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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.

Monday, September 8, 2025

L is for Lord of the Jadas

I can't remember where I found this now, I have a feeling it was discounted, so probably TKMaxx, but I can't swear to it, it was in the last few weeks though (July shots), so may still be out there, if like me, you do regularly irregular sweeps of all the likely sources!



Having waxed lyrical about these Jada die-cast figures in the past, and specifically their decoration/paint-finish, I have to say I don't think these Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) figures, are quite as nice as some we've seen, but the green cloak guy has the lustre I liked so much on my first figure, while the silver chap could march straight into any 28mm biblical force, although at 40-odd-mm he'd have to be a specific Philistine!

2 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

You have aquirred a nice set of D & D characters here. Got anytime for a skirmish?

Hugh Walter said...

You may joke Jan, but many years ago, I had a mate in the Territorial Army, who started a games' magazine with a few of his mates, it didn't last long, as White Dwarf had the market sewn-up here, but they did get tones of freebies sent to their rented office in Alexander Tower in Aldershot, and one evening we had a beery test-play of the then new Riverdeep module/Scenario, for AD&D, and I still have my stats sheet somewhere for the goodly knight I played, by the end of the game I had quite a few weapons, several jewels, lots of gold credits and a couple of spells in the bag! I had so many weapons, the Gamesmaster made me leave some in the custody of a tavern down Riverdeep docks, because he said I couldn't physically carry them all! They're still there!

H