I have my Lesney Superfast in these four wall displays. I need more walls for my newer stuff.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/matchboxtom/displays/sfDisplay1.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a159/matchboxtom/displays/sfDisplay2.jpg

Tom

Tom, I bet Keith would come over and tiddy that rawesome room up!!!

Amazing. I have like .00000002% of your Superfast collection lol. (Only 2 SF's)

holy mother of god.....:eek:

Fantastic!

I would just like to walk through there and look at those fine antiques. My collection is about a quarter of that but my entire collection looks similar. Nice room man. Every collector should have a toy room like that. A toy "museum" as it were...

About that black box FAO Schwarz set with the red, white and blue models.
Are they exclusive to that set?

About that black box FAO Schwarz set with the red, white and blue models.
Are they exclusive to that set?

I think the FAO sets sold the ROW or UK exclusive models in the US.

Tom

simply fantastic, thanks for the pictures.:thumbsup: nice to see them behind glass and dust free. plus the ability to take close up pictures without much of a problem.

drummingbulldog is right everybody should have a display room:)

those square rotating display are a pain, wish they stayed with cylinder displays.

What an awesome toyroom, thanks for giving us a peek :thumbsup:
I always love to see stocked rotating displays, I prefer the round ones as well but I like the squared ones too! I am happy to see them online, images are a fair substitute as I have little chance of ever owning one myself much as I would like a round one.....

Yor wall is Simply incredible, Thanks for sharing & inspiring!!!! The only situation is when you find that one variation you been looking for and NOW you have to work it in the collection somewhere somehow with the other ones....and without making a day of it...LOL been there. I ran out of walls long ago...

http://www.quicksilverdiecast.com/catalog/020209b3od%20003.jpghttp://www.quicksilverdiecast.com/catalog/020209b3od%20004.jpg

Slightly obsessed with the Cooper Jarretts...

http://www.quicksilverdiecast.com/catalog/020209b3od%20001.jpg

Yor wall is Simply incredible, Thanks for sharing & inspiring!!!! The only situation is when you find that one variation you been looking for and NOW you have to work it in the collection somewhere somehow with the other ones....and without making a day of it...LOL been there. I ran out of walls long ago...

http://www.quicksilverdiecast.com/catalog/020209b3od%20003.jpghttp://www.quicksilverdiecast.com/catalog/020209b3od%20004.jpg

Slightly obsessed with the Cooper Jarretts...

http://www.quicksilverdiecast.com/catalog/020209b3od%20001.jpg

You sure have nailed all the major varis for the castings I can see, and my favourite era too, the SF transitionals:wave: -please show us your no 8 Mustangs & Wildcat varis
Lesney could have used a lot more imagination decorating the Cooper Jarrets over their long production run.I only have 3 sets in my collection,gray trailers,silver trailers with yellow decals and silver with orange, and that will probably be enough for me....

a little obsessed with the cooper jarretts, i like that.:):thumbsup:

a little obsessed with the cooper jarretts, i like that.:):thumbsup:


There are a few undocumented, at least I think, variations in there which I will post eventually...LOL

quicksilverdc, please do post pictures.:)
i have always maintained that some of most extensive collections belonged to collectors that didn’t write much in the bulletins and sometimes never belonged to clubs. i would almost guarantee that there are people out there that haven’t posted a single thing on the internet that know more than all of us put together.

a great deal was discussed pre-internet.:)

quicksilverdc, please do post pictures.:)
i have always maintained that some of most extensive collections belonged to collectors that didn’t write much in the bulletins and sometimes never belonged to clubs. i would almost guarantee that there are people out there that haven’t posted a single thing on the internet that know more than all of us put together.

a great deal was discussed pre-internet.:)

There certainly are some in the UK, particularly Corgi collectors, and they are known to one of my online collector dealer friends who himself owns many factory colour trials. Then there are also some very knowledgable collectors who are only on small UK based chat sites.....
The way broadband internet connections have spread about our cities in the past 5 years has made chat sites like Hobby Talk easily accessable to retired people and certainly with regard to vintage toys, a higher and higher proportion of folks talking about them are retired with collections that began 30 to 50 years back although many tend to lurk more than post,preferring to use the pm facilities to talk with specific collectors rather than pontificate to forums.Its also how they find good homes for their collections as they slim down,and an interesting alternative to ebay.Almost all the vintage toys I buy are face to face & come from retired people supplementing their pensions and downsizing their possessions

