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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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, September 13, 2019

M is for Mounted Mounties Moseying Majestically in . . . Somewhere Beginning with M

Montreal! Mounted Mounties Moseying Majestically in Montreal!

Following on from yesterday's (where this was originally scheduled to be third post!) ceremonial cavalry types; these were also sat in Picasa, they've been there since 2011 (and this is their third PC/Laptop-home I think!), and are from my attempts at 'realistic' photographs back at the time.

Britains Eyes Right; Britains Toy Soldiers; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Mounted Figures; Mounted Police; Mountie's; Mounties; Plastic RCMP; Police; Police Figures; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Ceremonials; Timpo Toys; Toy RCMP; Vintage Mounties; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage RCMP; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
Britains 'Eyes Right' Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (RCMP) on the left and Timpo's solid 'Mountie' on the right - I have a feeling I may have used one of these shots in the past and asked then; which saddle is the more accurate?

Britains Eyes Right; Britains Toy Soldiers; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Mounted Figures; Mounted Police; Mountie's; Mounties; Plastic RCMP; Police; Police Figures; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Ceremonials; Timpo Toys; Toy RCMP; Vintage Mounties; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage RCMP; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
I played with the next image using the basic tools in Picasa, and reading from the top middle image you can see the original colour shot, a sepia-toned version, a black-and-white picture, an enhanced variation of the B&W one and finally the antiqued one, also below; . . .

Britains Eyes Right; Britains Toy Soldiers; Hugh Walter; Hugh Walter's Blog; Mounted Figures; Mounted Police; Mountie's; Mounties; Plastic RCMP; Police; Police Figures; RCMP; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Timpo Ceremonials; Timpo Toys; Toy RCMP; Vintage Mounties; Vintage Plastic Figures; Vintage Plastic Soldiers; Vintage RCMP; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers;
. . . with the addition of a boarder! They had to be cropped-off at the horse's knees to hide the Britains horse's base, I learnt the 'touch-up' tool later! Up on the hill, looking for miscreants; they should try Pennsylvania!

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