Aircraft Display Model Collector Guide Verkuyl Pacmin Westway Topping Models

Description

Aircraft Display Model Collector, Investor & Appraisal Guide – 162 pages all colour / First Edition by Henry Tenby:
Created and printed in Canada, welcome to this, the first essential guide to assist serious collectors and investors interested in expanding their collection of professional aircraft display models. This volume acts as the first ever “blue book” for display model collectors. We explore the most desirable model manufacturers to collect, and which models to avoid. This book is considered as essential reading for all collectors from novices to veterans, before spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on that next aircraft display model, be informed with the latest market information.
The book explores the main production models, types and scales of all the leading aircraft display model makers over the decades, and offers market values and collecting recommendations on display model brands including: factory house models, DFM models, Verkuyl, Westway, Raise Up, Space Models, Skyland, Fonderia Nucci, Fratelli Cesana, Fomaer, Ditta Ferre. Airplast, Pacmin, Nemoto, Executive Display, Topping, Mecater, Rife, Vogelaar, Fermo, Osgaard, Russian builder models, as well as re-casts by Gary Field, Paul Benn, Henry Tenby, and the uber rarities. Also included in the book is a special section on the famous uber collectors with photo tours of their jaw-dropping collections. There is also a chapter about safeguarding your collection, and parting words of advise from the author.
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