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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.

Monday, December 26, 2022

F is for Fontanini's Festive Figures

No more than a box-ticker, as it's a small sample from the larger scale 120mm 'pick & mix' range, with a few caption/notes, they are a hard'ish, dense, surface-stable PVC, so no sticky paint, but I don't think I've ever see sticky Fontanini, that weepie-shit tends to come from Hong Kong!

120mm Nativity; Angel; Angelic Hymn; Birth of Christ; Crèche; Creche; Creshe; Crib; Crib Toy; Fontanini Copy; Fontanini Nativity Figures; Gloria in excelsis Deo; Greater Doxology; Hugh Walter's Blog; Hymn of the Angels; Jesus Christ; Krip; Krippen; Little Baby Jesus; Nativity; Nativity Crib; Nativity Figure Set; Nativity Set; Noël; Noel; Plastic Nativity Set; Plastic Toy Figures; Precepi; PVC Figurines; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
The happy family, separate baby in another basket of straw!

120mm Nativity; Angel; Angelic Hymn; Birth of Christ; Crèche; Creche; Creshe; Crib; Crib Toy; Fontanini Copy; Fontanini Nativity Figures; Gloria in excelsis Deo; Greater Doxology; Hugh Walter's Blog; Hymn of the Angels; Jesus Christ; Krip; Krippen; Little Baby Jesus; Nativity; Nativity Crib; Nativity Figure Set; Nativity Set; Noël; Noel; Plastic Nativity Set; Plastic Toy Figures; Precepi; PVC Figurines; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Shepherds and sheep.

120mm Nativity; Angel; Angelic Hymn; Birth of Christ; Crèche; Creche; Creshe; Crib; Crib Toy; Fontanini Copy; Fontanini Nativity Figures; Gloria in excelsis Deo; Greater Doxology; Hugh Walter's Blog; Hymn of the Angels; Jesus Christ; Krip; Krippen; Little Baby Jesus; Nativity; Nativity Crib; Nativity Figure Set; Nativity Set; Noël; Noel; Plastic Nativity Set; Plastic Toy Figures; Precepi; PVC Figurines; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Kings/Wise Men/Magi x3

120mm Nativity; Angel; Angelic Hymn; Birth of Christ; Crèche; Creche; Creshe; Crib; Crib Toy; Fontanini Copy; Fontanini Nativity Figures; Gloria in excelsis Deo; Greater Doxology; Hugh Walter's Blog; Hymn of the Angels; Jesus Christ; Krip; Krippen; Little Baby Jesus; Nativity; Nativity Crib; Nativity Figure Set; Nativity Set; Noël; Noel; Plastic Nativity Set; Plastic Toy Figures; Precepi; PVC Figurines; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Larger animals and another shepherd, two up-pipes and two down-pipes, Fontanini do several different designs across their range/sizes, with one or two down-pipes (reeds) and 1-4 pointing up, I haven't looked up the difference, but here's a link to the background stuff;

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/zampognari-italys-christmas-tradition-of-bagpipe-playing-shepherds.html

120mm Nativity; Angel; Angelic Hymn; Birth of Christ; Crèche; Creche; Creshe; Crib; Crib Toy; Fontanini Copy; Fontanini Nativity Figures; Gloria in excelsis Deo; Greater Doxology; Hugh Walter's Blog; Hymn of the Angels; Jesus Christ; Krip; Krippen; Little Baby Jesus; Nativity; Nativity Crib; Nativity Figure Set; Nativity Set; Noël; Noel; Plastic Nativity Set; Plastic Toy Figures; Precepi; PVC Figurines; PVC Vinyl Rubber; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com;
Angel Gabriel.

I have a much better sample of the 40mm and a few of the 60mm sets in storage somewhere, so when they all come together we'll have a better look at all the rustic/rural personages another year!

2 comments:

Chris Smith said...

Hello Hugh, looks like Joseph is holding the "Staff of ra"?

Hugh Walter said...

Hahahahaha! Yes! It has the looks of a wizards staff! It could probably use some hot-water reshaping too! I thought - at this scale - the faces were quite well done?

H