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M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Serie Super-Stars.
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1970. (4-70)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 1ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son amarillos.
- Los pilotos traseros son verticales,
- Carece de agujero en la base.
- Caja de cartón (Super-Stars).
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PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
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Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1977. (?)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 2ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son incoloros.
- Los pilotos traseros son horizontales,
- Tiene agujero central en la base (para el tornillo de sujeción a la peana).
- Caja de metacrilato.
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
-------------------------------------------------------
Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1977. (?)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 2ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son incoloros.
- Los pilotos traseros son horizontales,
- Tiene agujero central en la base (para el tornillo de sujeción a la peana).
- Caja de metacrilato.
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
-------------------------------------------------------
Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
Shilandar Deledda walked up to the group of several in relative silence. A foot sent sand towards Rena's midsection, smiling even while form stumbled and patted the quickly running off Sagira. "You called?"
Guinevere Fouroux brightens at the mention of a bookstore. She hadn't seen that! She looks up as feet appear next to her... and keeps looking up, surprised to see the boy from across the sand. Her eyes dart around for his girlfriend, but only for a moment. "We did," she says with a grin, and pats the sand in silent invitation.
Lancer Oldrich frowns at the angry reaction. He waits a moment or two, not looking up. "Someone is a little touchy..." he says rather level. "Sorry," he apologizes shortly afterward, clearly meaning it. He wipes his nose and glances up to Chi, then peers downward at his boots. Which are both tied. He grimaces slightly, but inclines his chin to what Guin says.
Sapphira Laval quickly realizes that she and Guin might have a little in common here. Maybe. Her home life wasn't terrible. Not really. Uncomfortable with her own selfishness to go home for the moment she remains quiet and puts a check mark on what would be the first day she remembered. Quirking her lips to the side before chewing her gum again and blowing a rather large bubble.
Rena Mayne jerked as the sand flew and looked up at Chi and there was just this feeling that this was how it always was with them...but it couldn't be, she didn't know him. "Just trying to be friendly." she murmured. "Grab some sand." eyes slowly moved back to Lancer, not missing the dig, but she nodded when he apologized. "Sorry too, I'm not some emo kid, swear. Just...here is better than home is all."
Syntix Ectonite puts a hand to the railing, leaping over it. Pushing off from the sea crusted metal tubing she lands a bit behind Chi, heels digging into the sand. Her look was that of a pissed off house cat, which was exactly what she was. Looking up at the back of his his head from behidn her black, red, and white bangs she addresses him. Her tone was low, cold, with a very apparant tinge of malice in it, "What the -hell- did you do to me?"
Lancer Oldrich pushes a quick, "Knows," but he wasn't going to say more when the neko comes sailing clearly into view after vaulting over the railing without much difficulty. He's the furthest but, yeah. The hand on the ground starts to clench into the beach slightly.
Sapphira Laval was busy looking down pretty much. Fingers fisting into the sand caught her glance, causing her to look up. "Greaat." She chewed her gum a little faster. "Time for me to go. I think." Oh, she did not want in this mess. She pushed up. Watching Syn and Chi cautiously.
Guinevere Fouroux grins a little as Serena gets a sand shower, but her gaze is weighted as she looks at her friend. Yup, she's her friend, looks like her only one, too. "Mostly I miss my brothers," she says, glancing around at the others in an attempt to change the mood. "Though don't ever tell them that if you meet them, I'll never hear the end of it." She sticks out her tongue, then looks up at the pizza boy, wondering if he's ever going to sit... There's a flutter of cape and fur, and she cranes her neck around to spot another stranger. Who seems to be mad at the pizza boy. Her smile fades a little, and she eyes the girl warily.
Rena Mayne heard the noise behind her and craned her neck to see who or what. The words the girl spoke sent her scrambling to her feet, dancing back across the sand toward Lancer. "Ah shit."
Shilandar Deledda had been drifting down into the sand to sit when that noise came up behind him. Rena's comment brought a nod of his head, relaxing himself into the grainy earth. Then came the snarl from behind, and he couldn't help but grimace. Oh yay... another he supposedly did something to. Did the people of this city really piss him off that much to earn so many negative events aimed at them? "Turning about he brought his full attention to Syntix, his crimson eyes blinking up to the feline slowly. "I do not believe... I have done anything.. to you yet." Which was the honest truth for him, as he had no idea what the woman was speaking of.
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Serie Super-Stars.
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1970. (4-70)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 1ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son amarillos.
- Los pilotos traseros son verticales,
- Carece de agujero en la base.
- Caja de cartón (Super-Stars).
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
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Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
Designer Jasmine has been completely deboxed, then placed back on her doll stand, and the acrylic cover placed back on. The cardboard backing has been cut off from the base of the stand, so the doll can be seen from all angles. It also makes replacing and taking off the acrylic cover much easier. To fit the outfit in the case, and to show the inner skirt and hanging pendant and chain, the overskirt was folded over on both sides.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Jasmine Doll. She was released in October 2011, and I got her from eBay shortly afterwards, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not yet deboxed her, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Jasmine doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 5645 of 6000. She is based on the heroine from the Disney animated feature Aladdin (1992). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black, 12'' long hair tied into a floor length pony tail. There are two golden elastic hairties in the upper and middle part of the ponytail, and the lower portion of her hair has loose curls. It is very soft and shiny. There were a few stray hairs, but I left them alone and did not comb it, as I thought her hair was neat enough as it was out of the box. She has light brown skin, and a unique face sculpt that is very pretty and movie accurate. She has large dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her right. She has light blue-green eye shadow, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full dark purple lips in with a closed mouth smile. She has very pale red rouge on her cheeks.
Her three piece gown is made of bright blue-green satin and light blue organza. Her bodice is cropped short to reveal her midsection (including her belly button), and consists of light blue organza embedded with golden gems, draped over her upper arms, and gemmed blue-green satin lower and back sections. Her blue-green satin skirt is floor length and is figure hugging, flairing out at the bottom. It is hemmed and there is a light blue polyester lining. There is a very wide overskirt of the double layered light blue satin. I is open in front, but can be wrapped around to completely cover her inner skirt, or can be folded to reveal her inner skirt.
She is wearing light blue-green high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include earrings, a chain belt with pendant and Aladdin's lamp. The earrings are large golden triangles with gold colored gems. Her belt is made of fine gold chain, with a large round jeweled pendant just below her waist that gathers the strands of the chain together, the remainder of which fall almost to the floor. In her right hand is a golden lamp that is bejeweled with yellow gems. The top of the lamp is removable (it is held in place with rubber bands, which I left in place).
There were no real surprises revealed by deboxing her, although it was nice to see the full extent of her overskirt. I was also glad to take her out of her awkward head pose, which was a common problem among the Designer Princesses. One thing I didn't like was that her top was a little too short, and revealed her waist joint (that enables her to spin her upper body around 360 degrees). Tugging on her top didn't move it enough to hide the joint in the front. As a consequence, her waist joint moved very freely, and her upper body tended to turn whenever she was handled, aided by her long hair. Also her long luxurious hair is very heavy, so tends to pull her backwards slightly when she is posed on the display stand. Designer Rapunzel has a similar problem. Her very wide floor length overskirt and floor length hair make it difficult to rebox her neatly, which is a common problem with the Designer dolls with very wide floor length skirts.
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Serie Super-Stars.
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1970. (4-70)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 1ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son amarillos.
- Los pilotos traseros son verticales,
- Carece de agujero en la base.
- Caja de cartón (Super-Stars).
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
-------------------------------------------------------
Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
The chipping looks pretty bad here :( You can see how nice it looked in my box opening photo.
As a general rule, I don't like waist joints. It always gives the appearance of the doll wearing huge granny panties and this is no exception. That and it interrupts the midsection, my favorite part of the body.
Her bellybutton isn't much to look out. It's round with no detail, and is pretty roughly cut inside. I do plan on refining it myself. The seam for her femoral joints is very smooth. I like the natural curves of her hips, but that granny panty line does make it a bit rocky.
businessman in suit adjusting necktie - Close-up of a mature businessman in suit adjusting necktie, MUA: Thao Nguyen, Clothing Stylist: Tanya Rudolpho. To Download this image without watermarks for Free, visit: www.sourcepics.com/free-stock-photography/24723962-busine...
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Serie Super-Stars.
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1970. (4-70)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 1ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son amarillos.
- Los pilotos traseros son verticales,
- Carece de agujero en la base.
- Caja de cartón (Super-Stars).
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
-------------------------------------------------------
Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Serie Super-Stars.
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1970. (4-70)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 1ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son amarillos.
- Los pilotos traseros son verticales,
- Carece de agujero en la base.
- Caja de cartón (Super-Stars).
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
-------------------------------------------------------
Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
-------------------
Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Serie Super-Stars.
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1970. (4-70)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 1ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son amarillos.
- Los pilotos traseros son verticales,
- Carece de agujero en la base.
- Caja de cartón (Super-Stars).
-----------------------------------------------------
PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
(...)
--------------------------------
"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
-------------------------------------------------------
Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
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Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
M-200.
Escala 1/43.
Peugeot 304 (1969-1979).
Sochaux (France).
Pilen.
Hecho en España / Made in Spain.
Año 1977. (?)
Esta miniatura pertenece a la 2ª serie fabricada por Pilen, que se caracteriza principalmente por:
- Los faros delanteros son incoloros.
- Los pilotos traseros son horizontales,
- Tiene agujero central en la base (para el tornillo de sujeción a la peana).
- Caja de metacrilato.
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PILEN - Historia
"Pilen nació en Ibi (Alicante) a finales de los 60, creada por Pilar y Enrique Climent (de ahí Pil-En); éste ya comercializaba en compañía de sus hermanos los juguetes Clim.
Al principio fabricaron miniaturas de Fórmula 1 a escala 1:36, pero en seguida se pasaron a la 1:43 copiando moldes de las marcas Corgi, Tekno, Politoys, Mebetoys...
Obtuvieron de la casa francesa Dinky el permiso para fabricar sus modelos en España.
Sus coches tuvieron numerosas variantes (hasta cromados), distintos tipos de ruedas, etc. Se asociaron a otras marcas, como las holandesas AHC, Artec, Oto y Doorkey, la venezolana Juguinsa y la española Guiloy."
(...)
"Los fundadores de PILEN son Enrique Climent Gisbert y su esposa, Pilar.
De ahí el logotipo de la marca, formado por las primeras letras de sus nombres. Debajo, las iniciales del fundador, Enrique Climent Gisbert. [ECG]
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"Hacia 1962, uno de los socios fundadores de la fábrica juguetera Climent Hermanos, S.L, D. Enrique Climent Gisbert, decide abandonar la firma familiar para crear su propia empresa junto a su mujer Pilar (PIL-ar y EN-rique)."
(...)
"La primera línea de productos estará compuesta por una serie de pistolas y revólveres hechos de fundición de material zamack."
El 23 de enero de 1970 se regularizarán como sociedad anónima bajo la marca comercial PILEN."
(...)
"Poco a poco fueron abandonando la primera gama de juguetes para centrarse de manera completa en la fabricación de miniaturas de metal reproducidos a escala."
(...)
