The Little World

The topic of the most expensive kit…or the rarest kit…or the best bargain kit…has been raised on the Flory forum recently and the team assessed their experiences with these categories. They have had access to far more than any of us, yet they speak about kits that seem somewhat pedestrian. It is most noticeable when they compare prices of then vs prices that these kits fetch now.

I’ve also encountered a debate similar to this in my own club, but the conclusions drawn were different. However there is one commonality – the basic flaw in the logic that converts a toy into an investment and makes worship of resale paramount.

Really, chaps. As wonderful as the works of art and craft we deal with are, they still bear no relationship to food, drink, shelter, or medicine in our lives. They may make us happy, but no happier than relief of hunger or pain would.

If you buy a plastic kit as an investment, you bet that others in the future will be as interested as yourself – and that you can financially benefit from their folly. If you forego this you come to a better place. You build for the pleasure of the construction…or the possession of a particular model…and it is an honest pleasure compared to that of gain.

You can always sell your body for money. Don’t sell your soul as well.

Note: The HE 111 was a gift from a kind friend and has been built…but not as Herr Heinkel would have had it.