Estate sale models and related materials - questions ensue!

Started by Dammit Carl!, September 17, 2025, 05:18:03 PM

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Dammit Carl!

Heyo, folks!

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm helping with an estate sale where the deceased husband was an absolute bear for models (1/72nd scale in "ground," models - i.e. tanks, troops, etc. seem to be in the main).  In addition, he also made a slew of naval and plane models as well and those scales slew all over the map.  All except for a few are WW2 related too, by the way.

I'm in touch with an online seller about the un-built models, so that is fairly cut-and-dried as far as what he'll want and so on but that leaves me with an absolute large amount of built and painted models to deal with in addition to paints, equipment, unfinished models, old modeling magazines and so on.

Outside of point of sale at the estate itself, is there any places/sites out there who'd want the stuff I just mentioned?  And yes, while I know "EBay," is an acceptable answer, I'm not certain the estate sale company wants to deal with the sheer volume of what are essentially "used," items in ones and twos here and there not to mention the physical shelf space needed to house these things up until the sell (or not).

I guess they could hand out completed models as a door gift for each sale, but don't think that'd be appreciated quite so much.

Thanks, and if anyone is interested in going to the actual sale site, please send me a message and I'll direct you to the pertinent info - it's in SW Virginia near Chilhowie and the estate sale company is having sale days here and there prior to the final sales event that is happening some time next year.

Con

Kinda tells me how people are going to rummage through our hobbies and look at it as junk when we shuffle off to the big hobby store in the sky

Silent Disapproval Robot

For 1/72nd stuff, you might have some luck on the Chain of Command forums on FB.  A lot of players use that scale.

Dammit Carl!

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Quote from: Con on September 17, 2025, 06:06:27 PMKinda tells me how people are going to rummage through our hobbies and look at it as junk when we shuffle off to the big hobby store in the sky

I've helped them (the estate sales company) out long enough now to say that I've seen plenty of this sort of thing.  Quite sobering, if I may say so bluntly, and I can only tell anyone to enjoy what you enjoy, but don't think your kids/family, or others will care about what you left behind as much as you did.

And thanks for any and all answers to my original question - I'm running down some different lines/areas that I wouldn't have known of otherwise.