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Post by redbaron on Jun 9, 2012 15:23:24 GMT -6
What kit do you regret selling the most?
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Post by RatRod on Jun 9, 2012 15:45:18 GMT -6
My mint unbuilt Super Digger comes to mind, maybe my King Chopper was a bad decision too, but I made serious cabbage on both (back when the average American had some extra cash) But I guess the one I parted with that I really regret the most was the Tamiya 1/6 Harley FatBoy...... 
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Post by 15badcats on Jun 9, 2012 16:29:59 GMT -6
I sold my Laramie Stage Ghost about 10 years ago for 50.00 but the guy I sold it to couldn't sell it on ebay lucky for me so he sold it back to me a year later for the 50 but I think the thing I regret most is all the cool kits I blew up as a kid with firecrackers
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Post by Starry Eyes on Jun 9, 2012 20:39:06 GMT -6
I would have to say my 1st issued Monogram Little-T which I just replaced recently... ;D
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Post by old school modeler on Jun 10, 2012 4:39:10 GMT -6
I sold my original MPC Mako Shark slot car pretty cheap, wish I had hung on to that one.
Decided to sell of a bunch of instruction sheets once, only one that sold was the AMT Edsel Funny Car, every time I saw one for years and years, it was always missing the instruction sheet.
Had two sealed Aurora Green Hornet kits way before the Polar Lights reissue when they were grail gold, traded one to a figure collector on a deal, when I opened the other one it was missing a wheel.
Got a big box of slot cars once, many in their original packaging, sold most of them for $20 or less, If I had only hung on to those!
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Post by Tim Nolan on Jun 10, 2012 5:27:10 GMT -6
I can honestly say, none of them. It's just plastic. I made a killing on my collection of vintage AMT showrods about 15 years ago, thank God I did because the reissue programs killed the mile-high values of them!! LOL!! I'm not against the reissues by any means, in fact I'm diggin' the fact that whole new generations get a shot at owning/building some of the great kits we all enjoyed when we were young. Toys are meant to be played with, models are meant to be built.
I will admit, my King Chopper in my collection will NEVER go. It was my favorite a a kid, the last model I kept until I was a teenager and finally tossed it. I was so stoked when John Greczula sold me a kit many years back, and building it again was a dream come true! I still enjoy looking at it every day!
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Post by mykturk on Jun 10, 2012 17:17:25 GMT -6
I don't regret selling any kits, but I sure regret burning, blasting and busting a great many. Even worse, are all the ones I gave away when I turned 13...
EVERY Deals Wheels, EVERY Tom Daniel and more AMT and MPC dragsters and Hot Rods you can name plus a bunch of bigger scale Entex stuff. Star Trek ships too. Gave away.
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Post by bellyofthewhale on Jun 17, 2012 18:56:14 GMT -6
I can honestly say, none of them. It's just plastic. I made a killing on my collection of vintage AMT showrods about 15 years ago, thank God I did because the reissue programs killed the mile-high values of them!! LOL!! I'm not against the reissues by any means, in fact I'm diggin' the fact that whole new generations get a shot at owning/building some of the great kits we all enjoyed when we were young. Toys are meant to be played with, models are meant to be built. I will admit, my King Chopper in my collection will NEVER go. It was my favorite a a kid, the last model I kept until I was a teenager and finally tossed it. I was so stoked when John Greczula sold me a kit many years back, and building it again was a dream come true! I still enjoy looking at it every day! |
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Post by Brandon on Jun 18, 2012 15:00:49 GMT -6
I am an end user. I havent sold any models that Ive regretted... Now musclebikes.... Thats a different story.
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Post by jim on Jun 22, 2012 15:09:24 GMT -6
snoopy sopwith camel
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Post by spencer1984 on Jun 23, 2012 4:30:59 GMT -6
I don't regret selling any, but there have been quite a few that I regret not buying when I had the chance.
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Post by Nicky Vegas on Jun 23, 2012 8:04:32 GMT -6
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Post by Nicky Vegas on Jun 23, 2012 9:01:12 GMT -6
I don't regret selling any, but there have been quite a few that I regret not buying when I had the chance. The Trick T ......... but I built this lttle thing as a sort of tribute, using AMT's T Kit    And ........ While I'm here, and since my computer doesn't seem to want to cooperate, & allow me post in various sections of this site ...... I just want to take this time, to congratulate the builder of that Supervan; posted in the Completed Show Rod Section ; this; again..... is proof that a Very clean, well thought out build; goes a long way  ..... a nice break from the goofy, no taste garbage; that seems to have infiltrated the "Show Rod modelling Scene"    |
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Post by Psychotic Hillbilly on Jun 23, 2012 11:14:02 GMT -6
All my 1/8 stuff. Wish I still had it. I resigned to only having my 1:1 builds and a few other items as a collection. I am focusing more on the 1:1 builds for now and dont see me collecting all the kits I had a few years ago.
Ken...
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Post by Phil Patterson on Jul 31, 2012 22:01:40 GMT -6
I sold a near mint Californian several years ago on the "bay" It ended on a slow day and didn't get what I thought it was worth. Ah well...
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Post by badroadahead on Aug 1, 2012 7:42:07 GMT -6
I don't regret selling any.....but I do regret smashing, crashing, burning and blowing up all the models I had as a kid.....
Dave
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Post by Mysterion on Aug 1, 2012 8:12:21 GMT -6
I don't think I've ever sold a model.
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Post by colbart/colin on Aug 1, 2012 8:40:39 GMT -6
I don't regret selling any.....but I do regret smashing, crashing, burning and blowing up all the models I had as a kid..... Dave Same here not that long ago either Tom Daniels I purchased for 50p from Zodiac toy shop (late 1970s). All the special edition Dinky Vehicles as well (Batman/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang/Man from U.n.c.l.e./UFO/ and many others worth a fortune now ;-( Col. |
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Post by Mysterion on Aug 1, 2012 9:12:36 GMT -6
I don't regret blowing any up or melting them as a kid. To be honest, that rarely happened. What I do remember was playing with the models back then. Once built, they didn't go on display, you got together with your buddies and raced them around. They eventually fell apart, went into the parts box until one day when someone would proclaim it's "Parts Box Build Day", then they got recycled. I do remember some huge parts boxes back then!
I don't own anything from my childhood, so if they got blown up crushed, broken or whatever, it wouldn't matter, I still wouldn't have them anymore.
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Post by Dennis M on Aug 1, 2012 11:16:53 GMT -6
I was 12 yrs old & had a beautiful visible chassis & v8 engine that worked fine until my buddy brought over his new b.b gun. 40 yrs later im still kicking my self in the butt.
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..... a nice break from the goofy, no taste garbage; that seems to have infiltrated the "Show Rod modelling Scene" 