"Fue una empresa que tuvo gran protagonismo al gozar sus juguetes de mucha aceptación.
En el año 1983 cesó sus actividades (...). Desde la propia firma se auspiciaría poco después la creación de otra sociedad llamada Artec, que abrió sus actividades en el año 1988 y que (...) seguían ofreciendo unos juguetes de gran calidad (consiguieron un Molinillo de Plata el mismo año que se lanzaron al mercado como marca."
Fuentes:
"La industria juguetera en Ibi, 1905-2005", edición del Ayuntamiento de Ibi, 2005.
More info:
pilen.jimdofree.com/coches-1-43/
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-mis-fotos-569751
foro.autoescala.net/index.php?threads/miniaturas-espa%C3%...
www.paolorampinieditore.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AUT...
wikivisually.com/wiki/Auto_Pilen
minicarmuseum.com/database/pdf/autopilen1977.pdf
thevintagetoyadvertiser.org/tag/auto-pilen/
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Auto Pilen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Auto Pilen was a diecast line of model cars made in Ibi, Alicante, in southeastern Spain by Pilen S.A..
Models were produced from the 1970s through the mid-1990s mostly in 1:43 scale.
A majority of the castings were inherited from French Dinky. The company was started in the 1960s, diecasting items like colorful metal sailboats and key chains.
In the late 1980s. Pilen was apparently bought by AHC of the Netherlands."
(...)
"Pilen made at least 50 different models, in the most convoluted story of diecast seconds and recasts of any successful diecast manufacturer (Colleccion Auto Pilen. No date).
Dies were apparently used or copied from a variety of other companies including French Dinky, Corgi Toys, Solido, Mebetoys, Tekno, Politoys (Polistil), and possibly some Mercury models."
(...)
"Pilen's model selection appears taken (whether by direct copying from blueprints or through available dies) from a variety of other producers, especially French Dinky Toys. Some tools from Meccano s.a. were transferred from Calais to Pilen in Spain so the models made by Pilen were Dinky castings – the base plate of which had been modified from MADE IN FRANCE to MADE IN SPAIN. For example, the Talbot/Simca/Chrysler 1100 saloon, Renault 12 saloon, Mercedes 250 coupe, Ferrari P5, Citroën CX Pallas, and Matra-Simca Bagheera were French Dinky castings (Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia). Later versions of these cars, though, did not say Dinky anywhere on the base plates.
So, from 1974 until 1981, several French Dinky Toys passenger cars were made by Pilen.
Bickford says that originally there was an agreement to market the French Dinkys in Spain, but most were sold under the Pilen brand name (Bickford 2009).
The French dies were used, but of course the base plates were altered, hiding that fact. These cars were almost exactly similar to the French dies, but with Pilen's own paint finishes."
(...)
"Auto Pilen also made a line of Matchbox-sized 1/64 scale cars, but these are more rare. Besides a SEAT 131 Wagon, a SEAT Ritmo, a Renault 4F (Van), a Peugeot 504, and a Range Rover – among others – were made but little is known about them."
(...)
"Pilen maintained a close association with other Spanish toy makers also headquartered in Alicante like Joal, Guiloy, Guisval, and Mira."
(...)
"Around 1980 there was a Pilen connection with Holland OTO, which had taken over Dutch Efsi Toys.
A 1980 Auto Pilen catalog shows many of the revered Efsi vehicles like the Model T series and many Efsi trucks continued as a line Pilen 1980 (Bras 2012).
Around 1990, there was also a connection with the Dutch diecast company AHC which appears to have bought Holland Oto and thus Auto Pilen (Bickford 2009). AHC has since shared dies and traditionally Pilen stamped cars can be found in both AHC and Holland OTO labeled boxes (Bickford 2009; Johnson 1998, p. 15)."
(...)
"With the bankruptcy of Doorkey in the early 1990s, Auto Pilen disappeared.
The last new models with the Pilen name appeared at this time.
In its time, Auto-Pilen was the king of the knock-off and die-cast second. Perusal of the model lineup shows castings were copies or closely copied vehicles from several different companies (Collection Auto Pilen).
Models were precisely crafted in a professional and uniform-looking range from leftover castings that had previously been in use elsewhere. Pilen appears to have been the most successful company ever at using second hand castings – yet so very nicely reconfigured."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Pilen
More info:
www.gamas43.com/Dinky_SP/DinkyEsp.html
myspace.com/pilenmania/mixes/classic-dinky-espa-a-fabrica...
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-i/
pilen.jimdofree.com/asociaci%C3%B3n-con-otras-marcas-ii/
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Peugeot 304
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969.
Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe.
By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market.
The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its Pininfarina styled exterior.
With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets.
The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways.
At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with sure-footed handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
The car was sold until 1980 and was replaced by the Peugeot 305, which had been launched in 1977.
It was based on the Peugeot 204 with which it shared many components, the most obvious difference being the frontal styling."
(...)
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Peugeot 304
Manufacturer
Peugeot SA
PSA Group
Production
1969 – 1980
1,178,423 produced
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
4-door saloon
4-door estate ("break")
2-door coupé
2-door convertible
2-door van ("fourgonette")
Layout
FF layout
Related
Peugeot 204
Engine
1.3 litre I4 XL3
1.3 litre I4 XL5
Dimensions
Wheelbase
2,595 mm (102.2 in) saloon
Length
4,140 mm (163 in) saloon
Width
1,570 mm (62 in) saloon
Height
1,410 mm (56 in) saloon
Curb weight
890 kg (1,960 lb) – 970 kg (2,140 lb)
Chronology
Predecessor
Peugeot 204
Successor
Peugeot 305
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_304
More info:
She has a killer midsection. Her waist-to-hip ratio is dramatic without making her looking like a wasp. Her belly is so flat and perfect it defies logic. The sculpted detail looks fantastic. The placement and design of her femoral joints are remarkably clean and has a smooth transition between the parts. My only complaint is that her otherwise goddess-like bellybutton is proportionally too small.
Visible as a dark, oval shape, an adult female varroa mite feeds on the midsection of a developing worker bee. USDA photo by Scott Bauer.
Interstate 70 (I-70) is a transcontinental Interstate Highway in the United States, stretching from Cove Fort, Utah to Baltimore, Maryland. In Colorado, the highway traverses an east–west route across the center of the state. In western Colorado, the highway connects the metropolitan areas of Grand Junction and Denver via a route through the Rocky Mountains. In eastern Colorado, the highway crosses the Great Plains, connecting Denver with metropolitan areas in Kansas and Missouri. Bicycles and other non-motorized vehicles, normally prohibited on Interstate Highways, are allowed on those stretches of I-70 in the Rockies where no other through route exists.
As the freeway passes from the Rocky Mountains to the Great Plains, I-70 enters the Denver metropolitan area, part of a larger urban area called the Front Range Urban Corridor. The freeway arcs around the northern edge of the LoDo district, the common name of the lower downtown area of Denver. Through the downtown area, US 40 is routed along Colfax Avenue, which served as the primary east–west artery through the Denver area before the construction of I-70. Through downtown, US 6 is routed along 6th Avenue before departing the I-70 corridor to join Interstate 76 on a northeast course toward Nebraska.
I-70 has one official branch in Colorado, Interstate 270, which connects the interstate with the Denver–Boulder Turnpike. Where these two freeways merge is the busiest portion of I-70 in the state, with an annual average daily traffic of 183,000 vehicles per day. While State Highway 470 and E-470 are not officially branches of I-70, they are remnants of plans for an Interstate 470 beltway around Denver that were cancelled when the allocated funds were spent elsewhere.
Leaving Denver, the highway serves the redevelopment areas on the former site of Stapleton International Airport; runway 17R/35L crossed over the Interstate at the runway's midsection. East of Aurora, I-70 rejoins the alignment of U.S. Highway 40 at Colfax Avenue. The freeway proceeds east across the Great Plains, briefly dipping south to serve the city of Limon, which bills itself as Hub City because of the many rail and road arteries that intersect there. I-70 enters Kansas near Burlington, a small community known for having one of the oldest carousels in the United States.
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Designer Jasmine has been fully deboxed, and is posed standing, supported by the custom doll stand. Her overskirt, freed from the factory restraints, is now wider than the doll stand, and is allowed to drape over the edges of the base. The sunlight was fading as I was taking these photos, so some of the closeups used flash.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Jasmine Doll. She was released in October 2011, and I got her from eBay shortly afterwards, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not yet deboxed her, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Jasmine doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 5645 of 6000. She is based on the heroine from the Disney animated feature Aladdin (1992). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black, 12'' long hair tied into a floor length pony tail. There are two golden elastic hairties in the upper and middle part of the ponytail, and the lower portion of her hair has loose curls. It is very soft and shiny. There were a few stray hairs, but I left them alone and did not comb it, as I thought her hair was neat enough as it was out of the box. She has light brown skin, and a unique face sculpt that is very pretty and movie accurate. She has large dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her right. She has light blue-green eye shadow, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full dark purple lips in with a closed mouth smile. She has very pale red rouge on her cheeks.
Her three piece gown is made of bright blue-green satin and light blue organza. Her bodice is cropped short to reveal her midsection (including her belly button), and consists of light blue organza embedded with golden gems, draped over her upper arms, and gemmed blue-green satin lower and back sections. Her blue-green satin skirt is floor length and is figure hugging, flairing out at the bottom. It is hemmed and there is a light blue polyester lining. There is a very wide overskirt of the double layered light blue satin. I is open in front, but can be wrapped around to completely cover her inner skirt, or can be folded to reveal her inner skirt.
She is wearing light blue-green high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include earrings, a chain belt with pendant and Aladdin's lamp. The earrings are large golden triangles with gold colored gems. Her belt is made of fine gold chain, with a large round jeweled pendant just below her waist that gathers the strands of the chain together, the remainder of which fall almost to the floor. In her right hand is a golden lamp that is bejeweled with yellow gems. The top of the lamp is removable (it is held in place with rubber bands, which I left in place).
There were no real surprises revealed by deboxing her, although it was nice to see the full extent of her overskirt. I was also glad to take her out of her awkward head pose, which was a common problem among the Designer Princesses. One thing I didn't like was that her top was a little too short, and revealed her waist joint (that enables her to spin her upper body around 360 degrees). Tugging on her top didn't move it enough to hide the joint in the front. As a consequence, her waist joint moved very freely, and her upper body tended to turn whenever she was handled, aided by her long hair. Also her long luxurious hair is very heavy, so tends to pull her backwards slightly when she is posed on the display stand. Designer Rapunzel has a similar problem. Her very wide floor length overskirt and floor length hair make it difficult to rebox her neatly, which is a common problem with the Designer dolls with very wide floor length skirts.
HMS Cavalier is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944. She served in World War II and in various commissions in the Far East until she was decommissioned in 1972. After decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
Construction
Cavalier was one of 96 War Emergency Programme destroyers ordered between 1940 and 1942. She was one of the first ships to be built with the forward and aft portions of her hull welded, with the midsection riveted to ensure strength. The new process gave the ship additional speed. In 1970 a 64-mile race was arranged between Cavalier and the frigate Rapid, which had the same hull form and machinery. Cavalier beat Rapid by 30 yards (27 m) after Rapid lifted a safety valve, reaching an average speed of 31.8 knots (58.9 km/h).
