Woof!

That's from the Crazy Horse Strip Club in Las Vegas? Might be a collectors item now that it's burnt down.

Hi August. The original "Bareskins" routine was at the Paris "Headquarters" :) nightclub. The show was very successful ( like all of them ) and travelled the world bringing Culture and Civilisation to benighted heathens everywhere.

There was a documentary on Youtube about the dancers being trained for this routine by a Guards Officer flown to Paris from the UK especially for this. He really put the poor girls through the wringer till they got the drill right. A lot of them were crying but they did their duty. But for the life of me I can't find that clip anymore. :wah:

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Atlantic Ancient Greeks
 

https://i.imgur.com/BB9lSwa.jpg

I love my ancients - these were produced by European maker 'Atlantic' in the 1970s. I think there were 6 poses and - as usual in these cases - there were a couple of exceptionally strong ones, which I show here. I painted these up and was very pleased with the result. I was in my twenties when these came out, so a bit after my time as a kid - but - back up the bus - I never grew out of being a kid, did I? I would've loved these when I was 12

As the Bard once said:


"Growing up is next to growing old which leads to dying and dying doesn't sound all that much fun to me!"

As always, like your other figurines, these look great. :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
Did you get them that way, Eichhörnchen or did you have to redo and repaint them ? Either way, they look great.

No these were sparsely painted by the manufacturer - makers would often put a lot of good detail in the sculpting, then give them to outworkers to just chuck a bit of colour on here and there. I stripped that off and completely repainted them, sticking to a 'toy' rather than a 'model' style

Britains Ltd 155mm "Long Tom"
 

https://i.imgur.com/lhRHXJL.jpg

This massive hunk of metal was one of those 'dream toys for boys' when I was a kid. The trail arms flipped open on unhitching and spades were carried to then fit under the ends. It had a spring-loaded brass shell case to receive a push-in plastic warhead, which all then loaded into the breech just like the real thing. A slight pressure on the lever and the shell was shot way across the room - further than any of your other guns could reach... ideal also for shooting pet cats and budgies. The whole was finished in 1950's British Army "bronze green"

My original Long Tom was o/s after my sister swallowed the firing pin, which is also sprung and sits inside the breech cover; this has a metal tab on it which realistically yanks out the empty shell casing after firing. We watched her for any news for a couple of days but it never reappeared

I had a couple of them buggas as a kid.

I miss my old toys. Thought the Britain's model of this one was great.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ounder_Gun.JPG

Closest I'm going to come again is a water cannon for songkran. :D
https://pyxpa.cdn.setuix.net//resour...val-phuket.jpg

*AHEM*

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...7&postcount=39

I'm not looking for bonus whacking points, but I'll take them just the same. :D

Very interesting, buddy - I'm especially drawn to the polished brass & bronze, plus I take your point about "cooling down" the chrome with an overpainted varnish; I had immediately thought of how the chrome can often look just too bright on a smaller model but hadn't ever thought of this varnish idea. You are still busy teaching this old dog new tricks, ya know :haha:

Atm I use "Plasti-Kote" chrome spray (spirit based) which has been the closest I've ever been able to get. However, I wonder whether you've seen these new chrome pens advertised on Face Book & eleswhere? They seem to work wonders

Those are Molotow ink pens. :yep:
The ink is alcohol based and was designed for black construction paper.
On plastics and other hard mediums they look great, for about a week. :doh:
As long as you don't touch it or look at it in a strange way. Its pretty delicate stuff. :03:

The pens also don't hold up for very long and the ink tends to "pickle" itself after several months in the pen.

They also tend to be a bit pricey, which is why I'm looking forward to trying the new stuff. :up:

Thanks for that, shipmate - of course you know what they say about things that seem too good to be true... :Kaleun_Salute:

Herald 'Modern' Infantry
 

Not so modern now, these may have been pocket money cannon fodder when we were kids but they are still lovely figures, especially when they're in new condition like these with all their original paint


https://i.imgur.com/FJOretE.jpg

They're supposed to be British and although they wear 1950's-60's british battledress (along with the "turtle" helmet) the only one with the correct FN-FAL self loading rifle is the guy at front left; the others seem to have Armalites or some such

When did the Webley get phased out? Maybe those carrying handles just need snipped off.

Those other two almost look like paintball guns. Instead of a stock it looks like there is a co2 bottle sticking down from the bottom of it.

On looking closer they're meant to be SA-80 rifles - that's the mag behind the pistol grip and the carrying handle is where they would also position a sight

I got to use the FN-FAL SLR as an army cadet - no-one used the carrying handles on them - seemed a bit strange after carting the .303 around on the shoulder. The .303 was always preferred for target shooting by anyone in the know

I don't know about the Webley

We always were issued with the turtle helmets but with NATO plain olive green tunics

BMC is either upping their game or bought the rights to some nice sculpts. On Amazon and their website they have some nice Korean War figures with Americans, North Koreans, and Chinese. Much nicer than most BMC figures, and a period rarely covered especially winter wear.

https://bmctoys.com/cdn/shop/files/b...g?v=1685915430

The old bolt action .303 is sometimes recommended as a good crap hits the fan rifle, even better an Ishapore version in 7.62 x 51

Looks like Webleys almost hung around as long as 1911s