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!
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!
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!
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