They want what for it?

[PR19_Kit]

Even for two of them they stand NO chance now.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hasegawa-Model-Kit-Lightning-F-MK6-Combo-Plane-1-72-Scale-HA1982-NEW/110952209541?_trksid=p5713.m2061&_trkparms=aid%3D333005%26algo%3DRIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D19803%26meid%3D4071283305835459589%26pid%3D100041%26prg%3D8916%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D9%26sd%3D331101010631%26

[Hm, just noticed who's selling it..........]

[Martin H]

defo high price wise for two of em, considering the age of the tooling

[chiglet]

A pair of incomplete Airfix lightnings went for £21 a couple of days ago 

[Weaver]

Cough, splutter:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRFIX-JAMES-BOND-007-YOU-ONLY-LIVE-TWICE-AUTOGYRO-LITTLE-NELLIE-KIT-MIB-/121252783587?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item1c3b3aa5e3



Granted they're collectable, but I picked up one for MUCH less than that a few years ago. Mine was a later boxing too, but I refuse to believe that the "red stripe" box makes it worth fifteen times what I paid for mine...

Exhibit b:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/James-Bond-Autogyro-Little-Nellie-Construction-Model-Kit-1-24-scale-/271398618585?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item3f309e45d9

[deathjester]

Not only that, but he absolutely refuses to get the scale right either...

[Captain Canada]

The auction ended with no bids so he re-listed it....at the same price ! Good luck !

[CANSO]

Mine was a later boxing too, but I refuse to believe that the "red stripe" box makes it worth fifteen times what I paid for mine...

One can even buy it for 5.88 (incl. postage):
Auction

[Weaver]

Mine was a later boxing too, but I refuse to believe that the "red stripe" box makes it worth fifteen times what I paid for mine...

One can even buy it for 5.88 (incl. postage):
Auction

That's the sign, not the actual kit.......

[CANSO]

That's the sign, not the actual kit.......

Shame on me!
Have used an old pair of glasses probably - can see the picture (and the price ), but not the text...

[lenny100]

like how it say unopend yet there is a photo of the box open and the kit inside!!!!

[PR19_Kit]

I've just sold one of my ancient Airfix 1/32 scale car kits, the Beach Buggy, quite a nice kit but nothing special. I started it at £5 and figured it might make £10 if I was lucky...

It went for £38!!!!!!  

The collector's market is a different world for sure.

[lancer]

I've just sold one of my ancient Airfix 1/32 scale car kits, the Beach Buggy, quite a nice kit but nothing special. I started it at £5 and figured it might make £10 if I was lucky...

It went for £38!!!!!!  

The collector's market is a different world for sure.

Like most 'serious' collectors - More money than sense!

[Captain Canada]

never mind the Bond auto-gyro....they should kit the choppers in the background !

[Weaver]

never mind the Bond auto-gyro....they should kit the choppers in the background !

Interestingly, the helicopters in the background on the poster and box art were NOT the ones fighting Little Nellie in the movie. The poster ones are Brantly B-2Bs, one of which did feature in the movie, but only as an executive transport, without guns. The machine-gun armed helos that attack Little Nellie are Bell-47s which have been kitted a number of times (there's a 1/72nd Italeri one out at the moment).

The other good scene to model from YOLT would be the one where good-guy Tanaka disposes of the bad guys chasing Bond's car by picking them up with an electromagnet slung under his KV-107 and then dropping them in the sea from several hundred feet.....

http://impdb.org/index.php?title=You_Only_Live_Twice

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! Where the heck did that link come from ! That's awesome !

Love the Soviet spacecraft....looks like a Shar FA.2 nose !