We had two ways to go after the last post,
on to more shelfies, or stick with Dino's, and as there's a bit of the month
left, I thought we'd stick with dinosaurs. While a 'Set II' never appeared to
partner the Set I 'Prehisterror'
mini-pairs we originally looked at (I think the single larger sculpts we looked
at some time later were the equivalent), Poundland
stick with the brand-marking, and this is their latest offering.
Plaster-block 'dig for dino' sets, or Dinosaur Fossil Excavation Kit, still
with 'Total Xtreme Action'! Two
blocks per set makes these better value for money (£1) than the Puckator pirates of 12-plus years ago; at
a-quid each! Funnily enough, I think Pucator did mini-dinosaurs in plaster, and I thought I'd Blogged one, but I'll be damned if I can find it anywhere!
Tools on the left, the little hammer is a
polyethylene solid and the chisel and sculpting tool have joined the modelling
tools, they may prove useful one day!
On the right, one of the less salubrious
things I've inherited; silver-smith's acid, and one of the best ways to get rid
of acid (PH of 0-1), is to neutralise it with an alkaline substance, such as
chalk or plaster (PH of 6 or 7), so that is what I did! By the time the tub had
stopped fizzing I had four dinosaurs, and to make sure the job of work had been
done I poured the remaining liquid on the bonfire ash at the bottom of the garden,
potassium-potash-ash are other neutralisers!
One duplicate gave me three mini dinosaurs;
a dodgy-looking upright who could be a veggie or a meat eater, a large sauropod
and a 'ceratopsian who might be a Styracosaur or a rather
stunted Triceratops?
They probably match other mini's we've seen
here, and while they look to be glow-in-the-dark, they aren't, they're just a
rather insipid hue of day-glow transparent'ish green. Poundland now - a pound a pair!
Keycraft did a skeleton fossil version
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