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A real bargainat Ayr car Boot sale, this morning..:)

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Good to hear Danny - a great bargain

I enter EVERY charity shop I go past and I have never seen a kit in there!

Grrrr!

Aidan
 
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Im like you Aidan, can never find anything no matter how much I look...whereas, my mate just seems to attract anything he is looking for. He arrived at the door and i had the bag out his hand before he was in the living room :)

Danny
 
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Thats a score an' arf mate ... bet there's over £100 of kits there ?

I've found a few models in charity shops, mainly cars though .... there was a 1/350 USS Enterprise Revel kit in Oxfam in Mussleburgh last week ... £30 .... the box was over three feet long.

didn't get it as i'm not really into ships ... having a hard enough job getting the inspiration to finish my Ark Royal dio.
 
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thats like mackeral fishing and coming home with sea trout lol wow

mobear
 
well done, there's loads of charity shops round my way, now and again something turns up.
 
Top haul danny! I love finding kits at car boots , the best i ever got was the Tamiya 1/48 mosquito for 50p!! Like many others ive never had any luck in charity shops , the only time i ever saw anything (both airfix -1/72 Martin b57 and a 1/48 BF 109 f ), when i went back they were gone! I always keep on looking though! tony
 
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Just been informed by a friend on facebook that all the charity shops in my area, and there are loads, give first option of buying all kits handed in to the local club...Obviously a member made sure they all had contact numbers ...no wonder we cant find any in my local charity shops...although thumbs up to the club for forward planning... I cant moan about that because I have the same process running with them all for camera equipment...means I have to buy everything though, whether needed or not..
 
thats not a find that a steel..hope you gave your mate a kiss..NICE FIND
 
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Morning, mate just arrived with a Revel canvas bag full of old kits he bought for me at a car boot sale, all still sealed and complete....total cost for the lot £4.00 !!View attachment 57672
Good heavens - I hope they are kits and not just nice looking boxes !
 
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All complete kits Colin, plastic bags are still sealed inside..
 
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i was lucky my wife spotted a couple of 1/24 aircraft in our local charity shop a 109 and a american mustag 15 quid the pair happy days normally only do vehicles but a bonus none the less
 
Car booties can be a gold mine for cheap models, I've found quite a few at Redcar race course bootie, but nothing that good.

What a great mate you've got.

Tony.
 
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Now that was a bargain and a half! That Tamiya Mossie is a great kit for starters!
 
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Another good one is to try Freecycle, had quite a few where people are moving house, clearing out their lofts or kids have left home.
 
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