How to go about selling *LOTS* of Airfix/Revell/other model kits

If there’s a 1/48 scale Mig 15 there then I’ll happily take it off your hands for a reasonable sum.

I know a man who buys such things Brant.

Brant knows this. The man is a sales wizard.

b r – Member

Have you a son/daughter, nephew/niece who is time rich but money poor?

Do a deal with them to ebay the lot, percentage of the sale price after costs.

Hi Uncle Brant <waves> 😛

I live in Cranfield and look over at a lightning every day, never flies although they do run up the engines from time

There’s three at Bruntingthorpe, one at least is ‘live’, the other two close to, but none will ever fly, and neither will the Cranfield jet: CAA absolutely will not allow any civilian fast jet to have a licence to fly, just look at the repercussions from the Hunter that crashed at the air display a couple of years back, a transonic jet is a no-no.
Sadly.

I have an interest in modelling – though not aircraft.

Some of those kits may be worth a few quid (when I say a few quid, could be £40, £50 for a few of them).

To realise the full value your best bet is to find an aircraft modelling forum and post there. Ask what people are looking for and (if you have the time) prepare an inventory you could send.

(oldmodelkits.com may be worth a look, US based but might give you some values)

If they have barcodes you could automate some of the inventory work.

Don’t suppose you have an Airfix Catalina?

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Some of those kits may be worth a few quid (when I say a few quid, could be £40, £50 for a few of them).

Do as mrmonkfinger says and sell them in batches on Ebay, there may be a few gems in there that a dealer won’t tell you about.

If you’re selling any on here I bagsy the Sea Fury!

spursn17 – Member
If you’re selling any on here I bagsy the Sea Fury!

That’s the 1/72 PM Model Sea Fury, it’s an alright (albeit simple) kit but not something I’d expect anyone to get excited about! Did you know about the 1/48 new tool Sea Fury that Airfix will be bringing out later in the year? There’s also one or two existing 1/48 Sea Fury kits, plus the PM Model kit was reboxed by Airfix (with better decals) for a while.

Here’s my attempt to build up one of PM Model’s other Sea Fury kits as VX281, part of the Royal Navy Historic Flight:

OP, get them on Ebay.

I just had a quick look and the Trumpeter 1/48 Sea Fury is going for 20-35 quid, the 1/72 is 15-20. There’s a Trumpeter F105D in that stash and if it’s 1/72 it’s about £20, 1/32 is £90ish!

Did you know about the 1/48 new tool Sea Fury that Airfix will be bringing out later in the year?

I didn’t, I’m having one of those! Sorry OP you just lost a sale! 😀

If you want them to go to someone who will love them then check out local model clubs and shops. Could ask a model shop to sell them on your behalf for a cut of the money.

Or stick them on eBay a few at a time and let them decide what they are worth (minus ebay fees of course).

Also Gumtree is also worth a punt as people setup general alerts for items they are after. They also come to your house generally so no fees and no delivery costs

Final count is 1203 😯

Thanks for all the feedback.

Final count is 1203

Yikes! If you only got a tenner each… 😯

That must be some kind of record Shirley??

I’d love to have a peek at the inventory.

Agreed, would you be amenable to offers on some, thee are clearly a few here who could be tempted!

Post on the Britmodeller forum, & the Scale Models sub-forum on Pistonheads, you’re guaranteed plenty of interest from those.

Yikes! If you only got a tenner each…

If only they had only cost that much each to put up in the loft in the first place.

It probably makes me a heathen but I just don’t get the whole collecting thing. How does something like this start? Did Brant’s sort of FIL buy a few with the intention of building them, then a few more, then a few more so he had a pile bigger than he conceivably would have time to build.Then just started collecting them with no intention of building them. Then the collection got so big you’d never be able to access them to look at so you are just collecting them to know that they are ‘up there’. There’s nowt as queer as folk.

convert – Member

Did Brant’s sort of FIL buy a few with the intention of building them, then a few more, then a few more so he had a pile bigger than he conceivably would have time to build.

ChrisL take heed.

It probably makes me a heathen but I just don’t get the whole collecting thing

Nor me, but I can understand how it starts. I’ve probably got around 25 waiting to be built and for someone that only completes 1 or 2 a year that’s a lot, I do intend to build them though!
I usually buy something that I like when it comes up cheap, but then another manufacturer will bring out a better version and I’ll get that as well. I can see how a more prolific builder could start to amass a decent size collection.

