We've seen one or two here, as they came in from Charity Shops, and there may be one or two more in storage, but I happened to be up early one Sunday back in July, and went to the big car-boot over at Borden, off the A325 Farnham Road, where I found a chap selling a shit-ton (an official measurement somewhat larger than a shitload!) of the Invicta (for The British Natural History Museum) dinosaur models, and I sort of bought one-each of most of them!
I
then went and got an egg & bacon bap and a coffee, the real reason for going to a
car-boot sale, in my opinion, went back to the car to eat said burger,
and sort the plunder, and decided I might as well go back and get the
others, which proved problematical, as everyone was starting to pack-up
and leave, and I couldn't find the stall for a while, then nearly
tripped over it, and this, below, is the result!
All the big boys together, I think I have one in storage, but couldn't remember which one! That's a three-foot table, so 'Dippy' is nearly two-and-a-half feet! Despite having looked these up in the past, I either failed to learn or didn't notice anything about the painted version in a softer PVC, so they came as a surprise to me, and means that despite this haul, I am no nearer to even half of the possible versions (there are a couple of complete colour variants among the old PE ones too), but I do now have more than half the sculpts, at least once. Technically, there's a modern Blue Whale to find too!
Cetiosaurus
(painted PVC)
Diplodocus
Mammenchisaurus
Apatosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Stegosaurus
(PE on the left, painted PVC on the right)
Ichthyosaurus
(surface-coated polymer)
Plesiosaurus
(surface-coated polymer)
Woolly Mammoth
(PE on the left, painted PVC on the right)
Left: Glyptodon
Right: Baryonyx
Left: Iguanodon
Right: Tyrannosaurus (Rex)
All undecorated polyethylene unless otherwise stated, the two later additions, both marine subjects, have a shiny coated-surface, almost like resin or fibreglass, with fine age cracks revealing a softer substrate as the bulk of the model, which is probably some form of polyethylene or polypropylene? Also, the tusks of the two version of the Mammoth are quite different, and were clearly redesigned between issues.
What was daft was that, despite two visits to the guy's table, I didn't take a Triceratops, even though he had several, as I thought I'd got one, but I'm pretty sure now I haven't, I had the Scelidosaurus which we saw here a while back, along with a couple of Megalosaurs over the years. And, or course, the one I most want, the Dimetrodon, remains elusive!
You can find pictures of all of them here:
And details of all variations here:
Less than a month later, and we have plagiarist eBay scrapings from you know who! His insecurity must be eating him up, and the commenters are only encouraging him!
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