What would you save? (1 Viewer)

[larso]

I visited with Jack the other night and we posed the question to each other - what would you save if the house was on fire? Now obviously everyone would grab the family, pet, family photos, mobile phone and sachel with all the important insurance details carefully filed in alphabetical order but say you had one trip left? What in your collection would you grab? I think for the purposes of the question, it could be a range you could quickly (but carefully!) put into a box but maybe even restrict it to what you could carry in your hands? For me, it would be my Jenkins Jacobites, though I might carry them out on my Conte Stamford Bridge playset!

 

[Jack]

I visited with Jack the other night and we posed the question to each other - what would you save if the house was on fire? Now obviously everyone would grab the family, pet, family photos, mobile phone and sachel with all the important insurance details carefully filed in alphabetical order but say you had one trip left? What in your collection would you grab? I think for the purposes of the question, it could be a range you could quickly (but carefully!) put into a box but maybe even restrict it to what you could carry in your hands? For me, it would be my Jenkins Jacobites, though I might carry them out on my Conte Stamford Bridge playset!

In all fairness Larso should add that he would grab his wife first, but he always had a priority issue.

I would go my Britains AZW for love and my K&C Scots Greys and Black Watch for resale.

 

[waynepoo]

I visited with Jack the other night and we posed the question to each other - what would you save if the house was on fire? Now obviously everyone would grab the family, pet, family photos, mobile phone and sachel with all the important insurance details carefully filed in alphabetical order but say you had one trip left? What in your collection would you grab? I think for the purposes of the question, it could be a range you could quickly (but carefully!) put into a box but maybe even restrict it to what you could carry in your hands? For me, it would be my Jenkins Jacobites, though I might carry them out on my Conte Stamford Bridge playset!

The things you two talk about, I can picture the two of you in the cinema chairs with a can of coke each watching the cricket and talking gibberish....:rolleyes2:brilliant. For me it would be those long retired K&C figures that took forever to find.
Wayne.

 

[larso]

"K&C Scots Greys and Black Watch for resale." That's right, you made that point. Grabbing the most valuable means you could fund some of the restocking!

 

[larso]

"in the cinema chairs with a can of coke each watching the cricket and talking gibberish" - Wayne, this is incredibly accurate! Were you spying on us??

 

[waynepoo]

"in the cinema chairs with a can of coke each watching the cricket and talking gibberish" - Wayne, this is incredibly accurate! Were you spying on us??

John, I have sat in the same chairs and talked the same gibbership......:rolleyes2:
Wayne.

 

[Jack]

John, I have sat in the same chairs and talked the same gibbership......:rolleyes2:
Wayne.

Funny - I don't remember either of you bringing coke so I assume it was my treat!

 

[Isandlwana]

My JJD S.E.5a would be saved first, it's nice and light too. My K&C Mk IV Cambrai tank would cause me to go back in and inhale a few fumes and finally I would allow myself to be singed a bit to go back a last time to collect my WB Modelzone 'Cold Steel' exclusive to sell on and begin collecting all over again. Seeing what this has gone for in the past, it may even allow me to put a deposit on a Kensington townhouse!{sm4}

 

[Poppo]

Hard to say...I chose them so carafully, one by one,I don' t really know......

 

[Mitch]

I would simply get the hose pipe and try as best to contain the flames until the professionals arrived. that would be better than saving one piece and standing idly watching the rest go down the pan!!!
Mitch

 

[Louis Badolato]

After preserving my family and pets, I would make a beeline for my early K&C glossy cabinet, containing my four original K&C wooden tanks, all the early glossy WWII and glossy oddity sets (Sgt. Peppers, Elvis, Charlie Chaplin, Hong Kong Jockies, Les Miserables, glossy Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, etc.) and carry that cabinet out. I have my collection insured, and would probably be able to recreate much of my later K&C, Trophy, Heco Tinplate Models and CJB Models collection (although poor Gordon would have to be chained to his workench to recreate my 17 K&C custom dioramas), but I would never be able to replace those very limited production early K&C sets.

 

[Vezzolf]

Just breakout the hotdogs and marshmellows.:rolleyes2:

 

[lancer]

Public safety announcement (in the best spirit of being a kill-joy): Never, ever, return to a burning house. You will die. Fire moves incredibly fast, burns incredibly hot, generates poisonous fumes and toxic smoke. Get your family and yourself out and forget the rest. You WILL NOT have time to stop and box up or grab anything. I know this seems an unneccesary thing to have to see to adults, yet I'm saying it. I also know what comes next; "Lighten up, Francis!"
Now in the original spirit of the thread, I would leave the house with my KC P-40 Flying Tiger in one hand and my JJD SE-5 in the other. Would also have my father's 1930's era Britains set 144A, RFA in service dress, dangling from my teeth.^&grin -- Al

 

[larso]

"Never, ever, return to a burning house. You will die."

Actually that reminds me of an incident in the Queensland floods of 2011. A family had got out of their house that was filling with water, when the grandmother went back to get the family war medals. The house then disintergrated with her inside and she was washed away to her death. Jack also came across an old fellow with a similar story when conducting interviews for one of his books. Their plane had come down in the ocean and everyone had got out, when one bloke suddenly dashed back in, the plane promptly sank and took him with it. The teller of the story always wondered/worried that the guy had gone back to grab the teller's watch, which he had borrowed earlier and had left at his station.