by Vetinari » Sun Dec 06, 2015 7:59 pm
Ignoring the epic mask project that has been eating all of my non-working hours and storage space of late...
I too am contemplating having a bit of a cull - my 1/6 collection could do with a bit of a trim, especially the fashion dolls and the like. My 1/6 collection has always primarily been about action figures, and somewhat ironically my fussiness about those has kept their numbers down. Unlike the cheapo Monsters and the like... I've already downsized my selection of fashion dolls once, and I'm really left with a relatively *ahem* minimal selection of dolls. But they are taking up valuable shelf space that my action figures would happily move into.
And I've got to admit I'm seriously pondering downsizing my longstanding Doctor Who collection, which has been building up for well over 10 years at this point so is a tad oversized and unwieldy! I'm really contemplating removing my 5" scale guys since they've been sat untouched on their shelf for years, and even when I started collecting them I thought they weren't up to the quality of their competition, but I'm not quite at the point where I'm ready to take the plunge and ebay them yet! However I think I do need to cut down my Who collection, and the figures are the obvious place to start; I'm really not prepared to give up the novels - many of which were already out of print when I acquired them.
On the Doll-additions front...
Now that Christmas shopping is completed and my selfish purchase of a cheapo Taeyang is somewhere in the postal system (seriously still can't believe how cheap he was - £25 including shipping, far less than it would cost to buy one of those MIO kits, and yeah as you guys are probably aware from my purchases over the years I've been itching to get my hands on one of these guys for years but could never quite justify the £100+ pricetag!) I'm sparking off all sorts of ambitious ideas about who to turn him into.
Adored the woefully underwatched BBC adaptation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell a few months ago; so possibly a chibified Jonathan Strange - though where I'd find a Georgian suit in 1/6 scale I don't know... And decisions decisions book!Strange or Carvel!Strange? Or possibly an adorable version of Methos, given that Peter Wingfield's not-quite-tan but definitely not pale complexion may be a match for this particular Taeyang's colour underneath the dark face-up, maybe he could even be Death with the woad. (Though frustratingly I suspect people would think he was a poor rendition of Mel Gibson from that amusingly bad film.) However I'm not convinced the highly stylised head would make a good doll base for either character. Hrmm we shall see who he turns into once he arrives and is summarily wiped of his factory paint!
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