FAQs
Q: How many models are in your collection?
A: The current number of completed models currently stands at more than 450.
Q. How about un-completed models?
A. Unbuilt kits? More than 1,500.
Q. Where do you display all these kits?
A. I have a few dozen choice models on display in my office. Otherwise, That's why I created this website. It serves as my "virtual museum" -- and can be viewed by far more people than could ever visit an at-home display.
Q. Are you married?
A. For nearly 40 glorious years.
Q. Your wife must be a saint.
A. You have no idea.
Q. What's the oldest kit in your collection?
A. I'm not quite sure, but I believe the "oldest" -- meaning the one that I built first -- is the Lindberg Heinkel He-162A Salamander. I believe I built this model sometime in the mid-1960s, which would have made me about 13 or 14 years old. It's hand-painted, as you can tell.
Q. How about the actual oldest model?
A. Again, hard to say for sure, but it could be the Strombecker Disney Satellite Launcher, a first-edition kit from 1956.
Q. How about the rarest model?
A. I have several "limited edition" resin kits that could be classified as "rare" simply because only a few dozen copies were ever produced. However, if we're talking about mass-produced plastic kits that are all-but impossible to find today, then I have to vote for ITC's F-108 Rapier. The kit was briefly released in 1960 and has never been seen again. If and when a copy surfaces on Ebay, it usually sells for $800 or more.
Q. Do you have any rare unbuilt kits?
A. Dozens. My "pride and joy" is a mint 1959 Revell Space Station. I still haven't had the heart to build it.
A. Are any of your models for sale?
Q. There are my original resin kits I sell through the Fantastic Plastic Virtual Museum Store. I'm also thinning my collection by regularly offering select kits on Ebay. So watch my Ebay store!
A. Are you nuts?
Q. After sniffing glue for more than 50 years, what do you think?
A: The current number of completed models currently stands at more than 450.
Q. How about un-completed models?
A. Unbuilt kits? More than 1,500.
Q. Where do you display all these kits?
A. I have a few dozen choice models on display in my office. Otherwise, That's why I created this website. It serves as my "virtual museum" -- and can be viewed by far more people than could ever visit an at-home display.
Q. Are you married?
A. For nearly 40 glorious years.
Q. Your wife must be a saint.
A. You have no idea.
Q. What's the oldest kit in your collection?
A. I'm not quite sure, but I believe the "oldest" -- meaning the one that I built first -- is the Lindberg Heinkel He-162A Salamander. I believe I built this model sometime in the mid-1960s, which would have made me about 13 or 14 years old. It's hand-painted, as you can tell.
Q. How about the actual oldest model?
A. Again, hard to say for sure, but it could be the Strombecker Disney Satellite Launcher, a first-edition kit from 1956.
Q. How about the rarest model?
A. I have several "limited edition" resin kits that could be classified as "rare" simply because only a few dozen copies were ever produced. However, if we're talking about mass-produced plastic kits that are all-but impossible to find today, then I have to vote for ITC's F-108 Rapier. The kit was briefly released in 1960 and has never been seen again. If and when a copy surfaces on Ebay, it usually sells for $800 or more.
Q. Do you have any rare unbuilt kits?
A. Dozens. My "pride and joy" is a mint 1959 Revell Space Station. I still haven't had the heart to build it.
A. Are any of your models for sale?
Q. There are my original resin kits I sell through the Fantastic Plastic Virtual Museum Store. I'm also thinning my collection by regularly offering select kits on Ebay. So watch my Ebay store!
A. Are you nuts?
Q. After sniffing glue for more than 50 years, what do you think?