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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.

Sunday, October 15, 2023

T is for These Llamas are Alpacas!

We've seen Puckator a few times now, solid suppliers of novelty-tat to the gift-shop trade, and Poundland, where I think I found these a year or so ago, little lumps of solid resin in rather garish colours.

The orange one is realistic enough, but the blue would need to go, were you to be thinking of including them in a diorama or wargames force? Presuming they would be Llamas, I thought to check the difference, before posting, and the small ears and fluffy-brows/cheeks suggests that they are actually Alpacas! Being smaller animals, these probably scale-in for 54mm or thereabouts? Fun, done!


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