What's the most expensive kit you've bought?

[PR19_Kit]

Shackleton AEW2 conversion kit required careful smuggling on the basis of the cost/box size ratio!

Yes, I've got one of them too. It's superbly made but the ratio you mention is WAY up there!

[The Wooksta!]

Especially if you're the gadgy that bought the one on ebay recentlyfor £69!

[kitbasher]

Especially if you're the gadgy that bought the one on ebay recentlyfor £69!

He/she/it must have been.....well let's say their judgement may have been a little impaired at the time (by whatever means).  It certainly wasn't me!!

[TsrJoe]

for this year i guess a Lindberg 1/72 Japanese submarine with Kaitens would be the most expensive single kit purchase iv made so far

[thedarkmaster]

Thinking about it the most expensive kit anyone buys are those that stay in the stash and don't get built !!

[McColm]

What's the point of buying them, if not to build them?

[thedarkmaster]

Somewhere in nearly everyones stash is a kit, which deep down we know we will never build, but we will never get rid of it either because one day ............

[lancer]

Somewhere in nearly everyones stash is a kit, which deep down we know we will never build, but we will never get rid of it either because one day ............

Ain't that the truth? I must have half a dozen of those stashed away!!!

I think the most expensive kit(s) I've ever brought are the Airfix Nimrod and the Resitech/Heritige/whoever has the molds today TSR2.

[TsrJoe]

Anigrand C.17 to this years total, oops 

[frank2056]

My max seems to be around $150-$160 US. I had a 1/6 scale time machine ($56) which I sold (dammit! It didn't work!), a 1/350 scale vacuformed Romulan Bird of Prey ($150, maybe slightly less) and a resin /500 SSC Columbus, a ship set in the Leif Ericson Galactic Cruiser universe. That was $150. I also have an original Leif Ericson - kits in similar condition have sold for $500+ on EBay; luckily I bought mine before Ebay so it was only $70.

[Joe C-P]

Iron Shipwright USS Detroit, resin 1/350. I don't remember what it cost me, but today it's over $200US. I will eventually build it as USS Trenton.
I also want their USS New Jersey, BB-16, which is even more expensive.
Also looking at the Yankee Modelworks resin 1/350 USS Holland sub tender, which is over $200US, and I'd need to buy several subs to put with her in a diorama.

[Aircav]

Somewhere in nearly everyones stash is a kit, which deep down we know we will never build, but we will never get rid of it either because one day ............

I've got a 1/48 Revell Wessex, only trouble is I can't decide what colour scheme to do her as I'm not paying the current price for a couple more.   

[jcf]

Monsters in Motion 1/12th scale Bladerunner Spinner, rather dissapointing as it was more of a sculpture than a model.
Nicely roto-moulded hollow cast, but the rear was asymmetrical and the figures of Deckard and Gaff were moulded into
the cockpit.  Sold it on about ten years later for half what I paid because I couldn't be bothered to do the
necessary corrective work.

Halcyon Nostromo for half-price. 

Fisher Model and Pattern Alfa Romeo B.A.T. 5. Beautiful resin work.

[chrisonord]

Thinking about it the most expensive kit anyone buys are those that stay in the stash and don't get built !!

I am waiting to build my Amodel Beriev Be-200 until I dig my pond bigger
I want to have some of my sea planes and flying boats, either beached up on the side or moored up in the pond
Well, I don't have the shelf space for them
Chris. 

[Howard of Effingham]

probably a second hand but unstarted airfix SR53 at £35 a few years back.

yeah, i was mugged but i wanted it badly.