I'm not particularly a 'dog person', I'm a cat person, I
find dogs to be a bit simplistic, slavishly sycophantic and/or bad without the character of cats,
I was fond of our Red Setter when I was a kid, but that's the thing, the brainless befriending the brainless! Nevertheless, when dogs come-in to small scale world we will show dogs, and
two lots of doggie-doo came in last Tuesday, so; let's revisit dogs!
Peter Evans donated these to the Blog last
Tuesday morning, and life being what it is; I then found another canine
candidate later in the day!
Perfect
Moments (who we have looked at recently) have marked
their moniker on the package, they look a bit like the Henbrandt dog, but seem to be a different set, although painted like
the Henbrandt set of wild animals (in the above-linked post), so possibly the same factory, however there
are several sets of these small animals doing the rounds at the moment.
These are also smaller than most of the
dogs in previously canine-themed posts, and would - with a bit of a re-paint -
go well with 54mm figures; maybe better with 60 or 70mm figures?
But to argue for the other side; you may
remember that both Perfect Moments
and Henbrandt use the Oker cellulose-bag packaging?
As you can see they are all reasonably
recognisable breeds, under the poor, glossy paint-job and even the poodle is
bearable (I hate poodles with a vengeance - horrid little cotton-balls of
flouncy ponce!).
Then (Tuesday) on the way 'back to the
sticks' I popped-off the travel network at Clapham Junction to check the cheapie-discount
stores I remembered being there in the 1990's, and while they had all gone (as
I suspected) there was a larger 3-unit party-shop roughly where a couple of
them used to be sited, and I managed to get a small bag of novelty stuff, which
we will be looking at over the coming days.
Among those novelties were these capsules,
none of which had any clue as to their contents, and after I'd opened a few I
realised they all had the same thing (which I have in storage - green with a blue
collar . . .maybe, red collar?), so I grabbed one, not knowing I already had the Perfect Moments dogs in the bag I was carrying!
Marajà are one of several brands connected to the capsule toy company LZ - Zàini
from Italy, which is how I came by the first one, about 15/20 years ago! I
think he/it was in a hollow-chocolate bear with a Christmas style foil wrapper,
but clearly someone (there's no branding on the toy) had a warehouse stillage
full of the things, and here they are, many years later, the other end of
Europe, being sold at 20p a-pop, no chocolate!
So; thanks to Peter's gift, a bit of synergy and a
global glut in polymer novelties, and we have a dog-post . . . and we all know
what dogs do to their posts - another reason to distrust them!
