Re-live You Mis-spent Youth With Hornby And Triang

[Mark S]

I'm still playing with my Timpo, this is about half the collection~

 

[moz]

Pete this was the only current photo of you i had so apologies for not getting it quite right

 

[diamond cutter]

Mark-that must be worth a fortune!

 

[diamond cutter]

It's close Moz- well done. Possibly one of the best likenesses I have seen

 

[Rich Sculpts]

I'm still playing with my Timpo, this is about half the collection~

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I am truly humbled and very jealous

Why so many Arabs?

 

[Mark S]

Mark-that must be worth a fortune!

Yeah, there's a few valuable, rare ones amongst them, but they're only worth something to those who can remember them and know what the hell they are.
They're not something that will increase in value unfortunately because as old farts like me, who collect in a vain attempt to recapture youth, fall off the twig, they'll be wothless I reckon.

 

[Mark S]

I am truly humbled and very jealous

Why so many Arabs?

Rich, all those Arabs represent one of each colour and pose Timpo produced as well as a few rare colour variants. There are no two the same in that collection.

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Yeah, there's a few valuable, rare ones amongst them, but they're only worth something to those who can remember them and know what the hell they are.
They're not something that will increase in value unfortunately because as old farts like me, who collect in a vain attempt to recapture youth, fall off the twig, they'll be wothless I reckon.

That goes for just about everything we collect as well as all the wifey's antiques.

Colin

 

[Rich Sculpts]

Pete this was the only current photo of you i had so apologies for not getting it quite rightView attachment 115607

 

[diamond cutter]

Sorry Mike-it seems to have moved a long way from Hornby mate!

 

[DEL]

I seem to remember.......Newcastle Brown Ale......Snooker........Girls..........that's about it

 

[Mark S]

I seem to remember.......Newcastle Brown Ale......Snooker........Girls..........that's about it

Yeah me too Del, and then I left school and took it up full time.

 

[Martin64]

I'm still playing with my Timpo, this is about half the collection~

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Oh yes, good times back then - it was first Timpo and then Airfix for me as well. I did not salvage many things from the childhood days and their value is mostly in the eye of the beholder but I kept my first "conversion": - I was always discontent that the Airfix WWI-Germans did not have an adequate officer to lead them in a charge (as was the case with all the other sets of that range). So I chopped some figures including an officer of the French Foreign Legion apart.(you can see the blue plastic underneath the paint on his arm due to "battle damage" )

Cheers, Martin