Service history
Cavalier returning to Portsmouth in 1946
After commissioning she joined the 6th Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Home Fleet, and took part in a number of operations off Norway. Most notably in February 1945 she was despatched with the destroyers Myngs and Scorpion[5] to reinforce a convoy from the Kola Inlet in Russia, which had suffered attacks from enemy aircraft and U-boats, and had subsequently been scattered by a violent storm. She and the other escorts reformed the convoy, and returned to Britain with the loss of only three of the thirty-four ships. This action earned Cavalier a battle honour.
Later in 1945 Cavalier was despatched to the Far East, where she provided naval gunfire support during the Battle of Surabaya. In February 1946 she went to Bombay to help quell the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny. After some time in the British Pacific Fleet she was paid off in May 1946 and was placed in reserve at Portsmouth.
Cavalier returned to service in 1957 after a modernisation, which included removing some of her torpedo tubes in favour of Squid anti-submarine mortars. She was again sent to the Far East, and joined the 8th Destroyer Squadron in Singapore. In December 1962 she transported 180 troops from Singapore to Brunei to help suppress a rebellion that became part of the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation. After disembarking the troops she remained in Brunei as a communications centre for several days until other Royal Navy ships arrived to relieve her.
Cavalier was decommissioned in 1972 along with HMS Wellington (moored in London), and is the last surviving British destroyer of World War 2 still in the UK.
After decommissioning[edit]
After decommissioning at Chatham Dockyard, she was laid up in Portsmouth. As a unique survivor, after a five-year campaign led by Lord Louis Mountbatten, the ship was purchased by the Cavalier Trust for £65,000 and handed over on Trafalgar Day 1977 in Portsmouth. By selling the ship to the Trust, the UK Government and the Royal Navy severed all formal connection and responsibility for the ship. A special warrant was issued that allows her to retain the prefix "HMS" (Her Majesty's Ship) and fly the White Ensign, a privilege normally only enjoyed by commissioned ships of the Royal Navy. A similar privilege is enjoyed by another museum ship, the cruiser Belfast.
Moved to Southampton, Cavalier opened as a museum and memorial ship in August 1982. This was not commercially successful, and in October 1983 the ship was moved to Brighton, where she formed the centrepiece of a newly built yacht marina.
In 1987, the ship was brought to the River Tyne to form the centrepiece of a national shipbuilding exhibition centre planned by South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council in the former shipyard of Hawthorn Leslie and Company, builders of many similar destroyers. The plans for the museum came to nothing, and the borough council, faced with annual maintenance costs of £30,000 and a hardening of public opinion against unnecessary expenditure, resolved to sell the ship and wind up the venture in 1996. The ship sat in a dry dock (owing to a previous list) in a rusting condition, awaiting a buyer or scrapping in situ.
After the reforming of the Cavalier Trust, and a debate in Parliament, in 1998 Cavalier was bought by Chatham Historic Dockyard for display as a museum ship. Arriving on 23 May 1998, Cavalier now resides in No. 2 dry-dock.
On 14 November 2007, Cavalier was officially designated as a war memorial to the 142 Royal Navy destroyers sunk during World War II and the 11,000 men killed on those ships. The unveiling of a bronze monument created by the artist Kenneth Potts was conducted by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The monument is adjacent to the ship at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham, Kent.
In the summer of 2009 the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust made available accommodation on board the ship for youth groups who wish to stay on board and experience life on board a Royal Naval Destroyer.
In September 2010, Cavalier fired the first full broadside from a ship flying the White Ensign since a firing by the destroyer London in December 1981. This was due to the work of the heritage naval gun crew who restored all three 4.5-in guns back to working condition in conjunction with the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust.
In April 2014 Cavalier was added to Google Maps Business View (formerly Google Business Photos) by CInsideMedia Ltd, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of her launch. The tour, which includes Cavalier's engine and gear room, was enhanced with interactive audio hotspots to enable visitors with accessibility issues to explore the ship.
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Her curves aren't dramatic, but are natural and pleasant. The torso joint looks pretty streamlined. Her belly button is fantastic, but appears proportionally too small. The detailing on her midsection is subtle and beautiful. The thing that breaks it for me is her square vulva jutting out.
The Peugeot 304 is a small family car introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969 by the French car manufacturer Peugeot. Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe. By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market. The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch. The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its sombre Pininfarina styled exterior. With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets. The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways. At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with surefooted handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
(Wikipedia)
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Der Peugeot 304 war ein Personenkraftwagen der Firma Peugeot. Er wurde im Oktober 1969 auf dem Pariser Automobilsalon in der Version als Limousine vorgestellt. Das Design der Karosserie für dieses Fahrzeug stammt aus dem Hause Pininfarina in Turin (Italien).
Wie beim 204 gab es auch vom 304 vier Karosserieversionen:
Limousine (Oktober 1969 bis Oktober 1979)
Coupé (März 1970 bis April 1975)
Cabriolet (März 1970 bis Juli 1976)
Kombi „Break“ (September 1970 bis Oktober 1980)
Der 304 verfügt über einen querverbauten Leichtmetallmotor, der im Gegensatz zur rostanfälligen Karosserie als innovativ und verlässlich galt. Die Motorpresse kritisierte die Schaltung, die insbesondere beim Runterschalten vom dritten in den zweiten Gang Probleme bereitete. Technisch gesehen war er eine Weiterentwicklung des Peugeot 204, die Karosserie war bis auf das eckigere „Gesicht“ der Front („Löwenmäulchen“), mit diesem fast identisch.
Im März 1972 kam der Peugeot 304 S auf den Markt, der – anders als sein Vorgänger – über Rundinstrumente, Rückfahrscheinwerfer, Sicherheitsgurte und Kopfstützen verfügte, sonst aber fast baugleich war.
Bis zur Einstellung der Produktion im Herbst 1980 verließen weit über 1 Million Fahrzeuge dieses Typs die Werkshallen.
Nachfolger wurde der bereits im November 1977 eingeführte Peugeot 305.
(Wikipedia)
Sports Taping
I have a shoulder impingement. The tape is training the joint to stay in the correct position. Exercises to strengthen the muscles will ensure that the joint stays in the correct position.
Great Hall
Visit England’s last and greatest medieval hall. The Great Hall is also one of Britain's oldest theatres.
Henry VIII’s Great Hall
The room is spanned by a large and sumptuously decorated hammer-beam roof and its walls are hung with Henry VIII’s most splendid tapestries, The Story of Abraham.
William Shakespeare’s company—the “King’s Men’”—performed for King James I over Christmas and New Year in 1603-4.
In the 21st Century the Prime Minister at the time, Tony Blair, chaired an informal meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the European Union in the Great Hall on the October 27, 2005, following in a noble tradition of royal and political entertainment.
Historic Tourists to the Great Hall
“Going up into the left wing of the palace one comes to an enormous hall with an arched roof made from some Irish wood which, so they say, has the natural property of keeping free of cobwebs.”
—Baron Waldstein, tourist (1600)
“Hampton Court is as noble and uniform a pile, and as capacious as any Gothic architecture can have made it …The great hall is a most magnificent room…”
—John Evelyn, diarist (1662)
In the 16th century, Hampton Court was a palace, a hotel, a theater, and a vast entertainment complex. The Great Hall was, by itself, all of these things. It was used, every day, as the staff canteen for the lower ranks of Henry’s court. Up to 600 people ate here in two sittings, twice a day. On special occasions, however, the tapestries rolled out over the walls, candelabra were strung across the ceiling on wires, and the lights from hundreds of candles transformed the hall into a magical setting for a fantastical court masque.
The Great Hall is the largest room in the palace, 32 m (106 feet) long, 12 m (40 feet) wide, and over 18 m (60 feet) high. A vast team of masons, carpenters, bricklayers, and laborers began to build it for Henry VIII in the 1532, and it was finished in 1535, becoming the last medieval Great Hall built for any English monarch. The walls are still hung with the best tapestries in Henry VIII’s vast collection depicting the Story of Abraham—faded through the years but still beautiful. The tapestries under the gallery depict the Story of Hercules and the Triumph of Fate. Most characteristic about this large hall is the large wooden hammer-beam ceiling—the initials of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are still a part of the decoration. The ceiling was designed by the King’s Master Carpenter James Nedeham, was painted blue, red, and gold.
The Abraham tapestries which line the walls today were commissioned by Henry himself, and probably first hung here for the visit of a large French Embassy in 1546. This was just one of the magnificent state occasions when all the great rooms of Hampton Court were filled with the “swaggering theater” of court life. The Great Hall played host to dance and drama, with Henry himself earlier in his reign playing a starring role in specially written chivalric inventions, rescuing helpless maidens from dangerous castles.
When Henry VIII reigned, this was the most important room of the entire castle—seen through a courtier’s eyes. This is where the King would dine on a dais overlooking his court—in fact Henry was so impatient with this particular room that he made the masons work at night by candlelight as well as all through the day! Shakespeare performed a play of his in front of James I on New Year’s-day 1603—the same year that Elizabeth I died.
A History of the Great Hall
The center of life for most of the more-ranking members of the court was the Great Hall, where in Tudor times they dined in two shifts in the middle of the day.
The St. Valery family, who owned the Palace land from 1086, had built a chamber block and Great Hall. It remains exists beneath the existing Great Hall. In 1495, a list was made recording that the Great Hall of the house when it belonged to Lord Giles Daubeney contained two fixed tables, two long trestle tables, four benches, a cupboard, and a railing around the central hearth.
A visitor of high rank in Tudor times would expect to pass through the Great Hall into the more exclusive rooms beyond.
In 1532, Henry VIII rebuilt the Great Hall, the first in the sequence of rooms leading towards his private lodgings. It seems that Wolsey himself had begun rebuilding Lord Giles Daubeney’s hall; the oriel window, for example, is almost identical to that constructed by Wolsey’s masons at his Oxford College, Christ Church. It is not quite clear how far Wolsey’s work had advanced, but this oriel window now became part of a dramatically improved Great Hall.
Henry’s designers, Christopher Dickenson and James Nedeham, sat down to work in their tracing houses. The roof of the Great Hall is of hammerbeam construction. This design traditionally allowed carpenters to span halls of a greater width than the longest available timbers. However, timbers twelve meters (forty feet) in length, the width of the hall at Hampton Court, were readily available. The hammerbeam design, echoing the roof of Westminster Hall, was deliberately chosen to symbolize royalty, antiquity, and chivalry. A stone hearth lay in the center of the hall, and smoke was intended to escape through a shuttered louver above it in the medieval fashion. Yet the absence of any sort on the timbers of the louver itself throws doubt upon whether this archaic feature was ever used. The roof was decorated with carved and painted heads, and badges celebrating the King and Queen. The carved screen that remains today was erected across the “lower” or entrance end of the Hall, supporting a gallery for musicians above, while a dais was constructed at the other, “higher” end. Anne Boleyn’s badges and initials appear next to Henry VIII’s beneath the royal coats of arms decorating the Hall’s roof.
