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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.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

W is for Wild Wild White Tower West!

At the last London Show, just before Christmas (next show now is Sandown on 22nd Feb.), I caught up with old friend Matt Their, who - like many of us - is going through life's ring of fire at the moment, but he retains his sanity by continuing to add to his ranges, and the Wild West were centre-stage that Saturday, so below is a partial catalogue of the Wild West highlights, real catalogues and the range can be purchased from the usual site;
 
 
 
"Ah Soh! Grasshopper!"
Brilliant!

"They were in a big tin saucer, which was this wide! Hic!"




 
 
 
The buildings are a partnership/scale-up with 28mm role-playing stuff from somewhere else, if I recall the conversation correctly, and are built in sections so you can place figures inside their spacious interiors. They are manufactured in one of the new lightweight foams, but dense enough to hold shape and detail like harder polymers.
 


 
 
Pancho Villa's firing line!

Elements of the Bounty Hunter line

 Native leadership!


Trappers and 'Backwoodsmen'.




The growing 'Saloon' line.

If I had the money, if I had the space, if I had the time . . . but, you know me and my lack of knowledge on new production solid metal (Gareth (Morgan Miniatures) has some new Highwaymen - see Blog link list, on left of page), however, Matt can answer any questions you may have.

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