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On 4/3/2024 at 8:29 AM, tth2 said:

"Guess what! I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Garfield!" 

I would say prices were all over the map.  Classic covers seemed to kill it but books like Batman 11 seemed to go a little cheap.  Of course anything I was watching went on the high side and therefore not into my collection.

On 4/3/2024 at 11:14 AM, Hepcat said:

 

1. How about the Aurora figure kits from the 1950's and 1960's that don't quite fit into those categories such as the Confederate Raider, Knights, Gladiators, Castle Creatures, Dick Tracy, Zorro, Jesse James, etc? The Comic Scenes from the 1970's? Do you collect those as well?

2. Did you get lucky on egregiously expensive kits such as Gigantic Frankenstein, Godzilla's Go Kart, King Kong's Thronester and the Lost in Space diorama or did you end up having to pay through the nose for those?

3. How have you been able to resist other non-Aurora lines of kits such as the Hawk Weird-Ohs, Revell "Big Daddy" Roth Finks and Monogram Fred Flypoggers?

I am not doing the earlier kits right now and doubt I will.  Have thought about the sports sets but haven’t made any move yet and likely wont.  I don’t really like the later kits that were remakes either.

For the crazy expensive kits like Godzilla and King Kong cars, I don’t have them and seriously doubt I ever will.  The Gigantic Frankenstein kit I got below what I expected to pay.  The Lost in Space big kit probably paid current price.  For the robot, got a big bargain on it.  The recent opened but with the cellophane Godzilla Go Kart went for the price of a new car. 

I have one Weird-Ohs kit and keep my eyes open for others (love the card sets).  There are a few other kits I am watching for that aren’t Auroras.  I am looking forward to being able to display all of them plus some toys in a few years.

On 4/2/2024 at 1:24 PM, dick pontoon said:

Had some tears and the box is a little beat but a good placeholder?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/276340981347?itmmeta=01HTG3ABE9S62125C12J4YYT74&hash=item405734be63:g:VfwAAOSwStJlvYsI&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8Fw82wtdZRxhCCMnsUfzsQDLw69JAW6yaG8lsOVhjHHj5qVKIEvBuIXHxLSB6uAfcnrytWakKNNsBk6AS0Bp7UETUXQhriwpscvh2u2mgGMwqiNkmT%2BLlFNbscEklFdBvtAr7UnowH0PmhbL9%2FOwEB%2BuyKZn%2BLKZO4Dw5jQMxPPvXwutn%2F%2BpqL%2Bbk4nevslh8thm33QSF3x5HjUpCUtgEJYqaNAsQjRw9TKjX7SKcPWyaikREiE%2BL%2Bj9INOvwble2%2FQrw1DotNQwij2wax7hxSZNHNoPDkTnMAWYQlENNORLNOnw8T4BgXxrLOEjI3D06g%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6a3qYPUYw

Not I didn't see it.  For the bigger kits, the boxes always get smashed some because the shrink wrap keeps shrinking

On 4/2/2024 at 1:05 PM, dick pontoon said:

That's interesting. I would have figured that one for being more common. Did you see the one that was on ebay a few weeks ago?

I see unsealed kits for the Wooly Mammoth some times but not a sealed one

Group shot of all my Prehistoric Scenes collection (minus dupes).

I split them out by Dinosaurs and Mammals

On 4/2/2024 at 12:45 PM, dick pontoon said:

Jungle Swamp?

Jungle Swamp comes up pretty often.  The one you don't see is the Wooly Mammoth

Two dinosaur kits left to go !

One comes up fairly often and one very rarely

Hakes winnings are in the house

Quite a few packages to open

On 3/29/2024 at 10:26 AM, Hepcat said:

So you're building it yourself I take it. Are you good at building furniture or is this a first effort? And from what kind of wood and what kind of stains are you considering?

 

I learned to make furniture from my dad, he made customer furniture for about 30 years.  This will be made from 3/4 inch birch plywood, filled, sanded, then spray painted white.

I am still refining the plans but this is sort of what my shelving unit will look like.  I sill need to add the side pieces that will finish covering the wall.