In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the Great Hall was used as a “masking house” or indoor theater at Christmas and New Year. The painted canvas backdrops included representations of “seven cities, one village, and one country house”.
In the time of James I, a new dais was built in the Great Hall to accommodate the King and Queen and the ambassadors from foreign courts who would be invited to watch the spectacles of the season. One of these was Samuel Daniels’s masque The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses. His stage directions record how the Queen herself took “the part of Pallas, in a blue mantel, with a silver embroidery of all weapons and engines of war, with a helmet-dressing on her head”. She descended by a winding stair from a “paradisical mountain” constructed at the lower end of the hall to perform a dance before the King seated beneath his Cloth of Estate. All the ambassadors and courtiers joined in the dancing, and young Prince Henry was thrown between them “like a tennis ball”. The celebrations in the Great Hall for the New Year in 1604 included performances by the King’s Men, whose resident dramatist was William Shakespeare.
The Great Hall was repaired in 1614.
Some of the wooden stags’ heads mounted with antlers that remain in the Great Hall and Horn Room date from Stuart times. The Palace’s collection of horns, later described by John Evelyn as “vast beams of stags, elks, antelopes etc.” also came to include the fossilized horns of an Irish elk, excavated from a bog in County Clare and presented to Charles II in 1684.
When William III and Mary II started considering rebuilding the palace, one design featured Henry VIII’s Great Hall at the center of a grand Baroque entrance facing North. Double avenues marching south across Bushy Park would have culminated in a vast semicircular courtyard built around the Great Hall.
In 1718, under George I, the Great Hall was converted into a theater (fulfilling the intentions of William III, who had begun to fit it out for the purpose). This work was probably undertaken by gentleman architect Sir John Vanbrugh, who was himself a playwright and theater impresario. Curtains covered the large windows, boxes and seats were installed, and the assembled audience faced west towards the stage erected in front of the screens passage. The canvas scenery was painted by Sir James Thornhill. Sir Richard Steele’s company from Drury Lane performed seven plays before the assembled court, including Hamlet and Henry VIII by Shakespeare, both appropriate to the setting.
On the orders of King George III in 1800, architect James Wyatt removed the theater from the great Hall, revealing the Tudor interior that had not been seen for a century. In this work, Wyatt began the process of making the great Hall even more tutored than it had ever been, by opening a new doorway from the dais into the Great Watching Chamber in an exemplary copy of the arched doorway in the adjacent Horn Room. This replaced a historically inaccurate doorway added in the 18th century. In addition, new flagstones were laid on the floor, and the walls were plastered to look like ancient stonework.
A.C. Pugin’s Specimens of Gothic Architecture (1821-1823) contained the first detailed measured drawings of the Great Hall and its roof.
With a deep romanticism and affection for Gothic styles and picturesque irregularity—and with an equally deep distaste for Sir Christopher Wren and the Baroque—Edward Jesse, Itinerant Deputy Surveyor in the Office of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, supervised a series of restorations and re-presentations. The most notable was that of the Great Hall itself. Left clear and relatively bare by Wyatt, it was transformed between 1840 and 1846 into a state that Jesse believed Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII would have recognized instantly. The great series of Abraham tapestries, one of the glories to have survived Henry VIII’s reign, was returned there from the King’s State Apartments. They hammer beam ceiling was repainted and the windows of both the Great Hall and the Great Watching Chamber were filled with stained glass to the designs of Thomas Willement. Heraldic badges and figures in the glass evoked the genealogy of Henry VIII’s wives, of the King and his family, and of his chancellor, Thomas Wolsey. Willement incorporated the dissent of each of Henry VIII’s wives in the windows on the north and south sides of the Hall, interspersed with the King’s badges. The stained-glass was but one element in the redecoration of the Tudor Hall. Artful arrangements of arms and armor were placed around the walls on specially constructed corbels, and deer antlers (all from the parks) were added for further effect. The impressive displays included St. George slaying the dragon, although there is no evidence that armor had ever been previously hung in the Hall. Some was newly made; the rest was lent by the Tower of London. This arrangement survived until 1925. When Jesse had finished, it was “probably the finest and most brilliantly embellished building in Europe”, in the words of the correspondent of the Gentlemen’s Magazine.
In the late 19th century, many events were held in the Great Hall, including fund-raising evenings of entertainment held by Princess Frederica of Hanover, a descendant of George II.
The Great Hall was the object of the most thorough program of works, after dry rot and beetle infestation were found in the roof in 1922. Decayed timbers were replaced, and a steel truss system was inserted into the hammerbeam roof structure. The painted decoration on the timber was stripped away, as were many of the corbels, armor, and other novelties that Jesse had introduced in 1844.
Thirteen Fragments of Armorial Tapestry Borders
Thirteen fragments of detached borders of tapestries made from 1500 to 1547 from the collections of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey. One is woven with repeating motifs of the royal arms and a crowned portcullis, separated by balusters, against a diapered ground. Others are woven with various armorials, including the arms of the See of York, of Cardinal Wolsey as archbishop of York, and of the two Sees of York and Canterbury. During the late nineteenth-century re-presentation of the Tudor apartments at Hampton Court Palace these borders were hung against the gallery of the Great Hall and around the walls of the Great Watching Chamber. It is not known which tapestries they were originally intended to surround. Tapestries played a fundamental role in the decoration of Henry VIII’s palaces. At his death in 1547 his collection contained over two thousand pieces. These were hung for short periods wherever the court was in residence and were carried about the country as it progressed between palaces. From the late seventeenth century, the disposition of tapestries in the royal palaces became more permanent, but there were none the less periodic rearrangements involving reduction or enlargement, either by detaching the borders or, more drastically, by cutting the pictorial field itself. These borders were probably woven in the Netherlands, but it is also possible that the royal “arras maker” responsible for the upkeep of the royal tapestries had workmen capable of producing tapestry of this quality. Because the royal Tudor arms remained unchanged after the accession of Henry VIII in 1509, the borders may conceivably date from the reign of his father, Henry VII. Catalogue entry from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002.
•Provenance: Probably made for Henry VIII. Recorded in the "Withdrawing Room" in 1659, from 1849 a selection has been hung in the Great Hall.
•People Involved:
oCreator(s): Netherlands (nationality); English (nationality)
oAcquirer(s): Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
oSubject(s): Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547); House of Tudor
•Physical Properties:
oMedium and Techniques: Woven wool tapestry
wool
tapestry; woven
oMeasurements: 66.0 × 226.0 cm (whole object)
•References:
oAlternative Title(s): Armorial panel
GUNDAM BZ DEFENDER
This is my fourth Gundam MOC, however this one is not from any Gundam continuity this is a custom Gundam based on my new double jointed mech frame design. If you made it to Brickfete you saw this before my internet audience did! Thanks to all the other mech builders for their suggestions and criticisms which resulted in a more poseable Lego Mobile suit frame for this MOC. This Gundam MOC stands tall at 15 inches – 3 inches taller than my usual mech / leader class transformer size and is equipped with a midsection cockpit for its pilot. He is very poseable! Enjoy rate and comment!
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Tony slammed the Mandarin’s assassin into the wall as Maya ran from the room. The assassin managed to slide out of Tony’s grasp just as Rhodes bolted in.
“Tony! What do you need me to do?” He asked just as the Mandarin’s assassin raised a ring, sending Tony backwards into the wall with a sonic blast.
“…get the camera…” Tony said, somewhat deliriously before he shook his head under the mask and leapt back at the assassin.
“The camera?” Rhodes asked, confused. Tony placed his hand over the assassin’s hands in order to block the rings as he replied to Rhodes,
“Can’t you see he’s proposing?” As he said this, Tony made a motion towards the assassin with his head. Rhodes rolled his eyes as he raised his pistol and began firing at the assailant. Turning the assassin to attempt to use them as a human shield, Tony was surprised when one of the bullets collided with his suit’s arm. It did not pierce his skin, but tore through the initial layer of metal. Letting out a groan, Tony said, “C’mon Rhodey, watch yourself. Don’t want to have to mend the suit because of a few stray bullets.”
“You know, I could be working for a bunch of different clients,” As Rhodes said this, he ran at the Mandarin’s assassin and attempted to grab him but instead ended up grabbing Tony’s suit’s arm, “Granted, they wouldn’t have the coolest suit of armor I’ve ever seen in my life, but they wouldn’t almost be assassinated twice in a month!”
“You think I asked to be?” Tony replied, in a joking and yet frustrated voice, as he threw Rhodes off of his arm. The Mandarin’s assassin climbed on top of the table and turned to the two, saying,
“Leave Stark to me. It is the Mandarin’s will to end his life.” Tony and Rhodes looked at each other for a moment before turning to the assassin and shaking their heads. In the course of a few seconds, Rhodes leapt upon the table and grabbed the assassin around the neck from behind. At the same time, Tony jumped up on the table and pressed the button that began to prime his repulser blasts. From his position on the table, Rhodes jumped down to the ground with the assassin still in a chokehold. Holding them down on the table with one arm, Rhodes quickly grabbed both rings off of the assassin’s respective fingers. Tony held one of his palms out to the assailant as the red light began to glow in the center as all three panted for a moment. Rhodes quickly broke the silence by saying,
“We…are…awesome…” The Mandarin’s assassin struggled as Tony motioned to Rhodes flipping off the figure’s hood. Rhodes complied and Tony found himself staring down at an American male in his eighties.
“Huh…I was expecting…” Tony said as he looked to Rhodes.
“Yeah…me too…” Rhodes replied as Tony’s voice became serious again,
“If we’re going to get the Mandarin to stop his attacks we’re going to need to flush him out completely. So…where is the Mandarin?” The assassin struggled as Tony repeated himself, “Where IS the Mandarin?”
“I DON’T KNOW!” The man suddenly yelled in a voice that sounded more terrified than the threatening one he had been sporting earlier. Rhodes looked at the man for a moment before saying,
“Tony…I think he’s telling the truth…”
“I know,” Tony replied before aiming at the man’s chest and letting off a repulser blast. The blast tore through the man’s midsection, killing him instantly, “But he made his choice. He chose the Mandarin. He chose to try and kill me,” Rhodes stood taken aback as Tony finished, “Not…a good…plan.” Before jumping down from the table and exiting the room, still clad in the Mark I.
Deboxing Designer Jasmine. The clear acrylic cover of the case has been removed, so she is now in the open. The spacer has been freed from the backing, and the various tacks attaching the dress to the backing have been removed, so now the doll can be freed from the backing. However she is still attached to the plastic spacer, and she is still supported by the built-in doll stand. There is a wire wrapped around her legs that secures her to the doll stand. The cardboard backing has been cut off from the base of the stand, leaving a square piece that is glued to the base of the stand by double sticky tape. This makes the remaining deboxing steps easier, and also makes taking off and replacing the acrylic cover much easier, and allows for a full 360 degree view of the doll when she is reboxed.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Jasmine Doll. She was released in October 2011, and I got her from eBay shortly afterwards, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not yet deboxed her, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Jasmine doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 5645 of 6000. She is based on the heroine from the Disney animated feature Aladdin (1992). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black, 12'' long hair tied into a floor length pony tail. There are two golden elastic hairties in the upper and middle part of the ponytail, and the lower portion of her hair has loose curls. It is very soft and shiny. There were a few stray hairs, but I left them alone and did not comb it, as I thought her hair was neat enough as it was out of the box. She has light brown skin, and a unique face sculpt that is very pretty and movie accurate. She has large dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her right. She has light blue-green eye shadow, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full dark purple lips in with a closed mouth smile. She has very pale red rouge on her cheeks.
