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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.

Sunday, July 31, 2022

F is for Follow-up - Mini Windmills

Just a quick one to follow-up on the stackablewindmill we saw here, which I found at Sandown Park nearly a year ago.

Follow-up Windmills Small Plastic Toy Windmill Hong Kong British Dutch Stackable
The Hong Kong one I referenced in the above link is the grey one seen here, and it's not quite the copy I thought it was, so it may be more akin to a Dutch tourist keepsake like the one we saw more recently here, also a Sandown find. Although that yellow one isn't the HK's donor either having a round base marked-up as brickwork.

I guess there must be many of these, and the HK-copy is after one of the many! There is more similarity between the sails of the two illustrated above though, so some cross-pollination was going on, if only to save a bit on production costs. Typically the yellow one's gone away now, but wasn't here for the comparison shots either, so we will return to then all another time!

The three together, suitably painted, would give a lot of atmosphere to war-gaming the invasion of the Low Countries in 1940 though, a bit small for 1:144, a bit large for 1:300 micro-armour, but covering both!

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