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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.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
F is for Fertile Crescent!
Well, sometimes a title just presents
itself! Although geographically we're staying in the northern point really! And heading-off into the barren western reaches. Crescent's FFL and Arab Warriors,
standard Crescent fare, with
six-poses each of foot figures and three mounted.
The 'locals'; four firearms and two swords,
the red plastic is a bit jarring, they would all benefit from paler washes,
although some Arabians go with black or dark-[Malian]-blue (the Tuareg), so it's a moot
point, but red's a bit too leery. Ideal figures for destroying (Timpo?) railways a'la
the Lawrence movie!
Shield designs include a crescent-moon (of
course!) and a hawk, the ruling classes of Arabia and the fertile crescent, and
beyond to the 'Stans are known for their hawking abilities, so a nice choice,
except Arabian shields tend to geometric shapes and/or ornate/fine calligraphy
in worked metal!
The mounted chap with a shield, has exactly
the type of thing! While Crescent aren't
known for brittleness, I just didn't trust these chaps . . . and wasn't 100% confident of my abilities to get them back on their horses in one piece, so shot them separately for safety's sake!
La Légion Étrangère;
As with the mounted Arab, the officers sword is rather truncated, I don't know
if this was an early example of toy-safety, or a technical issue with cavity
sizes or something, but both seem to be naturally stumpy? Paint is not the
best, but Crescent's output never held paint well; the lack of chalk/talc in
the plastic (reducing the brittleness) resulting in a smooth, shiny surface
which sheds paint!
They were both painted once! Paint's good
on the bugler, but I'm not sure what kind of note you'd get from his bugle with
it's trumpet missing! Another one for the shopping list!, but at least the
officers sword is a better length! The red plastic suggests they shared a tool with the Arab cavalry, but we never find them in blue! That's Crescent's
mob of Beau Geste'esque sandmen - box
ticked!
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2 comments:
Those are nice Hugh! Crescent is one company that I just haven't explored much. Maybe someday...
You can find them Ed, they seem to have produced vast quantities, but good-paint is all important, and they are getting harder and harder to find!
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