Her three piece gown is made of bright blue-green satin and light blue organza. Her bodice is cropped short to reveal her midsection (including her belly button), and consists of light blue organza embedded with golden gems, draped over her upper arms, and gemmed blue-green satin lower and back sections. Her blue-green satin skirt is floor length and is figure hugging, flairing out at the bottom. It is hemmed and there is a light blue polyester lining. There is a very wide overskirt of the double layered light blue satin. I is open in front, but can be wrapped around to completely cover her inner skirt, or can be folded to reveal her inner skirt.
She is wearing light blue-green high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include earrings, a chain belt with pendant and Aladdin's lamp. The earrings are large golden triangles with gold colored gems. Her belt is made of fine gold chain, with a large round jeweled pendant just below her waist that gathers the strands of the chain together, the remainder of which fall almost to the floor. In her right hand is a golden lamp that is bejeweled with yellow gems. The top of the lamp is removable (it is held in place with rubber bands, which I left in place).
There were no real surprises revealed by deboxing her, although it was nice to see the full extent of her overskirt. I was also glad to take her out of her awkward head pose, which was a common problem among the Designer Princesses. One thing I didn't like was that her top was a little too short, and revealed her waist joint (that enables her to spin her upper body around 360 degrees). Tugging on her top didn't move it enough to hide the joint in the front. As a consequence, her waist joint moved very freely, and her upper body tended to turn whenever she was handled, aided by her long hair. Also her long luxurious hair is very heavy, so tends to pull her backwards slightly when she is posed on the display stand. Designer Rapunzel has a similar problem. Her very wide floor length overskirt and floor length hair make it difficult to rebox her neatly, which is a common problem with the Designer dolls with very wide floor length skirts.
Chuckwallas are large lizards found primarily in arid regions of the southwestern United States (Utah, Nevada, western Arizona, Baja California) and northern Mexico. They can grow up to 1.5 feet long.
Chuckwallas are noted for their wide, flattened midsections and prominent paunch. Their tails are also notably thick, tapering to a blunt tip. Loose folds of skin characterize the neck and sides of the body, which is covered in small, coarsely granular scales. Males are generally larger than females.
Picture was taken in the desert, near Las Vegas in Nevada - USA.
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Deboxing Designer Jasmine. The clear acrylic cover of the case has been removed, so she is now in the open. The spacer has been freed from the backing, and the various tacks attaching the dress to the backing have been removed, so now the doll can be freed from the backing. The cardboard backing has been cut off from the base of the stand, leaving a square piece that is glued to the base of the stand by double sticky tape. This makes the remaining deboxing steps easier, and also makes taking off and replacing the acrylic cover much easier, and allows for a full 360 degree view of the doll when she is reboxed. The wire around her legs is removed, and she is removed from the doll stand and placed on the counter next to it.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Jasmine Doll. She was released in October 2011, and I got her from eBay shortly afterwards, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not yet deboxed her, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Jasmine doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 5645 of 6000. She is based on the heroine from the Disney animated feature Aladdin (1992). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black, 12'' long hair tied into a floor length pony tail. There are two golden elastic hairties in the upper and middle part of the ponytail, and the lower portion of her hair has loose curls. It is very soft and shiny. There were a few stray hairs, but I left them alone and did not comb it, as I thought her hair was neat enough as it was out of the box. She has light brown skin, and a unique face sculpt that is very pretty and movie accurate. She has large dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her right. She has light blue-green eye shadow, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full dark purple lips in with a closed mouth smile. She has very pale red rouge on her cheeks.
Her three piece gown is made of bright blue-green satin and light blue organza. Her bodice is cropped short to reveal her midsection (including her belly button), and consists of light blue organza embedded with golden gems, draped over her upper arms, and gemmed blue-green satin lower and back sections. Her blue-green satin skirt is floor length and is figure hugging, flairing out at the bottom. It is hemmed and there is a light blue polyester lining. There is a very wide overskirt of the double layered light blue satin. I is open in front, but can be wrapped around to completely cover her inner skirt, or can be folded to reveal her inner skirt.
She is wearing light blue-green high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include earrings, a chain belt with pendant and Aladdin's lamp. The earrings are large golden triangles with gold colored gems. Her belt is made of fine gold chain, with a large round jeweled pendant just below her waist that gathers the strands of the chain together, the remainder of which fall almost to the floor. In her right hand is a golden lamp that is bejeweled with yellow gems. The top of the lamp is removable (it is held in place with rubber bands, which I left in place).
There were no real surprises revealed by deboxing her, although it was nice to see the full extent of her overskirt. I was also glad to take her out of her awkward head pose, which was a common problem among the Designer Princesses. One thing I didn't like was that her top was a little too short, and revealed her waist joint (that enables her to spin her upper body around 360 degrees). Tugging on her top didn't move it enough to hide the joint in the front. As a consequence, her waist joint moved very freely, and her upper body tended to turn whenever she was handled, aided by her long hair. Also her long luxurious hair is very heavy, so tends to pull her backwards slightly when she is posed on the display stand. Designer Rapunzel has a similar problem. Her very wide floor length overskirt and floor length hair make it difficult to rebox her neatly, which is a common problem with the Designer dolls with very wide floor length skirts.
Lowenstark’s Log: Final Entry, pt 2
This story begins two years ago today. I was a mercenary pilot for the Bedrock group, a nefarious bunch of soldiers of fortune. I was born and raised into their ranks, my parents having been notorious members. My entire life was centered around this culture, and for my entire life, 34 years of it, I went about doing evil deed after evil deed in the pocketbooks of the wealthy.
I cared, yes, I cared. I regretted it each and every time… but truth be told, I was merely to cowardly – too self motivated as well – to make the change. To stand up. All in all, I was a real shit bag.
Two years ago today, that changed. I was on a bombing run when my plane was shot from the air… blown completely apart, and I ejected from the craft…
My parachute, however, did not function. And I plummeted to the jungle floor of an island, thousands of feet below. I knew for a fact that I would be dead.
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Lazarus Lowenstark didn't have the time to give the instructions he wanted to to D, he only had time to act. The Shock-Glove trick worked once, but it hadn't floored her... in fact, he'd broken a finger in punching the thing, and had to put THAT on the back burner too. With a grunt, he vaulted out of the small area, intending to plant both feet into the things chest... he had to give D room to run. "No, you've made an engineering enemy!" He shouted as a somewhat nerdy battle cry!
Syl rolls up onto her feet as Laz jumps, catching him in-flight wtih the mass of her torso. She's heavy, but Laz isn't that much lighter, so she's slammed into thte wall behind her. However there's a slashing rake diagonally downward, her right to left, that if Laz doesn't do something clever will make good on her threat to cut someone in half today.
Darkness Odigaunt scooted around to the otherside of the platform thing, she was trying to get away, really, just too scared to figure out how to do that. Laz's retort brought her back out of the scared rabbit part of her mind she fumbled for her belltower key, "Come on! Let's go, Laz!"
Lazarus Lowenstark lands on his ass with a grunt, both feet landing WWE style, as intended. He barely spots the swipe coming his way, and manages a roll to the right quickly - but still, long cuts slash up the back of his T-shirt, and cut deep into the Carbon Nanofiber under armor beneath it. He winces in pain as two of the claws dug deep grooves up his back... Rolling to his knees, he glances sidelong to D, "A bit busy! I'll hold her! Call Elise!" Then he's lunging back in, trying to keep the thing's attention from D. With a flick of his wrist, he pops his one-shot instant flamer - a divice in a tube meant for stun value more than real damage. It creates a whooshing fireball in her direction, and he'll try to dive in with another shock glove shot afterwards.
Syl is whooshed, and her hair catches fire. That's about the extent of the damage it does her. Worse, it doesn't effect her vision much, and when Laz swings at her with that shock glove again, she's prepared for it, and blocks the swing with what would be a deflecting blow to the side. Would be, if she weren't trying to block the blow with the excruciatingly sharp blades.
Darkness Odigaunt pulls out her phone and rushes just inside the stairs where she can dial the phone. She rocks, couched down on her step, just hearing the fighting noises.
Lazarus Lowenstark can’t stop his momentum. He'd hoped her light suppressors would be a bit slower, and his hope was his downfall. His punch came in, and though he turned it off to the side, he screamed as five claws dug into his forearm - and jutted out of the other side. It was all he could do to rip his arm out of her impaled grip and not give her the pleasure of dismembering him, and throw a solid front kick toward her torso - more meant to shove him back than to knock her off balance. He needed distance at this point. He wondered absently why he'd chosen to leave his gun and sleeves at home... but really... he knew why.
Darkness Odigaunt squeezes her eyes shut as Elise picks up, she lists the situation as quickly as she could, as though that would make her come faster, "Belltower! Spikey and Laz!"
Syl draws her forearm up and blocks Laz's kick with more blades, lunging around it with a bladed hand toward his throat, the blades, incredibly, articulating back and way from the flesh. It's a grab maneuver.
Darkness Odigaunt screams through her sobbing, fortunately not seeing anything that's actually happening, "Yes! That one! Intruder, spikes, please please come!"
Lazarus Lowenstark figured this thing would do that, stab his foot. He HATED foot injuries too. So when the claws impale him through the foot, he'd already turned off the pain receptors in his nerve cluster... it was a tactical limitation, having limited pain, but at the moment it let him at least try to get an upper hand here... He went to draw the foot out of the blades, but was grabbed around the throat. That was when his eyes were drawn to someone behind the robot, and the world slowed for him. There was nothing here but him and that person, and all he managed to whisper was "you?"... and he now was at the mercy of the robot… but for some reason, he seemed at peace with it. The world came back to focus, and he looked the thing in her blue eyes.
Syl lifts Laz off the ground bodily by his throat. Not very high, as Laz is quite a bit taller. But she climbs up onto the ledge anyway and dangles Laz over the edge. "This is the end for you, Hero." she says, ignoring whatever he saw behind her. "And all for nothing. Save this." She draws her free hand back, intending to rend Laz open across the midsection, obviously. "The city will never doubt you had /guts/"
Darkness Odigaunt nodded to her phone, eyes squeezed closed... until she heard that. No, there was no way that thing would hurt Laz. She huddles down and covers her head, waiting for Elise.
Lazarus Lowenstark smiles peacefully at the Robot, though tears were now forming in his eyes. He said between gags, "Just... as they... will know... you had... TWO.. engineering flaws..." and his other hand is to the back of her neck, powerful grip clutching a handful of wires and tubing, and with the same contented look on his face, he rips them with force from their holding ports.
