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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.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

S is for Seen Elswhere - Fontanini

Just a couple of finds from Fontanini which have come in over the last year or so, 2 of the 80mm polyethylene Napoleonics (90-odd with the bases), with their flat-matt paint-jobs, and a larger 150mm (who's 185mm all-in with base and Carrara-marble plinth), who has that distinctive antiqued wash, over his PVC, for most of the colours, I think they wash all the colours, then overwash with a watered-down/thinned sepia-brown or dark varnish?

Both the smaller ones still have the spigots for those mahogany-brown plastic bases, so I had to shove them deep into the bedspread! And like an idiot, I didn't think to take two bases of those Knights before I offered them as swaps . . . Doh!
 

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