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A few little bits....

Lots of extra bearings.....  Stay tuned for where all these are going.

 

My old cutters are well very old and shagged, and probably could be sharpened if I could actually find them.  My scalpel had also gone walk-about.  And figured I could do with a decent set of tweezers, as opposed to the old generic ones in the pic....  So treated myself to some new tools.  The aluminium tube is for some 1/24 scale exhausts.
Coincidently, after ordering I ended up finding my scalpel, typical.

 
 
 

We never have enough tools 🤪👍

stingray-63 wrote:

We never have enough tools 🤪👍
 

Absolutely.....

I've even doubled up on some tools now, like screwdrivers, sockets, etc, so i'm not constantly going between house and garage looking for them!

Me to.

I've been looking at vintage buggy's and F1's to build or restore, and put on the shelf.  But the prices i'm seeing and also spare parts, I can't justify it.
So deciding that some modern kits I can use with the kids out ways a single vintage kit, I kind of went a bit crazy over the past couple weeks;

• Comical Frog for my daughter
• Rising Fighter for my son
• Lunch Box for me
• And there's also a Midnight Pumpkin Black Ed. enroute.

Will get a build thread going about the adventures of building with my two ratbags!

 

Seems I'm not alone to use my kids as an excuse for my own addiction 

I'm using my Grandson as my excuse  I even
brought him a 1.24  crawler as he said would crash something faster,  that's my excuse, he prefers the lunchbox so I guess I will have to build the crawler for myself. 
 

Ducksnuts wrote:

I've been looking at vintage buggy's and F1's to build or restore, and put on the shelf.  But the prices i'm seeing and also spare parts, I can't justify it.
So deciding that some modern kits I can use with the kids out ways a single vintage kit, I kind of went a bit crazy over the past couple weeks;

• Comical Frog for my daughter
• Rising Fighter for my son
• Lunch Box for me
• And there's also a Midnight Pumpkin Black Ed. enroute.

Will get a build thread going about the adventures of building with my two ratbags!

 

I felt that vintage prices where coming down from what I’ve been seeing.
I always feel if possible it’s best to try and get a complete NIB body set, easier said than done. I think it’s about patience and being glued to the various eBay / Facebook sites.
I get the impression the market is more limited for the early vintage stuff  so it’s not as competitive when stuff comes up, although some of it is stupidly over the top on price.

 

I have active search on some Marui cars on ebay and on a french site. Prices can be up and down for the same type of products without any single reason...
I  watched out few Samurai recently on ebay
- one in perfect state sold for 106 euros
- a set of two with most likely whatever needed for building one in perfect state did not go at 300 because of the seller having  a reserve price upper than this
- one in almost perfect state going up to 290 €
- some in even lower state going up to 400+€

There is no rationale in prices. It just corresponds to what people looking at this specific model are ready to put in when there is one on sale... Ultimately, at that price, I could have bought the first one. The guy was lucky, due to its state, I didn't even participate, as I thought it would go much upper than 500€...

And then if it is for a car to run, I really prefer re-re models when they exist: breaking it doesn't hurt in any way, and the plastic are likely in better state and would not break as easily than an original one... So for re-released model, I tend to let them to collectors...

Yeh much the same on Australian ebay.  I've been looking for a couple of 1970's Corgi cars.  One in reasonable good condition went for $25 (which i missed, as forgot it was nearly ending), and then have seen same model, but incomplete and banged up go for double that.

There's a beat up Willie's at the moment sitting at $60.  My guess it'll hit the 300's.