Tom ...
I like the idea of this but what is the best way to find out about garage sales?

Bozzer
I like to do flea markets, when I'm in the states. Picked up a nearly brand new compressor and airbrush, used twice, for cake decorating, for $20. Still boxed! Also picked up a few nice kits, for less than $10 each. Bargain!!!

Mike Weatherbee
Tom, Garage sales can usually be found in many ways, newspaper, local area social media sometimes it works by just the old fasion way, by going out looking for them or as my mother called it, "Yard sale-ing" day where u just go out driving looking for yard sales, garage sales etc.

Bozzer, The flea market nearby to my home is awsome, I began going to every Sunday from July onto the end on October and yes there is some junk there but its worth the deals (like you got) just to go check them out because you never know what you might end up coming home with. An example I ended up one Sunday coming home with a large plastic tote with 11 kits, now some had been pre-started but over all for the low, low price of $55 it was a deal I could not pass up and most were new and never started, and complete. thats 5.50 per kit. Some days I end up coming home with nothing and some days with a truck full of stuff. as long as some of that stuff is for the wife I don't get too much slack from her lol.

JD
Ok, here's a freebie...the antique store. I find lots of cool models there...shhh! Don't tell anyone!

JD
For example: Another epic find! | Album by Mithran’dir

Mike Weatherbee
Woah, got one of those right down the street from me and I never guessed to look there. Thanks for the tip.

Mike Weatherbee
Just thinking of an atique store makes me wonder if I should start looking at some local pawn shops too? anyone know if they show up there?

Starbase101
Craigs List has a "garage sale" area under "for sale" (not people selling their garages) and besides date/time/address they sometimes include overview descriptions and photos. I too have managed to pick up rare hard-to-find kits at unbelievable prices in antique stores. My wife has also picked up a ton of craft supplies dirt cheap at garage sales for her card-making hobby (much more often than I find anything I'm interested in!).

Steven Van Dyck
I found the Putnam book of WW2 aviation for a few euros in the second hand store. Looked like mint condition, it was just sitting between some casual Anglophone literature. Something was scribbled on the first page. It appeared to be the original price, about 60 pounds. But for all the times I went there, I could only twice find some models, one of them was broken too. I once found an M47 for 2 euros on the flea market at my place, it became a project on Scalemates. But modelism seems extremely rare on Belgian flea markets.

Bozzer
Here in England, I've not had much luck. However, I did find a Heller 2CV, with paint and glue, and a brush, for £2. I had to buy it, because it was there. That was in a charity shop. I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't give up? Model on, you awesome bunch of plasticaholics! \m/

Mike Weatherbee
Beautiful, this is great hearing about others going out to search for kits and related items, its not just running to the store for some and I am one of them who enjoys the "hunt" and its good to hear others enjoy it as well as buiding the kits.
My last question is does anyone else have more kits in thier collection than they will ever be able to finish? My wife thinks so but I still add more and more each time I go out.

Starbase101
Not only more than I will probably ever be able to build, but also more than I will probably ever be able to display. (And the wife is not keen on having starships hanging from the ceilings...) I've often wondered how people display all these beautiful builds, as they are larger (especially dioramas) after they're built than the boxed unassembled kits.

Danny Meer
Last summer had the chance to buy this complete collection for € 1200,- 😄
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Steven Van Dyck
I guess you didn't pack that money to go to the flea market... That Aerodyne I built a long time ago.

Danny Meer
Nah, normally have a little less cash on me at flea markets 😄

Mike Weatherbee
Nice haul Danny, lots of good Italieri kits in that lot. And Dave, my wife not keen on that idea as well, she does not want WWII boats, planes and ST Starships and other ones all over the living room , which is why I had to redo my basement to have a place to display my kits and the other items of my collections.

JD
Show us the Man Cave!
(Sorry...off topic) Actually, I wonder if finds like this indicate that someone has passed...I too have had finds like this, and it makes me wonder...

Mike Weatherbee
I do see maany sellers on Ebay claiming the items they are selling are from Estate Sales so that could be a meaning to some.