Comments on: Manky Toy Monday: Enlighten Children on a Brains

By: The Shadow

The Shadow — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:46:09 +0000

The plastic soldiers site is wonderful. The Airfix HIGH CHAPARALL set features some of the most bow-legged cowboys ever seen. Assuming that I had ever had the time or inclination to build model railway sets, I would have loved to include bow legged cowboys, Tarzan, spacemen and ancient Britons amongst the figures waiting on the platform.

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:24:32 +0000

“Here you go, son. I’ve bought you something extra special for your birthday, Something much more fun that silly old soldiers. I give you…Airfix Set 01706…civilians!”

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=366

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:19:17 +0000

They don’t make ‘em like his anymore. Atlantic’s 1977 “Outlaws and Sheriffs”. Complete with guy dangling lifeless from a tree after lynch mob justice!

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=537

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:13:05 +0000

Ah…the Matchbox Afrika Corps. Mini plastic German heaven.

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=370

By: fústar

fústar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:22:50 +0000

Fergal,

The dog has the look of an Alsatian from a medieval engraving. As done by an artist who’d only ever heard about Alsatians through third-hand reports. Plus, it seems to be wearing lipstick. Which either lends the scene a jolly or decadent air – depending on your tastes.

Copernicus,

It’s definitely a machine job. Albeit a machine operating on its “Junior Cert Art Class” setting. It does feel oddly improvised though. As if the machine had decided to throw off the shackles of its programming and have a stab at creativity. Fail!

By: copernicus

copernicus — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:22:01 +0000

I’m fascinated by the paint work. It’s almost impossible to believe it was done by a machine and yet there is clear evidence of a machine intelligence in the not-quite-random-but-very-nearly-insane patterns.

Sloppy, yes, but not the work of mortal hands.

By: Fergal

Fergal — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:09:36 +0000

The scale is difficult to judge. If the soldiers are indeed giants, and the gate tiny only in comparison to them but otherwise on a normal human scale, where does that leave the dog? His body is longer than that of the (presumably giant) soldier. Even on all fours and crouching, he’s almost up to the soldiers’ waists. If he reared up on hind leags, he could headbutt one of them with his freakishly large wet nose. A normally sized human could get a thundering, possibly life-ending whack around the head from his tail. And what if he tried to hump your leg? War, it ain’t nothin’ but a heartbreaker, indeed.

By: Allan Cavanagh

Allan Cavanagh — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:00 +0000

No no, they’re electricians driven mad by their union commanders. Those doors are access hatches to fuseboxes.

By: fústar

fústar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:06:56 +0000

EWI, Rossport. Of course. I knew I’d seen that flag flying somewhere before.

Ms Avery, The government of course, denies all knowledge. “We maintain that these rumours of massacres in Africa are totally unfounded. We also maintain that the pictured gates are, in fact, tiny. We base this conclusion on hard science. Making a big soldier is way harder than making a small gate”.

By: Ms Avery

Ms Avery — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:55:21 +0000

It’s not that the gate is tiny… the soldiers are giants! They were subjected to top-secret experiments in the Nevada desert, but it all went wrong, they mutated horribly and now they’ve gone rogue.

By: EWI

EWI — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:28:29 +0000

Today’s (2 Euro) gang definitely fall into this latter category. They’re a shouty, aggressive and highly strung lot. Here we see their Commanding Officers barking out their crazed orders.

Wow – it’s Shell’s thugs out at Rossport…