I said I'd see "...what happens in the next few days...", and what happened was what I thought would, as a result there will be a few changes going forward.
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
News, Views, Etc . . . Video Editing
It seems 'more haste less speed' was the order of the hour on Saturday night - an order I missed in the rush! As a result there were one or two typos to be ironed out, which I have done, but only by replacing the video and re-annotating the link . . . it now has a typo on the opening credits! I can't be arsed to sort it out again now, it's a hour I haven't got, but if you bookmarked the old one, you'll need to do a new one!
Technically I'm still on a break/sabbatical/hiatus, but here's a slide-show of some of last weeks sunny shenanigans.
I said I'd see "...what happens in the next few days...", and what happened was what I thought would, as a result there will be a few changes going forward.
I said I'd see "...what happens in the next few days...", and what happened was what I thought would, as a result there will be a few changes going forward.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
N is for 'Nother News Flash! Charben's Tome Hits the Libraries of Britian!
The other news today was a new 'Special Publication' from the show's organisers, Plastic Warrior, It's really quite awesome and full review with be forthcoming in a week or two . . . which is all the time you need because it sold-out today!
Unlike previous editions of the Charbens 'check list', this is a book-bound (flat-spine) tome, with an absolute wealth of information and illustrations, most in glorious technimacolishiousness!
Further details - but give them a fortnight to print some more first!
Further details - but give them a fortnight to print some more first!
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
N is for Newsflash! New Replicants Figures Hit the Streets . . . or should that be 'Hit the Plains'!
The new figures from Replicants were on show today and wow, what a line-up, available from Steve Weston's - presumably from tomorrow - if you didn't manage to make it to the show.
Here's a little preview I knocked-up this ar'vo! I will hopefully do a better review later in the week or the week after maybe, so much to do!
G is for Going to Hell in a Handcart!
When I suggested that the orange Brillo-pad
was probably in line for a Nobel Peace Prize the other day, I hadn't
anticipated that my own execrable Foreign Secretary (who seems to share a
barber with Trumpton) would be suggesting it, live, on trash-telly!
Nor that - less than 48-hours later - the
tangerine twerp would be hinting at getting one (a Nobel) himself, a day after
he made the likelihood of World War III starting in the Middle-east all the
more likely!
While his 'World Peace' Deal' is with a man (Kim Jong-Un) who killed his uncle at point-blank . . . with an anti-aircraft gun, and had his brother assassinated in public!
You can't make this shit up, the world is
rudderless and going stark staring mad!
Listening to Trump on Thursday night was
remarkably like listening to Hitler; the way he was stoking the rabble to hate
the press (a free press in a free country), to hate members of the previous
administration, to distrust the only support systems they have, is exactly how
Hitler took power from the organs of state and concentrated them in himself.
And:- to the idiot who suggested the other day I
shouldn't keep commenting on his President - I'll stop commenting on the
orange-loon when he stops talking about Britain and France as if they are
blood-soaked war zones, when they are not!
The idea that if the French had U.S.
gun-ownership levels, 120 people could have been saved in Paris was patent nonsense;
1 - There is no
guarantee anyone would have stopped the terrorists anyway, after all - no one
stops the school shootings in a country that does have those levels of firearm
ownership?
2 - Those levels
of gun ownership bring with them so many background deaths, he seems to have
been suggesting that in order to [possibly] save 120 people, once in a blue
moon, France would have to accept 5, 10, 20,000 deaths? Per year - every year?
The man's nuts! So's our Foreign Secretary.
I see Ollie' North (or is it 'oily') got
himself a new lucrative income as overseer of the program to cull the national population
with legally-held firearms! Really - you can't make it up.
P is for Position Still Open!
Bit of fun . . .
You were right who-ever-it-was - I will get
better! There's going to be some changes around here in 2018!
N is for Never Mind! Better Luck Next Year!
No news on any new PW 'Specials' this year? If there are any I'll let you know ASAP!
