About Me

My photo
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.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

P is for Pack of Paint and Pirates

I have forgotten the origins of several items in this year's Pirate Posts; it comes of trying to keep track of thousands of things and truffling a few away every few days or weeks, through the year for ITLAPD!

So, this may have come from Peter Evans who has sent several parcels to the Blog since last year's ITLAPD, it may have come from Brian Burke who's also sent stuff which hasn't been H is for How . . . 'd as I'm waiting on Blogging some bits from it, or it may have been saved for me by Adrian Little, or bought by me at Sandown Park in March, where I both saw Adrian and bough a bunch of rack-toys?

I really can't remember, and there are no clues in Picasa beyond the fact that I shot the pictures at the end of March? So I will thank all three for all their help and support for the Blog over the last year while trying to convince myself it may have been a charity-shop find . . . or even a Hawkin's Bazzar purchase in Basingrad! But I'll tag it 'contribution' anyway!

09721; 5 038728 050897; Carded Pirate Set; Hawkin Tobar; Hawkin's Bazaar; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkins Bazaar; Hawkins's Bazaar; International Talk Like A Pirate Day; ITLAPD; Jue De Peinture Pirate; Made in China; Paint Your Own; Pirat Der Bastelmetz Malt; Pirate Day; Pirate Novelty; Pirate Painting Set; Pirate Set; Pirate Toy; Pirates; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Talk Like A Pirate; Tobar Pirate Set; Tobar Toys;
This is the thing anyway, and how cool is it? Too cool for art-school, that's for sure! Perfect 54mm figures (I wonder if there's a second set of three other poses in the full line?), unpainted, which four paints and a brush, the brush being one of those naff kiddies ones with stiff bristles cut flat and only of use for stippling - thankfully being phases out of even the cheapest craft sets buy a better generation of 'cheap' brush from China, which are closer in design/construction to 'proper brushes, just made of short-lived bristle material!

09721; 5 038728 050897; Carded Pirate Set; Hawkin Tobar; Hawkin's Bazaar; Hawkin's Bazar; Hawkins Bazaar; Hawkins's Bazaar; International Talk Like A Pirate Day; ITLAPD; Jue De Peinture Pirate; Made in China; Paint Your Own; Pirat Der Bastelmetz Malt; Pirate Day; Pirate Novelty; Pirate Painting Set; Pirate Set; Pirate Toy; Pirates; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Talk Like A Pirate; Tobar Pirate Set; Tobar Toys;
Normally I'd leave them on the card, but as it's a modern set (from the Tobar graphics) and they were such nice figures, I whipped them out for a closer look! As stated they are 54mm and a softish modern PVC-replacement polymer.

We have three standard tropes, with a slight twist; the de rigueur treasure chest man, the slightly Asian-looking, mean-looking oriental cutlass man, and a 'hook hand', but he's actually using a cargo-net/large fish handling hook (which may have a colloquial name?), rather than having a hook-hand!

No comments: