A few things which got a closer shot or a
comparison of one sort or another as this year's show plunder was being put
away . . .
A quickie comparison between the unknown
cloaked fantasy figure on the left and a Dimensions
for Children (DFC) cloak wearer
on the right. The unknown one is more sci-fi than swords & sorcery though
and I wonder if it might be from the large Toyco
set which contains the solid copies of the Colourform
space alien figures?
The pilots in close-up, the larger one is a
patch above Zang to be honest, and like the better versions of the standing
infantryman, has a much neater base, so I think definitely another maker, or a
later second version?
Cleaned-up the Airfix bikes; but they're shot to bits! I needed two riders and I didn't
have the cap-wearer, so they are useful, and two pairs of blue wheels will
prove equally useful at some point in the future I'm sure. I suspect the
'cutter' was trying to make them look more like scramblers, and I may clean
them-up by removing the stunted remains of the mud-guards and guard supports
Because they were both to hand as I was putting-away;
comparison between the Cavendish
(etc.) on the left, and the KT/Shackman
et al, novelty plinth/pencil sharpener figure on the right. Cavendish is a stiff 'At Ease', the
other is 'easy'!
I thought he'd gone up here already, but I
got the left-hand figure a while ago, the one on the right - last Saturday
(Sandown tomorrow!), they are the fourth Airfix
non-beagle dog, so I now have all four which will go on the Airfix Blog's Bergan/Beton page shortly!
I think it's meant to be a Springer Spaniel, which means they are all
working/hunting dogs - Setter/Lurcher-Greyhound /Alsatian . . . or; farm dogs.
Three of these are from forthcoming posts
on the latest donation from Chris Smith, one was here and five came-in on Saturday.
Colour, shade, base marks, copies - the more we find, the more we discover we
still had to find! Mostly ABC (or
their tool) but there are others!
Two of the figures from PW's show needed
the old hot water treatment to get them standing up, one also wasn't shot
clearly the other day so I've re shot him here, I suspect another Argentinian
figure (silver paint) but more original in the sculpt than the other five which
were added to the pile last weekend.
The Jecsan
circus (clairvoyant/soothsayer?) figure didn't really respond to the hot water,
despite two pouring, straight from the kettle! She stands better, but not flat,
the infantry man did much better but needed a jiggit pared-off first.
Well, the blue one didn't clean-up as well
as I'd hoped, the black marks seem to be some kind of bituminous splashes
which have stained the substrate, so I'm stuck with the 'new' faint ones but he
is an improvement on a week-ago!
While the silver one did need a clean, it
was only the flash than made him look cleaner, the two other colour ones
however have cleaned-up to the point where the flash has rather washed them
out! On the left a 5th which was hanging out in the 'TBS Space' tray, from
Chris as well I think.
Not quite as nice as the other one, and
more Romanesque than Greek (I've seen them online as 'guerrier Grec/Romain', so
it's an acknowledged factor of the set), but still a lovely figure, this one
has had his replacement weapon blobbed to his hand with glue, at the 'other
end' I will drill the hand out as with the previous find.
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