Found a holy grail at the Nats

I enjoy AJ Press books but only the English translations. It's just really heartbreaking knowing there's all that knowledge and I can't read it. So around

1999 they came out with their books on the Ju-188/Ju-388 volume 1 & 2. Well, I bought volume 1 without any problem but couldn't lay my hands on volume two. Searched all over the internet, couldn't find it at any shows. Talked to the importer; he indicated they were all gone.

So I'm stumbling around the Nats and what bites me in the face? Yeah, volume 2 at MAL books (they'd run out of them four years ago.) I had to look three times to make sure it was the English version and volume 2. I snatched it right up! I wonder if they had a second print run?

Ever find your grail, holy or otherwise? Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

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Keeper
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well it wasn't a model but rather the guide book Disneyland put out when the park first opened. A dealer a at a show had it for $25. It usually sells for around $400.

Craig

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Craig

Kinda-sorta.....

One day, while walking back to my car after leaving the mall... I saw something shiny in the grass median while walking across the parking lot. My first thought was that it was a token from the mall's arcade....

It was a KRUGERAND!!! (Yeah!...found in Austin, TX; believe it or not...lol)

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Greg Heilers

Aurora Seaview -- but it took me about 30 years. (Thanks, Polar Lights!)

My new grail is a Dinkey Toys Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle. (Preferably in decent shape -- i.e. nothing missing and no major damage...)

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Edwin Ross Quantrall

Sorta kinda.

The Strombecker Disneyland TWA Rocket To the Moon.

I got the Glencoe through a kind soul here recently and now I have a lead on a good set of decals that I can photocopy.

At least I'll have a finished model on the shelf.

The Revell Disney Peter Pan Pirate Ship is high on the list. Not too expensive, but I don't do e-bay and havn't found one yet.

Disney made my year earlier this year with the beautiful Nautilus model from

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I just found a source for the movie poster and it shall hang on the wall above the model.

Tom

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Maiesm72

Keeper> Ever find your grail, holy or otherwise? Cheers,

I a manner of speaking: my girlfriend at the Shizuoka Hobby Show this year. Good thing I got to her first, since she's working at the Tokyo Car Show in November...! If modelling was only good for creating the chance to meet her, that would be enough.

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Gernot Hassenpflug

An AMT Star Trek Enterprise NCC-1701 B, C, and E combo kit at an antiques mall. Still sealed and for only $16.50! This kit is long out of production and I don't think that a whole lot of them were produced in the first place.

I still feel lucky!

Martin

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Martin

Old modeling axiom, up there with Murphy's Law..."Where it can't be found, call Junior at MAL, then go to his shop and fnd it for him...."

Rick

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OXMORON1

Oh yeah....

At one of our local "Half-Price Books", here in the Austin area; I found the Tamiya "walk-around" DVD's on the Sherman, and the one on the T-34, still shrink wrapped in the box.....for $6.00 each!!

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Greg Heilers

Looked for the Aurora Cheyenne for years.

Bought a collection and found all the sprue trees with parts still attached, decals and instruction sheet scattered throughout half a dozen boxes.

Someone here came up with the box.

Kind of a kit of a kit.

Tom

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Maiesm72

Hmmm. Austin mall. Krugerand. Yeah; makes sense. Lots easier to carry fewer Krugerands than all that heavy 'Merican cash when you're buying Mass Quantities of Drugs. I'd wash it thoroughly, if I were you. Gets rid of both incriminating fingerprints as well as any residual pharmaceuticals.

-- C.R. Krieger (Been there; didn't buy that)

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C.R. Krieger

LOL! Yeah, I always enjoy their stand at the Nats. Problem was they didn't have it in years past which leads me to believe there may have been a second printing. Or they had one stashed and couldn't find it! Modeling by Murphy's law!

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

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Keeper

I found the Revell Nuclear Reactor kit at a Salvation Army yard sale for 39 cents, along with five Three-in-one car kits from the 60's, also for 39 cents each. I asked the lady if they had any more kits, she said "Yeah, lots of them. They've been selling well all day". I got there at 1730 hours. Jerry 47

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jerry 47

Actually...I no longer have it. Shortly thereafter, the price of gold rose a bit, so I cashed it in a pawn shop, for its weight in gold. I am not sure as to which part is more remarkable: finding it in the first place...or finding a pawn shop that would give me its *true* *value* for it!...lol

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Greg Heilers

My nats find was at my first and only (so far) visit on our way home from the honeymoon. I found Fliege, Raccoon, Neuspotter and Krakenvogel kits for a not too ridiculous price. Remember this was back before Nitto/Wave/ModelKatsten and all the resin garage apes had gone to town and brought the SF3D series back from the grave. And my wife spent more than I did on Doyusha Japanese castle models.

My only regret since was not grabbing the Rube Goldberg machine kits I saw there.

Mike please remove "diespam" to reply

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, perhaps you've misunderstood the situation.

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MLDHOC

Took my wife to Jackson, up in the other Lode area, where I spent my summers as a kid.

Lots of antique stores. In one Lynne found a stack of models for excellent prices. Best one was a Gunze Sangyo 1/72 Fokker D.VII for $5. Bizare kit made from very thin aluminum.

Anybody out there have any of these that they would care to part with?

Tom

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Maiesm72

As a matter of fact I received one of mine just before the Nationals. One of the Gents who hangs out on this group had bought a collection and there was an Aero-Club 1/48 scale Avro Vulcan in there. It had been started but doesn't appear to be messed up. Now if I could just find that 1/72 scale Consolidated Coronado by rareplanes...

Bill Shuey

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William H. Shuey

i hate you! (g)

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donjaime

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