M is for Mucking-About!

These are from the old archive of stuff I shot while working for a dealer years ago, ten years ago in fact!

 Captain Nemo's man faces-off against one of the scarlet-crested baddies! I think the helmets were from Airfix 'Eagle' action figures (or something similar), anyway, they fitted; like I say - mucking-about!

The bridge I posed them on (I was sorting stuff) might be Formtech? It's a roughly detailed lump made from the sort of 'aqueous form-filling foam' you buy in cans to fix holes in the side of your house!

Although you can get it from the craft material suppliers as a mix-at-home goo, it's the same gunk those novelty fake drinks you found in shops called 'But is it Art?' or similar back in the 1970/80's were made from, you know the thing, a real glass overflowing with ever-lasteing beer, that sort of thing.

Some of Formtech's stuff is a bit better finished than this, but I'll add it to the tag-list until I know/hear different.

It's neither fish nor fowl, being scaled (vaguely incised stonework, size of buttresses) for 54mm, but too narrow for more than two figures to pass at a pinch, for which job you'd be unlikely to build such a structure, while although you can get 1:76th scale wagons or light vehicle across, the detailing IS out of scale?

Close-up of the rough detailing, poor finish and basic fettling; with eight buttresses and three arches, you'd make it wide-enough for a bloody farm cart - wouldn't you?

{this post has just taken three hours, two downloads of Firefox (new, then old! But not quite the same old!!) and a lot of swearing, to get posted, I have another 18 to load before the 6th of Jan but no idea if it will happen! Sometimes I hate the Internet, geeks, service providers and everything else! Gurrrrrr.}