A notification of a few typo's in the
second post today were awaiting me when I finally surfaced this morning - cheers
Paul! But nothing has had a final check in 'preview', due to the time
constraints and busy weekend, however I managed by 2am to get stuff scheduled
'till 1.30pm today (ten minutes time!), so this is aiming for 2pm/14:00hrs, and
along with the other six will probably slip-back, but hopefully I'll get them
all done before midnight, so keep popping-back! I'll deal with typo's tomorrow!
This is another post with stuff pulled from
the Intro, and deals with the growing pile of poured resin, which I used to
have a dim view of; like poured whitemetal it's a cheap technology , however -
and unlike hot lead - hasn't become so expensive only executives can indulge in
collecting it!
One of my great bugbears (as you will know)
is dimwitted stupidity, and you do get it among eBay sellers, particularly
those who are not from the hobby! Someone was selling these, they obviously had
a stock box full, but had listed three (including the lady-pirate in yellow
jacket) as a single lot, while they also had single figure/multiple stock
listings, and there was a pair with a more-than-one listing, too, but not including
the missing figure!
"Fair-enough" I hear you say; "trying
different sales-models to shift them"? But the prices were also all over
the place, and the listings were mixed-in with hundreds of lots of household
tat and old clothes you had to trawl through! It was far cheaper to get the
three (the only one listing the lady pirate) and wait for the other to turn-up
cheaper another day . . .
. . . so I paid for the three and waited,
what then turned-up was a three without the lady pirate! I was going to give
the seller grief, but couldn't be arsed to start a fight with someone who just
hadn't thought!
I then spent a few months looking out for
the missing figure without much enthusiasm, only to forget it. But when I put
all the pirates away the other month and expanded their boxes, there she was!
Possibly from Peter Evans at some point (he's helped greatly in the growth of
the resin pile!), or from a charity shop, or mixed lot?
Anyway, the point is; four of a known four?
Above, by a circuitous route!
Packaging matches other single gift-bag
resins seen in The Works (and seen
here at Small Scale World); fairies, wild & woodland animals, Christmas
stuff (?), but not under Alator as
far as I can recall? And it's typical tourist fare isn't it, could be from any gift-shop,
from any seaside-town, anywhere/when?
Meanwhile, this had come in, and got itself
included in the - previously mention here - Faceplant group discussion on
Chinese resin, it's a plain/blank mailer for a set of 12 resin pirates, we have
looked at before as part sets. Missing figure from the tray is the rather svelte pirate, top-left in the following image;
Which gives this line-up as a running
total with alternate bases and the odd paint shade variation. The point is; if
the Chinese can supply this for seaside's, for Turkey, as ceremonials (there
are knights to look at another day), why don't we do it here!
They should be cheaper and we wouldn't be propping-up
a fascist dictatorship busy with a 'final solution' to it's Uyghurs, or bullying
it's neighbours? And it ought then to be even cheaper? It wouldn't be of
course, capitalism would price-match to the imports!
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