Continuing to look at the shots I got-off
at the Toy-fair last month; we'll look at the monsters first, or 'dragons' to
be more exact!
This is an odd one; it clearly states 12,
not once but twice, yet I can count at least 18, possibly a few more, and it
looks to be three-each of six (which would be 18) or seven (21) sculpts,
whether they have combined the contents of two boxes for display purposes or not
I can't say, but can guess at . . . that'll be a yes then!
Also while they are called dinosaurs (and
this image was removed from that batch of shots), they are clearly dragons, and
of European/heraldic pattern or tradition, rather than a more Chinese/Asian
design or Mayan/Amerindian style.
Also - look at that unit-price! I bet
they'll be at least two-quid; retail! But - very useful for fantasy gaming.
I shot a couple of these in TKMaxx, can't remember if it was this
autumn-gone, or last autumn (2016), but they were four or five-pounds I seem to
recall, and fifteen-odd for the large set - matched in style to the Megasaurs box of similar size.
Moving from fantasy to full-on sci-fi; we
have a box of big-head, squeezy-aliens, shown here for completion, because I
took the shot and to get them out of Picasa, not because I've any desire to
track them down and add them to the physical collection!
There was also a full range of eggs with or
without slime or gypsum/plaster and a digging tool, along with the novelty
'grow' aliens - just add water!
I have a few grow-your-own novelties, I
think we may have had one or two on the blog over the years, but fully-grown
they are A) a bit big and B) a bit damp! I wonder if you could coat them in
something to keep them small - problem being that most 'coatings' are likely to
be or act like liquid, so likely to soak-in, causing growth!
Perhaps you could use a lacquer-spray
(hair-setter or artists pastel-fixative) to seal the foam, then a spirit based
varnish (Humbrol spray-matt?) then a
top coat of something more substantial, that plumbers-sealant would give them a
nice polymer 'shell'. You could then use them forever with 40-60mm figures!
Peter Evan's; who I was at the show with, suspected
the larger models were part of the production process; masters or mould blanks,
and certainly the smaller neutral-beige one would seem to be, but the two purple
ones don't bear any relationship to any of the sculpts of the products on show,
and were quite 'play-worn' so I wonder if they might be display models or
painted-blanks left over from earlier lines or ranges, perhaps from some time
ago - Grossman have been around for
decades now?
