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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, July 8, 2023 8:56 PM

When I first met my wife, she liked going to antique malls, which were mostly second hand stores as opposed to true antique stores.

I saw a zip lock bag of OD green model sprue parts for $5. I bought it and inside was an old Aurora 1/48 scale M109 howitzer and a started Bandai Jeep.

This was around 1994 before eBay and these things ran for like $20 or more each back then.

While the M109's vinyl tracks had gotten sticky due to the vinyl degradation, it was complete as was the Jeep kit.

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    October 2020
Variety abounds!
Posted by Faust on Saturday, July 8, 2023 11:45 AM
One of my favourite things as a modeller is seeing kits in person you never thought you’d see; Either built, at a show, or better yet, for sale somewhere so you can add it to your stash! For me, that’s tied with the thrill of finding out there IS a kit of THAT, whatever weird and wonderful “that” that maybe.
 
No wonder, then, I love going to antiques stores and swap meets – it’s like a giant garage sale of potential sprue awesomeness! It’s rare to find a lot of variety, but this spring proved to have a bumper crop of old and varied models out there waiting for me! About the only thing I build that I didn’t get was armour, but that’s okay.
 
Check out my last few months’ haul below for a little bit of everything from around the world! There’s gotta be something in there to make you smile!
 
 
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