Tag: stash sales

• The Best Kits Are The Surprise Ones

  

  Either the ones that are given to you on birthdays and holidays or the acquisitions from abandoned stashes. The fact that they are an uncontrolled occurrence doesn’t lessen their value; it actually enhances it. There is a sense of surprise that you don’t get wandering the shelves of your usual hobby shop. Come to that,…

  Dick Stein

  April 3, 2026

  Collecting, frugality, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Uncategorized

  birthdays, Hobby Shops, stash sales, surprises

• The Stash Sale Guide

  

  Or how to do yourself either a lot of good or a serious injury… Stash sales are going on all the time – people decide to thin their collection of unbuilt kits for many reasons. Some need the money – some need the space – some need relief from the pressure of family expectations. Or…

  Dick Stein

  June 23, 2024

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Czech models, finances, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  bargains, stash sales, trading