Are We Model Hoarders?

[Brudda]

Tell your wife its like collecting shoes, and then she will understand.

[JBucci]

With 100+ unbuilt kits, I would consider my self well organized with no time to build, not a hoarder.

[John Goschke]

Yes, I am a model kit hoarder. At my current of completion I will need to survive to somewhere between 500-700 years old to finish everything (assuming I don't buy anything else.)

Guess I better start eating healthier...

[gtx6970]

Although I am not buying at the rate I was a few years ago...but with somewhere in the 350-400 kit range stash ......I guess I need to get busy.

Edited June 15, 2015 by gtx6970

[ZTony8]

Defacto hoarder/styrene junkie here.I call myself a builder but I'm too slow to be very productive.That's why I'm at 1300 kits and counting.But they're my life insurance policy-I plan to live to be 400 and build them all.So far,so good.

[GLMFAA1]

Thanks for all the reply but this is a serious situation and if you are really interested please pm me.

greg

[DaveM]

If you have a local auctioneer, contact them. Ebay works well, either singly, or in small lots. Load up a minivan and rent a table at a model show. Load up another minivan and rent a table at a flea market, toy show or car show. Don't expect more than $2 a piece for '90s NASCAR models. (Probably NOT worth hauling to a show or flea market)

I am getting rid of a bunch of stuff, both model and non model. It's a balance between price and time. If I could take forever to sell it, and was willing to work full time at it, I could get closer to retail or book prices for all of it. The good stuff is going to consignment auctions, shows and the 'bay. The junkier stuff is going via garage sale, Salvation Army and the curb. (Many resales, like Habitat, St. Vinny's and Salvation Army will take sealed kits.) Do a bit of research so that you aren't spending a lot of time trying to sell a $5 model while giving away a $50 model for nothing. I figure a labor amount of 5 models an hour to list and sell on ebay. (By the time I photograph, list, pack and ship a model, I am probably pretty close) Have lots of packing and shipping supplies and patience!

[HomerS]

Be careful using a local auction house. 1) Two in my area charge a commission of 40%!! 2) I recently bought a lot where the auction house just lumped models together from an estate without doing any research. One lot of 20 (costing me a little over $3/ea) yielded a sealed Jo-Han Maverick and another lot of 40 built (costing me less than $2/each) yielded a 70 MPC Cyclone and a 74 Impala.

[3100 chevy]

If you have too many kits you can send them to me:)

[thatz4u]

If you have too many kits you can send them to me:)

Or me, or anyone else in the Forum, we would all find room for them somewhere...:-)

[chunkypeanutbutter]

I might just shoot you a message after I get my card set up.

[Dave Ambrose]

Probably the best way is to find a local model show/swap meet and buy a table. I don't know how many kits you have for sale, but if they're priced right, you'll move a lot of them and net about what you'd get on ebay for a lot less hassle.

[Petetrucker07]

Thanks for all the reply but this is a serious situation and if you are really interested please pm me.

greg

Dropped you a PM.

[JTalmage]

I know I'm a hoarder. I have 1000s of hotwheels, tons of car magazines, 5 real vehicles, and almost 130 models.... not to mention a 10x12 storage unit full of mustang parts that keeps growing!

[Petetrucker07]

I know I'm a hoarder. I have 1000s of hotwheels, tons of car magazines, 5 real vehicles, and almost 130 models.... not to mention a 10x12 storage unit full of mustang parts that keeps growing!

That sounds like me, except I have Chevy parts.