Recent Acquisitions (Archive, March 2012 - July 2018)

[LophoLeeVT]

can i see the inside of the set???

[Halichoeres]

Wow, that's a big lot of Starlux! Must have cost you a fair bit, but it definitely seems worth it, I spot some lovely critters!

It cost much less than it would have to buy all ~90 of these separately, certainly. But it definitely ate up my dinosaur budget for a couple of months.

Thanks for the advice on glue, guys. I just wanted to be sure cyanoacrylate wouldn't cause old resin-y type plastic to melt or burn.

[stargatedalek]

Modified forms of it are used as medical bonds, so I doubt there's much risk of melting.

[RobinGoodfellow]

Just in from France:



Unfortunately, they were incautiously packaged, so six or seven had pieces break off in transit. Thankfully, none of the dozen or so figures I was after was damaged. Anybody have recommendations for a glue that will hold this brittle old plastic without damaging it?

Simply wonderful ! 

[CityRaptor]

can i see the inside of the set???

Sure. I will make some pics of part of it, not the whole book.

Part of the Diorama ( and my Invicta Plesiosaur ), Sea Scorpion, Eurypteryds


Tylosaurus, Metriorhynchus, Nothosaurus, Tanystropheus, Horn Coral

Kinda looks like the old Carnegie Mosasaurus, doesn't it?

Temnodontosaurus, Archelon, part of the Diorama

[Archinto]

Just in from France:



Unfortunately, they were incautiously packaged, so six or seven had pieces break off in transit. Thankfully, none of the dozen or so figures I was after was damaged. Anybody have recommendations for a glue that will hold this brittle old plastic without damaging it?

Daaaang now there's a whole lot of vintage awesomeness! Congrats on the score!

[Bokisaurus]

Amazing Starlux lot!
Well, Small new additions for me
A Couple of Sega Minis - Amara and Acro


Something I have been searching for a long time, Kaiyodod 2004 Expo Chuanijiesaurus!


Cheers!

[PaleoMatt]

I don't have it yet but I found the oldest variation of the carnegie dilo pair for around £24 on eBay! A bargain if you ask me! It will hopefully be here in early February. Now i'm looking for the protoceratops

[Roselaar]

can i see the inside of the set???

Sure. I will make some pics of part of it, not the whole book.

That's a pretty awesome book! You gonna keep it as is, or are you gonna cut out the figures?

[SBell]

Just in from France:



Unfortunately, they were incautiously packaged, so six or seven had pieces break off in transit. Thankfully, none of the dozen or so figures I was after was damaged. Anybody have recommendations for a glue that will hold this brittle old plastic without damaging it?

That's a fantastic lot you have there--and yeah, I've received several lots of Starlux from Europe in my day, and they were almost alwyas just kind of tossed in a bag (never any damage though).

Watch out for offers to sell though--some, like the Spirifer, paraiesaurs, and Trilobite, don't look like much, but are among the rarest and most sought after ($$$) Starlux!

[Halichoeres]

That's a fantastic lot you have there--and yeah, I've received several lots of Starlux from Europe in my day, and they were almost alwyas just kind of tossed in a bag (never any damage though).

Watch out for offers to sell though--some, like the Spirifer, paraiesaurs, and Trilobite, don't look like much, but are among the rarest and most sought after ($$$) Starlux!

Thanks for the tip--I'll likely end up trading or selling about 80% of these, so that's good to know.

[Libraraptor]

Just in from France:



Unfortunately, they were incautiously packaged, so six or seven had pieces break off in transit. Thankfully, none of the dozen or so figures I was after was damaged. Anybody have recommendations for a glue that will hold this brittle old plastic without damaging it?

[CityRaptor]

can i see the inside of the set???

Sure. I will make some pics of part of it, not the whole book.

That's a pretty awesome book! You gonna keep it as is, or are you gonna cut out the figures?

Thanks. I'm actually not too sure what to do with it. I mainly got it out of curiosity since I found it for cheap ( Only paid 3,60 Euros including shipping ) and recognized that it is similar to books that were available in Germany during the 90s ( we however only got the 2 Dinosaur ones, there also seems to be a prehistoric mammal one. No interest in that ) . I would probably punch out the diorama if I had a second, but I'm not willing to pay 30 Euros for another.   

[AcroSauroTaurus]

Congrats on finding the Chuanijiesaurus Boki! And that Acrocanthosaurus is tempting... I'll have to look for one online.

[J.R.S T REX]

Today I received my Sideshow Stegasaurus Maquette.  Simple awesome!  My credenza base has just 1 spot that I intend to fill and 2 spots on top of the hutch.  Thanks for looking!

[stargatedalek]

Is it damaged or are you still assembling it? The whole case together looks quite stunning.

[J.R.S T REX]

I forgot to put on some of the plates.  I reposted with it complete.

[Takama]

I think you put one of the plates on wrong. 

[J.R.S T REX]

Takima, thank you for your correct observation!  I turned it around.  Newbee error! 

[Silvanusaurus]

My first Shapeways acquisition: 2 baryonyx's by Manuel Bejarano, at 1/72 scale. These are tiny! Smaller than I expected, but the detail is incredible, they are beautiful little figures, I can't wait to paint them.


I've gotten quite a few different baryonyx figures over the past couple of weeks, but I think I'm going to start a collection thread and post them in there. I also recently came across this spinosaurus in a group of mini figures, and I thought it was quite funny how this may have actually managed to become more accurate with the passage of time: