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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, 15 February 2025

Giant's Set No. 2907 - Vikings

We have looked at the Vikings loose, but here one of the carded sets, in the smallest size, during the height of Giant's short period of activity, they had a sort of small medium and large model of carded blister packing, with even smaller packaging for the pocket-money novelties, like the peg-games.
 
The full pack; like with one of the Roman sets, you get two mounted figures, here both blue, more by cooincidence than desgn I suspect, and a blister of assorted foot-propelled marauders! Again the lack of green figures, and domination of brown is likely purely accidental?
 
Equally, the poses are varied and include both 'crew members' (guard and captain with crossed-arms), although I can't discern a helmsman though, and distribution of poses will be random, with a propensity for the downward striking axe-man!
 
Mounted chaps, variations of the foot figures, and let's be honest, while they had horses back in their homeland communities and would have used them where they settled, they were never noted for thier combat horsmanship!

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Of course it is!

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