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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.

Saturday, December 2, 2023

F is for Follow-up - Brent, and Zang for Timpo

I've had a few more British composition come-in over the last couple of years, and with my 'master' samples in storage, these are here, waiting to be compared and sorted into them. The Military were 'seen elsewhere' a while back, the mechanics are a newer image.

Nearly two of each, so a shot which leaves little to the imagination, and these are the smaller size of Brent's two sizes, early war 'Expeditionary Force' uniform with the respirator case high on the chest, I think the marching guy might be new to collection?
 
 
And this is definitely new to the collection, but I think the stretcher is taken from another maker's hollow-cast figures, Brent's stretcher teams when I've seen them before, always have a paper stretcher, with two stiff wires, this is a lead moulding, but the casualty is correct I think.

 
A nice set of matching mechanics, who actually came in two lots, and a pretty clean chauffeur, in blue, I can't remember which colours I've got of them, I think there are four to find - Grey, Brown, Green and Blue - and I hope this is one I needed, if not he'll end up on the new swaps page, especially as by the time you read this the only swaps on that page will have been handed to a new owner at the London Toy Soldier show!

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