Tag: value

• From Expensive To Valueless In One Simple Movement

  

  Want to know how to convert $300.00 to nothing in a couple of weeks? Easy. Go put and buy a $ 300.00 kit and build it. It was worth the 300 on the shelf in the shop, dropped to 150 in your stash, and as soon as it was complete it became unsaleable. Not quite…

  Dick Stein

  December 1, 2021

  Collecting, finances, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized

  costs, models, sales, value

• Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Two – The Box Open

  

  Regular day today. April Fools torment over for another year. Here’s the contents of the new Airfix kit: Fuselage halves with a big space in the nose for variations in framing and windows. Propellers, superchargers, and what looks suspiciously like a steam dome for a locomotive. Internal framing bits and machine guns. Detailed engines and…

  Dick Stein

  July 1, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Boeing, Decals, Fortress, palns, sprues, value

• Out Of The Box

  

  ” Oh he’s just built that out of the box “… If you ever hear this you are entitled to sneer, but be careful where you direct your lip. The speaker is using the word ” just ” to belittle the modeller. There is a suggestion of lack of skill or imagination. Possibly a financial…

  Dick Stein

  October 13, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  model boxes, OOTB building, value