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Coming Soon: A Figure Comparison

Good morning everyone! Bill McHenry sent me a lovely e-mail (Thanks, Bill!) this morning in which he asked a favor. Would I please post some figure comparisons of my plastic mounted Revell and Zvezda figures along side the new Garrison miniatures that I purcahsed in June?

A brilliant idea, Bill, and why I didn't think of it myself, I don't know! But, I won't get to it until late this evening, following the usual daily stuff, a visit to the vetrinarian, band practice, and supper. I'll even sweeten the deal and add a mounted RSM, Spencer Smith, MiniFig, and Holger Eriksson each to the mix. So, we'll be able to get a good idea of how these various figures work together.

On a completely different note, drop by The Indras' myspace page if you haevn't done so in a while and have a look around. Here's the link: www.myspace.com/presentingtheindras . We were recently asked, out of the blue no less, to send a copy of our demo CD to the guy who runs the online Motorbilly Radio (www.live365.com/stations/motorbilly). Seems he wants to feature a song or two on his weekly program Go cat, go! Pretty cool for three middle-aged guys and a twenty-something graduate student guitarist, huh?

Ok, see you this evening with those figure comparison photos!

Comments

guy said…
Hi Stokes,

As recommended I have sent off for 5 boxes of the zvesda Prussian grenadiers from that Wonderland site and I'll report as soon as they arrive.

Regards,
Guy
Prince Lupus said…
Sir,

Have you ever acquired any Scruby 25mm, I believe that they are comparable to Revell/Zvesda but have never had the pleasure of verifying for myself.

kind regards

Martin
Martin said…
Looking forward to it Stokes!

The Other Martin
Rob Young said…
Sounds like we'll all be lining up for your autograph! Hope it goes well.

Cheers

ROB
Fitz-Badger said…
Wow, that's cool about the demo CD request!

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