How do you do it? Not open and build a vintage kit???

[huminski]

So those of you (us) with sealed vintage kits..... what do you do or tell yourself (other than the obvious depreciation) to keep from opening and building some of your old vintage kits? Like the sealed gold tubs, jrx2's, early tamiyas, etc..... Is there a support group??? lol.....

[CamplinP]

Stored away. Out of sight - out of mind.

[Charlie don't surf]

I open and build all of them....unless I have a built version already-

[huminski]

Now you're talking.......

[GoMachV]

I have some sealed and many more that are built. Here is how I think of sealed kits.

When you open a bottle of 40 year old wine, do you just take a sip and put the cork back in, and put it back on the rack? If I am not going to use the car and enjoy it, I keep it unbuilt until I'm ready.

You could apply the same reasoning to why a virgin is sought after, if thumbs were here to help finish my thought

[huminski]

Well said. My dilema.... a sealed in shrink wrap jrx2. I have a really nice 'runner' jrx2 that is in fantastic shape, barely a mark on the underside, nice vintage electronics, but the lure of building the new kit, taking pictures of each step, then having the ultimate shelf queen and knowing it's whole history.... decisions decisions..... the jrx2 is my personal holy grail....

[shodog]

I have a built car for every NIB kit I have so I prefer to keep the kit NIB. Some of the older Tamiya kits were packaging works of art

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

You could apply the same reasoning to why a virgin is sought after, if thumbs were here to help finish my thought

I think your chances of finding vintage NIB kits are a lot better than your chances of finding a virgin these days. You can buy either on ebay from time to time, but the last time I bought a virgin on there I came home to find camera crews and the FBI in my driveway. I thought to myself "...UGH... Not again...!!"

[GJW]

i built a nib vintage that was giving me the same problem many many year's ago. a week after building i wanted it back in the box again as for your jrx2 they are certainly out there, in time you could find another sealed down the track im sure. make the call!

[kaiser]

i build'em. i can't enjoy a box. then again i don't go looking for nib's either, but every now and then something falls in your lap.

[Coelacanth]

A strange analogy given above...to which I reply, "What good is a virgin you can't/won't hump?"

[GoMachV]

...and that's actually my point. If I'm not gonna use it, why not keep it virgin until I'm ready to enjoy it!

[THEYTOOKMYTHUMB]

A strange analogy given above...to which I reply, "What good is a virgin you can't/won't hump?"

Or maybe you take her out and wine her and dine her for months. Stop drinking, quit smoking, change your hairstyle and attend dozens of events you care nothing about. MAYBE, JUST MAYBE you buy jewelry that you can't really afford trying to impress her and run up credit cards that you're still trying to PAY OFF!! You meet her parents and listen to her dad's boring ass stories about horses and listen to his endless lectures on everything that's wrong with the teenagers in America today, completely oblivious to the fact that he's talking to a teenager!! Your reward for all this?? A painful 2 year erection!!!

...just maybe.

[Coelacanth]

...and that's actually my point. If I'm not gonna use it, why not keep it virgin until I'm ready to enjoy it!

I hate to be morbid, but what if something happens to you before that time comes? What if the ol' twig 'n giggleberries stop working?

[GoMachV]

I can still look at her!