A glimpse at the roof gives away their secret as the pirates lie await in ambush for Blackbeard. Figures: Papo bandana pirate (left), Safari Ltd Blackbeard (centre) and Anne Bonny female pirate (right) 3.75 inch / 85 to 90mm preprinted plastic pirate figures
Ahaaargh! The secret be out … ”tis a Waitrose tissue box.FSC approved Sustainable games building? Reduce Reuse Recycle or Upcycle!
Sadly my nearest branch of Waitrose does not stock these stylish 2015 award winning tissue box beach huts at £2 a box, although they are available by Waitrose order if you spend over £40 online, but that’s an awful lot of tissues!
I was keen to take one of these Waitrose tissue beach huts apart and use it as a card template for making a few simple cardboard houses.
However, as I did not own the originals (they were in somewhere I stayed on a recent break), I was very restrained and haven’t hacked these apart without permission.
Hello I'm Mark Mr MIN, Man of TIN. Based in S.W. Britain, I'm a lifelong collector of "tiny men" and old toy soldiers, whether tin, lead or childhood vintage 1960s and 1970s plastic figures.
I randomly collect all scales and periods and "imagi-nations" as well as lead civilians, farm and zoo animals. I enjoy the paint possibilities of cheap poundstore plastic figures as much as the patina of vintage metal figures.
Befuddled by the maths of complex boardgames and wargames, I prefer the small scale skirmish simplicity of very early Donald Featherstone rules.
To relax, I usually play solo games, often using hex boards. Gaming takes second place to making or convert my own gaming figures from polymer clay (Fimo), home-cast metal figures of many scales or plastic paint conversions. I also collect and game with vintage Peter Laing 15mm metal figures, wishing like many others that I had bought more in the 1980s ...
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3 thoughts on “Simple Seaside Buildings Not To Be Sniffed At!”
They remind me of the beach huts at Brighton Beach, Melbourne. The tissue box beach huts would look good as a back drop for an Edwardian beachside scene.
They remind me of the beach huts at Brighton Beach, Melbourne. The tissue box beach huts would look good as a back drop for an Edwardian beachside scene.
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Somewhere somewhere I have some 1920s /50s seaside bathing belles who would grace these beach huts. But where?
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I think they look great and are filled with lots of potential.
Alan
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