One of the nicest surprises at the PW show
was a special figure from Peter Cole at Replicants,
made to celebrate the 70th year (or 70's years?!!) of our estimable editor and
all-round good-egg; Paul Morehead. The surprise being shared between both
attendees and Mr. Morehead who had no idea the figure was going to be there!
Groovey-Scot Farmer of the Applegate
Experience - '67 man!
Peter and Paul have been close since long-before I've been getting Plastic Warrior magazine, each helping the other with
their respective projects and problems, whether practical . . . sculpting and
moulding plastics, or historical; where Britains
and Herald have dominated, so I think
it's really nice that Peter went to this much trouble.
And, I don't know who painted the figure
but look at that face - that's Paul . .
. with sideburns!
As if there was any doubt; the tale was
explained on a little info-card on the day, and figures were available for sale
for those of us who needed a voodoo pin-cushion! Joking! To be fair he hasn't
changed that much, but if I had the chance to judge for myself, I missed it, as
he only told me he'd gigged a pub round the corner, after the event!
I bought one! I'm going to have a stab at
painting it at some point, but something a little more subdued than the
show-sample, leather and denim maybe?
Paul Rocks!
I done did a .gif! This is it! It needed a
scaler, or at least I thought so, Mr Morehead clearly had other ideas about
sharing the stage with a berserker!
A few close-ups of the axe-man, out of the
pack, there's quite a large undercut filled-in behind the gwi'tar but it looks
easy enough to trim back and will be below the eye-line in any normal event,
unless you mount/display it way above head-hight!
"How
much did I drink last night?"
The word on the street is that 'Pluckin'
Paul' would play '...any band, for beer!',
and this old archive image of him and Hillbert Grape backing for Bat
Fink & The Screamer at the Teamster
stadium in Toytown, Toysylvania would seem to go some way to proving the truth
of that particular rumour!
2 comments:
You’re right; I have been called a clever plucker. (I think that’s what he said.)
I can believe that! A little bird told me the 'beer' was Jack Daniels!
H
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