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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.

Friday, May 19, 2023

C is for Canoes - 11 - Dulcop

In the continuing checking of stuff for these posts, I found the blue one from the introductory post (which was in the Hong Kong folder) was actually the Dulcop one from Italy, so I've corrected there, and we'll have a quick look here!

Quite a nice model, but still - design-wise - the sort of thing you find for hire in aluminium or fibre-glass reinforced resin at the lake/riverside today! I think these are the correct figures too, and unpainted like this, they'll be from the later production which included the stuff contracted/imported by our own Plastic Warrior Magazine, but I don't know if they carried this piece.
 
Re-crewed with Timpo's chaps, no knife out this time, but I don't think axe-fishing is a particularly successful technique! As this is a brief post, Brian's river/lake surface is worth a moment's study, I don't know what the surface is, painted wood, Vinyl/PVC or some other sheet material, but I thought Tom's varnished floor-tile was also quite good the other day.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Painted wood.

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Brian, it definitely does the job!

H