Heads-up, it's the BMSS (
British Model Soldier Society) show tomorrow, in Reading, Berkshire, And, it's a full moon tonight, so lock up any
lycanthropes' in the family, lest you fall out with the neighbours, big-time! I happened to need to go to Reading last weekend, and managed a quick trip to a couple of old collectables shops I know . . .
. . . of which the first, to be fair, is mostly comics and the usual
Star Wars action figure type stuff, while the latter is a more eclectic shop. They are both next door to each other in one of the few remaining Victorian covered arcades. We used to have one in Aldershot, but it was ruined, blocked-off at one end, and replaced with a rebuilt fake, a couple of decades ago.
However, I did manage to find one of 1993's
Captain Scarlet SPV soaps from
NAPA Products, which had seen better days, but was, nevertheless a bit of fun, and which, being modern, in my eyes at least, will probably end up being used in the bath!
The dust of ages, or, at least, 33 years!
The vehicle - marginally smaller than the
Corgi model - was more battered than the box, but you get the idea, and there's not a lot I can add to the photographs, it's a soap, with no rope! But I thought the colour was well-chosen?
After a bit of a wipe with a damp cloth!
If you do happen to go tomorrow, both shops will be open, and are minutes, or hundreds of yards from both the station and the show venue.
