Welcome eagleeye1971

Hi all, I'm Dom and am the newest forum member!

I sold all my VAM in around 1983/4 to raise money for a Sinclair Spectrum..........:/.......I still have it but most of you can probably associate with my schoolboy error so to speak! 

I randomly stumbled across a VAM on eBay last month and now I have 13! I love the blue pant version above all and have already had great fun with crochet needles, elastic and a paper clip re-uniting them with their heads! I'm getting okay at it  

My first mission is to get a passable paratrooper together and also find some black berets with badges intact, good scarves and belts, but am a bit frustrated at how seldom the auctions come up on eBay and I have overpaid for a few bits out of naivety!
Bought a few job lots of clothes on eBay and disappointed when they arrived, broken zips, rips, stains etc. Obviously the rejects get regurgitated around so that's where they have all gone back to!
Also got a few "working" talking commanders, one sounds too slow to understand and the others are like Mickey Mouse! Come to think of it, my original didn't last too long before the string snapped back in the day  

So here I am, in a place where I hope I can learn what's what and hopefully get a feel for realistic pricing. Got my eye on the show in June but not sure how deep I want this to go...... I started like this with Lego by the way and now have a collection probably around the £10k mark! 

If if anyone can point me to a place where I can learn to fix disconnected limbs on blue pant VAMs I'd be grateful, can't find any tips so far other than head reconnection.

So anyway, hello and Good to be here, probably got lots of questions but will save for later. 
Cheers, Dom

welcome dom ,ah the old zx brings back memories, you can change the speed of your talkers there is a guide how to do it and most other repairs here in the hints & tips section . uamhq is another excellent site for a reference guide to A.M.

Hello Dom and welcome to VAME