and Wilton.

Size is approximately: 50mm; Gem and 70mm; 'Wilton's', who are really 65mm due to the deep bases and accurately 90/100mm-doll-scale compatible, being obviously children!

100mm Doll-Scale; 50mm Gem; 65mm Plastic Figures; 70mm Wilton's; 90mm Doll-Scale; Cake Decoration; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decoration Sportsmen; Cake Tennis Players; Cakeboards; Cullpits; Culpitt; Culpitt's; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Culpitt's Tennis Players; Frilly-Knickers; Gem; Gem's Sports Figures; Gem's Sportsmen; Gemodels; GeModels Tennis Players; Hong Kong for Culpitt; Kat 817 2; Kat 817A 1; Knightsbridge PME Ltd.; Lunchbox; Plastic Tennis Players; PME Cake Decorations; PVC bases; Small Scale; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sportswomen; Tennis Players; Vintage PVC Figures; Vintage Tennis Players; Wilton; Wilton Tennis Players; Wilton's Tennis Players; Wimblebum; Wimbledon;
The Gem's en masse; I suspect the larger sculpting (four left-hand girls and first two figures to the left of the boys) is actually the latter, it tends to two-colours and/or an unpainted base while the smaller figures tend to a three colour paint-job, but it's not a hard-and-fast rule, with some three colour larger figures and some two colour smaller figures. And indeed it may be not two generations, but rather a four-cavity tool?

100mm Doll-Scale; 50mm Gem; 65mm Plastic Figures; 70mm Wilton's; 90mm Doll-Scale; Cake Decoration; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decoration Sportsmen; Cake Tennis Players; Cakeboards; Cullpits; Culpitt; Culpitt's; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Culpitt's Tennis Players; Frilly-Knickers; Gem; Gem's Sports Figures; Gem's Sportsmen; Gemodels; GeModels Tennis Players; Hong Kong for Culpitt; Kat 817 2; Kat 817A 1; Knightsbridge PME Ltd.; Lunchbox; Plastic Tennis Players; PME Cake Decorations; PVC bases; Small Scale; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sportswomen; Tennis Players; Vintage PVC Figures; Vintage Tennis Players; Wilton; Wilton Tennis Players; Wilton's Tennis Players; Wimblebum; Wimbledon;
Like the cricketers - we've looked at here before - there is a set of slightly different copies in a soft PVC; unmarked but probably from Hong Kong for Culpitt, and sharing the bright spring/apple green bases of those Test-Match players.

The lower-shot compares large, small and PVC bases, in that order from the left.

100mm Doll-Scale; 50mm Gem; 65mm Plastic Figures; 70mm Wilton's; 90mm Doll-Scale; Cake Decoration; Cake Decoration Figures; Cake Decoration Sportsmen; Cake Tennis Players; Cakeboards; Cullpits; Culpitt; Culpitt's; Culpitt's Cake Decorations; Culpitt's Tennis Players; Frilly-Knickers; Gem; Gem's Sports Figures; Gem's Sportsmen; Gemodels; GeModels Tennis Players; Hong Kong for Culpitt; Kat 817 2; Kat 817A 1; Knightsbridge PME Ltd.; Lunchbox; Plastic Tennis Players; PME Cake Decorations; PVC bases; Small Scale; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Sportswomen; Tennis Players; Vintage PVC Figures; Vintage Tennis Players; Wilton; Wilton Tennis Players; Wilton's Tennis Players; Wimblebum; Wimbledon;
Base marking for the two modern, juvenile types seen in the first image, no real clues to anything here!

The 'Kat' is probably, but not necessarily; 'catalogue number', it could be a manufacturer or client code, the 817 will be a stock code, the girl is suffixed 'A' and (cavity?) 1, the boy gets a 2, but no suffix and they are a hard polystyrene, to Gem's mostly unmarked PE's.

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* Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. [Wikipedia]

And . . . YES! IT's a week late!

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