Auction
Speaking of Vectis (as I was earlier today in the PW149 post) and of the hand-painted Marx Miniature Masterpice items kicking around the hobby a few years ago seems to have been quite timely, as the regular 'Please buy our Olympic shite' eMail from Airfix-call-me-Hornby arrived today with news of a Vectis auction, which is to include some early Airfix archive material.
To be honest, I could only find one item of any interest, a James Bond Autogyro, and they're not that rare. there is some nice original artwork for sale, but with a ready-made 25lbr being described as 'very rare' (loose, mind!) the cataloguing needs to be taken with a pinch of salt!
Auction Listings Here
of more interest is that in the section on 'Plastic Issues - Connoisseur Selection' there are two of the hand-painted Marx sets up for offer...far more interesting than bog-standard kits!!
Shows
Herne
Peter of PB Toys has dropped me a line and reminded me that his Autumn [Kunststoffiguren Börse] plastic soldier show in Herne, Germany is fast approching, full details will be on his site...
Details Here
...but the address for your diary's is 04/11/2012, or two weeks this Sunday.
Birmingham
Which means that a week this Sunday will be Dave McKenna's show in Birmingham, details will be the same as previous years, but the basics are;
When - Sunday 28th October 2012.
Where - Clarendon Suite, 2 Stirling Road, Edgbaston.
About Me
- Hugh Walter
- No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
- I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.
4 comments:
Herne,,,my Mecca!! There´s a lot of model shows in germany around this time of year but Herne is an absolute must...
Cheers
paul
I know - I've already apologised to Peter for probably going to miss it!
H
Interesting!
Hi Remaras
I think the artwork is probably the more interesting, most of the kits are pretty bog-standard, very few early bagged ones - for instance.
I've seen some of these artworks before (there were a shed-load of them in Vectis 3 or 4 years ago), and while the figure-box art was very fine, a lot of the ships and Aircraft have very sketchy backgrounds, as they were produced as 'commercial' art, not fine-art and one of the parameters is how the art will print, usually much smaller than the painting...but the vessels and aircraft themselves are superb!
H
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