11 is for "On the eleventh Day of Chrissssstmaaas, His True Love Sent to Hiiiiiiimmm . . ."

. . . 2 bloody Snowmen?!!

 Now OK; admittedly, they were both small, but two of them? This is getting a bit odd now.

What with Gina and him getting pretty 'merry' the night before she'd been late to work and by the time they'd unloaded them (did I say they come on a refrigerated pallet, well they do, they're a bugger to handle!) they were both in a bit of a state so he offered her the use of his shower and, well, one thing led to another...she needed someone to wash her back and he didn't want to get his clothes wet...she popped back to her place in the afternoon; to pick-up a toothbrush and feed the cat!

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Two odd's in this post, an erzgebirge type tree hanger and a mini-snowman on skates, both unknown and smaller than the others we've been seeing!

The wooden set was a cheepie from somewhere like Lidl, Aldi or even one of the pound-a-like shops?

T is for Telecoms-Truck with Telegraph-Poles for Telephone-Line

Marx, dime-store style, hard polystyrene truck with two clip-in telegraph poles on the roof!

That's it . . . it's a Marx, dime-store style, hard polystyrene truck with two clip-in telegraph poles on the roof!

You want more? . . . I was saving this to compare with the Merit telegraph poles, but they're different, the ones I think might be copies are the Lone Star Trebble-O Trains ones in sub-N-gauge, but they're in storage, so the comparison can wait a year or two and these images can sod-off out of Picasa and go to the Marx dongle! Also - what's with the hole in the roof? Almost like it's been designed for action figures!

10 is for "On the tenth Day of Chrissssstmaaas, His True Love Sent to Hiiiiiiimmm . . .

. . . Whaaaaat  -  Eeehhh'Hevvv-VEurrr"

Gina and he laughed, unloaded and they went down the pub . . . again . . . !

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 Unknown resin snowman and Santa's that I think we've already looked at here - sorry!

S is for Scenic Shrub

“We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!” . . . and we demand a shrubbery!

Hilco. Shrubbery. More Tomorrow.

Not more shrubberies, that's it for shrubberies, who do you think I am? Some sort of green-fingered shrubbery expert! More something-else tomorrow . . . snowmen probably!

9 is for "On the Ninth Day of Chrissssstmaaas, His True Love Sent to Hiiiiiiimmm . . .

. . . Snow-ma-a-a-ann Num-beeeerrr Niiiine!"

Gina was late this morning; they'd rather 'hung one on' in a little bar where everyone else seemed a lot younger and more vigorous! But they had fun . . .

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Culpitt's again, but larger, in older packaging and a styrene polymer, also issued in unmarked grab-bags from display-bins as generics!

T is for Three - Knights of Old

Except one is anything but a knight and the other is a lowly man at arms!

I've a whole bunch of medieval figure-photos still in Picasa from a photo-shoot I did back in 2011/2012, and this was one of them; three 'misc.' figures who didn't fit into anything else.

From the left we have . . .

• ·         Evil Guy de Whatsit (see Blog passim) from Britains with his locating-studs removed, he stands quite well and looks the part! 54mm

• ·         A white-metal 're-sub' freebie originally in kit-form, from one of the glossies, I don't subscribe any more, to either of them, just grab a butcher's in WHSmith occasionally and purchase if there's anything useful in there. There never is these days, just endless poured-metal, painted well, but stylistically, in a mile-long factory in China!

I painted him in a flat style which has left the sword-cuts on his shield a bit cartoony and the base is becoming a disaster, I tried a herbal tea-bag for 'autumn' scatter material, but it's worn off round the edges and the glue has whitened, so, along with his too-pink cheeks he now looks like he's struggling in the winter snow . . . hardly Acre in the summer sun huh? Yes - I know it gets cold in the dessert, but I didn't intend it to be night-time either! 58mm

• ·         An unmarked 60mm copy of a 40/70mm Elastolin 'gunner' from the catapult in hard polystyrene. Probably from Hong Kong, but the lack of a mark and the material suggest he could be French, Spanish or even further afield?