[For readers further afield; the London Evening Standard newspaper (which starts
coming out mid-afternoon), runs to a West End Final as the supposedly last, most
up-to-date version]
Further to yesterday's post (and please read PeterE's comment below it) I promised Chris yesterday I'd check mine when I got
home, and did so, only to find that the wasp-in-the-wood-pile was (or is) the
'berserker' from Crescent who is only
50mm! Anyway I deleted about 20 images trying to get Chris's to compare with my
line-up, on-screen, and while this final attempt sort of works, I then
remembered that in certain forms of Picacsa's collage tool . . .
Ghosts in the machine!
. . . you can move one image around, over
or under the other and the one becomes semi-transparent, so I tried that and as
you can see it clearly reveals that both Chris's and my copies are roughly the
same height while the original is a tad taller but nothing significant, a
lesson for trying to second-guess different things in different places!
Next time I'll just trust Chris and assume
I'm doing something wrong, because I was; by not measuring the Crescent dwarf! But we'll stick with him
as he's still a reasonable guide.
Anyway, many thanks to Chris for his
patience, and to Peter Evans who supplied the original Anker Group 'Home Collection'
(which may be the home-furnishing stores added to Wickes builders-merchants' bigger outlets in recent years?) blister-card,
I think.
Also with this pesky figure (now an Italian policeman!) and the Riesler copies we saw in another lot
from Peter, it's clear that among the ever decreasing-quality copies of Airfix, Matchbox and generic 'Rambo' types, there are - increasingly - a
wider spread of donor-figures?
2 comments:
When the Evening Standard was a real newspaper and not a 'freebee' the first edition of the day would be the Racing Form for those who liked the horses (or dogs).
Is that still published?
Hummm . . . . methinks you doth betray you true age Terra! Never 'erd of it!
H
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