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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.

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

F is for Five Do Follow-ups

Tying-up a few loose-ends from posts recent or not so recent, with the help of various contributors, bit of an eclectic line-up, but that's very much the nature of the Blog! I'll do them in the order they've come it, most recent first.

ΑΘΗΝΑ; AϴHNAS; Aehone; African Bearers; African Natives; African Warrior Toy; Animal Flats; Aohna; Athena; Ceremonial Guards; Clown Figurine; Clown Figurines; Clowning Figure; Coca-Cola Premiums; Coke Premiums; Fanta Premiums; Flat Figures; Fontanini Clowns; Fontanini Dwarf; Greek Vintage Novelty; Greek Vintage Soldiers; Greek Warrior; Jungle Explorer; Jungle Safari; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Theo van der Weerden sent this last week as a follow-up to the previous week's post on ceremonials, four more of Athena's models of Greece's finest in their finery! The two on the right are the same as two we looked at the other day, but the two on the left are both colourways of another uniform type, and also show two of the other plug-in arms these figures come with, being the standard bearer and 'sword downwards' arms.

The sword might be meant to be held against the waist/thigh, but their definitely had their hands through the hilt, so it may be more significant? While - having handled many more of these than I have got - I know the flag-staff is very thin polystyrene, and you don't often find it in this condition . . . it's also the spear issued to Athena's ancient Greek warriors.

ΑΘΗΝΑ; AϴHNAS; Aehone; African Bearers; African Natives; African Warrior Toy; Animal Flats; Aohna; Athena; Ceremonial Guards; Clown Figurine; Clown Figurines; Clowning Figure; Coca-Cola Premiums; Coke Premiums; Fanta Premiums; Flat Figures; Fontanini Clowns; Fontanini Dwarf; Greek Vintage Novelty; Greek Vintage Soldiers; Greek Warrior; Jungle Explorer; Jungle Safari; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Ha-ha! A few weeks after I'd Blogged the weird composition hedgehog in Chris Smith's donation parcel, look what I found on a shelf in the legendary Peter Evans' abode, and which he kindly let me photograph - a whole family of them!

Peter did tell me what they were, but I immediately forgot and had to Google them . . . trying 'Belgium' and 'Holland TV Hedgehog' with little luck I broadened my reach and found this;


So that's them then! Mecki (and Macki, Micky amd Mucki) the hedgehog[s] . . . Brilliant!

ΑΘΗΝΑ; AϴHNAS; Aehone; African Bearers; African Natives; African Warrior Toy; Animal Flats; Aohna; Athena; Ceremonial Guards; Clown Figurine; Clown Figurines; Clowning Figure; Coca-Cola Premiums; Coke Premiums; Fanta Premiums; Flat Figures; Fontanini Clowns; Fontanini Dwarf; Greek Vintage Novelty; Greek Vintage Soldiers; Greek Warrior; Jungle Explorer; Jungle Safari; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
These came in a while back, the Coke-Cola/Fanta premiums (sadly still no springbok) but with the remains of paint, heavily worn, they were clearly much-played with and I initially assumed they were home-painted, but given the un-Coke-marked ones have started to turn-up in other colours and more modern plastics, it's obvious the tools have had a good life, and I offer them here as a maybe factory-painted issue, maybe home-painted curiosity?

ΑΘΗΝΑ; AϴHNAS; Aehone; African Bearers; African Natives; African Warrior Toy; Animal Flats; Aohna; Athena; Ceremonial Guards; Clown Figurine; Clown Figurines; Clowning Figure; Coca-Cola Premiums; Coke Premiums; Fanta Premiums; Flat Figures; Fontanini Clowns; Fontanini Dwarf; Greek Vintage Novelty; Greek Vintage Soldiers; Greek Warrior; Jungle Explorer; Jungle Safari; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Around the same time and while I wasn't Blogging; Chris Smith had also found the hunter that goes with the Hong Kong African's he (Chris) had already helped with, back in the Spring.

Because I had already got the show-reports done (with my similar find), these got put to one side, but I shot the bases to show the smoothness and the translucence of the brown figures, where not enough pigment has been added to the neutral granules (cost cutting), rendering them 'smoky' in the thinner sections.

ΑΘΗΝΑ; AϴHNAS; Aehone; African Bearers; African Natives; African Warrior Toy; Animal Flats; Aohna; Athena; Ceremonial Guards; Clown Figurine; Clown Figurines; Clowning Figure; Coca-Cola Premiums; Coke Premiums; Fanta Premiums; Flat Figures; Fontanini Clowns; Fontanini Dwarf; Greek Vintage Novelty; Greek Vintage Soldiers; Greek Warrior; Jungle Explorer; Jungle Safari; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Finally Brian B sent the figure on the left ages ago and I didn't add it to the recent post on them, as that was plunder . . .  while the old feebleBay image on the right shows what might be the same set but which is I suspect a 5th generation copy (compare the dickey-bow) of Brian's 4th, against the 2nd/3rd generations we saw last time (larger hats), of Fontanini's originals. Although with both Peltro and Kinder (among others) also copying them, whose generation of copy is which generation, is a moot point!

Many-thanks to Brian, Chris, Peter and Theo for the input.

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