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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.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

J is for Jumps, More Jumps

We've had a brief look at some of the Britains stuff, and better looks at the other two main producers of show jumping equipment in 1:32, but if you, or a younger relative are looking to make a full arena circuit there is a need for 10-15 actual jumps, even 16 or more, and they all need to look different, as part of the test of the horse, it to visually stun or confuse it!

Except that you usually have a similarity/continuity in look, with both jumps in a double, or all three of a triple. Luckily there are a few others out there, to extend the base from which to build a course map;


These are from the Pony in my Pocket franchise, I have no idea on dates or 'waves', and there are other colours and one made from large bales, more gymkhana than full competition, the lower pair actually look rather dangerous! But I guess we imagine they are all fall-apart and fibreglass mouldings!
 
These are from Kids Globe farming, and while the catalogue is a few years old now, they are still available from various sources, I just googled them! The triple wall-effect would make a good finale!
 
While this is from a Sylvain Families set! It's a bit cartoony, or could claim to be a 'tight' jump? Although it's a bit low, and really I'm just talking shite, because I don't know enough about Show Jumping and wouldn't pretend I do!
 
This is the qualifying course from the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (the forgotten games!), and consists of 14 elements, as 16 jumps, 17 with the water 'puddle' in the centre, an earlier large jump (I think the number of poles represent difficulty, not design here) is in-line with the triple. It's all fun!

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