Has anyone noticed with the auction places or old kit stores( mostly on the internet) That there holdings fall into three types. There are geninuely hard to get things such as old science fiction. Kits that still represent the best model of the type. Kits where one must decide if they are worth breaking the piggy bank.
Then there are the kits for which superior models now exist. Where one would either be saving a kit surpassed like a wine that will never be opened or there is a lack of knowledge to obscure the fact that a better kit exists. I concede there are a few that will pay eighty dollars to build a jet that cost me .75 cents in 1969 for nostalgic reasons.
My favorite finding I will split in two parts. One can find a marked up kit at the sites I mentioned possibly not realizing it is in production. It is in the hobby store much cheaper from the same company, or a rebox from a company that acquired the rights such as Revell germany has done with many Matchbox types.
For me, since I only get what I plan to build, such companies and auction sites might have something such as an old Italian seaplane or flying boat not in production that is still the best thing going. Yet at the high prices I see more and more the resin market is stepping in with a better product.
Sincerely,
AC