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227 model kit stash for sale on eBay, worth the price?

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227 model kit stash for sale on eBay, worth the price?
Posted by Echo139er on Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:36 AM

Looking for a deal online I came across this...  227 kits stash for sale, on eBay.

I am curious if the content is worth the price.  On a quick browse and if it was a more solid, meaningful, number, like maybe two more added... I think so.  Do you?

[Disclaimer: I am not the seller, nor am I associated with that cat in any way]. 

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Posted by Bish on Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:51 AM

If you wanted all those kits, then ye i guess it would be. But it is a lot of buck in one go.

Do you think his wife wouldn't let him go the extra 2.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:10 PM

227 kits for 1800.00?  DOLLARS!?!?!?

Granted, that's about eight bucks per, but that's a lot of scratch to shell out at once and there's not much to go on..

I'd ask the seller for a better  list of kits and their scales before I'd bid..  It's an ok price per, but what if there're 200 kits in a scale or genre you don't do?

 

 

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:16 PM

Whoops.. Somebody just bought it in the last 6 minutes.. That you Echo?

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:21 PM

I'll let you know...he threw in two more kits to boot...

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Posted by Echo139er on Saturday, June 23, 2012 12:22 PM

Hans von Hammer

Whoops.. Somebody just bought it in the last 6 minutes.. That you Echo?

Nope....   Homies be broke these days.   Embarrassed

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, June 24, 2012 8:04 AM

It's helpful that it kind of gives you an estimate of what a small stash of that size would go for on the open market. I'd have taken the extra step to make a list of the individual kits, but he must have gotten his money regardless.

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, June 24, 2012 8:13 AM

If 227 kits are a small stash, what does a big stash look like?  Hmm

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Posted by PaperPanzer on Sunday, June 24, 2012 1:21 PM

Sprue-ce Goose

If 227 kits are a small stash, what does a big stash look like?  Hmm

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/227-Model-Kits-Lot-WWII-Tanks-Planes-Modern-Aircraft-1-35-1-32-1-48-scales-/00/s/MTA2NlgxNjAw/$(KGrHqNHJDUE+O,FNWnYBP4kUuip6w~~60_57.JPG

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/sprue_cegoose/pix/th_Kalashnikitty.jpg

Just be glad the seller isn't in Southern CA. If an earthquake strikes, that's one big mess! There are some of my "do wants" in those piles, those Ju 88s for a start, it looks like he cleaned out a closing hobby shop! (we have way too many of those) Sad

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  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, June 24, 2012 2:14 PM

PaperPanzer

 

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

If 227 kits are a small stash, what does a big stash look like?  Hmm

http://i.ebayimg.com/t/227-Model-Kits-Lot-WWII-Tanks-Planes-Modern-Aircraft-1-35-1-32-1-48-scales-/00/s/MTA2NlgxNjAw/$(KGrHqNHJDUE+O,FNWnYBP4kUuip6w~~60_57.JPG

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/ae287/sprue_cegoose/pix/th_Kalashnikitty.jpg

 

.......... it looks like he cleaned out a closing hobby shop! (we have way too many of those) Sad

 

I can think of only four Chicago area hobby shops that display significantly more kits.

There may be others but I haven't been able to visit all of 'em. 

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:05 PM

Beat my LHS..

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:21 PM

Looking at the pic, the 1/32 kits stack alone is rougly about $1000 dollars retail. With all that 1/35 armor and 1/48 aircraft tacked on, plus the 1/72 birds... $1800 is a very good price for what is shown... I could turn around and sell the 1/72 pile and at least make back the shipping costsHmm

 

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Sunday, June 24, 2012 4:46 PM

Sprue-ce Goose

If 227 kits are a small stash, what does a big stash look like?  Hmm

Well, obviously more. Based on that photo, my stash can easily go that deep into a one car garage and continue the width. Basically occupy a footprint larger than a sedan and go six feet tall.

There are photos of it here from one of the old "how big is your stash" threads. Most have been boxed into fairly decent sized moving boxes with some sembalance of order (box may be labeled 1/72 scale aircraft, Italeri armor, etc.). I started cataloging them on a legal pad, but never finished it.  Listing box #1 on page 1 of the yellow pad and then listing the contents of that box. Obviously, a 1/35 armor box doesn't have as many kits as a 1/72 scale armor box, but you get the idea of how I'm trying to get a handle of the kits I have.

Edit: found the old thread, the stash is larger, but as previously stated, not laid out on shelves (still have some like that though). The vast majority are in moving boxes from when I moved off post and into a house in a local town.

/forums/p/52104/540985.aspx#540985

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:18 PM

Rob Gronovius

 

 Sprue-ce Goose:

 

If 227 kits are a small stash, what does a big stash look like?  Hmm

 

 

Well, obviously more. Based on that photo, my stash can easily go that deep into a one car garage and continue the width. Basically occupy a footprint larger than a sedan and go six feet tall.

There are photos of it here from one of the old "how big is your stash" threads. Most have been boxed into fairly decent sized moving boxes with some sembalance of order (box may be labeled 1/72 scale aircraft, Italeri armor, etc.). I started cataloging them on a legal pad, but never finished it.  Listing box #1 on page 1 of the yellow pad and then listing the contents of that box. Obviously, a 1/35 armor box doesn't have as many kits as a 1/72 scale armor box, but you get the idea of how I'm trying to get a handle of the kits I have.

Edit: found the old thread, the stash is larger, but as previously stated, not laid out on shelves (still have some like that though). The vast majority are in moving boxes from when I moved off post and into a house in a local town.

/forums/p/52104/540985.aspx#540985

Rob:

thanks for the reply and "hot link"

Based upon your photos and  "footprint" description I can well understand why you are selling off some of your stash kits when buying new model kits.

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Posted by CrashTestDummy on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 2:41 PM

Dang, that was in Houston.  Could have built up the stash.  Oh well, I don't know what I'm going to do with what I have now.  

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

G. Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

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