Greetings from Australia my collection

[Aussieandy]

Hi I am a new ember and love my husky and matchbox here is a shot of my collection so far , I collect wheel and colour variations but not the casting variations when they can be very minor hope to hear from you , as I am the only known serious husky collector in oz

[SMS88]

Very impressive and all look mint! Havent seen the light tan VW with brown luggage or Jeep with yellow windshield before......
You have a few that I dont have yet and i can see that we both have almost all the colour variations that they made. Are you stopping with Husky base models or do you also collect the Juniors models with paper stickers added to blank Husky baseplates or the early Whizzwheels versions of Husky castings as well? This brand made a transition just like Matchbox to Superfast that resulted in some very short runs of some colour combos....... 1970-71 was a great time to be buying these........

[Ewan]

Lovely collection and thanks for showing Particularly like your ERF mixer with the insert wheels - I've never seen one and didn't even know they existed until buying the Bill Manzke book a couple of weeks back.

[Aussieandy]

Hi thanks for the feedback glad to meet some other collectors , that's a yes to collecting the husky / corgi juniors pre wiz wheels , I collect the juniors castings with the labels and the would be huskys the porsche , no 41 I have both regular wheel models. Clear and blue glss , the silver mercedes , and the Jensen no 46 , I have the full range of all the juniors / husky change over models and 1 of every husky model except no 43 the elusive tractor I have the paper label and cast version of corgi juniors but not the husky version , did it have a husky marked casting ? I have the no 42 dumper in its packet not shown it seems to have no husky markings on it , and the juniors version I have is a paper label , as regards matchbox I have a full 4 sets so the full 2 sets preceding superfast and the first two sets of superfast in their shop rotating cases . Ivor the superfast only at this stage , I collect all the matchbox accessories and still do not have the first 50 matchbox models , vw hillman , mg etc , I have been a serious collector since age 7 when I was given my first collectors case , and it forms the basis of my collection , my husky collection as a child was few but I still have my land rover that I took to school with me on my first day , bit of camo paint along the way to match the airfix ho oo scale british infantry , but it was the 70's . I have a lot of items to share with , and it's nice to share it with others . Best wishes andy

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Hello Andy a big warm welcome to the forum. It sounds like you have a lot of models to keep us interested, with hopefully a lot of pictures of them and just to help you with your pictures, please click on this link and browse the picture editing hints and tips. Any problems give us a shout and we will help you the best we can.

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