W is for West End Final

Although anyone who's commuted for any length of time will know that actually some 'West End Final's' have a different cover from other 'West End Final's', suggesting that at some point they issue a Final West End Final-final!

[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?