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!

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!

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!

I took a base shot!

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'!

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!

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?

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!