It's all so familiar...and yet totally different!
I was a diehard collector of 1:500 for around a decade...from when Herpa started in the 90's (when I was in high school) until I bought my first house and a new car a few years ago. The financial burdens of life put a damper on collecting and with over a thousand models, I felt I had enough! To tell the truth, I couldn't afford to keep buying at the rate I was, so I stopped. Once I stopped, I found myself cruising the forum less and less - it was too hard to see the new models coming out and not want to buy them!
I've been coming back here and there to look and now that I've started posting again - jeez! It's nice to see new life in 1:500 with the Inflight and Jet-X selections! Someone has to keep Herpa honest. When I left I don't think there were any dedicated competition to Herpa, just the odd 5Stars offering or the occasional Hogan model. It's giving me the itch to start collecting again!
I'm going to have to go through the collection, pick which models are important to me that I want to keep...then sell the rest to pay for the new ones I want.
On a side note...it's great to see that DAC is still here and going strong. This was always my favorite forum!
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