Hey Treadhead I'm glad you arrived on this forum cause you've shaken some life into the FOV section and I'm a massive FOV fan.
Do you get all the modern stuff too as well as the WW2 vehicles?
I have a few of the newer ones like the Abrams, and my favourite the Chally2 just for the sheer size of it as well as it's coolness! I read somewhere that the Challenger 2 has the record for the longest distance confirmed kill back in the Gulf War.
Back on topic do you collect the FOV diorama series as well? They can be expensive but If you can get them for a good price I recommend you do so as the backgrounds and accessories are pretty cool and the vehicles have really nice paint jobs on them. especially the Tiger, King Tiger and Stug.
Easy, yeah ... I collect WWII
and Modern. Mostly the enthusiast series, though I own a couple of action series models, too. Love ‘em all.
As for the dioramas, I’d just love to buy those, too; but I concentrated on single FOV models, which kind of whopped my money supply right on the nose. (It’s too easy to go bankrupt if you don’t watch your spending.)
Ozdigger said:
From what you say, 81007 is hard to get. Can you tell us what other FOV 1/32 items are rare these days. I have about 20 of the original 1/32 FOV vehicles and have never thought of them being of much value other than being nice to look at.
From my recent experience, Oz, the following 1/32 FOV armor models are hard-to-find or impossible-to-find ...
80001 - German King Tiger - Normandy 1944. Getting harder to find. Not impossible.
80201 - German King Tiger – Germany 1944. Getting tougher all the time. You'll have to dig on eBay and elsewhere to find one.
80301 - German King Tiger – France 1944. Tough to find. You'll have to dig for it.
80004 - German Tiger I - Normandy 1944. Very hard to find. Maybe impossible. Check eBay.
80204 - German Tiger I - Eastern Front. Sold out. Good luck trying to locate this one.
80304 - German Tiger - Eastern Front 1944. Sold out. Very, very hard to find. Check eBay.
80026 - German Panther Ausf.G - Germany 1944. Extremely hard to find. Check eBay.
81002 - U.S. M1036 HUMVEE Desert Storm (tan). Extremely hard to find. Might prove impossible.
81003 - U.S. M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage - Normandy. Extremely hard to find. You’ll really have to dig for this one. Might prove impossible.
81007 - U.S. M4A3 Sherman - Normandy. Sold out. Can’t find anywhere. Good luck.
81010 - German Sd. Kfz.251/1 Hanomag - Kursk 1943. Sold out. Good luck.
81011 - U.K. M3 Grant - North Africa. Sold out. Impossible to find.
81203 - U.S. M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage - Battle of the Bulge. Extremely hard to find. You’ll have to dig for this one.
81207 - U.S. M4A3 Sherman - Bastogne 1945. Sold out. Good luck.
81210 - German Sd. Kfz.251/9 Kanonenwagen - Normandy 1944. Sold out. Good luck.
81501 - German Sd. Kfz. 251/9 Kanonenwagen - Hungary 1945. Getting very hard to find. Check eBay.
81310 - German Sd. Kfz.251/1 Hanomag - Normandy 1944. Sold out. Good luck.
80018 - Russian T34/85 - Eastern Front 1945 (green). Sold out. If anybody wants one, I know a store in Canada that still has it in stock. Otherwise, you can’t find it anywhere on planet earth.
80218 - Russian T34/85 - Eastern Front 1944 (white winter camo). Getting extremely hard to find.
81014 - US M3A1 Half Track - Normandy 1944. Very, very hard to find. You’ll have to dig to get this one.
81302 - U.S. M1036 HUMVEE Operation Iraqi Freedom (green/brown camo). Extremely difficult to find. Might prove impossible.
82003 - U.S. Jeep, Willys, Overland - Normandy. Very hard to find. You’ll have to dig for this one. Try eBay.
82005 - German Kubelwagen Mk 82- Normandy (panzer gray). Very hard to find. Might prove impossible.
82006 - German KS 750 Zundapp Sidecar- Russian Front (panzer gray) . Sold out. Impossible to find.
90022 - U.S. M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (green/brown camo). Sold out. Impossible to find.
For the sold-out types, I had to hunt absolutely EVERYWHERE to locate them; in several cases I bought the last available one. But that doesn’t mean they won’t show up on eBay somewhere along the line: I’ve still got my fingers crossed that I’ll find the 81007 Sherman. Also, if you've got a good model shop nearby, check them out. You never know if they have exactly what you're looking for sitting on a dusty shelf in their stock room. I actually found a RARE, impossible-to-find Corgi 1/72 Lancaster set that way.
If I can help further, let me know!
Hope this helps!