selling off the last of my collection
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selling off the last of my collection
http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyE ... extSelling
I am down to the bottom of my collection and I will be listing everything soon.
the time has come to say goodbye and move on.
I am moving on to reloading and willing to do trades for reloading equipment.
thanks
I am down to the bottom of my collection and I will be listing everything soon.
the time has come to say goodbye and move on.
I am moving on to reloading and willing to do trades for reloading equipment.
thanks
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
So are you getting out completely, including the store?
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
I will keep my sight for any new items but as of now I am selling my collection and all the items I used for airshows.
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
John, Sorry to see you getting out. Unfortunately, this is becoming a common occurrence. Makes you wonder where the 1/18 scale hobby will be in 2-5 years. Probably sitting on the shelf with the 8 tracks, cassettes and beta.
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Hobbies like this need to keep fresh with neat new things to pursue, and a future to continue. The FW 190 would have been such a good future and hope to continue as was the Harrier and the Dauntless before it. Many of you probably recall having a long wish list to go after and now pretty much have everything you were after or could afford. That's pretty much where I am.pizzaguy wrote:John, Sorry to see you getting out. Unfortunately, this is becoming a common occurrence. Makes you wonder where the 1/18 scale hobby will be in 2-5 years. Probably sitting on the shelf with the 8 tracks, cassettes and beta.
Ground pounders have only their mods and new builds to look forward to.
Bottom line is there just aren't enough of us to support the demand for production or it would be happening.
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
I will reveal a 1/18 HE111 soon to the air collectors, unfortunately it will be a one of a kind, so when I decide to let it go only one will be available. But I do plan on building more aircraft in the near future, and may try to mold them out on the smaller ones so I can produce more then one.
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
Odd how 1/6 is still fairly strong, as are 1/35 armor kits, but 1/18 and 1/32 armor has died. Maybe too much 1/16 to compete with?
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
Greetings:
I think what conspired against 1/18 the most was its cross interest to the toy market and collector market. The stuff was marketed as toys but anyone who bought them as toys found out much of the stuff couldn't hold up to normal playwear one would experience with toys from the Star Wars line, etc. At the same time, the stuff was not detailed enough and had too many toy like features for serious collectors to be interested enough to branch off from models to collect the stuff in droves.
There are a lot of things that could have been done differently, but the reality is poor quality control and poor marketing strategies really did these companies and the scale in. I took have sold quite a bit of my collection off recently with more in the works soon. With stuff going on in other scales, sort of time to move on. I'll always keep some pieces, but I have lost a lot of interest in the scale as a collecting hobby.
Corey
I think what conspired against 1/18 the most was its cross interest to the toy market and collector market. The stuff was marketed as toys but anyone who bought them as toys found out much of the stuff couldn't hold up to normal playwear one would experience with toys from the Star Wars line, etc. At the same time, the stuff was not detailed enough and had too many toy like features for serious collectors to be interested enough to branch off from models to collect the stuff in droves.
There are a lot of things that could have been done differently, but the reality is poor quality control and poor marketing strategies really did these companies and the scale in. I took have sold quite a bit of my collection off recently with more in the works soon. With stuff going on in other scales, sort of time to move on. I'll always keep some pieces, but I have lost a lot of interest in the scale as a collecting hobby.
Corey
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
People should not lose hope, maybe in Merit but not all hope. 1/18 armor has a rough road as 1/16 is so much more common and is RC which allows people to interact with eachother and their hobby. 1/18 Aircraft are awesome! A bit large for 4 engine aircraft but the bulk of aircraft are amazing in 1/18.
Hydrospan works, I have been stuck in the mud as far as time goes because of my real job but this like all seasons will change and I will have more time to create more aircraft.
Hydrospan works, I have been stuck in the mud as far as time goes because of my real job but this like all seasons will change and I will have more time to create more aircraft.
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Re: selling off the last of my collection
I will be listing the few items I was holding on to for my son. I will be listing more armor soon.
thinking about selling the p26 I built from pickelhaube custom kit
thinking about selling the p26 I built from pickelhaube custom kit