What's the most expensive kit you've bought?

[McColm]

Hi,
Whilst coming up with my dreamsheet of models that I'd like to buy but can't afford them at the moment. I came across Kitkrazy. Would you pay £70 for Trumpeter's 1/72 scale model of the Bear-H?
I know deleted stock is expensive and sites like ebay can rip you off.
If you're into oo/ho model trains the new Blue Pullman will set you back £300, two power engines, two kitchen cars and two passenger cars.

[Green Dragon]

£47.50 for an Anigrand XF-108A Rapier.
I've been buying off ebay mostly for the last couple of years and haven't paid full price for anything since! I tend to bid the maximum I think a kit is worth (including postage) and if I lose it doesn't matter coz the kit always pops up again and eventually I get them for hardly anything.

Paul Harrison

[McColm]

who, sets the prices?

[lenny100]

£170 for a 1/72 scale type 26 warship hull and counting

[Aircav]

2000 CZK (Czech Republic Koruny) for a 1/32 Avia B-534 IV.series (Limited Edition) which worked out at about £70 at the time. 

[NARSES2]

Probably the Anigrand Seamaster £75/£80 depending on the exchange rate at the time.

who, sets the prices?

If you mean on E-Bay ? Then the person selling the kit

[McColm]

Er no. the manufacture/ outlet?

[thedarkmaster]

In a moment of madness i got myself the Amodel 1/72 An-22 which was aprox £130 at the time

[upnorth]

2000 CZK (Czech Republic Koruny) for a 1/32 Avia B-534 IV.series (Limited Edition) which worked out at about £70 at the time. 

Not bad for a 1/32 kit considering that I was examining the box contents of Planet Models' new 1/72 GAF Nomad the other day. That was until I noticed it was priced just over 1000 CZK, at which point I put the lid back on it and handed it back to the shop keeper.

The day I lay out 1000 CZK on a 1/72 kit, in any medium, is the day I check myself into the funny farm.

The largest outlay I made on a single kit was about eight years ago when I spent CDN $60.00 on a Classic Airframes 1/48 F-5A kit. I put down an additional CDN $ 10.00 on a Leading Edge decal sheet and resin IFR probe for it too.

The decals and IFR probe were great. The kit, I don't want to talk about.

I just hope that AFV Club has a 1/48 F-5A in the pipeline that I can use those decals on someday.

[Weaver]

Christ, a few moments of madness like that and I'd be looking at millions of moments of poverty.....

I think I might have paid as much as £30 for a kit, but that's very much the exception. Mostly less than a tenner....

[Aircav]

Er no. the manufacture/ outlet?

Usually the manufactures

[kitnut617]

In a moment of madness i got myself the Amodel 1/72 An-22 which was aprox £230 at the time

I've got me one of those too, but back then Hannants had two listings at the same time, one much cheaper than the other. The An-22 I got cost me GBP105 but then I also bought at the same time an AiM 1/72 Boeing 747 which cost GBP107.  Including shipping it cost me almost the same as what you bought your An-22 for tDM   GBP250

A Blackbird 1/72 Lockheed C-5 I got cost me GBP100, and a couple of rarities, a 1/72 Britannia and a 1/72 Canadair Argus cost me in access of C$160 each

[chrisonord]

Amodel Beriev Be-200 in 1/72nd scale, was, is and will ever be the most expensive kit I have ever bought at £125  big ouch, even bigger ouch if the missus finds out how much I paid for it
Chris.

[pyro-manic]

The most expensive kit I have ever bought is the Bandai Master Grade 1:100 scale kit of the Hi-Nu Gundam, which I paid about AU$120 for I think. At the time, that worked out at around £60, which isn't too bad. I then had to pay quite a bit to ship it back to Blighty, which soured the deal somewhat.

[Army of One]

Back when it was about £60 new I got a 1/32 Tamiya F14A for £40.....gotta have been about 18 years (?) ago......also gotta admit now I think about it....paid £89 for the 'Royal' boxing of a 1/48 FW190....an A8 I think.....that was about 3 years ago....maybe slightly less.....