A is for Art Studio

Not really a part of the current sequence of railway figure posts per se, but rather a follow-up to this old post, and in particular the artists which I mentioned had been included in a Faller set, and we actually looked at that set's contents in an even earlier post here.

 

It happened that while looking for everything else, I passed this in the files, and while I'm not going to subject you to all the 'lost directions' in those files (but a lot will feature on the A-Z's one day), these do illustrate the use of Presier figures in a Faller set, something which probably only occurred a few times if again, and I stress, I'm not aware of another set that actually had figures, but they are often in the catalogues wandering about, and the odd, other Faller set, lends itself to some 'subject-related' figures?

 

The blackout sheet for electrification of the interior also contained a few paintings to be set up around the studio or on the easels, and there were three teeny nameplates on the set's packing sheet!

Bottom left shows the Preiser accessory runner with the art equipment, and that's it really, just ticking a box re. old references!

S is for Seen Elsewhere - Wild West

A few bits I've posted elsewhere on the internet in the last eighteen-months or so, all on a Wild West theme, nothing to get too excited about, but getting them up here, so I can get them off the new Laptop, which I still hate!

 

 

These chaps, which were donated to the blog by Theo Van de Werden elicited no response here or elsewhere, but I found them looking for something else! They're Baravelli, who seem to have contracted quite a bit of unique stuff from the former British Crown Colony, so while they may have had other branded issues elsewhere in the world, Baravelli is good enough for me, and being 100% 'toy soldier' polyethylene I will hang on to them for the time being, thanks again to Theo!

This was funny - not my pun, which was predictable, but the aftermath; I posted this back in January, as a joke, which read "Jean Hoefler trading as 'Big', got . . . err . . . very big!", only for Deadleaf to post all six figures a few weeks later, then some other futwit sent them to a magazine (whose readers would mostly have seen Hairband's already!), now . . . I know my 'eemies' are desperate for any crumb that they can award points too, but really?

 

This stuff is German, both subsequent 'contributors' are Germans, it's not rare, and I would expect two middle-aged German collectors to have their local production to hand? Indeed, why hadn't they shown us their 'treasures' years ago? Why wait 'till I've posted one, for a laugh, a cheap-laugh at that, before stampeding to the public sphere with their take on it?

 

Aber ich habe auch einen, tatsächlich habe ich sechs! It was a joke . . . but it's deadly serious to these pathetic point-scorers, when they're not trying to hide their purchase-guilt from their 'fat, psychopathic wives' (thanks Pink), by doing the housework! There; I just clawed some of the points back! Pathetic, isn't it?

We've seen another Argentine copy of this Timpo Hopalong Cassidy copy, on the Blog (dirty-white on a brown horse?) already, but I managed to find another pair, second Hopalong and a copy of the Herald Indian with full war-bonnet, on the same Timpo horse piracy.

We saw these in full here, so it's just clearing the picture, Hong Kong/China solid copies of older HK copies of Timpo and HK 'swoppets'.