Hi,
Although I know I need to cut back on hobby purchases right now, while searching eBay the other day I stumbled across a listed for a random lot of ship model parts (the seller actually listed it as a "model kit junkyard"). Since I recognized a couple kits in the photos and the price wasn't too much I went ahead and bid on it, and ended up winning it.
The package arrived today, and in it I found a Heller "ROC Amadour" fishing boat (still in its bag), a Lindberg Coast Guard Tug (also still in its bag), a Lindberg Coast Guard patrol boat (which may or may not be complete, since it was out of its bag), a Lindberg Amercan Presidents Line passenger ship (also out of its bag which may or may not be complete) and at least 6 Airfix Mauretania kits (which also may or may not be fully complete).
I'm very happy that the Tug and Fishing boat look to be complete, and even if the Patrol Boat and APL passenger ship are not fully complete both those hulls can make good starting points for scratchbuilding/kitbashing stuff like a power yacht/cabin cruiser (for the patrol boat) or a wide variety of cargo ships (for the APL ship) if I want to try something different with them.
And with all the parts in the box for the Mauretania kits I suspect that I will have enough parts for at least a couple complete builds, though I'm not fully sure what I will do with all 6 of the ulls yet