OK, it looks like the Canoes will be
January now, if they are lucky, it's not that I've got tons of stuff in the
long queue, that's a given (!), it's that I've lots in the medium and short
queues too! And if I don't clear the
Christmas stuff - or at least some of it - it will be hanging around for
another year, while I must catch-up with both donations and show-reports
(Sandown and London are sitting here!), so I'm going to try and alternate
Chris's donation with nativity stuff first, and then we'll see what's left of December!
Signed for and collected the keys to the
flat today, so I'll be busy in the background getting this place empty! Made
some space in the storage units at the weekend . . . sorting cold stuff in
minus-3, in a steel shipping container, while losing the light is no fun I can
tell you! But it keeps me young!
The seen elsewhere shot; all Chris's
donations have been fantastic, however I get the feeling he's got more of a
measure of the Blog and it's needs over the years, as this one was particularly
super, with lots of unusual figures, rare gap-fillers, one-off's, novelties and
things which, while we may have looked at them before (Tyrolean weather-clock
figures for instance), will undoubtedly enhance future posts on the same subject.
One of the things I didn't shoot separately
for the other posts (I think we're going to get 8 or 9 posts out of the whole
box) was a bag of Kinder bits, and while I'm not sure if the Esquimaux see
above was in the earlier post, mentioned the other day in a follow-up, it might
have been; it's been a pretty chaotic last few months!
I actually picked up a few the other day
with that yellow Arctic denizen, but the two medieval crossbowmen in that other
lot were as brittle as hell, so when we get round to them, they will need a
bit of strategically-placed blue-tack to be remotely photogenic, but I have others!
While the 40mm
horseman here needs his paint removed, they also suffer from brittleness, perticularly of the
thin parts (from day one!), so that'll be a careful, or gentle job, once I'm settled elsewhere.
A bag of bits on the left (nice barrel) and
a bag of Giant/Giant-like bits also
went to the mighty* sorting zone without a closer look. The green blob is one
of those palm-squirters from a Christmas cracker, several bits of meat were rather
intriguing, the red thing is a petrol-pump and I'm loving the Scot's Monarch's Arms,
paper sand-castle flag . . . there's a tub-full of similar items somewhere in
the stash, waiting for their 'overview' moment!
* mighty because of its daunting size, not
because it's powerful!
This was a lovely thing to find in a toy
parcel! It's a self-published book from 1997, the author goes through
the building of a home-injector, part-by-part and it's real Heath-Robinson stuff (or, because the author is an American; Rube Goldberg'ian stuff!) , I aspire
to have a go, but I'll need a workshop, and probably can't run to one on what
will be my budget in the Spring, but I was thinking of joining one of these
craft/tech cooperatives, so maybe yet?
Cheers Chris; another fantastic lot . . . I'm off and running;
'combat' stuff next to keep the fighty-bitey bits as far from the 25th as I can!
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