No more Hobby Lobby for me

[99civichic]

I went to Hobby Lobby today looking for scrapbook letters to use for the "COBRA" lettering on the back bumper of my '04 Cobra. I told myself, "Self, we are not going down the model kit aisle. We have too many kits talking to us already." I went straight to the back of the store and started browsing in the bead aisle (you never know what you'll find) and Will says, "Well I'm going to check out the models." I'm doing good, stop to browse through the Johnny Lightning cars at the end of the aisle, then Will says, "Hey, come check this out." Busted. I walk down the model aisle, trying not to look at all those kits, the '67 Chevelle, Smokey and the Bandit, '68 Shelby, all saying, "Pick me! Build me!" I look at the kit he's looking at (the Chevelle) and see the $14 price tag and I am amazingly able to walk away. I glance over the paints, no yellows I can see on my Cobra, so I round the corner and....I'm had. The clearance rack.

I walked out of the store with three AMT C5 Corvettes: a 96 Grand Sport, a 95 ZR1, and a 94 Convertible. No letters for the Cobra.

BUT I ONLY PAID $3.73 EACH!!!!

I'm officially a collector now. 24 kits unstarted, 5 in progress. I need help!

[NissanS15Racer]

Yeah it happens LOL, I have like 10 kits waiting all 10 Tamiya kits i wish tamiya put there kits in clearance

[99civichic]

I got a Tamiya Porsche GT3 on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $5

[injecting]

Originally Posted by 99civichic

I got a Tamiya Porsche GT3 on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $5

I wish there was a hobby lobby near me now.

[Jaymes]

I wish I had a hobby lobby >=(

[subyfanatic]

That sux, no Hobby Lobby for me either. Non-existent in the Northeast.

[rx7king]

haha, the collector status, i like the feeling personally, as long as im making some progress, cuz the stacks not gonna get any smaller either wy

[mikemechanic]

Originally Posted by 99civichic

I'm officially a collector now. 24 kits unstarted, 5 in progress. I need help!

I'm sure I'm pushing 200 unstarted kits, I wish I only had 24 to do.

[willimo]

The worst is when you decide you have too many, and decide to sell some. You bust into your closet and start trying to chose the ones you're willing to part with. You seriously consider each of your kits, you make some hard choices, and you feel like you're really making some progress. When you're done, you turn around and the "sell" pile consists of a grand total of... 0 kits.

[99civichic]

Due to a "collector" selling kits i ended up with a couple GT40's (revell and fujimi) a shelby 427 cobra (fujimi) a few old amt shelby gt500's and 350s, a r33 tamiya, and a few other misc cars and it was all for 100 bucks LOL...

This is William by the way.

[cyclone1410]

Originally Posted by 99civichic

I'm officially a collector now. 24 kits unstarted, 5 in progress. I need help!

I have 150 unstarted kits plus about 3 or 4 I am working on now. I travel a bit for my work and I for some unknown reason can't drive past local toy stores in small towns. They suck me in everytime. Last time though I picked up a rare Hasegawa 1/24 Honda RA272 F1 car for $20 Australian.

[CamaroSSBoy346]

I walked out of the store with three AMT C5 Corvettes: a 96 Grand Sport, a 95 ZR1, and a 94 Convertible. No letters for the Cobra.

you mean C4.

[99civichic]

This is Will:

It was just wishful thinking on her part that they were C5's, she's been looking for the convertible C5 for a long time to build a 50th anniv model.

William