Today's post is an 'homage' to a feature in issue 11 of Rouleur magazine that had as it's cover stars these little plastic fellas. I finally tracked some down at a stall at the start line in Barcelona (God, that trip was a rich seam that I continue to mine!). Unlike the painstaking attention to detail and set design that features in the magazine, I prefer to show my low-fi version which sees our little riders gallantly racing down the wooden floored Champs Elysee that is better known as my mantelpiece. After watching my dad as an adoring son in his ill fated attempts at creating model armies which involved blu-tacking them to dowling wood and then proceeding to splodge paint all over them, I thought I would leave them on their unpainted steeds for this photocall. There jerseys are merely stuck on bits of nylon and disappointingly outdated with the exception of Franciase des Jeux. To see how it's really done click on the link below -
Janol Apin - photographer and master model positioner
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