chances of finding model kits at carboot?

[Deckerz]

Tomorrow morning im going to the most popular carboot in my area which is also my local carboot. Im mainly going to get a few cans of paint because the ones i buy they sell for less then half price at the carboot. what are the chances of finding 1 more more model car kits at a carboot?

[highway]

Please don't take offense to this, but what in the world is a carboot?

[Deckerz]

Please don't take offense to this, but what in the world is a carboot?

oh well its hard to say what its like but kinda like a flea market, its basically like a big sale that has loads of stuff from car parts to fruit ect.

[highway]

oh well its hard to say what its like but kinda like a flea market, its basically like a big sale that has loads of stuff from car parts to fruit ect.

Oh, ok, I get it now! I know a few flea markets a friend of mine has went to here in the states usually has some luck finding some cheap models there.

[sak]

I have been to a few american style flea markets and they semmed to be full of venders selling mostly new products, cloting, as-seen-on-tv stuff, did not see anything of interest to me. But I you can find one that deals with collectibles or even just antiques or other junk, you will have great luck. Flea markets are the only place I buy mine, sometimes as low as only a few dollars. I went with a friend to something called a comic-con. Mostly comic books but a guy had a table with starwar toys, but underneath was still wrapped model car kits for five bucks each.

Edited October 23, 2010 by sak

[Junkman]

The chances to find a plastic model kit at a British boot sale are bordering zero. It's hard enough to find model kit vendors at toy fairs, but at boot sales it would be a huge coincidence to find a model kit, especially an automotive one. You might find your odd Airfix Spitfire which has been built by a kid 30 years ago and deteriorated from then onwards.

@highway - a boot sale is something typically British. It is indeed like a flea market at first glance, but the vendors are overwhelmingly non-professionals. It's really people selling the stuff which has accumulated in their lofts over the past centuries.

Edited October 24, 2010 by Junkman

[jbwelda]

hmmm i went to a lotus club show out in coventry and they had a boot sale and indeed there were a number of models, built and not, to be had there, for pretty cheap mostly.

now i know what you mean probably isnt a car-centric flea market (as they are referred to here in the states), but i think you have as good a chance as anywhere of coming across something. secret probably is to get there early (as in way before i care to get somewhere like that on a sunday morning) as i have ahem heard thats when the good stuff goes fast.

now that i think of it i was at a neighborhood flea market in copenhagen and two or three people had model kits, i recall one tamiya wrc subaru or something like that.