What kicked the post off, was Chris sending
me some shots we'll see in a minute, the same day I bought the dog . . . more
on him in a minute too; which lead me to think "Humm . . . I could do a little post on the little corporal, with my
little dog?", who's not that little! So I dug-out the storage tub
which I knew had one in.
I had picked these up back in 2009-11, the
large French (Starlux - I originally thought, but it might be something better?) nappy in the
big purchase I think, and the Timpo
(an Action Pack re-issue) in a
job-lot with seven others, but as I've since found another I'm guessing there
are 10 or twelve to find (I thought I had 'all eight').
The rider is JIM and so is the horse, but I'm not sure they belong together, although as a pairing (JIM seem to have had a 'range' of interchangeable horses - like Timpo) it is trying to look like the painting of Napoleon on Marengo in a snow-storm? Also the Timpo probably isn't strictly a Bonaparte, but he looks the 'parte . . . hehe!
This has come from . . . Chris or Peter . . . Sandown or my trip to the
Toy Project? Sometime during the past year anyway, and was still at hand, it's
the Blue Box die-cast Elite Command figure from 15-or-so
years ago, and still findable on-line, a younger, slimmer dictator, maybe from
the period before he was even technically a dictator and certainly not an
emperor!
I took a base shot!
But - visible, yet not clear - in last week's
'other' bag (the one which wasn't full of Disney Princesses, had this chap in
it! How cool is this? Too cool for puppy-training, that's for sure! AND, it's a
dachshund,
a German dog, even . . . a 'Prussian' dog . . . wearing Nappy's gear as a
war-trophy? It wasn't Wellington, mate, he 'held the fort', it was Blucher 'carried
the day'!
All of them together before they went away,
the puppy (piece of resin tourist tat) is the best one there, he looks like he
just nicked his hat of a bread-demanding, cake-damning, fish-wife on the
barricades!
Chris's figure which kicked this post off,
it's also a bit of a 'Q is for Question-mark...', in that
Chris would like to know more about it, and I could only confirm what he
already knew; . . . probably a tourist thing, probably missing a stand or
plinth of some kind. To which after working on the slightly low-res images I
would add that it might be casein-resin/polymer?
Also - is it depicting a specific statue
somewhere; Paris, or Corsica maybe?
In the putting-away of the others, this
chap was found in the PZG tub, and
while he's probably meant to be a line-infantry officer with his fore'n'aft
bicorn, I think he looks sufficiently like a certain young artillery officer to
be considered another rendition of Nappy for the purposes of this post? I also have a diminutive PVC Nescafe premium buried somewhere, and the Beverly one we've seen here at Small Scale World before, so we'll definitely return to Napoleon when I've found a few more!
