eBay addiction

Of late, I have developed something of an obsession. I have been relentlessly trying to hunt down reasonably priced 30mm Phoenix parade figures. “Reasonably priced” is open to debate as the Phoenix stuff, beautiful as it is, being very well cast and sculpted, always goes for inflated prices. 

My other recent addiction is to seek out cheap and battered lead Britains and restore them and paint them to collector standard in Matt. This is in conjunction with a kindred spirit who I recently met on a toy soldier Facebook group. Great fun and reasonably cheap to buy now, as many of the older collectors are selling their collections and surplus.

Most days I eagerly await the postman, and my eBay “watch list” is my first port of call each day, now that John R has put his AMG blog on furlough. !

Next Friday I go into hospital for a hernia op. For the next 12 weeks, no cycling, no gardening, but hopefully lots of hobby time and ebay-ing!

Looking through an old soldier magazine today and found the cartoon below.

It seems to perfectly sum up my life right now !