During Brian Berke's recent sojourn in Italy, he bought this pair of larger scale items, as rather brilliant toy-related mementos of their visit, and nothing more iconic than a Vespa moped . . . with added babalicious babe from Babalonia!*
"The two wheeler riders in Naples and surrounding area are positively demented.
This may be part of the universal road rage post Covid lockdown, though I suspect they were this way before.
The
roads are narrow, which does not deter 2 wheelers from passing cars
both into oncoming traffic and curbside at the same time. They go down
pedestrian only streets. There are the equivalent of Zebra crossings.
The custom is walk across and ignore traffic? Do not make eye contact.
It was quite unnerving. Two wheelers don't stop they weave around you as
you cross.
So I had to
purchase this as it represents the most notable memory of the trip. The
scale is larger than I would like but I wanted to buy it in Italy rather
than later. The figure was the only one I could find, bought in the US
which surprisingly it pretty accurate in terms of rider dress code near
the beach!
It has gone on display temporally while the trip is fresh in the memory."
For a speculative purchase, they work very well together, and at 1:18th scale (approximately 90/100mm or 3-inches) the bathing beauty from American Diorama looks perfect on the Maisto moped, and one can imagine her posing in the warmth of the evening's setting sun, in one of the Piazzas, while her beau fetches a soft-scoop ice-cream cone!
We have a scaler, with the Crescent shooter, it's a trope which has rather fallen by the wayside in the last few years, not least because of everything else which has been going on, but I intended to have a couple on the planned, dedicated photo-station, once I'm fully settled, and we'll get back to 'berserker' comparisons!
Nice sights!
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