Syl doesn't have time to say /anything/. One moment she's about to send thet signals to eviscerate Laz to her arm, the next... her brain shuts off completely, like a computer with the power cord pulled. Which is, pretty much, what happened. Arguably there's a third engineering flaw, and that is that when Syl's brain gets unceremoniously unplugged, she loses her muscle tone completely. The electropolymer gel flows like a liquid to wherever the least pressure is, and she goes astonishingly limp for a machine. This is bad for Laz, because she's holding him over open space. Bad for her, because she topples forward from the tug to the wires and the tug on her hand, and she and Laz fall together, but only one of them will know it.
Darkness Odigaunt freezes as the sounds of the fight are replaced. She slowly lifts her head, heart freezing as the crows cawed and swirled, their second roosting spot disturbed.
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Fidalgo Bay.
NTSB Final Accident Report:
"The newly built yacht Baaden was being launched stern first down the Fidalgo Marina boat ramp in Anacortes, Washington, with eight shipyard personnel on board when it capsized
after entering the water at 2050 on Sunday, May 18, 2014. The yacht was salvaged but was declared a total constructive loss, estimated at $10 million. Three shipyard personnel who were
trapped below decks for up to half an hour were treated for minor cuts and injuries at local hospitals. No pollution was reported.
New World Yacht Builders began construction of the Baaden in December 2011, working from an existing 80-foot-hull mold built in 2002 by Northern Marine. Like other large Northern
Marine yachts, the vessel was custom designed. The 80-foot mold was lengthened in the midsection and stem, the bow was given more flare, and a swim platform was added. The
resulting 85-foot vessel was designated Northern Marine model 8501 and was the first of its kind. New World described the Baaden as having commercial fishing vessel roots in an 85-foot
European-style, luxury, long-range, oceangoing expedition yacht. The builder, the buyer’s representative, and an interior design firm collaborated on the vessel design and styling. Several sister vessels built to the 80-foot-hull design were completed and are in operation.
Due to water damage to interior woodwork, machinery, and electrical systems and expenses associated with repairing the vessel, at the time of this report the Baaden was considered a total constructive loss with an estimated value of $10 million.
Launch team members inspected the launch cradles, dollies, and equipment after the incident and noted that one of the tires on the forward dolly was flat, and witnesses said they saw
bubbles coming from the forward dolly at the time of the launch. The tire likely was damaged during the initial port roll at 2037.
Probable Cause:
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the capsizing of the yacht Baaden during its initial launch was the vessel’s low margin of stability due to the combined effects of a recording error during the final vessel weigh, which resulted in an incorrect assessment of the vessel’s center of gravity, and an overestimation of the weight of installed ballast."
www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/MAB1514...
The new midsection added a lot of new poseability to the model, and definitely makes the model look more accurate to the in-game design.
Attended by Pilot boat "Collingwood".
BOUDICCA
Passenger Cruise ship owner operated by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines.
Built in 1973 in Helsinki shipyard, Finland as Royal Viking and sailed under the Royal Viking Line.
Boudicca was acquired by Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines in 2005. The line also operates its sister ship, the former Royal Viking Star, as the popular Black Watch.
Boudicca was "stretched" in the early 1980s with the addition of a 91-foot midsection, gaining a considerable amount of open-air sunbathing space on the top deck.
Ship Information
Cabins462
Passengers880 standard occupancy
Crew329
Refitted2011
Fully StabilisedYes
Tonnage28,388 grt
Length205.47 m
Beam (width)25.20 m
Cat and Mouse
Theme: Chinatown - Kitten
I like the Downtown girls
I like the way that they talk to me
I like the messed up girls
They're pretty good company
The rat follows along to where she has seen Blu and the other go. She is careful to keep her steps as quiet as can be on the old catwalks. Her first stop is the pipe, to which she rests there as she glances down at the pair on the street once again, not daring to look around the pipe just yet. Standing, she leans over just a little, trying to peer around the side by the wall to see if Blu is still there or if she has moved on. The rat then darts back behind the pipe. She is uncertain as to what is going on. She looks back down to the street. Her rat sense tingles with a feeling that shinies might be present, but it is a false alarm. At least the man in the suit is still there. He isn't on his side or covered in too much blood.
Blu's head tilts up again, catching that familiar scent again. She is certain now. Well, almost. It sure smells like a ratty, and hopefully her ratty. Blu claims a lot, in her mind, anyway. She is hopeful when Dom takes the credits before she pulls away from him. Moving down the walks, her tail tip flicks about again. She sniffs at the air some more, following the scent. Her eyes are on the unused smoke stack down the way, and She is sure she has seen movement now. Slowing her pace, her boots barely tick against the grates. Blu's ears flick back, hearing Dom landing below, most likely to go use those credits she gave him. She is glad he is listening to her - at least she hopes he is. She moves closer to the wall. Her eyes are intent on that smoke stack. She moves slower the closer she gets to it, her breathing becomes more shallow. Blu can't help it. Cat instincts are kicking in, and the way her tail is flapping about gives away her building urge to pounce. But, the closer she gets, the stronger the rat's scent gets. She is more certain now that it is her favorite ratty hiding from her. Stopping short of the smokestack, her tail still flicks about like mad. She hears a tiny whisper. It makes her ears flick, and she pulls back as she leans against stack the rat is hiding behind. "I thought so." Blu purrs, then slowly peers around the metal shaft, giving the rat the faintest of smirks. "Why are you hiding from me, hmm? You know what that does to us kits."
***
Dom purrs as he debones the fish with his fangs. As he starts to feel nourished, he begins to notice the environment around him more. His ears perk up at the laughing behind him, then turns around as he picks a bit of fish flesh out of his teeth with a plucked off bone. "You hungry too?" he asks the stranger behind him. The one behind him does not answer. After finishing the fish, bones and all, and cleaning himself, Dom then goes back up to the catwalks.
On the catwalks, Blu and the rat are still conversing. The rat nods her head a few times at something Blu has just said and replies, "I am doing well. I eat usually and do not find trouble often. Is there much trouble for you lately?" Curiousity gets the best of her, at least considering the conflict on the street, which is regular enough. Her tail wiggles a little, betraying both excitement and nervousness.
Dom spots Blue with the rat he scented earlier. Now filled with fish, he would be more likely not to try and eat the rat. He just smiles and mews to indicate his presence.
Blu gives a little nod to the rat's words. She is rather relieved to hear that the rat is doing alright, but it doesn't exactly show on her face. "I don't need to find trouble, it always seems to find me." Blu tells her, giving a small shrug of her shoulders. She then reaches into an inner pocket, as if fetching something only to hear a low mew from behind her. She shoots a glance over her shoulder to see Dom standing there, hopefully with a full stomach. Blu then looks back to the rat - though her tail gives away that she knows Dom is there, almost as if waving at him. "I have something for you, I've been keeping it until I ran into you again." She says to the rat as she pulls out a silver chain. It has a half crescent moon charm hanging from it. "It's shiney. You like?" She asks as she holds it out for the ratty to inspect.
The rat wants it before she even sees it. The want of that object is so plain that it looks like she might throw herself at her friend in order to get it. Shinies have become hard to come by. But even in the golden age of shinies, this would be a treasure. Now it is priceless. She holds back, somehow, staring at the object with wide eyes and looks to Blu. "It is the best thing I have seen," which is putting it mildly. Her hands reach out to slowly and gently rest against Blu's midsection, warm as they attempt to rub at her friend's stomach.
Dom smiles at the wave of Blu's tail. He approaches a bit closer and pauses. Though he is well fed now, he sees the rat girl and decides not to move too much closer. One cat in close proximity of a rat is enough to spook them, and he isn't sure if his coming closer would not produce such a result. Yet, the rat seems very focused on the shiny object that Dom ventures a little bit closer.
Blu flicks her ears back, hearing Dom inching closer but she keeps her main focus on the rat as she holds out that necklace. She could almost see the bundle of excitement behind the girl's specs. "I take it you like then?" Blu asks as she feels those warm hands reach out and press against her stomach. She almost instantly starts purring. A real purr. One that is rumbling loud enough for even Dom to hear. She has known the ratty for years now, and is more than comfortable with her touch. There are very few that Blu would be comfortable with as such. Blu then reaches down, pulling one hand from rubbing at her stomach to turn it palm side up, slowly laying the chain and charm into her hand. "For you." Blu murrs, giving a little more of a smile as she lifts her hand, showing the mood ring the rat had given her years ago adorned on her pinky. it is the only finger it fit on. "See, I still have the shiny you gave me."
Rail Steps up to the edge of the building. She looks down at Blu and the rat she seems to recognize. "I told you I was hoping you'd stop by the Den. I had assumed you'd come see me after you were done with the male." Rail's hands are behind her back as usual. "Or you could have stopped by to tell me you were busy. I was under the impression we had some catching up to do?" Her smile isn't quite as bright now, showing that she isn't exactly cheery after waiting for so long.
A mouse on the street slips her backpack off and puts it on the ground, then opens it up. "Just what ah need." she murmurs to herself as she slips a newspaper from the pile on top of the dumpster. She selects a clean sheet, then takes something out of her backpack, wraps it in the paper, and puts it back in her pack. She closes it up and slips the pack back onto her shoulders.
Dom does hear Blu's purr and flicks the tip of his tail in slight interest, mostly friendly. He hears the voice of the other feline, Rail, and his ears fold, as her tone sounds as though Blue is in trouble. But he doesn't speak himself, happy to seem invisible for the moment. Although, his nose does twitch as he picks up a scent below. Another rodent, he is certain.
Pawing limply at Blu's stomach with her other hand, eyeing the mood ring she had given Blu. It wasn't much, but it means a lot to her, and moreso that it has been not only kept, but worn. The hand with the charm in it closes carefully around it. Reaching her closed hand up to wipe at tears that are flowing down her cheeks the rat gives a little sniffle and a whispered, "Thank you." With that, she wastes no more time and puts the necklace on.
Blu smiles enough to show a few crooked teeth when the rat seems to be over-joyeded to receive the necklace Blu has been keeping. "Yer welcome." Blu murrs low, shaking her head a little, but in an almost amused manner when she sees the rat wiping away tears. She watches the rat put it on, and at that moment hears Rail's voice coming from above. Fuck. Blu had gotten too distracted and forgot to head to the Den. She shoots a look up Rail's way, giving her an apologetic smile. "Sorry Rail. Didn't mean ta make you wait." Blu then looks to the rat. "I need to go have a talk. You keep you and that shiny safe, yes?" Blu then turns to look at Dom. "And you behave." She lets out with a teasing smirk, though is also being rather serious in her words. With a step back and to the side she coils her legs and bounds with a rather powerful leap of her legs, landing onto the walks above.
Rail's smile gets brighter at seeing Blu's face once more "Alright. Let's go back to the Den then, shall we?" Without hesitation, Rail starts to walk back towards the Den. Finally dropping her hands to her sides so that she doesn't walk oddly. Jumping up on to the roof, Rail waits for Blu to join her before speaking.
