Collector's Armoury Sterling?

[mb1k]

Anyone old enough, like I am, to remember the Collector's Armoury and their British Sterling replica? I used to get that catalog regularly in the mail and it never occurred to me to snatch up those Sterlings before they disappeared.

Fast forward 30 years later and I wonder where are all those stamped and metal Sterling replicas today? Nothing on eBay, nothing at gunshows, etc? Anyone fortunate enough to have one of these? Or unfortunate perhaps?

 

[sawduster]

One of these?

Bought it as soon as it became available. I made it into a stormtrooper blaster for awhile but stripped all that stuff off and brought it back to a basic Sterling.

 

[dcarty]

I remember drooling over those adds in Military Modeller magazine. I dreamed of owning the Schmeisser MP-40 and the Tommy gun. I remember the MP-40 was around $175 which might as well have been $175,000 to me in those days.

If I had known then what I know now--lol!! I would have worked a little harder at the paper route and stocked up on a few MGC Sterlings and Mausers. When I was in High School I got one of the blank firing Mausers to try and make a Han Solo blaster. Don't have an MGC Sterling but I do have two real Sterling kits I plan to eventually turn into trooper blasters.

 

[Apollo]

Anyone old enough, like I am, to remember the Collector's Armoury

Yep!

Used to go to their showroom a lot in my youth.

I still kick myself for never getting their U.N.C.L.E pistol and accessories

 

[Bad Wolf]

my stormtrooper blaster is built on one. got it from Marco Ent many, many....many moons ago

 

[Pauleysolo]

I remember Marco Ent. Many moons ago- early 1980's he was the only source--pre Icons, Pre MR, Pre EFX etc!! Sent him a bunch of $$ back then. I think Lucasfilm et al. shut him down

 

[Hirohawa]

I remember those catalogs. I was in 6th grade and would dog ear the pages lloking at all those awesome replicas.

 

[Pauleysolo]

I remember those catalogs. I was in 6th grade and would dog ear the pages lloking at all those awesome replicas.

Yes- those old Xeorox B&W catalogs- he did helmets- props-costume accessories etc--all metal at first-- then resin...

 

[eltee]

Picked one up at a Los Angeles gunshow. Had it converted into this:

 

[scarf man]

I sold mine a few years ago before I had a chance to convert it.
Wish I had kept it.

 

[mb1k]

Glad I got some confirmation. I had brought this up maybe 10 years ago and no responses on another board. I wonder what it would take for them to do a "classic" line. Tamiya is doing that with their model line, dusting off some old tooling and reintroducing old stuff.

dcarty, you're right. That $175 might as well have been $1.7 million. No way an 8th grader is going to lay down that cash in 80s dollars.

One can wish.

 

[scarf man]

For the record the Collectors Armoury didn't make them, just sold them.
They were made by Model Gun Corp. a japanese company, and they don't make the C-1 Sterling, or
C-96 Mauser anymore.

 

[Jedifyfe]

Picked one up at a Los Angeles gunshow. Had it converted into this:

That, is a thing of beauty!!!


Brad

 

[DrStranglove]

I LOVED The Collectors Armory! I did not hear till today that it was gone.... I was in High School in Va and went to their showroom at least twice and drooled. I have about five of their items to this day, none of them SW related....

What happened to them?

 

[mb1k]

Scarfman, good additional information on the manufacturing origins. DrStranglove, I think the Collector's Armoury is still in business under the spelling I used.

 

[sawduster]

Here's a link to Collectors Armoury
Not quite the variety that they used to have.
http://www.collectorsarmoury.com/ep5sf/

 

[gunnerk19]

I still have a catalog from them that I got back in 1998 I think...

Boy, they've got a boatload of blank guns, too bad they're all mostly just differently finished versions of only a few models...

Though, they have Zoe's "Firefly" mare's leg rifle for $159, not too bad...


Woah, they sell actual black powder firearms? Guess I need to check that place more often...

 

[CTF]

I dreamed of owning the Schmeisser MP-40

The MP40 was not a Schmeisser.

 

[gunnerk19]

But Schmeisser held the patent on the magazine design, so for some reason the name stuck; even though he never designed an actual weapon until the MP41 (which IMHO very closely resembles Russia's PPSh-41)...

 

[CTF]

Doesn't make it a Schmeisser...

And it was called a Schmeisser by Allied soldiers who didn't know any better. That is how the name stuck.