Something is for Something Else!

I couldn't think of a title! I rather lost the rhythm this week, alcohol was involved (75th; had to happen!), and while I managed to get these shot on Tuesday, I didn't text-up until yesterday and tidied-up this morning! There won't be much more 'till Mon/Tue; there's a show this weekend, firewood to fetch Sunday (before they ban it!), but - for now - here's some mini-mals!

We looked at these right back at the start of the Blog, in a roundup of the various food premium animals, but a few more lots have come in and I needed to do comparisons with the Airfix sets, so I had a bit of a photo-sesh'; the Olá ice-cream premium animals;

The whole sample, unwashed was about eight 'colours' but it was clear that some were so dirty it was hard to tell what was what! Not a large sample, but they now fill one of the small-scale sample-bags (inset) which is not bad since they've grown quite slowly in three small lots and a few odds over forty-years!

After cleaning and it's five colours; with a paler-grey rhino' and two distinct whites, one semi-translucent (and greyish in daylight), one solid, neither clear from the other in this shot, or any of the others I took trying to show the difference!

I have no idea how many are in the whole set, but with several singles in the sample, it's a fair bet there are more to find, and, if I've managed twenty-one so far, there's probably at least 30 all-in? Note the pairs of some animals;

I can't claim any of this is scientific or anything, but I suspect the elephant on the left is trying to be Asian, and the one on the right is trying to be African; going mostly on the ears! Likewise the two reptiles would seem to be a deliberate attempt to cover two continents, but I've only gone on snout-length, and they could be the other way round?

The two big cats could equally be other things, the one on the left a Jaguar, the one on the right a cougar? The wildebeest and water-buffalo (previous shot - top left) are pretty obvious, but why two different hippo' sculpts? That is a mystery!

The real reason I dug them out - Airfix comparisons reveal - if nothing else - a lack of scale consistency in the Olá figurines; the lion is vast while the giraffes are tiny, and while not in the Airfix shots; the pelican is some prehistoric man-eater of a bird!

I won't post links to those pages as this image is good-enough for now, but they're on the Airfix Blog if you fancy a 'plastic smalls' diversion!