D is for Desperate Diggers Doing Dark Deeds

Or maybe just carving a latrine into the beach! But to be fair, it's commonly a dead-man's chest, or a live man - up-to the neck . . . or a casket of plunder, that requires a hole to be dug!

I picked up another Charbens digging pirate at some point, then Peter sent me a reissue he had painted (main images above), so although we ticked that box years ago, I dug-out (geddit!) all the Charbens diggers for a comparison.

All four? I don't know how I ended-up with four but the camera doesn't lie! Variation between the Charbens seems limited to shade of paint, with a strict-enough pattern being followed by the out-painters, while Peter's is more realistically-muted in the palate used.

Also this chap came-in from somewhere, possibly Peter Evans, I thought he was one of the Tim Mee baseless figure, of whom I have a few somewhere which we looked at years ago, with the Charbens I think? But he's not! He's my first Plasticraft, and he needs some black marker-pen to be removed which may prove problematical. He's about 80mm but would be closer to 90 if he straightened-up!