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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.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

H is for How They Come In - Two Months Three Parcels!

When I started catching-up with these in the Autumn, we were over a year behind, but with this post we get closer to only six-months behind, and with the ongoing Historex stuff and a couple of other things, I'll try to get fully up-to-date soon . . . ish!

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
This lovely little lot was sent to the Blog by Peter Evans last August, and you can see the forth colour of robot/transformer - in a cereal premium style - which I mentioned when we looked at Peter's latest donation a few weeks ago, the bags include the Chinese Army-funded Jeunow-Vi!Kondo stuff who've had their own post already (October, they missed RTM!), Russians and medievals from Hing Fat; white with bases, silver - stand on their own two feet! The orangy bag has the Hing Fat Egyptian stuff, which I will compare with the K&S/Safari sets when they come back out of storage.

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
Peter sent another parcel in September of which the main sample was also added to that Jeunow and Vi!Kondo post linked to above, while various other bits and pieces were included, both vintage (Monogram copies, mini's) and modern - 70mm 'armymen' and vehicle/ships.

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
Brian also sent a donation to the blog in September*, a couple of the main pieces from the lot having been removed for the canoe project before this shot was taken, but still very useful stuff including a set of the TSR 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' board game character figures, I know I've got them because we've seen them here before, but these will get a decent painting once I'm settled at the other end - wherever and whenever that is! And because I have plenty of the 'counter' figures, I'll paint-up a few of them at the same time.

* Err . . . email conversation says August, and in time for RTM, where we saw the missing items . . . I'll leave it like this as it gives you some idea of the chaos at SSW Towers, this is the chronological order of the photographs, I must have put Brians to one side for a few weeks before sorting/shooting them?!!

There's also some nice knock-off's of the Mattel MUSCLE figurines, and Wild West from US makers including the earlier Tim-Mee stuff, which I was meaning to do a bigger post on, but managed to forget to take the pictures before they all went to storage, but there are some 'sorting Wild West' shots somewhere! I also got a Mickey Mouse firefighter to share with you!

American Indians; Erasers; Hing Fat; Jeu; Jeunow; Laurrel & Hardy; M.U.S.C.L.E; Mattel; Mixed Figures; Mixed Lot; Mixed Model Figures; Mixed Model Soldiers; Mixed Novelties; Mixed Playthings; Mixed Toy Figurines; Mixed Toy Soldiers; Mixed Toys; MUSCLE; Native American; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tim Mee; Tim-Mee; Transformer Robot; Vi!Kondo; Wild West;
Also and under the 'seen elsewhere' banner were these delightful Laurel and Hardy cartoon/caricature erasers, who went on the Friend of PW Faceplant group at the time!

Cheers Brain, cheers Peter, all good stuff; gratefully received, shared here and/or otherwise made use of!

4 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

What lovely acquisitions. Pray tell, what is the yellow item on the sprue in your first photo?

Hugh Walter said...

It's a clip-together kit of a Transformer type robot Jan, a little too large for a cereal premium, so I suspect a kids comic/magazine, we saw the other three at Christmas;

https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2021/12/h-is-for-how-they-come-in-even-at.html

H

Jan Ferris said...

Thanks for the link, Hugh.

Hugh Walter said...

Pleasure Jan, I know how things slip-by or get missed!

H