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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.

Sunday, October 3, 2021

News, Views Etc . . . more Giant and 6H-4!

I've posted a quickie over on the 'But is it Giant' Blog, not quite as complete as I'd like, as I've mislaid one of the samples! However, with a few links to previous posts here at Small Scale World, I've cobbled-together a post on  . . .

Anti-Tank Obstacles; Atlantic Wall; Barbed Wire Entanglements; Bunkers; Defence Line; Defence Works; Dragons' Teeth; Fortified Position; Giant; Giant Barbed Wire; Giant Bunkers; Giant Hong Kong; Giant Plastics Corporation; Handy Home Hobby Hints; HO - OO Barbed Wire; HO - OO Bunkers; HO - OO Dragons' Teeth; Home Guard; Homemade; Hugh Walter's Modelling; Hugh Walter's Tips; Marx Bunkers; Modelling Hints; Modelling Tips; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wire Entanglements;
. . . the defence works of Giant, with the closer copies - there's tons else in other scales!

As there is an additional (to the above screencap) mention of Dragons' Teeth at the end of the post, I've used it as a thin excuse for a barley credible segue to another of Hugh's Handy Helpful Home Hobby Hints - No.4 no less!

Anti-Tank Obstacles; Atlantic Wall; Barbed Wire Entanglements; Bunkers; Defence Line; Defence Works; Dragons' Teeth; Fortified Position; Giant; Giant Barbed Wire; Giant Bunkers; Giant Hong Kong; Giant Plastics Corporation; Handy Home Hobby Hints; HO - OO Barbed Wire; HO - OO Bunkers; HO - OO Dragons' Teeth; Home Guard; Homemade; Hugh Walter's Modelling; Hugh Walter's Tips; Marx Bunkers; Modelling Hints; Modelling Tips; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wire Entanglements;
Dragons' Teeth

Needed:

  • ·         1x diamond-corrugated meat (or fish) pack from your local supermarket, corner shop, convenience store or Eastern import emporium!
  • ·         1x washing-up liquid
  • ·         1x washing-up brush
  • ·         1x burst of elbow-grease
  • ·         A pair of scissors or a craft-knife 

Anti-Tank Obstacles; Atlantic Wall; Barbed Wire Entanglements; Bunkers; Defence Line; Defence Works; Dragons' Teeth; Fortified Position; Giant; Giant Barbed Wire; Giant Bunkers; Giant Hong Kong; Giant Plastics Corporation; Handy Home Hobby Hints; HO - OO Barbed Wire; HO - OO Bunkers; HO - OO Dragons' Teeth; Home Guard; Homemade; Hugh Walter's Modelling; Hugh Walter's Tips; Marx Bunkers; Modelling Hints; Modelling Tips; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wire Entanglements;
Instructions:

  • ·         Eat, or otherwise dispose of the meat . . . or fish!
  • ·         Clean the packaging
  • ·         Dry the packaging
  • ·         Cut the diamond-corrugated section away from the rest of the packaging
  • ·         Et viola!

Obviously you can then cut them into blocks or strips, or to fit round the corners of bunkers or ends of bridges &etc. I weight mine with blobs of Plasticine in the hollow underside before painting, but two-part epoxy might work, or basing will keep them firmer, you might also use the sheet to mass-produce plaster versions?

The example above produces slightly short, flat Dragons' Teeth (but big enough to 'ground' AFV's in 20mm, 1:76th, 1:72nd and 28mm war-gaming scales/sizes), but different food packers use different designs so there are others out there, these were found in a Polish/Turkish deli' (yes - of course Brwreakshit was a nonsense, but we're stuck with its bigotry for a while now!) a month or so ago, but I first made some in around 1980, which look almost the same!

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