Normally coming at the end of these posts,
she was in there so quickly I'd only got the outer tape cut, so she helped
herself to the packaging!
The only way to alleviate the situation was
to send her on an early tea-break and surrender possession of the bag Peter had
used as packing in the end of the box, which she 'trophied' in her 'nest'
Leaving me free (without assistance!) to
sort the plunder parcel into photogenic piles of plastic peeps!
We're looking at most of it below, the two
animals 'on card' are from Poundland,
and I had purchased a sample myself (luckily a different pair), so they'll be a
separate post in the next week or so (I'm busy in the garden!). There were some more of the Kinder superheros as well, and a HK Teepee, along with the Gnome House which will be backdrop to a Gnome 'round-up' - maybe in the winter.
Three from the Gnome starter kit and -
would you believe it; so soon after the last 'round-up' - but another Spanish
terracotta figurine, this one a traffic-cop to add to the officer and
gendarmerie we've seen recently. While the guardsman is unusual; I'm assuming
he's a garden ornament . . .
. . . due to the long stick or spike? It's
made from some weird pressure-rolled fibreglass/resin compound, which is
literally harder than steel, if it was a steel bar I would be able to bend it
further than I can in the material it is made of! I can see a couple of
hack-saw blades going to recycling in the eventual removal?
Alongside a close-up of Mr Motorcycle Policeman!
One day I'll have to do a comparison with the diminutive EKO riders!
These are lovely! They come to enhance landscaping/scenery
kits as part of the educational range from Scene-A-Rama.
When Peter said they were in the Toyway
catalogue I though "Where, I didn't
see them?", but that's because they weren't illustrated, so anyone who
fancies a set needs to be finding WSP4445
American Civil War Soldiers from the Scene
Setters line. Currently $10.99 plus shipping from Woodland Scenics and
Amazon (US).
They are 28/30mm compatible, which blew my
idea of comparing them with the Merten
and Elastolin ACW's, but a comparison
with Spencer Smith would be so
one-sided as to be not worth the digging in the attic!
A nice selection of clones, I'd spent
30-odd years collecting the small-scale clones but it's taking a while to get on
top of the larger ones as there are so many, but lots like this (Chris Smith
has sent a bunch recently too - post coming) are building a bigger picture
and/or filling the gaps which can be matched-up to other imagery from shelfies,
the old trade catalogues or web-pages.
The seated guy is an Italeri kit-figure I think, while the intermediate scale Matchbox 8th Army is new, and possibly a
sub-copy of Wing Lung's similar figure
Modern vinyl; with a nice police-dog and
handler from Dacron/Wings et al!
The astronaut is from a RedBox
space-set I shelfied a while back (No I didn't, it's still to come I think, we looked at a Johntoy one with very similar figures, so similar they may be RedBox too!), the Galoob
will join his mates and the pink one will be in a big post one day.
I think they're Carama (I have the notes somewhere) but they were contract
manufactured back in the 1990's for both Tesco
and Sainsbury's supermarkets, Woolworths and then their late branding as Chad Valley (just before the collapse
back in 2009), all here in the UK, along with other brands in Europe, each lot
having different base-markings (to reflect contracts or batches?) and coming in
three or four sizes, some commoner that others (the 'German' firefighter
standing being the most common; in all sizes and several paint treatments), so
there's still much work to be done before they get a proper Blogging.
Two 'Disney' princesses pose before the
walls of Archie McFee! One or both
may or may not be Phidal, generic, or
capsule toys, time WILL tell!
I think these are from one of the bulk
assortments from Preiser, but the
qulity isn't there in the sculpting/finish, and I thought - so soon after Blogging the Pyro's - that
they make a good, generic, ship's crew! Which they may turn-out to be?
In the shenanigans with Girly-girl, I
looked over my shoulder and took a quick snap of the ongoing pile! The remains
of the Wild West sorting, the ongoing parachute page stuff, a large bag of
lions, a Pyro/Kleewar/Lido sort-out, Chris's parcel and some other stuff!
Many thanks as always to Peter, who has
already sent another lot, mostly for Rack Toy Month! I also have to get on with
a PW178 review as 179 has already dropped heavily onto
the door-mat . . . and it's a cracker!
I'm surprised your cat hoards plastic bags. My cats were always frightened by bags and would bolt when they heard the crinkling sound.
ReplyDeleteThe plastic seated German is probably a Monogram figure. It came in a number of their 1/32 Geramn armor kits. 1/72ish copies were made by a number of other manufacturers (and I think Italeri may have been one of them).
Cheers for that EY, yes, technically Esci, but they had Italeri, Revell and Polistil boxings! They copied a bunch of the Tamiya figures as well I think . . . in 1:72?
ReplyDeleteI was assuming they scaled him up for the Italeri kits in 1:35th!
There's a cruder 'knock-off' to sit in or on the Fujimi '222?
H