Discount Models shops

[HeavyArty]

I don’t know of any shops or websites. There was a store in Jacksonville, FL many moons ago, The Kit Bunker, that had a great used section. He ran it out of a large garage next to his roofing business on his property and would buy/sell used/old kits. It was only open in the evenings and weekends.

You could try the Buy, Sell, Trade forum here. I have bought/sold/traded many kits there.

@JohnnyD

Now you have to bid on models for way more than they are worth.

The prices are what the market bears. Ref this thread:

Kit prices

I got my start in this hobby as a youngster. For my seventh birthday, my father and now stepmother purchased a bunch of model kits for me. When I got started in the early eighties yes I realize that things we’re very different then what they are today. Everywhere I look, I see and hear that our hobby is dying. Yet we continue to allow these manufacturers to charge exorbitant prices for model kits and everything else. I routinely see model kits on eBay that are well over $100 that shouldn’t be ov…