This year my holidays have consisted of a car trip through several towns on the Spanish Camino de Santiago (Way of Saint James), located in the north of my country.
Whenever I go to visit a new city (in Spain or abroad) I consult on the internet if there is any model shop there and I did so this year too.
In almost all the cities visited there was at least one model shop, but when I went to visit them they used to be actually toy shops. Only in some of them they had some 1/72 scale plastic figure sets. Unfortunately, they were very usual sets that I already had.
But there was one exception. When I entered one of the stores I found an incredible variety of items of all kinds, from toys for children to railway modeling and figures in 1/72. The offer in 1/72 was huge and they not only had usual sets, but also others that I knew or believed were out of production from long time, hence the title of my post, which I explain below.
More than a year and a half ago, I published here a post entitled "The finding of a treasure" (http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=22195&p=242739&hilit=The+finding+of+a+treasure#p242739).
At that time the treasure was a good amount of Airfix, Atlantic and Matchbox figures from my childhood and that of my brother that my mother found unexpectedly stored in a bag inside a closet in her home.
I have now added in the title of the post two words: "new" because I consider the current discovery is another fantastic treasure and "expensive" because this time it wasn't free.
Actually, the price of everything I wanted to buy was quite high and it was about to trigger a marital conflict with my wife. Finally, she allowed me to make the purchase with one condition: I had to sell some of the items purchased in order to recover at least part of the money invested. Needless to say, I accepted the condition without any complaint.
I'm totally convinced that the deal was worth it. If not, think for yourself in view of the pile of boxes I have now at home.
The entire lot:
And now some more detailed pictures of the boxes and their contents, unless a box was sealed, in which case I haven't opened it in order not to reduce its value in view of a possible subsequent sale.
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You agree I made a good investment? Now comes the most complicated: the negotiation with my economic advisor (that is, my wife) on which sets will have to be put up for sale.
My best regards, friends.
Santi.