Do you sell your kits?

[Edbert]

Obviously nobody could display every kit they've completed, most of us could not even store them and I spent ~25 years not building anything.

It seems some people sell them, like almost all of them, keeping only the few great or sentimental ones. Some say they put them on ebay as an auction with a low starting price and just take what they can get. Some put them up with a high price and say "OBO".

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?ite...sid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=vitalii_repin

Others do this...

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?ite...trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=welf_model

What do you do?

 

[durangod]

I save them for my grandson when he gets that age.

 

[BlackSheepTwoOneFour]

No. I'll keep building until I'm no longer able to. When that time comes, I'll most likely donte to anyone over at my other forum I frequent to. Upon my death - not that will happen anytime in the near future - I have left instructions to my sister to help donate to said forum I've already mentioned.

 

[Edbert]

No. I'll keep building until I'm no longer able to.

I'm with ya bro, I think eyesight is what will end it for me.

The topic was more about, what do you do with them when finished. I do think you answered that, and few things are more dear than grandkids, I have four so far.

 

[Jim62]

Mine sit on my shelves though I have a box for those I build that just don't fit the bill. That means I screwed them up beyond repair, or they were a junk kit to begin with, and I will sometimes use them for paint mules if I try something new. I have no one to give them too and told my wife when I'm gone feel free to trash them.

 

[TimM63]

I have donated a couple of my builds to the local VFW. Otherwise they sit on a shelf or hang on the wall.

 

[wjbrandel]

When I run out of display room, I tend to give the older models away to friends.

 

[the Baron]

I've started thinking more over the past few years, about selling off some of my stash. I know I'll never build all of my kits, and even more obvious to me is that I don't have the display space for finished models.
I'm not too likely to use eBay, though. Too much effort and too much hassle with the site and rules. I'll take a table at a show and maybe sell some at my club. That's simpler. I'll price 'em to move, too.

 

[PatW]

No! only buy kits to build them as soon as possible, and display them. When I run out of room which will be soon, perhaps sometime next year I shall stop buying. We only have one major show here in the UK, which is a distance away, so I've only been twice in thirty years. It's very military orientated so not of much interest to me. I did go to the tip about ten years ago with thirty or forty built models to throw away, and the manager there asked if he could take for his grandson, I was only too pleased to do that.

 

[Edbert]

I've started thinking more over the past few years, about selling off some of my stash. I know I'll never build all of my kits, and even more obvious to me is that I don't have the display space for finished models.
I'm not too likely to use eBay, though. Too much effort and too much hassle with the site and rules. I'll take a table at a show and maybe sell some at my club. That's simpler. I'll price 'em to move, too.

I've sold many classic car parts on ebay before, but you're spot on about the hassles. Craigslist was good long ago, but for the last ~7 or 9 years I've had luck selling off old stuff with Facebook's "marketplace".

Never even tried to sell a built model before, but folks who say they sell them for whatever they can get (I cannot help but think those $500 prices are dreaming)...it kind of makes sense.

 

[JOHN R]

Stick all my older dios in the loft, other I keep the figures to reuse. Postage and packing of a diorama would be a problem.