Dom blinks, then smirks back up to Blu, "I will, I will. I promise!" He watches Blu hop up to the upper catwalk, a leap he knows he cannot make. Suppose this means he'll have to work on his leg strength more in this city to get around better. He looks over to the rat and smiles, "Hey."
I got the punk rock love
Feels like it's 1963
And the girls all dance
While I'm feeling like a refugee
Here is a close-up of the two trans-black Ningago Weapon Holder Ring elements that bind the three legs of the tower together at the midsection. I wasn’t previously familiar with this element type and I bought a few with the idea that they might allow for the attachment to pins on the underside of tiles. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case. However one night before falling asleep it occurred to me that the webbing might be thin enough to slot into the top half of hinge elements. This could then allow me to connect the three legs of the tripod at 120 degrees.
A second take on a previous transforming interceptor. Cockpit, midsection and tail tips have been reworked. Hopefully for the better :-)
Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine have signed Association Agreements with the EU that foresee the establishment of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) with the EU.
This prospect of free trade with the EU – the world’s largest market – offers many new opportunities for businesses in these countries. The EBRD and EU provide access to finance and advice to help them improve production and processes, adapt to EU standards and become more competitive abroad. In Ukraine, we also set up a dedicated network of business support centres for this purpose.
Men, there you are in a mall or a store left on an arrant bench clutching your wife, sister, girlfriend, or mother's purse, while she does, who knows what in the dressing room. You sit there kicking at a loose patch of carpet, and you're thinking, what the hell is taking her so damn long? Let me let you in on what we do in the dressing room and why five minutes really means two and three quarter hours.
1. Step one: enter the dressing room. Check to see if there is some surface or hook to hang the clothes we want to try on and bonus if there is some form of seat or chair. We check the room and make sure its clean and free of debris that isn't ours. If the room smells like anything other then the wood its carved out of, or a sweet scent their pumping in with the a/c, or there are any sticky or questionable substances anywhere on the inside, we back out quickly and begin the process of setting up our nest, in a new dressing room.
2. Step two: We arrange our clothes on what we hope are at least 3 hooks. The first hook are the things we really want to try on, and the second hook is the stuff we sort of kind of like, but are not sure, and the last hook is for the clothes we take off after trying them on.
3. Step three: we try on each item using the following checklist that we must go over with every item we try on. Here is a snippet of the inner dialogue:
"Oh my gosh, does this even like fit? How do my arms, butt, midsection, boobs, etc. look? Ugh, my ass doesn't look juicy enough in this? Or maybe its too juicy? I think I'm going to need to try the seamless underwear with this, b/c these are not working. How do I look from the side? The other side? How does this look when I bend down? Oooo, whoops, too far, lost my balance there. Hope the lady in the room next door doesn't think I just fell out! Hmm, how does this look when I dance a little this way and a little that way? Awww, yeah, I likes that. Yup, and jump with it, and slide with it? Oooo, they were wrong for playing my song right now on the PA. Okay, so what will go with this that I already have? I don't think this red matches this other red. Why are the lights in here always so terrible? Man, this is like a red-red, but not like a RED-red. I don't know. Is that a loose thread, please don't be a loose thread, this is the only one in my size. You know, I think I need something a little tighter than this because John will be there with his new Misses me, and I have to look better then that bitch, even if she is nice. I should wear his favorite color. Ha! I am so wrong for that. I think I need pockets. I don't like the way the clasp leaves an indent in my skin. Do I need to go on a diet? No, no, must think positive thoughts. Ommmshalalalalashhhhram, you are beautiful. Ollllmmmmm. Grrrr. Okay, now that my self esteem is restored, I think this is pretty. Yes, I think this is very pretty. Or maybe its cute. Like so cute. Yes, you are, yes you are, cute. No, no, this, this is Sexxx-ay! Oh god, I hate it. I hate my life. Why am I here breathing? This is a fail. Abort, abort! Never mind. I'm going to throw it back, what the hell was I thinking?!?
Step 4: repeat step 3 for as many clothing items as you've selected.
Step 5: when complete, walk out of the dressing room, and complain to your brother, boyfriend, dad, or husband, as to why they are always complaining about you taking so long. Tell them to "shut-up," and tell them "it's their fault," and "you always do whatever they want without complaints, but this one time you ask them to...."and inquire as to "why your purse which you told them to hold is shoved on the ground."
Step 6: Leave store number one, and continue this process at another 5 stores.
The original Colour Print that I grey toned later then hand coloures using computer prgrams
The "John D Lietch" waiting to load Potash or coal backing into Thunder Bay Terminals.
This unique Great Lakes self-unloading bulk carrier was built by Port Weller Dry Docks, St. Catharines, Ont., as Hull #41. She was christened Canadian Century for Upper Lakes Group, Inc., Toronto, Ont., on April 15, 1967 by Mrs. G. E. Gathercole, wife of the Chairman of the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario. The name paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of Canada’s confederation.
At the time of her launch, the vessel was the largest capacity self-unloading vessel on the Great Lakes. Her squared hull design reduced wasted space thus increasing her tonnage, however her very tall wheelhouse and forward accommodation block gave her the distinction of being known as the “little bank building that floats.”
The Canadian Century’s original self-unloading system consisted of a single, center line conveyor belt gravity system with a 300-ton reclaimer feeding a bucket/hopper elevator system leading to a forward-mounted 250 foot discharge boom. The reclaimer consisted of 2 auger screws, each 26 feet long and 7 feet high. As they would turn, the cargo would be forced forward to the bucket elevator system. It could discharge at a rate of up to 4,000 tons per hour. Due to the technological advances in self-unloading systems, the Canadian Century’s bucket elevator system was replaced in 1975/76 with a modern loop belt elevator system capable of discharging cargo at a rate of up to 4,572 tons per hour. The discharge boom can be swung 95 degrees to port or starboard.
The vessel is powered by a Burmeister & Wain type 574 VT2F 160 diesel engine rated at 7,394 b.h.p. at 115 r.p.m. burning intermediate grade 180 fuel driving a controllable pitch propeller, giving the vessel a service speed of 14.5 knots. She is equipped with a 1,000 horsepower bowthruster. Her enormous single hold is fed by 22 hatches. She can carry 25,700 tons at maximum Seaway draft of 26 feet and is capable of carrying 31,600 tons at her maximum mid-summer draft of 29 feet 4 inches. Other capacities include 465 tons of fuel oil, 75 tons of diesel oil, 186 tons of potable water, and 17,348 tons of water ballast.
In December 2001, Canadian Century entered Port Weller Dry Docks for a mid-life refit. The $25-million (C) refit was similar to the work that the shipyard completed on Canada Steamship Lines’ CSL Tadoussac the winter before. The bow and stern sections remained intact, along with most of the main deck. The cargo hold and the rest of the midsection were replaced with a new, larger cargo hold and a one-belt self-unloading system with a flat tank top. When it returned to service in May of 2002, it not only carried more cargo, but could operate more efficiently through the increased use of technology.
The Century was built specifically to accommodate Upper Lakes Group’s first contract to carry coal for Ontario Hydro. During her first season of operation, she made 63 trips delivering coal totaling 1.7 million tons. On Dec. 8, 1967, she set a Welland Canal coal record by carrying 28,283 tons from Conneaut, Ohio, to Dofasco at Hamilton, Ont. June 18, 1969 saw the Canadian Century load a Conneaut, Ohio, record of 31,081 tons of coal for Ontario Hydro’s Lambton Generating Station at Courtright, Ont. In her early years, she would sail to Sept Isles, Que., to rendezvous with her former fleet mate Ontario Power to transfer coal loaded aboard the latter vessel at Sydney, Nova Scotia, for delivery to Nanticoke, Ont. The Canadian Century carried her first load of taconite ore pellets in 1986 when she loaded 25,427 tons at Pointe Noire, Que., for Hamilton, Ont. The vessel has carried cargoes of salt from ports such as Goderich, Ont., and Fairport, Ohio. She has also carried the odd cargo of grain products.
In her later years, the Canadian Century sailed under the management of Seaway Marine Transport, St. Catharines, Ont., a partnership of Algoma Central and Upper Lakes Group.
On March 23, 2001, the vessel was honored in the traditional Top Hat ceremony recognizing the passing of the first upbound vessel through the Welland Canal for the 2001 navigation season.
In 2002, the vessel was renamed John D. Leitch, honoring the chairman of the Upper Lakes Group. On February 25, 2011, a formal statement was issued announcing the sale of the privately owned Upper Lakes fleet and their associated interest in Seaway Marine Transport to the Algoma Central Corporation. On April 15, 2011, Algoma announced that the John D. Leitch would retain her name.
Written by George Wharton.
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The Tug " Point Valour" assisiting the The "John D Lietch" loading Potash backing into Thunder Bay Terminals. The tug "George N. Carleton" passing by after breaking ice in the slips at Richardson's Elevators.
This unique Great Lakes self-unloading bulk carrier was built by Port Weller Dry Docks, St. Catharines, Ont., as Hull #41. She was christened Canadian Century for Upper Lakes Group, Inc., Toronto, Ont., on April 15, 1967 by Mrs. G. E. Gathercole, wife of the Chairman of the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario. The name paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of Canada’s confederation.
At the time of her launch, the vessel was the largest capacity self-unloading vessel on the Great Lakes. Her squared hull design reduced wasted space thus increasing her tonnage, however her very tall wheelhouse and forward accommodation block gave her the distinction of being known as the “little bank building that floats.”
The Canadian Century’s original self-unloading system consisted of a single, center line conveyor belt gravity system with a 300-ton reclaimer feeding a bucket/hopper elevator system leading to a forward-mounted 250 foot discharge boom. The reclaimer consisted of 2 auger screws, each 26 feet long and 7 feet high. As they would turn, the cargo would be forced forward to the bucket elevator system. It could discharge at a rate of up to 4,000 tons per hour. Due to the technological advances in self-unloading systems, the Canadian Century’s bucket elevator system was replaced in 1975/76 with a modern loop belt elevator system capable of discharging cargo at a rate of up to 4,572 tons per hour. The discharge boom can be swung 95 degrees to port or starboard.
The vessel is powered by a Burmeister & Wain type 574 VT2F 160 diesel engine rated at 7,394 b.h.p. at 115 r.p.m. burning intermediate grade 180 fuel driving a controllable pitch propeller, giving the vessel a service speed of 14.5 knots. She is equipped with a 1,000 horsepower bowthruster. Her enormous single hold is fed by 22 hatches. She can carry 25,700 tons at maximum Seaway draft of 26 feet and is capable of carrying 31,600 tons at her maximum mid-summer draft of 29 feet 4 inches. Other capacities include 465 tons of fuel oil, 75 tons of diesel oil, 186 tons of potable water, and 17,348 tons of water ballast.
In December 2001, Canadian Century entered Port Weller Dry Docks for a mid-life refit. The $25-million (C) refit was similar to the work that the shipyard completed on Canada Steamship Lines’ CSL Tadoussac the winter before. The bow and stern sections remained intact, along with most of the main deck. The cargo hold and the rest of the midsection were replaced with a new, larger cargo hold and a one-belt self-unloading system with a flat tank top. When it returned to service in May of 2002, it not only carried more cargo, but could operate more efficiently through the increased use of technology.
