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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.

Friday, September 5, 2025

E is for Eye Candy - Lone Star King Richard

We've probably seen these one at a time, but here they all are together, they came in over the last few months, because I just can't pass one, since I found I already had more than enough! So that'll be twelve then!



The lighting was so different between the flash and no-flash shots, I've included both to give a better idea of the colours; paint and plastic. Hollow-cast original on the left, with three plastics, and I think they are all Lone Star, but the one on the right might be a home-painted premium - technicaly branded to somebody else - with that smooth base?
 
As well as being slightly shorter, the plastic versions have lost the undercut/s represented by the hole though the product, between the left elbow and body, and the sword has been shortened and tapered, probably to aid moulding/mould-release.

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