Is it just me or are others kicking themselves for unloading a kit during a moment of weakness??? One day I decided that I did not want to build jets anymore....
Got rid of the Revell 1/32 bf110 for some reason I can't recall.
now I feel like buying them again.
anyone else do this or do you all keep everything you ever bought....
Craig
Been there. I was talked out of one of my movie Enterprises (Wrath of Kahn?) and ended up buying another one off of eBay a few years ago.
Pretty much kept everything, as is evidenced by the boxes in my attic...
Frank Kranick
guilty as charge *raises hand* . My two biggies are unloading the Monogram 1/72 B-52D and B-36, reasoning that I'd never have the room to display them. Few years later I get the bug to have them in my stash again, not that I suddenly have any big increase in display space, so I re-buy them. Lately I've been looking at them taking up a lot of stash space, thinking to myself that I really have to get rid of those hulks because I have no display space.....
Have sold off most of my collection at least twice. Sold off all of the non-aircraft at least three times. Buying replacements isn't fun as they are usually more than when they were new unless one can find a nice cheap source.
The bggest laugh that I ever had was buying a replacement kit for one that I had sold off years before and finding a notation inside the lid that showed I had owned the kit once before.
Tom
i got the 36 as a b-day present around 92 and it got trashed around and finally dumped without more than interior building. now i regret it because while i fon't have display space, i could hang it from a ceiling. never seen it for an affordab;e price since. i think it was around $40 in 92.
I guess I probably should *not* mention to you...that I recently bought, at a swap meet....a very early edition of the AMT Enterprise (original TV series)....with the "cartoony" box art (before the well-known model photo and starry background version); with the light-bulbs....for $2.50!!!
:o)
bought....
If you are patient enough, you can get a deal on one. Just keep an eye out in places like ebay or hyperscale. I think some people (like me) get sick of having that big box kicking around, so they'll let it go relatively cheaply. Patience is the key.
I've done that...last time was with a Monogram Prowler...I traded it for a Tamiya Betty, then got another Prowler from a friend for $20. Then Monogram re-released the kit...so I got a Tamiya Betty for $20...never looked back.
These days I keep everything I buy, though I tend to go off buying some scales/subjects from time to time. Or I only give up a kit when I feel I can get a higher quality replacement - Like trashing my Hobbycraft Arado 234s for the Monogram/Hasegawa ones.
no luck so far.
Heck yeah! Back in the late '70s I purged a lot of cars out of the collection. I bought more than a few of them again over time. I would especially like to kick myself for dumping the '68 Cougar and the built '71 Cyclone.
Bill Banaszak, MFE
Tom,
Any idea how many hands the kit passed through between your ownerships of it? Might be fun to track it down.
Art
I've done it twice. Once with a Tamiya Betty and once with a Revell Sally. Each time I felt guilty about having multiples of each kit and sold one from each stash. Guilt gave way to longing for the "lost" kits. I bought more of each.
Art AMS Poster Child
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