Auckland had its latest fair for model and kit collectors in September 2024, and I filled up two bags with goodies. More detailed reports will follow, but here is a quick look at the kits and die-casts.
My first buy was a book on NZ Cereal Toys, which I missed when it came out nearly 20 years ago. Also a set of Airfix Betta Bilda building bricks, made in NZ by Lincoln Industries.
The Revell Flying Bridge Cruiser is a New Zealand issue by Lincoln Industries. Airfix HMS Devonshire in a 1970s box.
Revell USS Abraham Lincoln SSBN submarine with interior detail. Originally released as the USS George Washington in 1959, this 2008 version is by Revell Germany, and is a Limited Edition re-issue of 5000.
Revell B-24 with a copyright date of 1960 on the box side, and a 1950s Monogram Catalina amphibian – this kit is still available from Atlantis. A pair of Mister Craft Hawker Hunter kits.
Polish TS-11 jet trainer in a very basic box, a Monogram P-40N Warhawk in a 1970s White Box, and a Heller PZL P-23 dive bomber. The Brengun Spitfire Vb depicts an aircraft captured by the Germans, and fitted with a Daimler-Benz engine for tests.
There were also some small scale armour kits in 1/72nd and 1/76th scale, mostly without boxes, by ESCI and Fujimi, and a box of small Airfix Sheriff of Nottingham figures.
A modern Matchbox Harry Potter Ford Anglia die-cast car, from the Moving Parts series, with opening doors. A pair of Matchbox Indiana Jones Tuk-Tuk models – one in a box, and one on a card.
From the film Batman Returns, The Penguin’s Duck Vehicle, by Ertl. Five Corgi Juniors from the 1970s, including a couple of superhero models.
A Yorkshire Tea van from Lledo. My only vintage model this time was a 1950s Matchbox Vauxhall Cresta, the early version, in red and cream.
OK, I now have two months to save up for the next fair, in November, which is the last one of the year!
See anything you like?
Paul Adams from New Zealand
Nice haul! That Monogram Catalina is a peach! SFZ
ReplyDeletePenguin vehicles for me, please!
ReplyDeleteWhat was the cereals book? the only one i was aware of was 'Breakfast Barons' by Craig Hall, but a quick google revealed another one which ive never seen By Summers and Fisher. Bill
ReplyDeleteha ha, Yorkshire Tea! I like that Paul, the best brew going! I like the Penguinmobile too, as well as the Wonder Woman orange car next to it. The original carded ERTL duck car from Batman Returns is super cool; I adore that original late 1980's/early 1990's Batman franchise. A very neat haul all round!
ReplyDeleteYes, New Zealand Cereal Toys 1950-2000 by Summers and Fisher. One of the items which I thought deserved a more detailed write-up. It has taken me 18 years to add this to my collection.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I saw that Yorkshire Tea model I thought of Woodsy. So that too was added to the collection.
Does it have any info on Sanitorium Cornflakes Satellite premiums from 1963? Bill
DeleteYes, 1963 Model Space Craft. Sanitarium, December 1963. Hollow soft plastic, 8 in the series, moulded in blue, grey, red, and yellow. Names of space craft on bases of models. Models approximately 6 cm long. Bases can be detached from body of space craft. Issued in packets of Cornflakes and Puffed Wheat, with information leaflet.
ReplyDeleteExplorer VII
Lunik III
Mercury - Atlas 6
Pioneer IV
Sputnik III
Telstar
Vanguard III
Vostok II
Brilliant Paul - i'd never heard of these, but came upon an ad for them, while looking for the NZ cereal book. I'd be very interested to see them and any other space premiums you come across! cheers, Bill
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