10,00o Models estate sale

Have not seen anything posted here about this so I am passing it on.
On Feb. 25 & 26 and March 4 & 5 at 100 Robeson St. in Fayetteville,NC the
model estate of Ron Barbour will be sold. He was IPMS/USA member #13 and had over 10,000 unbuilt kits. Air,armor and ship models including vacs and resin. Decals,detail set all will be sold.Proceeds go to continue to pay for his mother's Alzheimer's care.Hardback books wil be $2 ea and softbounds $1.
I have no affiliation with the sale or seller but thought the word should be spread. Hub
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Sounds like any model-head types at Ft Bragg and Pope AFB could have a ball. The price on the books certainly looks good.
WmB
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According to the club helping with the sale they have guys coming from as far away as PA, TX and Canada for the sale.

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*Big sigh* To have the chance (and money) to go...I bet just seeing the collection would blow me away... Hub & Diane Plott III wrote:

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If you want a flyer emailed just drop a line with a good return email address. Hub

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Hub Thanks for the flyer...drooled over it,and showed my girlfriend.She's not a modeler but even she said that would be something to see!
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email on the way.
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Hi Hub I'd like a flyer, please ' snipped-for-privacy@msn.com or snipped-for-privacy@highstream.net' Thanks, John Athens, GA

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lol omg how can anybody accumulate 10,000 UNBUILT kits ?? Damien.
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You wouldn't think it could be that easy but when I look at the number of kits that I have 'accumulated' in the past 20 years since I started building again (close to 1k), if I had been actually collecting on purpose the last 40 years, that number would be *much* larger.
-- Chuck Ryan Springfield OH
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(Ozmoddler) wrote: " lol omg how can anybody accumulate 10,000 UNBUILT kits ??  "                               Well , I might actually have just over 700 Kits still waiting to be built. It's easy to get them and bring them home and then paw over them and look at the crisp parts all so nice and neat on those parts trees. Yes it's really very easy to do. Especially when it is Your Hobby. I should go and take a "count" now that i'm thinking of it. Then pick out a few more to start building.
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Yikes, That sounds a little orgasmic, are you sure you are ok !!! I have about 50 kits in my stash. The only reason I have that many (and it will grow some) is that I intend to retire in about 3 years and want to build my "war chest" while I have more disposable income. I don't have to worry about my stash getting too big because at some point, my wife would just shoot me (:>
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i just restarted collecting last year and i already have over 100 kits.
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My unbuilt models are small potatoes compared to what some of you have but I probably had about 500 or so. When I moved to the new house last October and I had to pack and store most of my models, a dose or reality set in.
Whereas: I'll probably not build most of the armor kits I've been lugging around and storing for the past 15 years or so;
Whereas: I'll probably not even build many of the aircraft models as well;
Whereas: The storage lockers are getting expensive;
Let it be decided that: Sometime this summer when I get the time, I'll be launching a concerted eBay campaign to divest myself of several wardrobe boxes of unbuilts in order to reduce the kit footprint to something workable enough to store in the small unfinished part of my new basement. ;~(
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<<to divest myself of several wardrobe boxes of unbuilts in order to reduce the kit footprint to something workable enough to store in the small unfinished part of my new basement.>>
Yeah, ...right!!!
And I'm going to organize my workbench - sometime this next summer. Or should it be summer after next? :-)))
Art
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We had one similar to this in Albuquerque a few years ago. A gentleman passed away and his estate was sold. Models (mostly aircraft but not all) for the sale mind you, completely filled a den and 2 bedrooms (including a double wide center aisle in each, floor to ceiling almost). The other 2 rooms were all books and decals. Decals etc alone would have easily filled a pickups LWB. I've never seen so many models in one place before, ever, anyplace! I understand that before the sale they totally filled his double garage, floor to ceiling. I don't do AC but suspect if it was ever made, he had it. Many of these were really old stuff from the 50's/60's that I remember seeing then. I scored 2 really nice ship models, Tamaya 1:350 USS Enterprise, unopened $40 and Hellers le Soleil Royale 1:100, unopened $40. John
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Go to Hyperscale.com and click on Plastic pics and do a search for "10,000 models" there are a lot of photos there. Hub

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Hub & Diane Plott III wrote:

Wow, now that's a stash ,bigger than hobby shops I know . I thought my friend Ray Mehlberger had a stash he has just over three thousand kits .
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gee and I just buy one model at a time .make it a project.and build it over a few months.............lol
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Ozmoddler wrote:

Wow ! That's just Wierd . Time 4U to seek help .
noddy
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