What's the rarest/most valuable model you own?

[Gondor]

Most expensive kit I have bought is my CMR Bucaneer

Gondor

[kerick]

Still have a Hawk 1/48th OV-10 Bronco still in the plastic.  Probably never build it.  Drop a PM and we could talk.

[AeroplaneDriver]

I dont have many that I consider particularly rare or expensive...my two Italeri 1/48 Tornado F.3s might count before the reissue.  I suppose if I had to pick it would be the two Airfix/MPC Space 1999 Hawk Interceptors. 

[Weaver]

I dont have many that I consider particularly rare or expensive...my two Italeri 1/48 Tornado F.3s might count before the reissue.  I suppose if I had to pick it would be the two Airfix/MPC Space 1999 Hawk Interceptors. 

I picked up a Hawk in tatty condition (damaged box, all parts off sprues, minor crap paint) from ebay for not a lot once. The temptation to put it back on at asensibletime of day at collector's price proved too great however (worked though... )

[The Wooksta!]

Most expensive?  Probably the Titan Find Blake's 7 Liberator.  IIRC, I paid about £150 for that but I did fund it by selling off other stuff.  The Starcraft Akira and Nova Class starships weren't exactly cheap either.

Aircraft wise, the Magna VC10, Toad Resins Ju 488A and the Kora Ju 488V401 are probably the most pricey in the stash.  Plasticwise, the Hasegawa Lancaster ASR3.

[Mossie]

Not much really.  I bought an Anigrand 1/72 T-4MS that cost me around £60 at the time and is languishing partly built, that's the most I've spent and not much compared to some here.  I've an Airfix 1/24 Harrier GR.1 before they added the GR.3 parts, not exactly rare but they're not around in large quantities.  I've a resin Miles M.24 Master Fighter (that's labelled as a Mk.I), I've never been able to find out who it was by so I guess that's rare.  Probably my rarest (as a package at least) is the Airfix 1/72 TSR.2 that came with the print.

[The Wooksta!]

That Master is either CMK or a Czech copy of the Pegasus kit.  Or the Pegasus one is a copy of the CMK kit.

[Mossie]

Cheers Lee, I remember you found it for me at Telford.

[The Wooksta!]

There's a few other CMK/Pegasus kits that are fingerprint identical:

Blohm und Voss Bv 155
Supermarine Seafire FR47
Supermarine Spiteful
Supermarine Swift FR5*
Boulton Paul Balliol*
Martin Baker MB5*

There may be more but those are what I can think of offhand.

*Anecdotal from various sources

[kitnut617]

Not much really.  I bought an Anigrand 1/72 T-4MS that cost me around £60 at the time and is languishing partly built, that's the most I've spent and not much compared to some here.  I've an Airfix 1/24 Harrier GR.1 before they added the GR.3 parts, not exactly rare but they're not around in large quantities.  I've a resin Miles M.24 Master Fighter (that's labelled as a Mk.I), I've never been able to find out who it was by so I guess that's rare.  Probably my rarest (as a package at least) is the Airfix 1/72 TSR.2 that came with the print.

My PAK-20 book says Rug Rat Resins did a Miles Master Mk.I/Ia, and I've got one of those TSR2 kits with the print too.  I had the print valued some time ago when I went to get it framed and the guy said it was worth about C$200.  It's still rolled up in it's shipping paper though.

[Spey_Phantom]

most valluable kit i have in the stash at the  moment, lets see.....


Matchbox 1/72 Vickers Wellesley
Matchbox 1/72 Meteor NF.11 (becoming quite rare here)
Hasegawa 1/72 F-20 Tigershark (not easy to find here)

[PR19_Kit]

Matchbox 1/72 Meteor NF.11 (becoming quite rare here)

You're kidding, yes?

I can't imagine why, unless it's the Matchbox boxing that's rare. The identical Revell plastic seems to be freely available in the UK.

[The Wooksta!]

Don't forget the current Xtrakit boxing.

It's a pig of a kit to assemble.  I for one utterly loathe it.

[PR19_Kit]

Don't forget the current Xtrakit boxing.

It's a pig of a kit to assemble.  I for one utterly loathe it.

Is the Xtrakit one from the same mould as the M'box/Revell one? I wonder why they bothered. 

It sure is a pain to build, that upper fuselage bit fits where it touches, and that's not many places!

[kitnut617]

Don't forget the current Xtrakit boxing.

It's a pig of a kit to assemble.  I for one utterly loathe it.

Is the Xtrakit one from the same mould as the M'box/Revell one? I wonder why they bothered.  

It sure is a pain to build, that upper fuselage bit fits where it touches, and that's not many places!

The XtraKit NF.Mk.11 is the Matchbox kit  Kit, why it would be any more of a pig to build than the Matchbox kit I don't know.  Maybe Lee can enlighten us ---

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/XK72002