Thursday, 21 May 2015

Shopping at Triples - part 2 - bits

 I usually manage to pick up some odds and ends at shows, but seldom odder then this lot.  The Britains plastic elephant and gorilla owe me less then £1.
 The gorilla doesn't look too happy about his new home...
 ...while the elephant looks pretty laid back about things.
 I also bought some brass rod and aluminium tube - always in demand for flags and conversions.
 Tim Cockitt presented me with this very splendid 54mm 1670 mounted musketeer which was originally the property of the late Paddy Griffith.

An unlikely trio, but they all seem to get along!
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11 comments:

  1. Hugh Walter21 May 2015 at 18:20

    That two-part epoxy moulding compound/filler-stuff (I instantly can't remember the name of, nor find the box which I know is here somewhere) makes excellent replacement tusks.

    If you've got the yellow one, even better as it mixes to an greenish ivory and you don't have to faff about with paint...roll a worm of it with two pointed ends, cut it in half and set the two bits in opposite sides of a tea-spoon (gently so they don't stick), you get matching, inward turning, curved tusks next morning (if you do it before you go to bed!).

    H

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  2. Tim Gow21 May 2015 at 18:21

    Hugh Walker
    Thanks for the tip. I must confess that it hadn't dawned on me that the tusks were missing!

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  3. Hugh Walter21 May 2015 at 20:17

    Milliput! Yellow milliput...and I'm afraid any Britains elephant under a tenner these days is usually a tusk-related bargain!

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  4. Kaptain Kobold21 May 2015 at 22:28

    That gorilla is wearing lipstick ...

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  5. Pete.22 May 2015 at 02:03

    I may regret asking this but what are you going to use them for (the animals that is)?

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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  6. Paul Foster22 May 2015 at 10:11

    Lets hope the milliput adheres with the CITES ban!

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  7. Ross Mac rmacfa@gmail.com22 May 2015 at 23:03

    A strange triplet came home from tripples
    Aramis, ape and Elli's srrivsl made riples
    Said Aramis to Ape
    if our mouths did gape
    Then the party would all be cripples.

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  8. Tim Gow24 May 2015 at 16:52

    Kaptain Kobold
    Well I'm not going to tell him - are you?

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  9. Tim Gow24 May 2015 at 16:52

    Pete
    You've been reading this rubbish for years - and you still think there's a plan?

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  10. Tim Gow28 May 2015 at 09:08

    Paul Foster
    I think we'll write off the missing tusks as the work of poachers and forget all about it - don't you?

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  11. Tim Gow28 May 2015 at 09:09

    Ross Mac
    Less than £1 worth of crap and still it moves you to verse?

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