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Monday, March 25, 2024

L is for Lots of Lovely Loot!

Actually it's not much, but there are some interesting bits in amongst the box-tickers, and almost more metal than plastic, which is not a measure of how far I'm veering from the true path, but just the fact that the London show is the sort of show where some cheap metal is to be had!

Not sure if these are colonial French or British 'native' infantry, nor whether they are Indian or Arabic, or ancient/medieval, but I like to grab these semi-flats when I see them going cheap, and these were better than cheap, they were free! Adrian Little gave them to me, after I asked for a price, as they were in with something . . . err . . . much better!
 
Café Storm Coffee premium of Don Luis de Requesens (1520-1576, Wikipedia states b.1528, but admits problems with the page?) on the left, a mounted Arab from Britains 'Second Rate' subscale, pocket-money lines on the right.
 
Machine-gunners, a growing side-collection! Hollow-cast to the fore, a solid, commercial effort from home-casting mould behind him, the larger composition one is also unknown, but may be Belgian or Dutch and a Crescent gunner is behind them all.

Two shrubs, the left-hand one, more composite than composition, may be an early Faller, I've a couple of Faller trees somewhere with similar bases and construction, but with identifying stickers, or - to be accurate - glued labels. On the right is an aluminium one which could be Wend Al, but is probably Quiralu, as it was with a bunch of other Quiralu that Wend Al never covered themselves.
 
Five more metals, and most are Britians Second Rate's again (note the very different treatments of the two marching (US?) sailors), but the pilot is Crescent, and the running sailor is from B&T I think, from a Woolworth's exclusive set, post war.
 
A couple of ceremonials, one plastic and another of those Crescent sub-scale piracies from Hong Kong, [27th - probably an equally interesting Hilco plastic-from-hollow-cast - thanks Peter Evans] the other a hollow-cast and actually Crescent as far as I can tell, detail seems crisper on Crescent's figures than Britains.
 
I owe Peter Evans a small apology, I was holding two conversations at once, when he came over and gave me the red figure (another freebie!), and I glanced at it and said something along the lines of 'Thanks, I think it's from a firefighter board game like the milkman/dairy delivery one?', later I found the yellow one in a rummage tray (possibly the same seller?), and after getting them home, they are clearly spies or secret-agents of some kind, probably still board game pieces, but not firemen! I think I have the game's details somewhere in the archive, so one day the A-Z entry will have them corrected!

Between them is a rather nice 70-millimetre Nardi nativity Wise Man, from a crèche/crib set, or Presepe, he's got a swivel waist, but is otherwise not very swoppet'y!

The rest of what was only a cupped-hands'full, but all good stuff, especially with the large set we looked at yesterday. Clockwise from the top left, we have another of the soft-polyethylene versions of the Hardy (et al) G.I. flats, which I suspect are 'Euro-premiums' of some kind? A dug out canoe from Safari's Powhatan Indians set, a pack of eight Lilliput hurdles, and two of the maybe Charbens cake decoration plastic copies of the Britains' hunters, another Airfix fox-hound/beagle type and a Quiralu (?) black panther in aluminium.

6 comments:

  1. A good days work.
    Not going so well at my end. A combination of factors. There is a difference between Toys and Models and my comfort zone is making the most of Toys without ever becoming a real modeler.
    Distracted a little in recent weeks by models such as Master Box and Meng and more realistic depictions of warfare.
    I did OK with some Volkstrumm figures and managed a decent attempt at a WW2 Civilian...woman with baby from a second set.
    Ukrainian female fighters with drones put together by my grandson and he did not return the box which is frustrating. Likewise with a nice set of Middle East civilians and I managed to lose a piece.
    And I bought some Ukraine refugees and not looking forward to it.
    I don't have the skill set for modeling and as I had given up on this hobby (2013 to 2023) I have lost some painting skills.
    It's strange that it took me years (1986 to 2013 to build up a kind of competence and I have now slipped back.
    Sorry for vert long comment.

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  2. That's OK Anon! We like a bit of reminiscing here, I wonder if I'll pick up modelling, or even painting again, once, if, I'm settled, as I know how bad my close-vision has become, long-sight fine, but reading the ingredients off my diner packaging - practically impossible! Although I've found a small torch is better than glasses! So maybe a highly illuminated work-station will help!

    H

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    1. It's John (FJH)...I might try and get my feelings across on my own blog later on.
      And nice words about Choctaw and Irish on Facebook.
      I have seen the monument in Midleton, County Cork and a bit disappointed that it has fencing around it.

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  3. I shared it from a John M's page, is that you? You lost me at FJH . . . I'd hope we're all Fans of Jimi Hendrix here! I was listening earlier to how Stonehenge is fenced (after being gifted to 'the nation') and policed!

    H

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  4. My nom de guerre is FitzjamesHorse (a Franco-Irish cavalry regiment). My name is John Mooney.

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  5. Oh! Well, there you go, then! If you want to friend request me, do, but be aware I post all sorts of pinko-shite! I never friend-request because I know I'm a shouty-man!

    I knew the story of the Indians, but I didn't know about the memorial sculpture.

    H

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