Stop Press
As I was loading this (in a rush on Friday), I got an eMail from Terranova with the best plastic-warrior ever - for Plastic Warrior Day - of course!
Marvel and DC on the same packaging, with a light-sabre and no license! Knock-off's don't come much more sublime than this, cheers Brian!
Details / Links
Richard Atkins Toy Fair
12/05/2018 - 12/05/2018
10.30am - 3pm Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 1AB, United Kingdom
01869 347489
12/05/2018 - 12/05/2018
10.30am - 3pm Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 1AB, United Kingdom
01869 347489
Friday, May 11, 2018
1 is for Less than a Day!
It's tomorrow!
Hope you make it, the weather - I think -
is going to be perfect; fine, but not as hot as the recent bank-holiday
weekend.
I was just thinking; of all the shows I've
attended, a couple have been wet, one (the last at Richmond?) was showery with
warm sun steaming the puddles between showers, and a few have had misty/drizzly,
slightly chilly starts, clearing later, but most have been nice days I think?
Perhaps I'm remembering them through the rose-tinted spectacles of show-plunder
memories!
Thursday, May 10, 2018
2 is for Almost Tomorrow! But Not Quite!
Train Travel
Well served by stations, but Whitton is the
one to aim for as it's only a couple of minutes walk away from the venue. SouthWestern Railways' site is here for updates and double checking. Since
taking over the franchise they have had some minor industrial action, but
there's nothing ongoing at the moment, although two other rail companies had
strikes today (Wed. 9th) so best to check the link.
Directions from PW's page -
From Central
London and the South of England
By overground
train (South Western Railways) from Waterloo or Clapham Junction to Whitton
Station. There are 8 trains an hour and the journey time is approx. 30
minutes, this is a loop line so 4 trains an hour run from two different
platforms at Waterloo Station.
From the
North of England
By train to
London arriving at Kings Cross St. Pancras or Euston. take the London
Underground Victoria line just 6 stops to Vauxhall and change for South
Western Railways to Whitton Station as above. Whitton Station is
just 3 minutes walk from the Winning Post - turn left out of the station past
Jubilee Avenue and Pauline Crescent, the next turning on your left is the
entrance to the Winning Post.
The Near-Clapham Omnibus and Other Charabancs
This is the National Rail bus-plan/local amenities poster for Whitton which you can download as a .pdf file and
print-out.
While local
bus details are available here,
and give the following buses as local click on each for timetable); PW recommends
the H22
from Richmond if you use the Tube (Metro,
U-Bahn, Underground) for the rest of your journey out of the city.
Viewpoint pulled-out a bit. I am reliably
informed you can also get a taxi-cab from anywhere within the European Union,
direct to the door of the Winning Post! Hire cars are available, try car-share . . . bicycle . . . Run!
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
3 is for . . . Err . . . Less Than a Week? Bargain!
The Map! Actually I think I've cropped it
better in the past, but hey-ho! The venue is less than 2-minutes walk from
Whitton railway station, well served with buses and can be approached by road
from anywhere in the UK! Seriously though - It's on the A316 main-drag into
London from the M3, with connections to Hounslow/Heathrow just to the North.
Google Earth - There's plenty of parking
(looked at last year) but remember if you are driving, the 316 has a permanent,
solid, central reservation for that whole section effectively making it one way
in both directions from the Hospital Bridge Road roundabout (bottom left) to
the Twickenham High Street roundabout (off the top right-hand corner), so if
you are coming out of London you will need to go round and come back up, if you
miss it you will have to do the whole loop down to 'Twickers' National Rugby
Stadium and back up past The Stoop -
home of the Harlequins.
The pub is open from eight, so you can wait
in comfort if you get there early, and they serve breakfast 'till 11am, coffee
all day and alcohol from eleven 'till
late.
PW's page noted there is a cash-machine on site, with more facilities
in Whitton village.
This is the sight that you're looking for
to turn left, or at least - it is if you're in the wrong lane and bringing a
lorry, otherwise look-out for the rendered, white-painted, low, brick-wall!
