I had an emergency Christmas parcel from
Peter Evan arrive out of the blue the other day, small but perfectly formed
with several items of interest, so let's have a look at it . . .
Two Disney
figures (centre) and two Disneyalikes (outsides), from three sources, I think
the Jasmine is Kinder; she's a polypropylene
kit in three parts, I don't know where the Wasabi comes from, he's a bit Phidal-like, but on the small side and a
softer PVC as are the two 'princesses', but they are not actually Disney, being Papo's 40mm fantasy models.
I love these! I think they are probably
cavemen, but Peter wondered if they might be South Sea islanders (she certainly looks the part!), which would be
nice, as there might be palm-huts or a dug-out canoe somewhere, they are also
interesting for being two-part hollow mouldings like those dinosaurs we looked
at a while ago. I guess a rack-toy thing and large'ish at 80mm
Wing
Lung's copies of Matchbox US Infantry in 30mm, the MG gunner was missing from the
end of the runner last time we looked at them (also courtesy of Peter!), and I
think the other missing pose is probably the shooting officer as seen here, oversized and
marked 'China', and also in the lot sent a couple of days ago.
These are some kind of rack-toy Transformer
knock-off, there are no instructions, but trail-and-error will probably
suffice, and I will build one, one day, just for fun! I have a yellow one
somewhere, which probably also came from Mr. Evans, and the red one has a
short-short component, otherwise they are the same tooling.
Cheers Peter - fun post for Christmas, and "Happy
Christmas" to all Loyal Readers, let's hope 2022 is an improvement on the
previous two!
Which also means that at some point in
February we will have 22:22hrs 2nd of February 2022 which could be shortened (at twenty-two seconds past the minute) to
22:22:22-2/2/'22 . . . if that's not an invitation to one of Beelzebub's underlings - I
don't know what is! Look out Yellowstone - your time may be at hand!
The transformer knock-offs are interesting...I wonder how well they will fit together?
ReplyDeleteI will build one Jan, but at the next/new house not now! I'll ask peter if he can remember where they came from . . .
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