As you all know, I am a huge Phantom and James Bond fan. When Casino Royale came out, I also became a poker fan and started playing games with mates - tourneys to start (with, gulp, dice chips).
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Soon this gave way to the Casino Royales with 500K plaques. A custom oval table in green velveteen with single piece vinyl padded rail. The upholsterer could have killed me . Really nice work.
Then I came across Chiptalk and suddenly, the Casino Royales were nice, but not clay. So I got into some Progen 80s (also not clay , but they had great colours and looked like the Paulson Casino de Isthmus. I stumbled across Hog Wild during a difficult time in his life and the vinyl labels reflected this. They were a little oblong, but the 'Skull Cave' was born.
Later, these became Casino de Bangalla (the hybrid of Casino de Isthmus and the Phantom's home country, also spelt Bengalla).
PGI chips followed, and Phantom's was created (inspired by the Pharaohs), with an add-on of a secondary (25) when the 8V became available. Another add-on saw the 614 'spirit' mold added.
Then shaped Phantom labels were applied (painstakingly) and the set evolved into the last CC set I decided I would buy.
I was in the process of designing the Blades labels and was about to apply the 1000+ labels to the PGIs when I stopped, and realised, that as good as the PGIs had been (stacked beautifully, no height issues or diameter issues at all), I just couldn't face unlabelling, cleaning and re-labelling them one more time.
I love the Phantom and all he stands for, but for me, the CPC set had to be classy. Having read Moonraker for the seventh time, the idea came to me that a Blades set would be my CPC set. The Blades CPC set was born. The rest you know .
Now, I thought that would be sufficient. That now I had my CPC set and plaques, that I would just leave it at that. Well, let me just say ...
James Bond will return in .......
[IMAGE WOULD NOT LOAD DUE TO BEING UTTER CRAP]
Soon this gave way to the Casino Royales with 500K plaques. A custom oval table in green velveteen with single piece vinyl padded rail. The upholsterer could have killed me . Really nice work.
Then I came across Chiptalk and suddenly, the Casino Royales were nice, but not clay. So I got into some Progen 80s (also not clay , but they had great colours and looked like the Paulson Casino de Isthmus. I stumbled across Hog Wild during a difficult time in his life and the vinyl labels reflected this. They were a little oblong, but the 'Skull Cave' was born.
Later, these became Casino de Bangalla (the hybrid of Casino de Isthmus and the Phantom's home country, also spelt Bengalla).
PGI chips followed, and Phantom's was created (inspired by the Pharaohs), with an add-on of a secondary (25) when the 8V became available. Another add-on saw the 614 'spirit' mold added.
Then shaped Phantom labels were applied (painstakingly) and the set evolved into the last CC set I decided I would buy.
I was in the process of designing the Blades labels and was about to apply the 1000+ labels to the PGIs when I stopped, and realised, that as good as the PGIs had been (stacked beautifully, no height issues or diameter issues at all), I just couldn't face unlabelling, cleaning and re-labelling them one more time.
I love the Phantom and all he stands for, but for me, the CPC set had to be classy. Having read Moonraker for the seventh time, the idea came to me that a Blades set would be my CPC set. The Blades CPC set was born. The rest you know .
Now, I thought that would be sufficient. That now I had my CPC set and plaques, that I would just leave it at that. Well, let me just say ...
James Bond will return in .......