I picked up a couple of 1/350 IJN cruisers for around $75 each (roughly half off) at different times over the past few years. That's about as high as I am willing to pay for any single kit.  Before that it was a 1/48 Revell B-1B that I paid about $60 for. Like GM I have enough kits (and then some) to last me until the day I die. Unless I get Gollum's unnaturally long life. I still pick up the occasional kit now and then. Especially the new releases of a subject I do not yet have or have never built before. But they have to be "good deals", often acquired at Club meets when other members are thinning out their stashes. Or the occasional Hobby Lobby 40% off find of something that fills a hole in my collection.

I did spend roughly $90.00 on-line for a 1/25 Tiger I kit simply because it was on my childhood wanted most list.

I have yet to pay more for a single kit.

My self imposed swap meet limit is  $100, though I do wonder how much I would have spent had I attended the IPMS Nationals................

WOW

I like to think i am a frugal modeller

I tend to pick up kits when on sale.......that being said ,i have previously purchased 2 Pocher kits

if I recall correctly,$250 and $650 respectively

The most I've spent on a single kit is $220. I've spent about $300 on a single build though with AM and what have you.

I've been on the fence about going for the HK B-17, but that's mostly about size over price. I don't guess I really have a limit it just depends on how much I really want somehting

About fifty or so is my limit except for garage kits- I did blow over two-hundred on an Earthforce Omega class destroyer (Babylon 5 TV series) a couple of years back along with a few other SF type kits.

My excuse is that as garage kits they could go out of production at any time so I better buy then when I can!!!  

Around $100. The 1/350 tamiya Bismarck, U.S. Missouri and 1/32 tamiya p-51, and both type corsairs were all around that.

I'm on the fence right now on the new 1/32 tamiya mosquito. It's around $200.

The most I ever paid was years ago. I got the 1/16 tamiya RC tiger tank, but justified that as more of an RC purchase than a static kit.

I like the "fixed income upon retirement" statement about increasing the stash. I tell people I bought all mine knowing the prices would go up (they have over the years. At least some). Or, some are limited edition. I just had to!

The most expensive kit I have ever bought is the R2 1/350 TOS Enterprise. $150 for the 1701 kit and $189 for the accessory pack. I can't see ever spending that much again on a kit.

My thinking is if it's under $50 and I want it I buy it. Over $100 I really have to think about it and I will run it by My wife. In between it depends on the kit and my finances at the time.

Tojo72

That's what I tell my wife,I won't be able to buy kits once I'm on a fixed income,so I'm stocking up now.

That is the best line I've ever heard in reference to a modeler dealing with a spouse. I may have to borrow it, if I may.

I was also thinking along the line of GM. As a kid, my dad got me about any model I wanted. This was in the late 60's and he looked at model building as insurance against me turning to drugs. (It worked, btw). I remember the motorized Tamiya tanks as being some of the expensive ones.

I was spoiled then, now, there is a limit. And we have a lot more add-on items to add to the total ticket than we used to have back in the day. And I'm one of those nuts who thinks he has to find and buy every accessory ever made for a kit when researching it. (not exactly, but sort of....)

GMorrison

Also, there is then and now. I currently in good conscience could not spend more than $ 50 on a kit. Ten years ago, I spent $ 300.00 on a very nice full hull Combrig 1/350 Scharnhorst (World War 1) that I still have not built. At this point my stash is going to be my retirement supply.

Very valid point, GMorrison, on the then and now. And like yourself, my stash will cover me long into retirement.

Also, there is then and now. I currently in good conscience could not spend more than $ 50 on a kit. Ten years ago, I spent $ 300.00 on a very nice full hull Combrig 1/350 Scharnhorst (World War 1) that I still have not built. At this point my stash is going to be my retirement supply.

The most I spent so far is $150 for a Trumpeter Nimitz. I'll spend a little more for the Trumpeter Kitty Hawk, and the Merit Kennedy. But those will be close to my limit. I just can't see myself ever paying $450 for a kit.