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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.

Friday, October 4, 2019

O is for Organic Growth!

The Blog doesn't have many 'o's, so any excuse for one! And I believe it's the correct term for the way this post came together, and - indeed - the way I am gathering Napoleons. I can't hope to match the excellent selection-collection we saw from PL Cunha in Plastic Warrior's 154 & 172 but I have managed to grab a few now, so we can get a post out of the arrogant old despot!

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
What kicked the post off, was Chris sending me some shots we'll see in a minute, the same day I bought the dog . . . more on him in a minute too; which lead me to think "Humm . . . I could do a little post on the little corporal, with my little dog?", who's not that little! So I dug-out the storage tub which I knew had one in.

I had picked these up back in 2009-11, the large French (Starlux - I originally thought, but it might be something better?) nappy in the big purchase I think, and the Timpo (an Action Pack re-issue) in a job-lot with seven others, but as I've since found another I'm guessing there are 10 or twelve to find (I thought I had 'all eight').


The rider is JIM and so is the horse, but I'm not sure they belong together, although as a pairing (JIM seem to have had a 'range' of interchangeable horses - like Timpo) it is trying to look like the painting of Napoleon on Marengo in a snow-storm? Also the Timpo probably isn't strictly a Bonaparte, but he looks the 'parte . . . hehe!

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
This has come from . . .  Chris or Peter . . . Sandown or my trip to the Toy Project? Sometime during the past year anyway, and was still at hand, it's the Blue Box die-cast Elite Command figure from 15-or-so years ago, and still findable on-line, a younger, slimmer dictator, maybe from the period before he was even technically a dictator and certainly not an emperor!

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
I took a base shot!

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
But - visible, yet not clear - in last week's 'other' bag (the one which wasn't full of Disney Princesses, had this chap in it! How cool is this? Too cool for puppy-training, that's for sure! AND, it's a dachshund, a German dog, even . . . a 'Prussian' dog . . . wearing Nappy's gear as a war-trophy? It wasn't Wellington, mate, he 'held the fort', it was Blucher 'carried the day'!

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
All of them together before they went away, the puppy (piece of resin tourist tat) is the best one there, he looks like he just nicked his hat of a bread-demanding, cake-damning, fish-wife on the barricades!

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
Chris's figure which kicked this post off, it's also a bit of a 'Q is for Question-mark...', in that Chris would like to know more about it, and I could only confirm what he already knew; . . . probably a tourist thing, probably missing a stand or plinth of some kind. To which after working on the slightly low-res images I would add that it might be casein-resin/polymer?

Also - is it depicting a specific statue somewhere; Paris, or Corsica maybe?

Action Packs; Blue Box Napoleon; Cavalry; Dachshund; Dachshund Napoleon; Emperor Napoleon; Napoleon; Napoleon Dog; Napoleonic Cavalry; Napoleonic Dachshund; Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Napoleon; PZG Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; PZG Plastic Toy Figures; PZG Poland; PZG Toy Soldiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Starlux 54mm Troops; Starlux Napoleonic; Starlux Toy Soldiers; Timpo Action Packs; Timpo Napoleon; Timpo Napoleonic Toy Soldiers; Timpo Toys; Unknown Napoleon; Unknown Toy Figure;
In the putting-away of the others, this chap was found in the PZG tub, and while he's probably meant to be a line-infantry officer with his fore'n'aft bicorn, I think he looks sufficiently like a certain young artillery officer to be considered another rendition of Nappy for the purposes of this post? I also have a diminutive PVC Nescafe premium buried somewhere, and the Beverly one we've seen here at Small Scale World before, so we'll definitely return to Napoleon when I've found a few more!

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