TOS Ent model I just found...build it or sell it?

[Kryton]

I just discovered, amongst my stuff, an AMT TOS Enterprise model, still in the box, still plastic wrapped. It must be 20 or more years old.

The box IS crumpled in on one side, but it seems as though it's not bad enough to have damaged the model at all. It didn't breach the plastic.

So...do I construct it or sell it online? What would YOU do with it? (I've got a BIC lighter...I COULD make a Doomsday Machine Constellation out of it. )

 

[Mallory]

Personally, I'd sell it. It's probably worth a lot of money to someone out there.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Personally my model making skills would be far beneath getting the nacelles to sit correctly (tricky enough working on an RAF Mosquito with the undercarriage down), so I'd sell it.

 

[Ssosmcin]

Well, not to burst your bubble, but you're not gonna make a hell of a lot of money off it. They're just not that rare. In fact, I bought three in the last year and a half and noone of them cost me over $20 each. However, if you have one of the first one or two releases (in the big box with lights), then you'll get a tidy sum. But if it's in the small box, I wouldn't expect much. remember, 20 years ago was only 1987.

Hell, I'd build it. I've got plans for mine. I'm hoping to get a few more.

 

[Trekwatcher]

They are all over eBay, even relatively early kits. Build it and have fun with it.

 

[Stag]

^Agreed but I would check with someone in the TrekArt forum. I know Forbin might have an idea. That or check eBay for comparable models.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I'd need to get a look at the box art to give a recommendation.

 

[Stag]

...or check with Captain Robert April who also posts over in Trek Art

 

[DumbDumb2007]

I have one model of the Original enterprise I never made. It has been in it's original plastic since i picked it up in 1991. i opened it for the first time a few weeks ago.
Just put yours back in it's box if it is unmade and just leave it alone.
I must have built ten of them or more since i was a kid. I made the first one when I was 5. I was out with my parents ane we stopped in at some store and I walked through the toy section and found the model kit area. I went into shock when I found out you could buy and build the Enterprise. I was in heaven.
As a kid w woukd run around the school yard at lunch with our bodies bent down and our arms held up and back like we were at Warp. We would run fast and make a warp-whooshing sound. I wonder how else has done that ?
I havent done that in at least 3 weeks !

 

[Ronald Held]

Unless you need the money now, keep it.

 

[Kryton]

The only truly detailed model I own at the moment is the ENT-D (which a now-long-deceased kitty accidentally split apart years ago and I've never really fixed). But it's a nice job. One day I should attend to that. Not sure I'd do as good a job on the TOS ENT, so I'll wait.

Actually, maybe I can adapt it to a TREK XI Enterprise after we get a look at that bad boy.

 

[Forbin]

I'll give you ten bucks for it, sight unseen!

 

[Hambone]

What good is a model kit if you don't build it? I say crack 'er open and make it a project. With all the new info and photos available on-line, you can detail a model to look almost exactly like the Enterprise as seen on-screen.

When I was a kid I flew model rockets; Estes made an Enterprise rocket that was incredibly detailed. It came with full-color schematics based on their study of the Enterprise model in the Smithsonian (before it was marred by "upgrades"). I used those plans to customize my AMT Enterprise, which still hangs in my library. It's one of my prized possesions. I'd much rather look at and admire it than...well, a box.

 

[VulcanJedi]

Build it! I have a Enterprise on top of my shelf I built myself! I'm very proud of it. I have yet to build my klingon ship; still in the box.

Anyone remmber the 12" Spock figure from like 8 years ago?

I should have bought that.

 

[Green Shirt]

DumbDumb2007 said:
As a kid w woukd run around the school yard at lunch with our bodies bent down and our arms held up and back like we were at Warp. We would run fast and make a warp-whooshing sound.

Oh for cripe sakes!! Now its vectoring arms.

 

[Hambone]

VulcanJedi said:


Anyone remmber the 12" Spock figure from like 8 years ago?

I had the Spock model where he was phasering a three-headed snake. Pretty bad, but I had to have it.

 

[Forbin]

^Very nice build!

 

[22 Stars]

Forbin said:
^Very nice build!

I agree, that's great work. About the best you can make that model look!

 

[Ronald Held]

Yes, I agree.

 

[Stag]

Indeed, nice job.