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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.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

M is for Motor Racing Series . . .

 . . . which extended to two sets! I picked this rareish carded set up from a mate a few weeks ago, I'd actually gone-over for an Arab, but he happened to have two of these and I talked him out of the slightly tattier one!
 
 


 
The Kentoys Grand Prix mechanics, possibly designed in partnership with Victory Industries, the slot-racing and motor-boat people from Guildford. You can see the other set, St.John's Ambulance volunteers, as little stick-men in the background of the artwork!
 
They also did the wonderfull set of six Dan Dare figures, in partnership with Eaglewall, and of which we have seen various elements of, here before, as indeed we have seen these loose, I think, even unto the very whitewalled spare tyre, so really a bit of a box-ticker, but, it's a nice thing!

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