A quickie now, a bag of dinosaurs I got from a charity shop a few months ago - the trouble with having had two months away from the blog this year, is that everything is 'a few months ago'! But it was a better than usual bag, with three Schliech and several other nice examples.
The three
Schleich's first; a stunning
Brachiosaurus, a
Triceratops and a kerthunkersaur called
Salchania, all dated 2002 or '02, and among
Schliech's earlier models, certainly a cut-above your average Hong Kong models of the time, but they have helped raise the bar, with some modern dinosaurs from China, just as good as the
Schleich/Papo world!
A chunky-monkey from China,
Dimetrodon, usually my favourite, but I'm not keen on the frayed, goldfish fin edges to his, or her sail! Most modellers, over many years, have given them stretched skin, like bats wings or the web between a human thumb-forefinger?
The
Jaru and others (?) reissue of an old
Holly sculpt on the left, and an actual
Holly Pterosaur on the right.
"Slava Ukraine!", says . . . err . . . Bi-ceretops! A better quality, modern Chinese dinosaur from Happy Kin Toys, depicting a Nedoceratops, which had been called Diceratops until someone realised there were also wasps with the same name!
Based on a single skull found in Wyoming . . . it may not exist!
Compared to the Schleich.
"Why habben'd you god a lumb on your dose?"
More traditional fayre, from China, and above average, but more in tune with older Hong Kong stuff, there has been an attempt at overwashing/overspraying a bit of realism! Fiver the bag, gives the ten a 50p retail cost, per animal, which is how I like to get these larger models!
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