November 2023 Sandown Show Other Things, my friend Michael Smith sent me some photos from the Sandown show in the UK which was this month. Next, some new items from Russia to make you aware of. Finally, I have a health update.
November 2023 Sandown Show A Report
My friend Michael Smith went to Sandown this weekend and found that the show had more plastic figures than last time. This dealer as you can see had Timpo-covered wagons amongst other items. Michael was able to find various bits including mounted Lone Star Lone Ranger and Tonto no horses plus a Kinder knight from this stand.
This was John Begg’s stand. He had various Britains items including Britains English Civil War cavaliers
This rare Dan Dare space set showed up at the show. Dan Dare is similar to Buck Rogers. The dealer according to Michael wanted 7000 Pounds ($8400.00) and turned down 6000 pounds.
At the other end of the spectrum, this dealer had a section of everything for a pound each and it was well looked over.
Another interesting item was this jungle set by Acedo of France. The set had a number of duplicate animals.
Micaheal met a party on the train back from the show who found some Miniplast at the show. Miniplast is from Germany and is quite hard to find. The party got his find from a metal dealer.
This person has been at several shows with old store stock mostly metal.
I will close this section with another look at the first stand I showed. I would like to thank Michael for letting me share these photos with you. He was very pleased with what he bought.
New Russian Figures
I am not sure if I showed this one before. It is from Publius Modern Russians winter uniform. I am sure a lot of the Russian troops wished they were as well equipped as these figures.
Another set from Publius is Cowboys on the Ranch. The set has eight different figures.
Now for the oddest set of the day from Tihon Figures Modern Pirates. Please note that these listings of figures are for information only as your country may have restrictions on buying from Russia.
November 2023 Sandown Show Health Update
I am back in Ab Fib. At the moment I am on hold until my INR is at 2.5 for four weeks before I can have the procedure to get me back in normal rhythm. So I have to watch myself and eat the right foods. One annoyance was when they tried the procedure at the beginning of November they told me I had a small blood clot. For most people that was concerning and it took me going through medical people to get a definition of small. Small is centimeters. So I will keep you posted.
Interesting On all the figures at show and else.Winder in the price on Acedo rare village set .
Publius figures were shown before .No first Russian made set resently made around advertising their non realistic army that lack plenty gear and very poor prepared as plenty time shown in their invasion war .
I am running into a problem of remembering what I have had up. It gets worse when people ask me on figures I posted in 2016.
The Tihon figures are base in the Soviet era from 1980s film called
Pirates of the 20th Century.
I saw it as a child .
Was for Soviet standarts their highest grossing domestically produced film in the Soviet Union.
The film was actually a far distant from classic Soviets filmography as no much political propagandist (with few exeption details such the western weapons on the pirates).
https://youtu.be/P6lpCDi_C-c?si=tH6W472uWoRrWYuf
Paul I think there are more stalls selling figures now at UK Toy Fairs because there are fewer Toy Soldier shows . The boxed Dan Dare set is very interesting. I have the full set but without the box. I wonder what the value of the set is without the box.
The date of the next Plastic Warrior show has been announced for next year. It is on SATURDAY the 18TH MAY 2024 again at The Harlequin Suite.
The set without the box could go for up to 50 to 70% of the boxed set. It will depend on the venue and demand.
I will be at the next show depending on health.
Hi Paul. I hope you are doing better soon. The shows look really interesting in the UK.
I have finally finished with my move and am now setting in. I am starting to set up the new workshop and unpack other things. Things will be different in this house with the 3d printing. I do not have an area that I can use primary for cleaning the resin miniatures. Things will slowly return to production levels in December. I have to retest all the machines. Hopefully I do not have any hiccups along the way.
Mike
Foreign shows are interesting many ways similar but ways different. What makes it fun is the friends I have gotten over the years.
praying for you Paul
Thanks I appreciated that.