German Plastic Show Part Four Detlef Heerbrand we are back with Timpo and other items.
German Plastic Show Part Four Detlef Heerbrand Photos
A nice array of Timpo items including the large British raft.
This stand has various model kits.
A Starlux castle I believe one of the larger versions
An overview of the show looking from Peter Bergner’s tables.
Looking at the show from a different direction.
Looking down one of the aisles
One collector is checking his list so he can complete his wants.
This table has Britains and Conte collectibles figures. Notice the prices are in pounds. I was told some English collectors were there.
At the top of the shelves is a Britains Stagecoach display. Price of this set is two hundred pounds. Also Crescent boxes and Airfix complete the table.
While the table has Timpo and Britains I would have gone after Dom Tarzan and Marx Disneykin Babes in Toyland.
A box Timpo Wild West Indian Indian Party surrounded by Crescent, Lone Star and Timpo figures.
Hagen Miniatures, they sell various 1/72 scale metal figures
King and Country was at the show
Looking again at Georg Maiwald buildings I have not heard how he did.
More work of Axel, this time sitting Apaches around a campfire
Our final photo from Detlef is more work of Axel this time Cowboys standing firing.
We have some photos coming up from Andreas Dittmann and some updates and corrections.
Good photos.
Axel’s Apaches sitting around their campfires makes for a unique mini-diorama. I’d like to have every one of them, but I thought the groupings where the Apaches are cradeling their rifles are the most realistic.
Georg Maiwald’s building’s are always impressive.
Seeing the Starlux castle reminds me of how many years back, when James Delson first introduced all the Starlux line, he offered a small Starlux castle, a medium Starlux castle, and a large Starlux castle — take your choice. I should have ordered all three, but limited myself to trying just one — the small one, which I found to be a good, sturdy, well-designed creation. Back then, we assumed all this stuff would be around forever. Then we found out it wasn’t, and that we should have acted more quickly to get it when it was offered, sort of like boxed sets of 60mm Atlantics and Barzso playsets.
Finally, I liked the “collector checking his list to complete his wants”. If he’s like me, he will find out that day never arrives, but the process itself can be fun.
We have a collector on the East coast who now has a large three ring note book looking for his wants. Me I just go with the figures I like that are before me. Yes Georg’s stuff is impressive. I know who knew so many things would be gone. Plus I don’t have the room.
That’s pretty much the way I am when it comes to taking a list to a show: when I see something I’m looking for, or want, I immediately recognize it without having to refer to a list.
However, when I’m sitting at home impatiently waiting for a show date to arrive, I often find it entertaining to make a list of things I could use, and which I hope to find at the show.
But by the time I get to the show, everything I actually need and/or want is well stuck in my brain.
Of course, what frequently happens when I start looking at what dealers have on their show tables is that I see things I want that I had no idea I needed it until I see it — ha ha ha!
Thanks for the photos !