At last if have found some
batteries for my camera and here is what I have found while I have been on
holidays this year.
I have never been a “boot
sale” sort of guy but when I ventured into one on my holiday, not far from
where we were staying, I was really surprised in what I found. There was a chap that was selling his sons
old 20 mm plastic figures from various companies and periods. At the bottom of
this large box that he had, there was these two boxes that I could use. You can
never have enough wagons and although I do already have these Italeri
French Army Support Convoy
waiting in the production line to paint, there was always room for another box.
The man said that all the bits were there and when I opened the box, the wagon
and pieces were still on the spur in a badly crushed box. The other box was the
Revell
British Foot Artillery which could
join my other two boxes that I have. Great so far! And for how much? One
pound fifty pence per box. Great I’ll take these two please!
Taking the man’s word, I put the two boxes in my bag and walked off back to
where we were staying. It was then that I found that the Revell’s box contained
not artillery but a box of their Seven Year war French Hussars. Dam!
Still my next purchase was
when we went to Miniature Worlds in
Wroxham in Norfolk. This is fairly new and it is all about train layouts. Now I
like looking at these as you can get some good ideas about how to blend in
buildings and stone walls into your table layouts etc. At their shop I brought
two packs of trees which contained seven in all and for a pound each in their “For Sale” box.
Next was top pop into The Works, which is a great book shop
for me and very cheap, so when I saw this book “Voices from the Napoleonic
Wars” by Jon E. Lewis for just £3, I had
to have.
Next time that you are
doing a bit of DIY your house take a
look in B&Q as when I did I found
that they were selling tester pots for just 50 pence each. So with a river section
that I brought from SELWG years ago, I thought it was about time I did
something with it. The colour I picked up for this job was, marine, blue capri,
choco, sunflower, black and sand stone.
Last but not least a trip
to Scotland, for my 60th Birthday in October, took us to Edinburgh
where I found a Model Shop called “Wonderland Models” and when looking at all
the mountains of plastic figures, I can across a box of Italeri British Light Cavalry for just £4.99
pence. A great bargain as my first box of these cost me £5.99 pence years ago.
So in all a good year for me and I hope to do more Boot sales next year! Well
you never know what will turn up next.
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