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Nice going everyone. That TT Jawa is awesome and Frank great haul of new pick ups. Keep them coming. 8)

Exquisite, Frank. 8)

Sweet pick ups Frank

Frank, the tie is awesome. Bet you are over the moon. At least the lady indoors was happy for ya, and not looking at you like a loon.

Tops.

4 words. 'Special Offer Tie Fighter' :shock:

Love it....

nice tri b wing pilot tim, good to see the frost gone
nice haul frunkstar and nice haul too grant.

Thanks guys, not stopped looking at it yet & the Pin head han is really hitting the spot 2

Warning... Mouse scrollers will be damaged. 8)

I have received some stuff from here and there during the last 3-4 weeks which I was always too lazy to take pics of or just didn't have the time.


When I did the post processing of the pics I saw that due to the angle it seems Luke and Leia have something to hide in their faces. But no, they have perfect faces. I once bought a beater Leia Poncho MOC from weasel and the plan was to rip her from the card... I couldn't do it and so had to get another one. A similar story goes with the Emperor. I got a Kenner baggie from Chris and I wanted to open it. Again I couldn't do it...
All figures in this pic came from Iain, except the C-3PO which came from Bram, who got it from Lee (skywalker73) before. It all stays in the fam. :lol: They are all VERY minty. 6 Last 17s to go now. 8)


All these figures came from Liam. One figure is missing there, an AT-AT Commander with a nose chip, this one went to my mum for restauration, she's a master in that and since this is going to stay with me and was cheap I thought I can her touch it up. Curious to see the outcome.


These came from eBay UK, all from the same seller. (ID: clear-your-house-auctions) The description said that the seller was selling his own collection and he sold about 30-40 figures, COO variants among them, etc. The Stormtrooper is so minty (colour-wise, legs are a little loose), that I fear that I have been pooned. Cheaper than chips these 3.


These were even cheaper than the 3 before, I got them from a German SW forum. The Imperial Commander in the middle has some weird spots in his face, looks as if he is sick, but it looks worse in the pic than it actually is.


Thanks to tigerham for this. Box is in nice condition...


... and the playset is unused. 8) Will get a black ROTJ MIB Jabba later too as I like that box more.

The next 2 are for all you Palitoy heads. This came from eBay too, I mailed the seller and asked if he would sell this (and the next one to me) directly (without eBay & Paypal fee) and he agreed, well, he had another copy of each. Guess they will look great framed.





I can never resist a Boushh. Thanks to Bram for this one.


Got this one from eBay Germany. I already have this on since over a month, but didn't upload it here as when it arrived I was thinking about giving it back. It was advertised as having a perfect bubble, no dings, no dents, but there is a small dent on the bottom left corner of the bubble. You can't actually see it looking at it up front, but I know it's there and usually I don't like that... but since the card is so nice overall and unpunched, we agreed on a partial refund.

Now on to one of my new side focuses.

Funny story about this buy. I was scanning rebelscum from 35mm slides and found a - if memory serves right - 7 year (+/- 1 year) old thread. I took the chance and PM'd the guy. Turns out the guy is Todd Chamberlain and he still had some of the slides left after all these years. These are LFL reference slides, so nothing really special, but they were very cheap.











Proud to have acquired the next 3.


This was used for the Jedi Luke cardback (obviously ).


This one looks very damaged and the auto focus failed on this one. I know that there are some ways of repairing those slides, but I don't know how good it will work out. For now I will leave it as is, but will check for options later this year. Love that CAP-2 slide...



Photography-wise the next 2 are my new center pieces.


This is similar to the picture they used on the production box, but it slightly different. That's why I like it.


8"x10" negative of the Imperial Shuttle. Sorry for the bad photo. I am in conversation with the original Kenner photographer (Kim Simmons) and he had some background information regarding this shot. This is what he calls a first shot. The angle of the shot is very similar, if not exact the same to the photo they used for the production box. But the ERGs/Stormtroopers have not been well aligned as seen on the production box. I scanned the pic using my 10 year old scanner and colour corrected it. You can see every detail, but all in all the result is not satisfactory at all, sadly. I was talking about this with Kim too and he says that there are several problems with my scan, the scanner itself (he uses very expensive equipment to get the best out of this), my colour correction skills roll and either the photo is very dirty or it is damage due to its age.

Sorry for a lot of pics and a lot of text, but I hope you enjoy and I tried to share some background information about the photo art, so maybe you learned something new, if this of interest to you at all. :lol:

More slides to join my collection during the next 2-3 months, stay tuned.

Thanks for looking.

quality and unusual item's there fella - top stuff :mrgreen:

Great haul Dennis, between us we should have killed a few mice today :lol: those slides really are something special m8 8) pleased for you.

Nice haul Dennis, love the slides! 8)

Thanks guys. Tbh I was a bit shocked after I took the photos of them today as the damages come out more, which is obvious as the whole pic is being blown up incl. the damages you can see when looking at the slides directly, but still... As I said not sure if it can be fixed, but I will try to find out later this year.

I will definitely want a printout of the toy photographies (CAP-2, AT-AT, etc...) and these I will get through K. Simmons, he is a very nice person and answers all my questions regarding the slides, his photography and photography in common.

"we should have killed a few mice today"
Tbh I didn't quite understand, but it sounds fun. :lol:

Wow, really cool slides there, someting very different...

Wow Dennis! A lot of great items. My favorite of course is the LJ photoart slide. If you ever decide to let that go, I could make a good home for it.

I also love the Shuttle image. Those will look really good when you get some prints made up.

Wow Dennis,

That Imperial poster is sweeeet i really want one,,, did you say that guy had another?

also those slides are great...man this thread is mental

Delighted to have received this in the post this morning, Cheers Rob :wink: , My first 12 Back card. It looks super displayed, man am I chuffed.........

Ooh, very nice Palitoy Sandperson. 8)

Dennis, love those slides and awesome mint loose figures.
Jeff - sweet Sandperson

shawn_k said:

Wow Dennis! A lot of great items. My favorite of course is the LJ photoart slide. If you ever decide to let that go, I could make a good home for it.

I also love the Shuttle image. Those will look really good when you get some prints made up.

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Thanks for the kind words, if I see another one around I will let you know, but all these photographies are going to stay with me for a long time I guess.

Imperial nut said:

Wow Dennis,

That Imperial poster is sweeeet i really want one,,, did you say that guy had another?

also those slides are great...man this thread is mental

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Thanks. Well, the guy had one of each leaflet listed on eBay. I messaged him, asking for a deal around eBay/Paypal (to have a better price of course) and 1 or 2 days later he replied, saying that one of them just sold, but he had another set of them and that he had not listed them on eBay. He sold this set to me then. I'm not sure if he has more, but I just saw that he hasn't listed any more on the Bay. They were listed as "A5 Palitoy leaflet".

Thanks guys, more coming soon.

This is this months haul all together the large figures I got this week and the interceptor and loads of other vintage stuff , hope you like seeing the photos are large but i had to otherwise you wont see anything I did upload smaller photos before and someone pointed out he could not see stuff clear love the large size figures there my all time favorites i have most of them boxed but could never Play with or display them properly so i want them all loose iv 2 to still get in my opinion the 1978/1979 large figures are the best ever produced the quality in them are incredible , the puppet yoda is ace first time iv had a loose one my other is forever trapped in a box no fun in that . Love also the rare UK making or star wars first ever print 1979 original ...













Hope you like seeing.