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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.

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Q is for Question Mark - Scenic Composition

Possibly going-with (they accompanied) the unknown figures in the previous post, but looking quite inconsequential next to them so more likely to have been aimed at figures in the standard 54mm range are these two scenic items;

'British'; Brent Composition; Brent Toy Products Ltd.; Brent Toy Soldiers; British Army Toy; British Composition Figures; British Infantry; Composition Barricades; Composition Sandbags; Composition Scenery; Composition Scenics; Gabions; MG Post; Question Time; Sandbag Defence; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Unknown; Vinatge Composition Toys; Vintage 'British'; Vintage Brent; Vintage Composition Figures; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage Toys;
The sandbag-defence 'wall' would provide cover for a Brent prone figure, but that's about it; the figure used is the Brent 60mm standing firer. Five well-modelled sandbags piled on some nondescript lumps which could be more sandbags or a bit of stony mud!

'British'; Brent Composition; Brent Toy Products Ltd.; Brent Toy Soldiers; British Army Toy; British Composition Figures; British Infantry; Composition Barricades; Composition Sandbags; Composition Scenery; Composition Scenics; Gabions; MG Post; Question Time; Sandbag Defence; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Unknown; Vinatge Composition Toys; Vintage 'British'; Vintage Brent; Vintage Composition Figures; Vintage Toy Figures; Vintage Toy Soldiers; Vintage Toys;
The Gabions, too, are beautifully sculpted for the kind of material they're made from, but aren't going to give cover to much beyond the kneeling Brent or an HO/OO gun-team, posed here is the unknown 'British' composition Machine-gun in 80mm! Adrian Little is to thank for allowing me to photograph both from his own collection.

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