Did you ever sell a model, and wish you didn't?

coolwings

We hear about "buyers remorse" but in modelling I have occasionally set myself up for sellers remorse.

It goes like this:

I have some model, and after a while I decide to "move up and onwards".

But later, I slowly see that what I had at the time was a "sweet spot" for my likes, preferences, enjoyment etc.

Any thoughts, stories to tell?

steamdave

With the probability that I will be downsizing my home in the not too distant future, I sold some models last year. Not that I really wanted to, but because there will not be any room for them when I move. Most of the big ones have gone, still some of the smaller ones to go.

Same with my collection of antique clocks.

No-one in the family is interested in any of them, so off they went to a collector in England.

Dave

coolwings

In my case I had an amazing Meccano collection. Enough to make supermodels, or anything mechanical engineering (pre-electronic era). Similar story, family & kids and limited living space, led me to sell it.

There was something therapeutic about making lifting bridges, giant block setting cranes, working tanks & walking thingies and the like, in metal, that other model making doesn't quite replicate. Eventually, getting into building flying models came closest to scratching the old Meccano itch!