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

coolwings · 17-01-2025 07:31PM #1

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 · 19-01-2025 12:32PM

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 · 14-02-2025 07:08PM

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!

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

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