Grabbed these two in a charity shop back in
January, there was a bunch of them, new-old stock probably donated by Official
Receivers somewhere as being too small or invaluable a sample as to be worth
the expence of sending to a clearance auction?
Real tourist-trap tat; poured-resin in
glittery silver and copper-bronze, but when they are a few pence each and
there's ITLAPD to think about . . . well; bargain!
I think Peter Evans told me who made these
figures, the other day, while we were looking at his, but if he did - I've
forgotten who it was!
Chris Smith sent them in one of his
donations earlier in the year and I believe there is another pirate to find and
that they may go with a build-your-own plaster fort similar to the 4M Industrial one we looked at ages ago,
but which had different figures?
The two guards would make useful additions
to an Alamo setting, even if they
seem to have ray-guns! While the lower shot is a comparison with the fish-tank
ornament we looked at this time last year.
The K&M set's trunk, which I chucked in
here to keep the PVC meme flowing on that post and because it's roughly the
same size as the other two types here. I was going to dig the rest out and do a
bigger post on treasure chests but there's always next year, and no with
guarantees of keeping-up the output of the last few years ITLAPD's, it maybe
we'll see them all in 12-months!
But several have been seen, the drunken
pirate Brian B sent a couple of years ago was defending a nice chest (along
with his booze stash!), the Safari set had a nice one with a skeleton draped
over it, and there are others . . . small boats, cannons, palm trees and a
plunder trunk are the de rigueur accessories of a pirate
crew!
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