H is for How They Come In - A Year Ago

Normally I try to acknowledge help, contributions or donations with some alacrity and while I did mention the donor at the time, I held these two back from last year, as nearly everything in them was suitable for stand-alone posts! We have now had most of those posts, so I must thank Mr Berke for the sending and show you what Brian sent to the Blog in September and November of last year.

Brian sent these in September last year, just in time for the pirate to appear in ITLAPD! Indeed, because I took this shot intending to do an H is for... post, prior to the pirate day; I've tried to hide the pirate in plain sight! But then I thought "No I'll be showing all sorts of things which are better in separate posts" and held the shot back!

We've since had the pirate, the Halloween sets, the sea-life set and the larger rubber GI's, we nearly had the Zowies (yellow & orange capsules), but at the eleventh hour they were pulled, and while I've added the odd shot they may be a while now, as there's a lot in the queue, although I have done preliminary work, so watch this space!

We also had the mini-dinos (in the eggs), some of the Auburn Rubber types and you can see the gliders I couldn't fine the other day! The motorcycle will appear in the next round-up of such machines and the air force ground-crew are waiting for me to find the cream-coloured originals to compare them with. While the large-scale spacemen reissues will get their turn. I can't remember if I've shown the Chronoscope diver? If not; he should have been in the round-up the other day, and must be in the next one!

In November Brian sent the sets he'd already sent the image-of, in time for Halloween, which was really kind as I said to him the pictures are more than enough, kindness wise, but he sent them anyway and I got the follow-up posts done this year. However, I had meant to compare the Zombie set more closely with the set from Peter Evans, and forgot to do so, so I may well do that next year?

I had - as always - help unpacking!

Many thanks to Brian, it really is all grist to the mill, and while the Blog tries to be pretty esoteric, Brian also manages to find a wide variety of things to share with us.