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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.
Showing posts with label Ashland. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A is for All Hallows' Eve - Skeleton Pirate - Large

The resin pile continues to climb skyward, the second time I've said that in three days, but what a nice piece of resin; this was a very expected Ashland 'Tiny Treasures' surprise in the parcel Brian Berke recently sent to the Blog, and it's great.

100mm Pirate Figurine; Ashland; Drinking Pirate; Halloween; Halloween Novelty Toy; Hook Hand; Peg Leg; Pirate Skeleton; Plastic Toy Figures; Resin Bear; Resin Pirate; Resin Skeleton; Resin Statuettes; Skeleton Pirate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tiny Treasures;
He has a [really quite vicious] real steel hook, whether it's part of a whole armature (unlikely) or an embed at the wrist (more likely) I can't tell, and he is posed in a manner best described as pretty louché!

100mm Pirate Figurine; Ashland; Drinking Pirate; Halloween; Halloween Novelty Toy; Hook Hand; Peg Leg; Pirate Skeleton; Plastic Toy Figures; Resin Bear; Resin Pirate; Resin Skeleton; Resin Statuettes; Skeleton Pirate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tiny Treasures;
There's not much you can do with a single figure to build or enhance a Blog-post, but I wanted to stretch it to ten-posts once the dearth of Halloween stuff tuned suddenly to a flood, so here he is, for scaling, with the berserker - not for the first time in recent weeks - picking on someone who doesn't care and isn't troubled!

100mm Pirate Figurine; Ashland; Drinking Pirate; Halloween; Halloween Novelty Toy; Hook Hand; Peg Leg; Pirate Skeleton; Plastic Toy Figures; Resin Bear; Resin Pirate; Resin Skeleton; Resin Statuettes; Skeleton Pirate; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tiny Treasures;
I enhanced the colour on this picture, and raised the light levels to banish shadows and as a result the strawberries have all 'gone critical' and are about to blow!

You can see he's the same size as the bear/diver (diver-bear!), which means he's a good match for this chap's crew as well, like I say; the resin pile's growing - Many thanks Brian!