The lower shots have two roman skeletons as they should look (left) and a couple of quite different ones which I'll hang-on to as they are - these sets get split and shared with two other collectors once I've done the images - on the right.
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- 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 31, 2021
SCS is for Scary Creature Set!
I could have used that last year . . . oh;
I almost did! Having explained - last year - how I bought the Fantasy Creatures Set II from SCS Direct because it was less numerous
in the Amazon listings, and that I was hoping to get Set I in the Autumn, when I went back for it, it had totally
disappeared (along with all other SCS listings on both Amazon and evilBay), and it wasn't until July/August of this year that it reappeared, but it
did and I nabbed one!Packaging art-work and contents, the
contents - like the two sets we looked at last year - are not equally divided
between the two colours/'armies' with dark grey suffering severely from
outnumbering, nor do they come to the advertised total of 100 pieces.
As seen here, there are four each of the
light grey and only three each of the dark grey, except with the Minotaur, but
that small victory for darkness is lost to the missing Knight, who's gone AWOL,
with his head, so not even biting people to death!
The sculpts; the upper shot shows two which
wouldn't look out of place in a ray Harryhausen movie, the Serpent-lady is a
vast improvement on the old DFC/Toyco ones, while the lower shots are more
heraldic, with a Griffon and a lovely 'Welsh' dragon.
The figures are manufactured in a quite soft, modern, substitute-PVC, and tend to distortion in the packaging/shipping, so I've posed a few Unicorns, they are all the same pose which should - I suspect - look like the dark grey one.Wizard, Knight, Minotaur and an rather nice
Elvin Huntress, the Minotaur would make a lovely foil for a few 20/25mm Greeks
in a little vignette, the Wizard is a bit LotR's Gandalf or Asterix druid in execution and
the Knight is the weakest pose; he looks like one of Monty Python's round-table questors - hence the reference above!
Ogre/Ork types with one or two heads, a
Dwarf and a vastly oversized Fairy/Pixy! The Dwarf suffers from short-shot'ing
on his helmet horns, and the Fairy is rather out of place against the others,
but they are all nice sculpts.
Brain has started painting his, they are
still on the work-table and he pointed out that the camera-flash is a harsh
critic, something I've noticed/suffered from in the past, but it gives an idea
of how they'll take paint, and if you’re pondering on who/what that dragon is,
he's an Alien . . . coming in the next ['newer'] post, in a short-while!
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