There certainly are some in the UK, particularly Corgi collectors, and they are known to one of my online collector dealer friends who himself owns many factory colour trials. Then there are also some very knowledgable collectors who are only on small UK based chat sites.....
The way broadband internet connections have spread about our cities in the past 5 years has made chat sites like Hobby Talk easily accessable to retired people and certainly with regard to vintage toys, a higher and higher proportion of folks talking about them are retired with collections that began 30 to 50 years back although many tend to lurk more than post,preferring to use the pm facilities to talk with specific collectors rather than pontificate to forums.Its also how they find good homes for their collections as they slim down,and an interesting alternative to ebay.Almost all the vintage toys I buy are face to face & come from retired people supplementing their pensions and downsizing their possessions

I tend to agree and have educated myself greatly from information on the internet from those who are kind enough to share. It used to be a ritual trip to the big local shows in the area like Toledo Ohio, where I met many great people like Randy Pratl, Gary Coffee, Ron Slyder, Rock Cramer, John Menos and more who are all great collectors and took the time sharing their knowledge and experience. It was basically the only means, other than joining Charlie Mack's club, another super person, as well as a couple others...but while the newsletters were great...hunger for more info and diecast made waiting for the next month's newsletter a LONG time...There was also a darkside within some OTHER BRAND areas of diecast collecting BEFORE the internet opened up welcomed information, that was once shared only by a few select people and tight circles, leaving many on the outside looking in. I have purchased many pieces both thru the internet and ebay both US UK & Australia as well as selling to them since 1992 and have had a 98% POSITIVE experiences....its always hard to bat 1000 in any aspect of anything, especially in diecast when attempting grading! I also have always tended to collect whats in the blister, as if one tried hard enough one can always find a flaw on cardboard even fresh out of the case...Many of the older collectors, my age and older, usually have not warmed up to computors or the internet and remain unknown in the collectors world. Also many of them when they began collecting many years ago usually got some strange looks when they went up to the checkout counters with a buggy full of "toy cars" and usually heard "boy some little boy is gonna be really happy when you get home!" and you would just smile and chuckle thinking Yep! Even many relatives thought you lost your mind too, buying toy cars back in the day...mine did LOL. Hows that song go....it been a long strange trip......

I stopped collecting when I was 16 and then started again slowly from 1997, and then really picked up the pace from 2003 when I started adding new HW to childhood era stuff.
What blows my mind today is the recent awareness that from 1977- 1987 I went to London Bus events in London where there were a handful of diecast collectors selling, and had I thought to ask them about diecast events I could have been part of those great times in London where tables were piled high with 1960s and early ´70s unsold shop stock at prices then which were comparable to equivalent new production, that is $1-$3 for mint boxed regular wheels and transitionals,$5-$30 for mint boxed Dinkys & Corgis,and Lesney factory workers still working for Lesney and making lunchbox specials for the local collectors and dealers.I went for a look at the outside of the Lesney factory in 1979 hoping to find a factory outlet shop.....if only I had stumbled across a copy of Collectors Gazette I know I would have been to some swapmeets in the late 70s early 80s.......
I spent the 1980s restoring 1:1 retired London Transport buses and didnt have my own house to fill or a wife to stay home with like I do now which explains my current collecting habits.It just isnt practical or even affordable to have a 36ft long bus in my garden so I save myself the hour long drives to the bus yard & make do with diecast instead but oh all that I was so close to and missed:dude:
I have some sealed in the blister transitionals that have factory supplied chips so I prefer case fresh or factory fresh to mint which implies a state of perfection not found on perhaps 50% of Lesney boxes or toys at the factory gate

Yor wall is Simply incredible, Thanks for sharing & inspiring!!!! The only situation is when you find that one variation you been looking for and NOW you have to work it in the collection somewhere somehow with the other ones....and without making a day of it...LOL been there. I ran out of walls long ago...


That is what I just did. I had about 40 models to put in the collection. I cleaned 4 shelves of toy show and code 2 models and readjusted the superfasts with the new space. I also wiped all the glass shelves of dust. It was a fun three hours. Now I have about 15 more models coming. Oh well. I hope I left enough space in the shelves to slide a few models in...