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Hi Bob - yes I've got a bit of Major Matt Mason stuff too. That's for another day in the "What else do you collect" topic!!

Congratulations on getting a such a great model and many thanks for posting the pic.

Nice to know that model is now safe within our "community"!

Here's a couple of shots of my Matchboxes being taken out of storage a little while back. They are still in their storage boxes awaiting display in the Mancave. Of course, the setting up of the display is an ongoing process so have to wait for some rainy days to get that fully completed. :D And if y...

Did anyone join yesterday's Vectis Matchbox auction? I sat through most of it but bailed out before the end when it moved into Superfasts (which aren't really my thing - I'm a regular wheels bloke). Still, it was a long auction which meant it finished early morning for me (Australian time...). I was...

This was the first Vectis auction I'd participated in. I made live bids on about 20 lots and won 4, including one pretty good buy and a couple of other reasonable items. I was impressed with the process - seemed to go very smoothly. I was staggered by the cream Mercury Cougar - £7,000 plus commissio...

I try to do that - sometimes the sellers are reasonable and are happy to accommodate; other times they are completely anti-social and not interested in helping... I the case of the latter I give them a miss or, if it's model I'm desparate to get, I'll suck it up, pay the ridiculous postage and not l...

Afraid I won't be bidding on storestockpsycho's auctions anyway as unfortunately he/she has psycho postage prices from ebay's nasty mailing system. $55 postage cost for a single model? No thanks - don't these people want bids from overseas???

Hi Tony and welcome aboard - this forum is great for those few of us on the bottom of the world to link up with our brothers and sisters on the other side and top of it. Because we're spread a bit thin in Oz it's not always easy to hook up with fellow collectors so this forum brings us all together.

I visited Gateway Models in Brisbane about 10 years ago on a trip to Queensland. It was in the eastern suburbs, near the coast. I recall that it stocked mainly new diecasts and didn't have many vintage items. Nevertheless it was a fascinating place - set up in what seemed like an old shed, with stoc...

I recently saw a "Toy Hunter" episode where he came across a collectors case of old Redline Hot Wheels (no Matchboxes unfortunately). The Toy Hunter bloke wasn't up to speed on their values and got another specialist in, who correctly identified the rarity in the batch and provided a reali...