40 year old model planes.

[yertis]

Yes that's exactly how I came to have such a collection, which included a lot of rarities by Frog, ESCI, Fujimi, and Hasegawa. At some point in my mid-twenties I flogged the lot to a place called Plastic Pastimes in Poole.

[richb]

Eric Mc said:

My "collection" is totally accidental. When I buy a kit I always "intend" to build it. However, I don't often get around to making the thing so it ends up becoming a collector's item - by default.

That's fair enough Eric but I bet you get more pleasure from buildiong them if and when you get time?

[Eric Mc]

Yes I do - but, if the kit and its packaging is over ten years old or so, I may very well go out and buy a current boxing of it to make it now. Or, more likely, some other manufacturer will have produced a much better version by then anyway.

For example, years ago I bought an old Frog/Novo 1/72 P-47 Thunderbolt. Not worth making it now as I've bought the current generation 1/72 Academy P-47 - light years apart in regards to quality of mouldings etc.