I sort of ran out of Mojo on Thursday night, only temporary, had other things to do, so should be publishing again by tomorrow, but in the meantime, I saw the bestest shooting star ever last night, the tail must have been 40/100-miles long, and as it broke-up it burned-out turquoise through to ultramarine, it was worth being born, just to see that split-second of wonder!
Anyway, I tthought I'd remind everyone it's Sandown Park toy fair today!
After the above, was ready to go, the whole article disappeared, poof! Like some negative-reaction magic trick! And I never got it back, while Blogger/Google have yet to reply to my eMails of ten-odd years ago! Anyway, while I started again, I was rather disheartened by the whole business, and rather left it on the back-burner!
Luckily, I had the draft I'd sent out, and could get the images back off the dongles, although by the time I was about to publish, I'd reworked most of the second section, and that's now quite different, and probably not as good at it was first-time around, these things tend to flow better in the initial attempt? Or they do with me?
It's incredible! He has to have the same story, a better story or something similar scrapped off evilbay! Like the braggart in the playground, who won't be bested, yet always, only reacting!
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/11/sometimes-great-lotion.html
I mean, I'm not saying he made it up, but timing's everything, so no sympathy here! I lost a bigger, better, more erudite document, not five minutes ago . . . not! Little tosser.
So, 4am here, and I've run out of puff, sorting the plunder pile! Yeah, I had a snooze earlier! There were three new Plastic Warrior Special Publications launched at the show this year, and the embargo has been lifted on them being announced, so they are:
I'm not 'people'ing' right now, too much other shit going on, but I will be my usual cheery self tomorrow, at the world's best Toy Soldier show, being the . . .
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Usual contact details and travel stuff from the usual sources:
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/PlasticWarrior?fref=ts
Blog. - http://plasticwarrioreditor.blogspot.com/
eMail - pw.editor3@gmail.com (pw.editor@ntlworld.com)
Tel. - 01483 830 743
. . . and Brian posted all the relevant details a while ago.
And, given the success I had last year, pre-mentioning the need for a blue astronaut/paratrooper, this year I'm hoping to find . . . No; you don't tempt fate!
Here's some eye candy for stuff you may find though, and I will get round to answering comments/eMails, next week if I can.
Matt posted this yesterday;
"Sad day, we have done our quarter one review. Sales are down quite a bit. It must be a combination of three things, firstly the world climate is stopping people buying due to costs and fear. Secondly ebay has added costs to our products, more of that later. Thirdly we are possibly making too much.
So something will be changing, our products will no longer be on ebay. It is marking up prices, gouging on postage and making listing very difficult. Its not worth it, so go to our website to gain free shipping cheaper prices and the full range of our products. Secondly the price of metal has skyrocketed so production costs are beyond sales, so we need to tread more carefully. This means we will still release the next two batches but after that until we start to break even I will use you good people to pick what gets made, I will sculpt figures and put them to a vote.
Sad but needs must till things balance out. Please help me find new customers by sharing our Facebook and website with people you might think will be interested. And you at least will have a say in what goes into production as I will not be able to subsidise the width or figures I sculpt into production. A bit gloomy I know but as a one person operation I can not bankrupt myself for a hobby."
So . . . the light finally expanded to fill the view, as I escaped the tunnel, but there is the small matter of another tunnel ahead, the find-buy-move tunnel, which I'm sort of ignoring for a few weeks because I just need a breather! Having Asperger's, I find it all very stressful, it's too complicated and multilayered to compartmentalise in the way autistic's need things to be, we like logical steps, not multiple layers of chaos!
And it's funny, because while I sort of think, or like to think I'm going to blog it all one day as a warning/guide to others, the fact seems clear that, A) everyone's been here, and B) having escaped/moved on, there is a tendency to never revisit it all, so it remains a mystery that each person has to experience anew!
Plenty of people will - after the event - come out with "I could have told you that", or . . .
"That happened to me/us"
"HMRC always do that"
"Watch the agents, they all prioritise the buyer"
"Where there's a will, there's a relative"
. . . and a hundred other epithets, but . . . nobody comes to you at the start and warns you about any of it! I don't think I've properly grieved for my late Mother, I haven't had time, nor for Boysey-Boy, who died last October, or even his mother who started the miserable sequence in the autumn of 2020, so a stable situation which had existed for about ten-years has left me in a dodgy bedsit, after two expensive weeks in a Holiday Inn, with three container storage units, girding my loins for house-hunting, something I've never done and don't know where to start with!
In the meantime, the local foxes have decided to use my car as their new lookout . . . oh Christ! What have they done to the image-upload system? You take three weeks off and everything changes . . .
Coincidentally running from my Birthday, although I've only just learnt of it, until the 30th June, so still plenty of time to get up there and have a look;
Everything else you need to know is here;
https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/events/joy-of-puppetry/
And, better late than never! Sorry, missed the activity weekend!
I'm not ready to go back to the weekly show-date format yet, haven't got the time, or the space, but here are a few flyers I picked-up at last weekend's show, with dates of forthcoming shows or events;
Tel/Answerphone - 01727 826400
London - Twickenham / Whitton - Plastic Warrior Magazine - Plastic Warrior Show
It was the Italian riders I had in mind on the Britains post the other day (thank you FitzjamesHorse), and I had scanned a cutting for adding to the post, but forgot it, it's now been added, to the post here;
https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/b-is-for-brush-rail-britians-show.html
I also forgot to thank David Fisher for letting me photograph his carded Jungle set from Grendon at the recent Sandown Park toy fair, when iI posted it the other day, so a quick apology to him, and a note now added to that post;
https://smallscaleworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/g-is-for-grendon-underwood.html
The News, Views have taken a bit of a back-seat this last 12 or 18-months, but it's all piling-up and will be caught-up with at some point! I mean there's 921 images in the ScanDoc folder for Christ's sake, it's a madness!
I've done a second update since I last updated in 2018, which I didn't announce here as it was only a few weeks since I'd previously done so! So if you haven't visited for a while, there's now plenty of new stuff there, including the third figure pose, previously mentioned but not seen.
http://airfixfigs.blogspot.com/2018/11/1940s-sometime-wwii-500-500m-501-502.html
Almost forgot, and probably won’t post for a day or two, as a result, but it's the first Sandown Park toy fair of the season tomorrow, so shake-out the cobwebs and get yourself down to the UK's best show, and see if you can find a 'grail item' or a bargain!
A few toy or collecting memes or toy-related cartoons, which have crossed my path recently, one way or another;
