I’ve set out a huge task for myself this week – cleaning up the office! – so the next few posts will probably be a bit on the short side, as I hack my way through mountains of models and paperwork.
Today I’ll wrap a couple more bits of nearly forgotten BreyerFest business...
First, here are some of the lovely little tokens given to me at ‘Fest this year. The Latin textbook (yes, I collect such things) was from Linda Walter. For my fellow old farts out there, yes, she’s THAT Linda Walter:
Second, here’s a nice little CHIN find that I was surprised to find late Saturday night:
It’s an early No-Star version of the El Pastor! He was pretty cheap, too. He’s very similar to the Ratliff Farm Special Run Paso Fino issued ca. 1987 – the color on the SR is a little more brown than red, and it is missing the USA mold mark.
Another important difference: the Ratliff Paso Finos still command decent prices, whenever they do come up for sale. (There were only 100 of them, so it’s not often.) While the fortunes of the No-Star variation of the standard El Pastor have apparently fallen considerably. To the point where I could get one for not much more than body price – at BreyerFest!
I would have thought that – in a year with an El Pastor prize model (Diorama prize Sona) – a relatively rare El Pastor like this would have gotten noticed and snapped up before I noticed him.
Then again, it does seem to take a while for the market to catch up – it took about a year for interest in the Western Prancing Horses to begin to rise, in the wake of the Vintage Club Lucky release.
So I’ll just chalk this up as me getting ahead of the curve, again.
2 comments:
That El Pastor is lovely. I have a huge soft spot for him. When I have space and money again I want to collect some more variations. My first is a one sock variation with a lot of overspray on the sock, and I just picked up a chalky one for $20.
I just found my no-star in a Craigslist bunch earlier this year. Lovely fellow!!
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