So, to the stuff on the day, as the saying goes, and because we'll be looking at everything again in future posts, we can keep the blurb light, just a few lines to keep the bots happy and give them something to trawl!
Contributions/donations/freebies to/for the Blog include a box from Peter Evans (top left), a bag and two tubs from Trevor Rudkin (top centre), various bit from Adrian in the two trays (top right), a bag from Brian Carrick (bottom left), with a free bag of chess pieces from Colin Penn, an armoured car and some crusaders - also free - from Isaac, pirates and Space from Martin Fahie, and Paul helped me find all the
Deetail mounted (bottom centre) after I'd commented on my failed search for some!
Initial sort of Trevor's bag, lots of
Giant or
Giant-like stuff, which is literally grist to the mill, but useful grist, given the colours and variants available, across the oeuvre, with tubs of wagons (and a
Lucky Clover chariot), and a less common 'navy' coloured Hong Kong truck.
After further sorting.
One of my first purchases in the hall was a bag similar to that from
Trevor, and again, initial sorting produces similar stuff . . .
. . . with three new-to-collection aircraft, and an
Airfix dog, along with the non-
Giant Vikings and a cracker-toy gun-team.
Breakdown of Brian C's bag, and the two
Realtoy/Dacron figures (top right) were a nice surprise, as they are both poses I was missing, and it's funny, 'cos Brian always hands his bag to me with a
"It's just a load of junk", and there's always interesting stuff in there!
Adrain stuff! The space bag joins one from the box in the previous post, along with enough loose figures to make a separate post in the sequence. Top left is a large bag of smaller kit-figures I'll still be sorting/ID'ing in a decade!
I paid full whack for these, but they were kept for me, so credit will be in the breakdown posts, as part of the final paragraph credit list, but aren't they beautiful? Polish winged hussar and standard-bearer.
Peter's bag, given its first sort, lousy picture (I'm just not getting my head around this new camera properly), but . . .
. . . after a further sort by subject-matter, highlights include two
Airfix motorcycle riders (which I need; bikes outnumber riders about two-to-one!), and several of the
Soma Sci-fi figures/Pilots, but in the large size.
Boxed, bagged, and blister-carded purchaes from the room, highlights have to be the shop-dispenser card of pocket-money Wild West mini-packets, the
Thomas submarine and the plain-box, middle right, it is a shop-stock of
Rocco (
Royce) combat figures, which Brian left me have, so cheap, I made him take more, but he still might as well've thrown them at me! It's an interesting example of how things are worth different amounts to different people, and we'll have a proper look at the contents in a subsequent post.
A new name in Sobres (except it's an Italian 'Sopresa'!) and the boxed Tresco diver also stand out, and the rocket contributes to one of the themes this year. While there was six sets from Replicants to obtain at this show.
Loose room purchases, a stand-out is probably the bag of loose (47!)
Mokarex/Historiques demi-roundes, we've seen my various bagged ones and those painted by George Hanger, but this lot will help complete the loose, unpainted sample.
Starting to sort by theme, for the in-depth posts, and you can see Wild West on the left, Ancient/Medieval to the right-hand side, sci-fi and TV?movie stuff next to Vehicles at the rear and various bags (civilian, historical/ceremonial, animals, bits/accessories and combat), so maybe ten plunder-posts proper, to come? With a few bits still to sort in the foreground.
As I said in the previous post, I haven't started shooting the contents of these bags yet, but the thematic post is 'in the bag', haha! And there's a quick post on the obtained ephemera which will both come next.
