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Quick build block models
I noticed these 1/72 military blocks models on eBay for a while now, but it wasn't until I saw an M1070 being marked down with free shipping that I decided to buy a couple of these models for...
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Of Witches, Wizards, and Saints
Here is a post covering the latest arrivals from Dark Alliance. The first set is of Witches, consisting of 44 figures in 11 poses. About half of the figures wear the stereotypical witches hat that...
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Krampus
The Krampus is a dark companion figure who accompanies Saint Nicholas during his midwinter rounds in Alpine regions and countries that were part of the former Habsburg Empire.Krampus, 2015 There are a...
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Ten Little Indians
Just a short post showing the size of the Strelets Comanche Warriors set (M166). My overall impression is not dissimilar to what PSR says with respect to the sculpting, but these figures are very...
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The Dragon and the George
The Cult of Saints emerged in Christiandom during the 3rd century. Saints were seen as examplars of behavior, and capable of interceding on the behalf of believers for divine favor. In the collapse of...
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What's good for the goose
During the Middle Ages, there was a belief that certain types of geese emerged fully grown from driftwood through spontaneous generation (with goose barnacles being some sort of embryonic form). This...
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Chintoys Six-Day War
Chintoys released three 1/72 sets covering the Six-Day War around the end of last year. I think there were a lot of people who were not particularly impressed with their previous sets for the Battle of...
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Grumman USPS LLV
The Grumman LLV has been the standard mail delivery vehicle in the U.S. Postal Service since the 80s. It was preceded by the Jeep DJ, and is currently undergoing a glacial process of being phased out...
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Wolf Man vs. Dracula
The specious enmity between vampires and werewolves has been explained in various places (e.g., Maverick-Werewolf), so I won't go into it other than to say that it seems like another instance of stan...
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Flying elephants
The film Dumbo is the story of arguably the most famous flying elephant in popular fiction.I've read somewhere that Dumbo was used as inspiration for the art design of the 5th edition Hollyphant (also...
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Linear-A Jason and the Argonauts
Linear-A has just released a couple of kits based on the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts, best known for the visual effects created by Ray Harryhausen. The recent 3D printed Linear-A sets have been...
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Chintoys Marathon
Chintoys is a Russian manufacturer of toy soldiers. They are known mostly for their eclectic range of 1/32 scale figures, but their most recent release are two sets of figures in 1/72 scale...
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Some D&D 50th Anniversary Miniatures
For the 50th Anniversary of D&D, WizKids has released a set of Icons of the Realms figures representing creatures from 1st ed. AD&D and the current 5th ed. of the game. I picked up a few of the...
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仕事猫
今日も一日。ご安全に! Shigoto Neko (仕事猫; Working Cat) is a Japanese meme that originated in 2016 from an illustration posted on twitter by the artist known as Kumamine (くまみね). In the picture, Denwa Neko (電話猫;...
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Leshiye
???Some sources use the word Leshy as a proper noun to describe a tutelary deity from Slavic mythology, but I use the term to refer to a class of nature spirits. The main reference for lore regarding...
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КамАЗ-5350 part 2
Here is part 2 of my post on the Xixili KamAZ-5350 trucks. Now that I've done a little more research on the subject, I can offer a bit more commentary regarding the models. Most of the parts of the...
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Linear A 3D printed sets
The two latest sets from Linear A are 3D printed resin models. One set covers the Indus Civilisation, and the other covers the Roman Bacchanalia.Indus Culture Set 1Bacchanalia in Ancient Rome Set 1 The...
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Earthbound but aspiring
The Dohwar are a race of space penguins from the Spelljammer setting. I don't know too much about them, but even though I am a fan of whimsy in fantasy, I'm lukewarm about Dohwar which seem to have...
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西西利 КамАЗ-5350
In an article at the 就爱模型 (Jiu Ai Moxing; [I] Just Love Models) site, Anthony Jin writes that Xixili Model (西西利模型) is the current incarnation of the old CC Lee model company, which in more recent times...
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Food Trucks
Before they became trendy, food trucks were often referred to by the unflattering nickname of "roach coach".Chef, 2014 I used to think the name was unique to Hawai‘i, since that was where I first heard...
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