Britain’s modern farm series 54mm Scarecrow – a little sinister?
Great camouflage for an enemy spy …
Blogposted on All Hallow’s Eve, 31st October 2019 by Mark (Straw) Man of TIN
Halloween Spooky Figure 2019
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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 ... View all posts by 26soldiersoftin
As it is Halloween is he using invisible semaphore flags to signal to fellow scarecrows? I had a very similar figure circa 1965. Nice to see him going strong.
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Definitely wig-wag signalling. I have that more colourful Britains 60s scarecrow figure (somewhere).
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Takes me back to being a child….
Cheers,
Pete.
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An overlooked childhood classic of a plastic Britains figure.
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It’s scaring more than the crows, that one.
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Not quite the cheery 1960s 1970s one, this one … not that Worzel Gummidge wasn’t a bit eerie too.
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I well remember the old Britains Farm scarecrow. Reckon I’ve saw it in my parents loft some years back…
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