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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.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

T is for Tipi's, Teepee's and Townsfolk!

The last of the White Tower Miniatures shots, I could have taken more, but I was really only passing through, and if I showed them all now, you'd have nothing to browse on the website, and what would I shoot next time!




The wigwams (teepees or tipis) are the old Elastolin sculpts, 1st and second type origianlly in composition, Matt does a few old and out of production items, both in the metal figure range and the resin scenic range.
 


While the Wild West looks a lot less wild in the townsfolk lines, with lots of useful bits, a full-length bar and pool-table being the obvious stand-outs here, however the blacksmiths forge is also a nice piece, and you can see the Lone Star kids in the first shot, their tool never turned-up in the Marlborough-Dorset production, and seems to have been lost.

White Tower are still here;

 

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