P is for Poundland's Plastic & Plaster Prehisterror!

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