Hey P man, Whats it costing ya?

[Moppie]

Hey mate, Iv got a whole lot of models sitting in my room, everything from Planes, Trucks, Tanks, Hummers jeeps etc. a 1:48 Herc C130 Sector and 1:32 Kenworth semi. (both are big!) as well as some 1:32 cars utes etc.

But I literaly havnt touched them in about 9years, and well reading this bloody forum has got my intrest in such things back.

I remember that it wasn't cheap to do this 10yrs ago, and as im on a limited budget, I was wondering what your spending on it?
How far does a spray can go? and what sort of prices are you paying for kits? and paints? etc.

The cost really is the only thing stopping me getting back into it.

[Guiddy]

You spend what you want to do a degree!
It costs me the absolute earth, as I like to buy photoetched detail for each kit, plus extras such as the Nismo exhaust for my R34.
I also spray each kit, which uses about half a can of spray per kit!
So each one probably costs me about £30-£50 tops!

You can do it cheap by building them out the box and using paints in a tin!
Spray the body though, which will require about half a can automotive spray plus primer, or a whole can of Tamiya spray!

[Moppie]

Originally posted by Guiddy

So each one probably costs me about £30-£50 tops!

BAh!!!! thats about $90-150 of our monoploy money!!!!!
The cost cant have gone up that much!
I think I use to spend about $25-40 on a good quality 1:72 plane kit.
So I can't see how cars could be that much more expensive.

Quality automotive paint is about $15-20 a can here, so that could be my biggest expense, especialy if your using 1/2 a can per car.


But I want to know what Primera man is spending, in NZ $

[primera man]

HEAPS !!!!

Tamiya cans about $13.50...will do about 3-4 model cars.
The new kit i just got was $60.00 for the CLK. Thats about the average price for a good tamiya one.
Revell kits about $30-50.
Then you have your paints/brushes etc.
The last few weeks it has cost me about $350.00 for kits(6 of them) and paints etc

[Moppie]

bahhhhhhhhhh

I think I might wait a few months untill im fully employed.
At the moment at those prices its a bit out of my reach.

Damn.

[primera man]

Originally posted by Moppie
bahhhhhhhhhh

I think I might wait a few months untill im fully employed.
At the moment at those prices its a bit out of my reach.

Damn.

Start saving...once you start its like a drug !!

[Moppie]

Originally posted by primera man

...once you start its like a drug !!

I know, I kicked it once, but seeing you guys talking about it, well........
I think its like how an exsmoker must feel after they quite and then walk into a room full of smokers.....