New modeller?

[Jantrix]

I've seen a few posts by newer members who need this lil part or another, I thought I'd add a couple ideas for building your parts stash up cheaply.

1. Check out your discount stores like Big Lots or whatever you have near you. You can often find kits or 1/24 diacasts which can be stripped for parts. Don't worry if you don't like the car, use the body for painting practice and the parts go in the stash.

2. WalMart/K-mart/Toy's 'R Us sales racks- nuff said.

3. Yard sales/estate sales- spend a Saturday cruising your neighborhood. Check the newspaper classifieds, people often will post a notice there. I used to do this as a teen on my 10-speed. This is a great place to find kits or old build ups. People are often selling off juniors collection of glue bombs or selling off kits that they bought, that they "might" build "some day". This is very common. My dad hasn't build a model since 1982, but he still has three kits stashed away for "someday".

4. Flea markets- see above, but be careful, those flea market guys are out to pad their retirement, so they aren't gonna give it up cheap. It could be a 25 year old MPC Pinto gluebomb, but it's "vintage" you see. If you can't snag it for $5 or less, tell them to pound sand.

5. E-bay "junkyards. The easiest way to do it now if you have the means. Do a Ebay search in the scale auto section for "junkyard". Look at them carefully, there will be some selling for quite a bit, because they include an old Johan or other hard to find car. Look for the ones no one is bidding on and the price is reasonable. These will usually contain cars easily available in kit form so no one is killing themselves to get it. Again, don't sweat it if you don't see a car you like, your just there for the bucket of wheels/tires, 15 engines, 12 chassis and 11sets of suspension components. And who knows there may be a diamond in the rough waiting for you that wasn't photographed well.

I hope this was helpful to someone. If anyone has another place to snag some cheap kits/parts feel free to chime in. But my number one rule is- never pass up a cheap kit, even if you don't like the car.

[bobss396]

This is such a great source, I'm surprised so few tap into it. Find out where your local slot car tracks are and go there on race night. They often use 1/25 kits for just the bodies and most are more than willing to sell you the remains for a few bucks.

Bob

[lordairgtar]

This is such a great source, I'm surprised so few tap into it. Find out where your local slot car tracks are and go there on race night. They often use 1/25 kits for just the bodies and most are more than willing to sell you the remains for a few bucks.

Bob

That's what I do. Great source for 69 Cutlass frames and Old Pro Nova frames as well.