I’ve been here for several days now, thought I would pop in a with a few pics. I haven’t had much time for shopping, but I found a few things that people here might like. First off, I haven’t found anything vintage - not many places sell old material, and the big flea market I attended yesterday wasn’t fruitful. So, here’s some new stuff. First, Siku. It’s a German company, some of it is still made in Germany, and I know some here like it:
There were 4 racks and 2 shelves of it. This place had a ton:
And not a lot of other brands. Supermarkets sometimes have a few short card HW too.
Some stuff from BMW Museum/Welt. If you have to ask, you can’t afford it :)
And now for some vintage sightings. As I mentioned, the flea market was a bust. It was big, but had very little diecast. It was also full of the bearded hipster ‘look at me’ types I thought I escaped when I left Seattle - nope, they are here too, scouring the place for obsolete portable stereos, vinyl, and ironic interior decorations. Too crowded, especially with the aforementioned idiots who brought their babies in huge strollers into a packed old warehouse full of who knows who smoking who knows what. I did see a couple common Matchbox YY, a couple of blister packed Majorette commercials, some boring service related HO material. a loose Polistil 288GTO, a Bburago Testarossa, and a Politoys Fiat rally car. The latter was cool, but not for 20 Euro, and I don’t collect that big anyway. One vendor had a ton of Smurf figurines - just the type of guy who might have a case of Majorette from 1981 laying around. Nope.
At the Deutsches Museum, in the maritime area, there was this old display about trans-oceanic vehicle shipping. Obviously made in the 70s, it was full of vintage HO scale VWs:
And at the Verkehrszentrum, there was a diorama of a construction scene, built in 1986 per the inventory code, that was full of Siku from that era - I wouldn’t mind finding these:
That is all. A regular review to follow, as I will have time later.