These are fun, one being a copy of
previously seen stuff, the other a rather weird take on millinery! It's funny,
you can go to one of these big-box stores regularly for several years and find
nothing beyond a mould-your-own pirate fort to shelfie, or you can go three times
in three months and walk away with something after every visit! I was in Hobbycraft the other day for a multi-compartment
storage tray and left with three, and these two!
"Throw
an egg in it; that'll make it Easter-bonnet'ty!" Yeah, seriously . .
. but a nice set of mini dinosaurs married to a scenic space-taker and a couple
of bits of greenery, Easter bonnet's are all about the greenery!
The two on the right are from forthcoming
posts on kids comic giveaways, and while the Hobbycraft ones are similar they are 'new' copies rather than
pantographed clones, and - it has to be said - of slightly poorer quality/finish.
The palm trees are fascinating - from a technical
point of view - as they are a single moulding (that frond is growing out of the
trunk), which must be shaped with heat, probably while still hot from the
moulding process? The shrub is clearly a fish-tank thing with a weight-basket attached
to bury in the gravel at the bottom of a tank!And they both have this bi-colour single-shot moulding which pushes the paler colour to the extremities, which have looked at before, again coming our hobby via aquaria?
While these are branded to Unique, who we've seen before as purveyors
of fine novelty tat! They are smaller copies of the Henbrandt ones we saw here, the originals going to five poses, to
which we added a sixth pose here.
I don't know if these knock-offs have
copied all six sculpts as they are only sold in fours and all the bags had the
same contents? That's it; a couple of rack-toys in Hobbycraft now.
I would add that House of Marbles are carrying the Henbrandt set in new colours, so we will see these again here at Small Scale World.
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