Raiders Of The Lost Kit

[Marc Freullet]

OMG! was up in the loft clearing out some old junk & in true Indiana Jones style clearing the cobwebs & avoiding the giant (they really were) spiders, & after moving a mountain of junk came across a long thin box. What could this be? I really had no idea. got it down & into the daylight wiped at least 1/2inch of dust off the lid & low & behold a David Boddington Cyrrus Moth kit I had completely forgotten about. This it is about 20 years old & is 48" span for .15 to.20 engines. I bought it at a model show somewhare with loads of other stuff and its never been opend untill now. The plan is now vintige yellow in colour & instructions looked hand typed the wood has gone a deep yellow cream colour too. Does balsa improve or deteriate with age? it all looks in pretty good nick.What next? when I get a chance may build this into an electric version or maybe I should build it as it was meant to be? or maybe Ill put it back in the loft for another 20 years, who knows.

[SDF]

Balsa can tend to go a bit brittle with age.

Build it using new timber then sell the original kit on e-bay which should easily recover the cost of the new wood.

[Tim Hooper]

Flog it on eBay for oodles of money, then buy a new, laser cut version from DB Sport and Scale;

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Spend the profits on peripherals.

You get a nice new model with up-to-date machining and some accessories.

A drooling collector gets an original kit to dribble over.

Win, win,

tim

[Marc Freullet]

Tim, thats not a bad idea, but will i get more than £85 + P&P,(Cost of new kit) thats the question I suppose. Ill reserve for the price of a new kit & see if it sells, nothing to lose I suppose. will give it a go.

Cheers.