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Originally Posted by shiumai
I have none of mine - wish i had kept some. that's an awesome collection! I was born in England and spent the first 7 years of my life there. i grew up on matchbox cars, and if i was lucky i'd get the occasional dinky or corgi toy (of either captain scarlet or thunderbirds vehicles). i also had 'action man', which was the UK's version of GI Joe.
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Ya, I was lucky that a bunch of my stuff got packed away for a move back in 74 and was forgotten in my parents attic until about 6 years ago when my sister was looking for something and found it.
Even more surprising was that a handful of the 100s of model kits I built as a kid survived intact (most met the same fate as the B17 I mentioned in a previous post).
This one I built when I was about 11. The two mangled antennas are stretched plastic sprue and although brittle survived almost 40 years in a box with other stuff piled on top of them.