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Mine has to be that Missing Link Resin '73 Chevelle resin kit that cost about $80 if I remember correctly. Usually the kits I buy are in $20 to $50 range, depending on how rare it is or if it's unstarted or a glue bomb etc... But I try not to spend that much money on these right now, as my 1:1 cars are taking pretty much everything I have...:P

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Qmd8YPM.jpgI only have 2 high dollar kits. One of them is a holy grail for me. $500 for a limited run of 1/8 GT40 super detail engine. The other was $250 for a long out of production Scale Motorsports Super Detail Porsche 956 set. All the rest of my kits were $30 or less

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Whatever the asking price was for the Modelhaus '70 Ford and '73 Chevy 4 door wagons I ordered as soon as I realised I couldn't put off buying them any longer as they were closing down.

Didn't help that our dollar plummeted between placing the order and them charging my card.

Worth it though.

 

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Since you asked about kits, not specifying type, almost $900 for a Soar Art 1/35 scale Dora Railway gun. I bought it almost two years ago. I haven't even attempted to start it yet. This is what it will look like:

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THAT is an impressive model!!!!!:o  I've seen them in 1/72, and they look huge, but 1/35.... whole nuther ball game.  Most expensive kit kit i ever bought.....$175 for a mint sealed big scale Monogram Jag XKE coupe.

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29,400 for the Model Factory Hiro Shelby Cobra Daytona 427 Super Coupe. Of course that is in Japanese Yen and worked out to be $245 shipped directly from MFH at that time. The dollar is still pretty strong against the Yen and when this kit first came out I could not get it for under $350. So yes I did take advantage of it and was being cheap. Currently it would be about $275 shipped.

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$130 for a mint unbuilt AMT '66 Barracuda, back in the early '90s.

Four or five years ago I was making pretty good money and went on an ePay buying spree. In addition to a bunch of nice restorable glue bombs and "distressed" promos, I scored mint unbuilt annual AMT '66 Mustang HT/conv, '68 Firebird, '64 Olds Cutlass, and '64, '65, and '67 Corvette coupes, and paid somewhere in the $70s for each of them.

Nowadays, using coupons, it's rare for me to pay over $20 for a new kit.

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I am a cheapskate, most of my models are bought from Ebay, with store coupons, or at model shows, and the occasional flea market/yard sale.  The most I have ever paid was around $50, including tax for the 1/8 Big Tub and that was using a HL 40% coupon.  I eventually sold it for $65.  If I were to bring home a model that cost as much as some mentioned, I would not be able to build it since my wife would break both my arms and legs. :wacko:

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Paid $500 for a factory sealed 1968 Color Me Gone Charger funnycar

Came to my senses a few years later and sold it......for the same $500.

 

But the past  years I've been on a buying spree...and have bought a bunch of old annuals buitlups.....most were in the. $50 -75 range...but I do have a few go over $100

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