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Went to Sandown today and very busy it was too arrived at 8.45 and spent a good couple of hours looking around before I had the call from our Lord of the Manor Ghosty and was allowed an audience with him in the foyer, after a brief chat we went our separate ways to do some hunting.
Lots of desirable stuff of all makes, one vendor had a stunning selection of prepro and Brazilian s/f and regular models also some rarities including a blue #63c, #36c in turquoise, a cream cougar and another 7c the same as Nearlymints, drooling over had a second audience with the Lord Ghosty and was introduced to the RR and a fine beast she is too, I think Marmaduke must have been back at the manor house as he was nowhere to be seen but had provided refreshments for his master. Seriously though it was a pleasure to meet you Kevin and I hope to see you again
Finally I hope the photos do these rarities justice as I only had my phone and tried to take them through the plastic case

If they're all genuine, then that's an astounding display. (Actually, if only half of them are genuine, it's still an astounding display! ) Any idea who the dealer was?

Lots of interesting models there and i also would be very wary of them as all of them appear to be mint. I would be especially wary of any Brazilian models which were in mint condition. Just my opinion.

I would have loved to have got a close look at the blue SF #1 modrod, the red SF#22 Pontiac GP and the sickly green SF #68 Porsche amongst many others.

It would also have been interesting to know who the vendor was? Does anyone else on the Forum know?

no idea who he was , said it was his personal collection and was disposing of it to fund home improvements he named vectis and Graham (Rocketron) as some of his sources , these were the bulk of the 1/75 he had others included a large collection of airport coaches and freeway tankers
MM the red #22 was English with opening doors and silver detail to the front , did you notice the blue #33 just behind and to the right of the mod rod looked the same shade as #25 and was beautiful.
I hope these were genuine as it was an eye opener

sorry just noticed there was 2 #1s the #33 is in the sixth picture down

Reg, the more i look the more i see, i missed that blue lambo on the first look!! and if i am not mistaken the first image has a colour trial RW #8 in a mustard yellow similar to the one Nick had a few years ago and sold. Then there is a black SF #3 Mercedes Ambulance a nice pale blue SF #5 Europa, a pale green SF #20 Marzal etc etc etc.

I have to say that if all these models are genuine pre pros, colour trials, Brazilians or what ever, then there is a small fortune in very rare SF's and RW's in those cabinets.

They would still need very close inspection before you would hand over a wad of cash.

That collection is totally insane i have just noticed a SF #22 Ponty in green!!! (in the 4th image)

Sorry to disappoint, but most of the models on show were copies/fakes that came from nick the greek (nik_stil), although the seller who will remain nameless for now was trying to pass them off as the real deal.
Graham (Rockertron) will second this as we had a lengthy chat on the subject after looking at several of the models.

just_lesney wrote:Sorry to disappoint, but most of the models on show were copies/fakes that came from nick the greek (nik_stil), although the seller who will remain nameless for now was trying to pass them off as the real deal.
Graham (Rockertron) will second this as we had a lengthy chat on the subject after looking at several of the models.

As the saying goes, if it looks too good to be true..........

Nice to see somebody making good copies of the famous colour trial survivors and putting them all together- hopefully none were sold for silly money!