Then just started collecting them with no intention of building them. Then the collection got so big you’d never be able to access them to look at so you are just collecting them to know that they are ‘up there’. There’s nowt as queer as folk.

He was a collector of aircraft models.

You presumably spend many hundreds of pounds a year to ride a bike around muddy fields.

Indeed, there is nowt so queer as folk.

He was a collector of aircraft models.

You presumably spend many hundreds of pounds a year to ride a bike around muddy fields.

Yes I do appreciate we are all different and inexplicable in our own ways. But where is the endorphin moment for a collector; is it the act of the purchase or is it a Gollum like desire to walk your lands stroking your treasures? I could see me getting off on collecting stuff I could use (even if I rarely did) like cars or bikes or collecting art that smothered the walls of my home or vinyl I could listen to. But unused stuff that was stockpiled in the loft, not so much.

1. find a forum used by cash-rich nerds;
2. post on there asking for advice;
3. profit!

You presumably spend many hundreds of pounds a year to ride a bike around muddy fields.

Why so defensive? – he only asked the question. I, personally have many sporting events on DVD and VHS that I’m never going to get the chance to watch. I can’t explain it, but I couldn’t even remotely compare it to mountain biking.

It probably makes me a heathen but I just don’t get the whole collecting thing. How does something like this start? Did Brant’s sort of FIL buy a few with the intention of building them, then a few more, then a few more so he had a pile bigger than he conceivably would have time to build.Then just started collecting them with no intention of building them. Then the collection got so big you’d never be able to access them to look at so you are just collecting them to know that they are ‘up there’. There’s nowt as queer as folk.

Maybe the model kit boxes were part of one massive model kit box model? When looked at from space you can actually see they all combine to make a model of a one big model box.

I’ve got a collection of vintage board games that I never play! No idea why I bought them, went through a stage on Ebay a few years ago. 😳 😳

Probably worth a few hundred quid if I ever round to selling them.

I collect one random hair on my chin that grows like a twig. Every time it shows itself I pull the bugger out and put it with the rest of its kind – so I can observe its ancestry.

Every time it shows itself I pull the bugger out and put it with the rest of its kind – so I can observe its ancestry.

More like road cycling that one. 😉

Just spend your remaining years building them all?

Your life just got a purpose.

Selling them under the HebMoKiCo brand, will enable you to sell them to people on here for around £100 per kit…. 😉

Bish Bash Bosh….

slimjim78 – Member
I collect one random hair on my chin that grows like a twig. Every time it shows itself I pull the bugger out and put it with the rest of its kind – so I can observe its ancestry.

Dude… seriously… gross

*Note to self: Idea: Artisanal trouser kits.*

*Note to self: Jamie could be onto something*

Brant – Have a chat with these guys: ScaleModellingNow[/url] – they’ll be able to offer advice, or at least could be interested in writing an article about the find.

Final count is 1203

Bloody hell. Unbuilt model kits seem a particularly odd thing to collect.

I was staggered to see the price of models in Hamleys at Christmas – I think those estimates of £7-10 only cover the smallest simplest kits looking at https://www.wonderlandmodels.com/models/plastic-models/airfix/?gclid=CIK6oceojdICFRUTGwodyPMDhA

Those big boxes are £50+ each

Bloody hell. Unbuilt model kits seem a particularly odd thing to collect.

Not so much: kits get discontinued, become collectible because of their rarity, but they’re worth sod-all built up; kept in their original boxes, in pristine condition, they increase in value even more.
Not much different to old die cast models, in some cases the boxes for those can fetch higher prices than the toys, because they’re just thin card and get thrown away or worn and damaged.

You know that film “40 year old virgin”

Bloody hell. Unbuilt model kits seem a particularly odd thing to collect.

Iv’e got about 60-70 in the loft/garage but only recently have actually had a suitable workplace (for 15 years) to build them, so the intention’s there!

I started buying the odd one here and there, must have 10 or so to do now

So it’s an investment thing? I ‘get’ collecting – music, stamps, coins, art, watches, whatever but to collect something that isn’t ‘displayable’ or ‘usable’ is the odd bit. Even ‘dinky’ cars still in the packaging were visible – you could look at them in the packaging.