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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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, January 3, 2024

V is for Vikings

Funny isn't it, you think you'll never mention Harry Reynolds again (HR Production), then you mention them twice in three days!

At November 2021's Sandown Park show, I raided Adrian's cheapie-tray of lead, and managed three different scarecrows, an anvil, and a nice Greek, along with an unknown - probably German - firefighter in composition, but by far the nicest piece was a Reynolds Viking, and as it's less likely I'll find one in the rarer plastic, a metal one was a decent substitute.

Here's all five poses, courtesy of an old Bonham's auction shot, the boot lacing is tighter on these, so mine might be a 'Friday afternoon' paint job! Note how they've tried to hide the broken axe, it won't fool in-the-room viewers, but might help garner higher Internet or 'phone bids!

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