More Details:-
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.comTuesday, May 8, 2018
4 is for days away!
Five forgot it was a bank holiday!
More Details:-
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Funny isn't it . . . if I respond - members of the 'old guard' get off the fence on his side; if I don't - he's encouraged to have four pops at me in three weeks? After whining I should leave him alone!! So it seems I'm damned if I defend myself, and damned if I don't? We will see what happens in the next few days, but I am preparing a rebuttal, it will be 12,000 words and x all else +! And I suspect my forecast of damage to the hobby - made in October 2016 - may prove to have been an underestimate of what I thought at the time!
eMail; pw.editor@ntlworld.com
Funny isn't it . . . if I respond - members of the 'old guard' get off the fence on his side; if I don't - he's encouraged to have four pops at me in three weeks? After whining I should leave him alone!! So it seems I'm damned if I defend myself, and damned if I don't? We will see what happens in the next few days, but I am preparing a rebuttal, it will be 12,000 words and x all else +! And I suspect my forecast of damage to the hobby - made in October 2016 - may prove to have been an underestimate of what I thought at the time!
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018
W is for Who Knew!
Still fighting grime on the streets of Hampshire . . .
♫♩♫ "Call-hall-ling International Rescue!" ♫♩♫
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
F is for Follow-up - Minions
As an eraser follow-up, Terranova sent me
the first two images of these the other day, and while having a big
putting-away session at the weekend I took the opportunity to take the third
image to show the size difference I mentioned the other day.
These are different to the eraser sets
we've seen here in the UK (and on the Blog) twice now, having a join mid-way
down the face, and larger feet, so I suspect they are a tad larger than the
previous sets. Also; I don't remember a lady-Minion, or a Minion in a piny?
All that ninja-action and martial arts
crime-fighting has left the mutant turtles looking pretty ropey these days!
Cheers Brain.
I'd forgotten the large 'piratical' one;
who came in with one of these mixed bags of vinyl/cartoon crud from a charity shop
I think, but - as I guessed - the two new key-rings from the other day and the
three 'probably Phidal' are sized
either side of the earlier erasers.
The films/DVD releases have proven popular
over the last five or so years, and as a consequence there is quite a bit of
Minion-related stuff out there, figurines - in all sizes - to the fore.
F is for Follow-up - Rubber Capsule Toys
When I popped into that party shop up at
Clapham Junction back at the end of January, among the Henbrandt and other bits I grabbed were these two, who are useful
only for showing how this stuff 'does the rounds'.
Silicon'rubber 'streatchimal' reptiles, one
- a snake - in Henbrandt pack, the
other - a lizard - in Giftworks
packing, both animals were in both packs in the dispensing tub, but no other sculpts were to
be found, although I suspect there is a larger selection in the whole 'set'
somewhere?
They are both in that clammy, cold silicon
which feels wet; but isn't, and both have the same metallic finish as the Henbrandt and/or Tobar/Hawkin's Bazaar stretchy robots and dinosaurs previously
seen here at Small Scale World.
Below them is a spare Henbrandt alien I found in a box of something else for 50p the
other day. The second time (previous was a blue egg-head with a squished hand) it's
happened; but different venue - I suspect there was a bit of horseplay going on
in a warehouse somewhere, and the aliens found their way into other stock boxes
as 'incoming' in a surreptitious war between the 'Days' and 'Back-shift' or
just between two packing-lines!
This has been sitting around for ages, and
isn't all of them - as the other Henbrandt's
are missing - the Tobar (top four)
differ from the Henbrandt offering in
having no paint, all four came from Hawkin's Bazaar.
Paint differences also show with the
various smilies out there, some having only eyes - previously tested to
destruction! There are also size differences, as these are all from 20p capsule
dispensers, clearly some are slightly more value for money than others!
The image also shows how they are stored -
with notes where similar figures are in the same bag - and it indicates how the
capsule-toy stretchy-aliens and smilies are gathering for the invasion!
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