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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, August 7, 2019

PW4 is for Polymer Player Paul Plucks Plastic Plectrum in Purple Pumps!

Or R is for Rockola, Replicants and Ruddy Hell; He's Only Gorn and Touched the Big Seven-Oh!

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!

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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!

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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!

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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?


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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!

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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!

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"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:

Paul Morehead said...

You’re right; I have been called a clever plucker. (I think that’s what he said.)

Hugh Walter said...

I can believe that! A little bird told me the 'beer' was Jack Daniels!

H