The Century was built specifically to accommodate Upper Lakes Group’s first contract to carry coal for Ontario Hydro. During her first season of operation, she made 63 trips delivering coal totaling 1.7 million tons. On Dec. 8, 1967, she set a Welland Canal coal record by carrying 28,283 tons from Conneaut, Ohio, to Dofasco at Hamilton, Ont. June 18, 1969 saw the Canadian Century load a Conneaut, Ohio, record of 31,081 tons of coal for Ontario Hydro’s Lambton Generating Station at Courtright, Ont. In her early years, she would sail to Sept Isles, Que., to rendezvous with her former fleet mate Ontario Power to transfer coal loaded aboard the latter vessel at Sydney, Nova Scotia, for delivery to Nanticoke, Ont. The Canadian Century carried her first load of taconite ore pellets in 1986 when she loaded 25,427 tons at Pointe Noire, Que., for Hamilton, Ont. The vessel has carried cargoes of salt from ports such as Goderich, Ont., and Fairport, Ohio. She has also carried the odd cargo of grain products.
In her later years, the Canadian Century sailed under the management of Seaway Marine Transport, St. Catharines, Ont., a partnership of Algoma Central and Upper Lakes Group.
On March 23, 2001, the vessel was honored in the traditional Top Hat ceremony recognizing the passing of the first upbound vessel through the Welland Canal for the 2001 navigation season.
In 2002, the vessel was renamed John D. Leitch, honoring the chairman of the Upper Lakes Group. On February 25, 2011, a formal statement was issued announcing the sale of the privately owned Upper Lakes fleet and their associated interest in Seaway Marine Transport to the Algoma Central Corporation. On April 15, 2011, Algoma announced that the John D. Leitch would retain her name.
Written by George Wharton.
The Peugeot 304 is a small family car introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969 by the French car manufacturer Peugeot. Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe. By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market. The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch. The 304 was a success for Peugeot and was noted for several advanced features under its sombre Pininfarina styled exterior. With its independent suspended front-wheel-drive drivetrain and disc brakes, it rode and handled better than most of its contemporaries, including some cars in higher price brackets. The chassis served Peugeot well and lasted for approximately 24 years adapted to derivative models. There was a distinct upmarket feel to the 304, its handsome lines were well suited to postwar Europe's newly affluent middle classes who desired roomy, advanced and stylish cars to park in their driveways. At about this time the Autoroutes were opening up France and car manufacturers around Europe knew that any car launched hence, would need to add an ability to travel at high speeds, in relative comfort with surefooted handling to its lineup in order to compete. The 304 fulfilled this brief and became one of the best-selling cars in its market segment.
(Wikipedia)
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Der Peugeot 304 war ein Personenkraftwagen der Firma Peugeot. Er wurde im Oktober 1969 auf dem Pariser Automobilsalon in der Version als Limousine vorgestellt. Das Design der Karosserie für dieses Fahrzeug stammt aus dem Hause Pininfarina in Turin (Italien).
Wie beim 204 gab es auch vom 304 vier Karosserieversionen:
Limousine (Oktober 1969 bis Oktober 1979)
Coupé (März 1970 bis April 1975)
Cabriolet (März 1970 bis Juli 1976)
Kombi „Break“ (September 1970 bis Oktober 1980)
Der 304 verfügt über einen querverbauten Leichtmetallmotor, der im Gegensatz zur rostanfälligen Karosserie als innovativ und verlässlich galt. Die Motorpresse kritisierte die Schaltung, die insbesondere beim Runterschalten vom dritten in den zweiten Gang Probleme bereitete. Technisch gesehen war er eine Weiterentwicklung des Peugeot 204, die Karosserie war bis auf das eckigere „Gesicht“ der Front („Löwenmäulchen“), mit diesem fast identisch.
Im März 1972 kam der Peugeot 304 S auf den Markt, der – anders als sein Vorgänger – über Rundinstrumente, Rückfahrscheinwerfer, Sicherheitsgurte und Kopfstützen verfügte, sonst aber fast baugleich war.
Bis zur Einstellung der Produktion im Herbst 1980 verließen weit über 1 Million Fahrzeuge dieses Typs die Werkshallen.
Nachfolger wurde der bereits im November 1977 eingeführte Peugeot 305.
(Wikipedia)
Fidalgo Bay. General Construction Company's 700 ton capacity crane barge D.B. General. Here to lift the 90ft Northern Marine Yacht Bäden out of the water after it capsized during its launch on sunday night.
NTSB Final Accident Report:
"The newly built yacht Baaden was being launched stern first down the Fidalgo Marina boat ramp in Anacortes, Washington, with eight shipyard personnel on board when it capsized
after entering the water at 2050 on Sunday, May 18, 2014. The yacht was salvaged but was declared a total constructive loss, estimated at $10 million. Three shipyard personnel who were
trapped below decks for up to half an hour were treated for minor cuts and injuries at local hospitals. No pollution was reported.
New World Yacht Builders began construction of the Baaden in December 2011, working from an existing 80-foot-hull mold built in 2002 by Northern Marine. Like other large Northern
Marine yachts, the vessel was custom designed. The 80-foot mold was lengthened in the midsection and stem, the bow was given more flare, and a swim platform was added. The
resulting 85-foot vessel was designated Northern Marine model 8501 and was the first of its kind. New World described the Baaden as having commercial fishing vessel roots in an 85-foot
European-style, luxury, long-range, oceangoing expedition yacht. The builder, the buyer’s representative, and an interior design firm collaborated on the vessel design and styling. Several sister vessels built to the 80-foot-hull design were completed and are in operation.
Due to water damage to interior woodwork, machinery, and electrical systems and expenses associated with repairing the vessel, at the time of this report the Baaden was considered a total constructive loss with an estimated value of $10 million.
Launch team members inspected the launch cradles, dollies, and equipment after the incident and noted that one of the tires on the forward dolly was flat, and witnesses said they saw
bubbles coming from the forward dolly at the time of the launch. The tire likely was damaged during the initial port roll at 2037.
Probable Cause:
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the capsizing of the yacht Baaden during its initial launch was the vessel’s low margin of stability due to the combined effects of a recording error during the final vessel weigh, which resulted in an incorrect assessment of the vessel’s center of gravity, and an overestimation of the weight of installed ballast."
www.ntsb.gov/investigations/accidentreports/pages/MAB1514...
Designer Jasmine has been fully deboxed, and is posed standing, supported by the custom doll stand. Her overskirt, freed from the factory restraints, is now wider than the doll stand, and is allowed to drape over the edges of the base. The sunlight was fading as I was taking these photos, so some of the closeups used flash.
First look at the Disney Princess Designer Collection Jasmine Doll. She was released in October 2011, and I got her from eBay shortly afterwards, so It's been more than a year and a half since I got this doll. But I have not yet deboxed her, and this the first time I am doing a full photoshoot of her. I will photograph her boxed, during her deboxing, and fully deboxed.
My Designer Jasmine doll is a limited edition doll that was produced and sold exclusively by the Disney Store, and is numbered 5645 of 6000. She is based on the heroine from the Disney animated feature Aladdin (1992). She comes in an acrylic case with a built-in doll stand, with a base that has a golden filigree design, and a golden metallic nameplate. There is also a cardboard cover for the case that I have not photographed here.
She is 11 1/2'' tall, and has the same body as the other Designer Princess dolls, with jointed neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips and knees (internal). She has rubber legs and fixed ankles, with feet angled for high heels.
She has jet black, 12'' long hair tied into a floor length pony tail. There are two golden elastic hairties in the upper and middle part of the ponytail, and the lower portion of her hair has loose curls. It is very soft and shiny. There were a few stray hairs, but I left them alone and did not comb it, as I thought her hair was neat enough as it was out of the box. She has light brown skin, and a unique face sculpt that is very pretty and movie accurate. She has large dark brown almond shaped eyes that are glancing towards her right. She has light blue-green eye shadow, and thick black eyebrows. She has rooted eyelashes, that are tapered in length from short to long, then at the ends there are very long curved antenna like lashes. She has a small straight nose, full dark purple lips in with a closed mouth smile. She has very pale red rouge on her cheeks.
Her three piece gown is made of bright blue-green satin and light blue organza. Her bodice is cropped short to reveal her midsection (including her belly button), and consists of light blue organza embedded with golden gems, draped over her upper arms, and gemmed blue-green satin lower and back sections. Her blue-green satin skirt is floor length and is figure hugging, flairing out at the bottom. It is hemmed and there is a light blue polyester lining. There is a very wide overskirt of the double layered light blue satin. I is open in front, but can be wrapped around to completely cover her inner skirt, or can be folded to reveal her inner skirt.
She is wearing light blue-green high heeled shoes, which match the color of her skirt.
Her accessories include earrings, a chain belt with pendant and Aladdin's lamp. The earrings are large golden triangles with gold colored gems. Her belt is made of fine gold chain, with a large round jeweled pendant just below her waist that gathers the strands of the chain together, the remainder of which fall almost to the floor. In her right hand is a golden lamp that is bejeweled with yellow gems. The top of the lamp is removable (it is held in place with rubber bands, which I left in place).
There were no real surprises revealed by deboxing her, although it was nice to see the full extent of her overskirt. I was also glad to take her out of her awkward head pose, which was a common problem among the Designer Princesses. One thing I didn't like was that her top was a little too short, and revealed her waist joint (that enables her to spin her upper body around 360 degrees). Tugging on her top didn't move it enough to hide the joint in the front. As a consequence, her waist joint moved very freely, and her upper body tended to turn whenever she was handled, aided by her long hair. Also her long luxurious hair is very heavy, so tends to pull her backwards slightly when she is posed on the display stand. Designer Rapunzel has a similar problem. Her very wide floor length overskirt and floor length hair make it difficult to rebox her neatly, which is a common problem with the Designer dolls with very wide floor length skirts.
INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE FOR VARIETY OF BODYSTYLES OF THIS MODEL
The Peugeot 304 is a small family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1969 to 1980.
The 304 was introduced to the public at the Paris Motor Show in September 1969. Production of the saloon/sedan on the Sochaux assembly lines was discontinued during the summer of 1979, while the "Break" (estate) was produced until the spring of 1980. Coupé and cabriolet versions replaced their 204 forerunners in March 1970.
Peugeot, which had always been a financially prudent company, saw a gap in the midsize car market in France, Italy and the rest of Western Europe. By using the smaller 204's midsection, development costs were minimized resulting in a higher profit margin because of the higher pricing structure in the larger, better equipped market. The 304's main competitors on its home market came from Renault and Simca, with Citroen noticeably absent from this sector at the launch.
The car was moderately advanced for its time, having fully independent suspension, and a four-speed gearbox located directly below the engine, sharing the same oil as the engine.
The 304 was designed to slot between the popular 204 and the recently introduced Peugeot 504. Since the 204 had an exceptionally spacious passenger cabin for its class, the 304 body used the central portion of the 204: engine and running gear components were mostly interchangeable between the two cars. However, the 304 had a restyled front grill and headlights, designed consciously to emulate the 504.