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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.

Saturday, April 25, 2020

G is for Growing . . . 'Brown Water Navy'!

In the bag that was part of Peter's latest parcel, were these three, which are a perfect addition to the fleet we saw here, although neither plastic toys, nor celluloid tourist trinkets, being manufactured of a base-metal or whitemetal, probably with a high lead-content?

Brown Water Navy; Dugouts; Fishing Boat; Fishing Figure; Japanese Models; Landing Craft; Little Boats; Little Vessels; Model Japanese Boats; Pontoons; Small Boats; Viet Gong; Viet Mhin; Viet Minh; Vietgong; Vietnam era; Vietnam War; Vietnamese; Vietnamese Boat;
Following the patterns of the celluloid keepsakes, these will probably be the next price-bracket up for tourism; ceramic and ivory being above these, silver-neff at the top? A bamboo-raft punter who looks like one of those fishermen who use trained ducks (. . . cormorants?), a small fishing vessel with three crew and a larger vessel with two crew - I'd like to know how they pulled-in that ton of fish without a winch!

Brown Water Navy; Dugouts; Fishing Boat; Fishing Figure; Japanese Models; Landing Craft; Little Boats; Little Vessels; Model Japanese Boats; Pontoons; Small Boats; Viet Gong; Viet Mhin; Viet Minh; Vietgong; Vietnam era; Vietnam War; Vietnamese; Vietnamese Boat;
From the other side; the five loin-clothed fishermen are all the same basic sculpt, the arms and legs bent to fit their final position/task, the punter seems to have been built in situ with a soldering iron, or at least - his legs/feet have been?

Brown Water Navy; Dugouts; Fishing Boat; Fishing Figure; Japanese Models; Landing Craft; Little Boats; Little Vessels; Model Japanese Boats; Pontoons; Small Boats; Viet Gong; Viet Mhin; Viet Minh; Vietgong; Vietnam era; Vietnam War; Vietnamese; Vietnamese Boat;
The 'real' Brown Water Navy liaise with a shore-patrol to check out two fishing boats, paying no heed to the old man on a raft . . . death can come quickly to the un-alert, but when your imperialist occupiers are supplied by Baravelli (figures) and Hong Kong (vessel), what can you expect!

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