Thursday, November 2, 2023

My Trade Me Anything Choices, And Then Some

Death Stare Cards is having his annual Trade Me Anything, and I chose a few cards from those he had available. There are still lots of cards left from a jumbo box of 2023 Topps Update that be broke, so if you haven't seen the post yet, just click on the link, claim some cards, and trade him anything. On top of that mail, the TCDB trades keep coming in.

These are the beauties I picked out, thanks Bill!



TCDB # 147 acasebol




TCDB #148 Cooter Lev


I jumped at this offer when it came in, probably wouldn't have mattered what he asked for in return.


TCDB #149 KQuinner


Question to my French-speaking friends: Why is California spelt two different ways on Winfield's card?










Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday

Ripping a random pack of junk wax from the local junk mall.

Pack of 4 cards came with the purchase of an "NFL Kickoff Deal" (2 medium pizzas and 4 cans of Coke) at participating Domino's.


Wow! Looking at the checklist on TCDB there are no Patriots in the 50-card set of quarterbacks.
Stinks to be me.

 

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Big Mail Day From Mr. Blay

I received one of the big mail day packages that Too Many Verlanders has been sending out. I love being the recipient of one of Dennis's mailings, he always hits up stuff I not only like but can use, and across several of my collecting topics. This package was full of Angels, Patriots, checklists and Theoren Fleury!

Wow! Relics are especially appreciated because I don't buy much retail, so I rarely ever pull one in a pack, I don't have a local card show or even a shop to go to, and I don't buy online. So, it's extra sweet to "pull" one from a care package.



I'm glad Dennis is willing to send oversized stuff, these 1980 Topps "white backs" are nice. I tend to shy away from trading oversize stuff due to postage costs.

Keen eyes will know that that's a 1985 Leaf checklist, not Donruss. Took me a minute to figure it out.

Look at that, more relics!

and more oversized stuff.

Those 1994 Edge immediately reminded me of Starting Lineups. Did SLU's ever include Collectors Edge cards or was there a similar design? Either way, I like them alot.

Promo sheets were big in the 90's, and they were almost always awesome like these two that include Theoren Fleury.


Really great stuff Dennis, thanks for thinking of me.


 

Friday, October 27, 2023

Scale Modelling Update

 Here are some of the kits I've completed in the last several months.

AMT 1/35 scale USMC LAV-25AT


Lindberg 1/35 scale Polish BMP-1U


Airfix 1/72 Vought OS2U Kingfisher
 

AMT 1/25 1950 Ford

Revell 1/25 1969 Chevy Camaro
Inspired by a Japanese F-4 Phantom (Kai).
A bit off the wall with the camo, but I wanted to do something different.




Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Junk Mall Junk Wax Wednesday

Ripping a random pack of junk wax from the local junk mall.

Pack of 12 cards with no chance to pull an insert card.
Primitive.

Best base card to pull would be an Ed McCaffrey rookie.

Score! (no pun intended) I needed the McMurtry for the team set.


Nice design but a bit too much empty black space.

Subsets are okay.

The black area on the back is good in this case.




Sunday, October 22, 2023

Give Some, Get Some

I had an Odd Stuff Giveaway recently, not in order to get stuff in return, but just to get rid of some stuff that I thought someone else might like. A few folks however, felt they wanted to send some stuff back my way, which wasn't necessary, but I will always be thankful for. It's always nice to get stuff in the mail. Steve is one of those folks that sent me some cards I needed via TCDB.

TCDB #146 jsteved

This is the 5th trade between us on TCDB. One more and he takes the lead...wink, wink.




1996 Donruss #444 for the number collection.



Friday, October 20, 2023

For Those Who Were Wondering

 


L-R
Tony Sacca - Penn St. = Played in 2 games for the Cardinals in 1992.
David Klingler - Houston = Played in 33 games over 6 NFL seasons with the Bengals and Raiders.
Matt Blundin - Virginia = 3 games over 3 NFL seasons with the Chiefs and Lions.
Tommy Maddox - UCLA = 9 NFL seasons with Broncos, Rams, Giants, Steelers. Super Bowl Champ.
Mike Pawlawski - California = Signed by the Buccaneers, never played.
Casey Weldon - Florida St. = 5 NFL seasons with the Buccaneers and Redskins. One career TD.