A Miscellany of Bits

 Over the last week, I did manage a lot of painting, almost double my regime target of an hour  a day, but still never managed to finish a single piece. Neverthe less, here's some photographs of what I've managed to get done.

The photograph on the right, shows all the horse in their current state, save for three others, that need basing, painting etc. to bring them to the same stage as these.

Luckily I got a new injection of 'credit' cards from a friend, so the three will be brought 'up to speed' this week.

"Poundlandworld" impulse buy

I also had an attempt at using my newly acquired "air drying odelling clay" from Poundlandworld.

It's a peculiar substance, feeling like rubbery 'Plasicene", very malleable and soft.

I used one of my Marx robbers as an experiment in cutting off hats and moulding a head of hair on him. The photograph shos the result, but even afte 48 hours it still hasn't hardened, so is impossible to work on atm ! 

There are Seven packets of 'clay' tubes each about two inches long by about half an inch diameter (50mm x 12mm approx.).

The now hatless Marx gunman.

Huge Gorilla and 'farmer'

I also purchased another two figures from "Poundlandworld's" 'Play to Discover" wild anuimals range (2 for £1), in this set they're a gorilla and a baby elephant. Both are manifestly to scale, but not the same scale ! However I'm pretty sure that both can be used in Jimland, though the Gorilla will dwarf my current model !

The farmer in the photographs is about 25mm tall and is a cheap 'knockoff' of the old 1/32nd (54mm) "Briatains' " figure.

The other figure is an "Old Glory" native that had his staff repaired and hasn't seen Jimland yet.

A few mold lines on the beast, but he's still a very usable figure imho

THe elephant is a good 'baby' size imo - but those toenails!

Bonus rear pic of Farmer and "Witchdoctor" (Padding  -Ed.)

That's all I.ve got htis week but I have still been planning my next two buildings and the week was interupted by a routine hospital visit on Friday. This week I have another annual eye review that leavesme unabe to see clerly for a coupke of hours. It's a diabetic check-up (I'm not diabetic) but I do have a degenerating eye condition to add to by slight colour blindnesss, And you wonder why I don;t like painting ?

Thanks for taking the time to visit, hopefully something was of interest (I doubt it - Ed.) and of course your comments are both welcomed and appreciated.