On 3/28/2024 at 7:03 PM, Hepcat said:

"Will have"? Are you saying that you've not been displaying your model kits to this point?

They are displayed in a hodge podged way.  Some in one room, some in another, lots you can't see.

Current state of the collection, 104 kits and counting.

All the high grade in this next auction  

On 3/28/2024 at 5:02 PM, Hepcat said:

I fully understand OCD. After all, I collect variants of a whole bunch of card sets:

Bowman Red Menace with both beige card stock and grey card stock

Topps Target Moon and Space 

Topps Space with both blue backs and pink/salmon/coral backs

Topps planes with both red and blue backs

Topps Sports Cars with both beige card stock and grey card stock

1961 and 1966 Topps Giant Funny Valentines plus 1966 O-Pee-Chee Giant Funny Valentines

1961-62 Hockey Coins in both Shirriff and Salada backs

Fightin' Warship Coins in Krun-Chee, Schuler's and Hunter's backs

1963 Space Orbit Coins in six different backs

Dog Coins in both Humpty Dumpty and Hunter's backs

1963 CFL Coins in both bilingual and English only backs

Sunbeam, Taystee and Langendorf DC Superheroes

Plus whatever slipped my mind these past few minutes.

That being said I can't imagine collecting model kits varying only by part of the model number in my lifetime. Quite simply there are hundreds of different model kits I still need/want. Moreover unlike my cards which require minimum storage space in binders, model kits take up substantial display space. This means additional kits take up display space that is then denied to other kits! Why then waste this space on essentially the same kit?

 

My office is 330sqft and I will have a 20ft x 9ft shelf system on one wall to fill so storage isn't going to be an issue for quite a while.

On 3/24/2024 at 3:33 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Why is this a blue?

My guess is the grader was drunk from drinking fermented pickle juice while incapsulating it

On 3/21/2024 at 11:07 PM, Hepcat said:

Okay. I guess it's high time I showed my stuff. Don't say you weren't begging for it. I've been collecting unbuilt model kits since about 1983. I have a den where I keep my comics and many of my other collectibles:

 

Here from nearly ten years ago are some pics of the main model cabinet in my den:

 

And here's the miscellaneous toy cabinet in which I keep the overflow from my model kit cabinet:

 

And a few close-up shots featuring Styx:

 

And here's Styx standing guard to make sure no interloper, two legged or otherwise, trys to build any of my three Monogram Fred Flypogger kits:

 

I have of course added a few slot car and other kits to my collection in recent years. If any of these kits are of particular interest, I have dozens of close-up shots of most of the model kits visible in my cabinets.

Amazing collection 

On 3/22/2024 at 8:28 PM, Jayman said:

Do you have a Dr. Evil?

I have a loose Dr Evil and Captain Action I bought for $15 each at a comic book store.  Captain Action has all the accessories but the Dr Evil only has his clothes

On 3/22/2024 at 12:44 PM, buttock said:

Would you like the number for my divorce attorney? 

She knows better than to ask now

On 3/22/2024 at 8:50 AM, buttock said:

On occasion I had someone mail me a color copy prior to committing to a book.  Those were the days! 

I bet I still have a few of the scans I got in a box someplace, color printouts were expensive back then

On 3/22/2024 at 6:55 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Did DOJ just tap you on the shoulder?

Nope, but the IRS is keeping a close eye on us !

On 3/22/2024 at 1:27 AM, lou_fine said:

Don't you miss the old days when we were all so much younger and thought that a million dollars was a fantasy world and one that we would never ever see and only dream of having one day?  

Now, we live in a real world where a million dollars wouldn't even get you anywere close to buying a house in most of the major cities in North America  and yet also one where Jensen Huang has made countless new millionaires on paper at least with the Nvidia company which he founded and started back in 1993.  

The company I work for has created about 10,000 employee millionaires and more than 1/2 that multi-millionaires

On 3/21/2024 at 9:35 PM, buttock said:

I'm going to flip through it tonight, maybe we can talk this weekend about strategizing!

At least the catalog has images, that's a big step forward