Personality Collection Ten was released in 2017 and was the first collection released by myself as the new owner of Magpie. The colours were fairly simple as I was still coming to grips with the airbrush and enamel paint.
With this first collection, I stuck to the instructions provided in the big Magpie binders written by Emma Kelley, the first owner of Magpie. The models were painted with Humbrol enamels and sprayed in two halves. They were then detailed, haired and finally, assembled - a hair-raising process as any excess glue would take the paint right off.
Half of the models were haired with nylon wigging (hair sewn into strips and pre-cut to length) and half with viscose, which was much easier to work with and became the standard for later releases.
The models in the P10 collection all had names relating to Angus county.
Ghost of Glamis is named for the spooks of Glamis castle, which is just down the road from Mapie headquarters and features more than a few ghostly inmates.
Lunan Bey, acutally Lunan Bay - I changed the spelling as a play on the word commonly found in Arabian horse names - is a beautiful spot down on the coast, between Montrose and Arbroath. It features a gorgeous sand beach with cliffs, a small river, lots of tumbled beach stones, and even a crumbling castle tower.
Kirriemuir Skirlie and Neep are named after some of my favourite Scottish side dishes. Skirlie is a kind of savory toasted oatmeal, like grainy stuffing, and neeps are turnips - I like mine mashed or roasted, though there's a Chinese restaurant in Dundee which has these amazing turnip mouse cubes on their Dim Sum menu. (Can you tell I'm hungry?) And of course, the prefix Kirriemuir comes from the name of the town in which we live.
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