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Links
Ancient Egyptian boat pictures which are very useful for modellers
The first one (top of the page) has a necklace of Poundstore polymer!
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More from My Modern Met
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Books
London Review of books - the opening
paragraph has a nice sideways dig at the poured metal brigade, both
users and dealers! And the rest is an interesting read
Do you remember when we looked at this photo-art 'experience', well the shots by the photographer Simon Brann,
have been collated in a book which is available from Amazon, here.
Whilst this one is aimed at younger readers
and has Toy Soldiers coming to life and having adventures in Central Park - March Of The Toy Soldiers by Carson Morten.
And this one replays the battle of
Gettysburg in toy and model soldiers, with (apparetly - I havem't read it)
figures and dioramas from around the world - Gettysburg in Miniature - Scott L. Mingus et al
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Charities
All charities everywhere are struggling in
or due-to Covid-19 (which we're also calling Sars-CoV-2 for some reason?);
their shops may be shut, their fundraising events can't go ahead, they are
unable to do the the flag-day/chugger stuff in the High Street, they are in a bad
way, so if you normally give to a charity, any charity with any cause, and
you've not throught about them for four months, maybe get a PayPal off to them
while you're reminded?
Over here we have Jane Garfield's The Toy Project for toy-specific giving and The Toy Box
And while TJF loves to cover the same UK charity
as me (did you see him today - T. Cohn because
I mentioned them two days ago! He's lost without me, LOST!)*, he seems to have
remained very quite on the subject of domestic charities, so for those loyal
readers over the pond who would like to donate there's both a US Military
and US Toy Industry charities to pick from, for starters.
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Obituaries
Two toy soldier collectors have joined the
too-long list of loses this year, and we're only half-way through it.
May they find the toys they were still looking-for wherever they are now.
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Thought for the Day
George Orwell once stated that he had seen
many children who wanted to play with toy soldiers, but never one who wished to
play with a toy pacifist, fun sentiment if you want to justify militarism, but
I had many friends who stuck with farm and/or zoo toys, civilian vehicles or
football/Subbuteo, so in this
instance I think Mr. Orwell was being either simplistic, taking an unscientifically
small sample of his like-minded peers to generate a theorem, or more cynical
than me!
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Meatheaded-faceplant Moment of the Day
The good news is, on either side of the
pond both their age/health demographics and their desire to gather in
Nazi-saluting groups without facemasks (extreme-left Antifa plot; don't you know!!!!
Haahaahhaaahaha!), mean they will be dying from Covid in proportionally larger
numbers than sensible, sane 'lefties'; taking votes from Boris and the Orange
Loon which won't come back!
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* No, no it's no coincidence, it
would be coincidence if it happened once in a blue-moon, but it's happened about
eight-times since April! I can't move for him mentioning the same firm or the
same person or even the same figures a few days or a week or two later! When I
mentioned in passing that I'd refreshed the US retailers list (all 23 of them)
he posted a whole two, a few days later! Probably the only two he still talks-to,
or two who haven't found him or his monkey-lizard slagging them off on a locked
French forum yet! It’s funny, but it's tiresome.
The funniest so far was after I did the Jean Wild West day (three or four posts? I can't remember) and he followed-up with three figures in two pictures, the accompanying blurb for which was too cowardly to call for or against the theory I had proposed - re. moulds - so he tried to suggest I might be wrong, but then hinted it might be the case! No gumption, the man's got no gumption! Then there was the two-day Hing Fat thing but I'll deal with that separately; it's quite illuminating!
