Better to look at the current life and all that time left to build. Being well over the half way point, I can attest that inching to get at that next 1/48 Strike Eagle kit is more pleasant than planning who will get to build it should I not be around tomorrow. Things could always be worst, your descendents could favour 1/35 scale armour!!!
I have had to deal with the collections of two of my friends. One his son kept all his Dad’s built kits and about 1/3rd of his unbuilt kits. What the Club members didn’t buy we sold at a couple model shows. We probably only got $5 to $10 a kit maybe some were more generous for some of the more valuable stuff. I have two 1/32 Mustang kits that were almost completed except paint and decals I plan to finish and keep in his memory. I know my stuff will likely end up going to friends and sold cheap but it will make a bunch of modelers happy! If the wife can get $7.50 a kit for my stuff she will make $6000. I know it’s worth twice that much. The other collection is sitting collecting dust because the 5 siblings in the family can’t make up their mind to part with it.
hey Swanny;
LOL, yeah but when I get busted from the Modeling Vise Squad I’ll point them your way and tell them you’re the Supplier & Importer, and your the Modeling Don of the modeling mafia
Yeah, I know what you mean. I’ve thought about that from time to time. Been building these things for over 50 years, about 3000 built on the shelf and another 150 in the closet waiting to be built, if I live long enough ! And I still buy more of the darn things ! No wife or kids, so maybe they can just make my place a museum and then I can haunt it and still build stuff !! As far as taking it with me, I couldn’t afford the size of the lot in the cemetary I would need !![xx(]
Well - I’ve decided that if I can’t take 'em with me, then I’m not going!![:D]
Anyway, as someone else in this forum once said several months ago
(I forget who) “As long as you have kits to build, you’ll never die.”
This topic really made me think, For a while now, I’ve been building models and gifting them to someone who there would be a special meaning for. But for some time, I’ve wanted to do diorama from my family history. But now I’m thinking, I have myself stuffed and place in my model room, doing a dio of me sitting in my dio room. Then the family can come talk to me anytime they want, just like now.
But, as someone pointed out, I’ll be dead. So who knows whose going to get them. It’s certain that no one in my family will do anything with them. But their loss is someone else’s dream come true.
Don [alien]
Mine will be going into the dumpster I imagine, along with my body! 
The fun is in the building.Nothing lasts forever.Cheers! John.
You’re right, John. I have some models that hold special meaning and will keep around for a while, but Some are just Models I want to build, and if I can, find someone to give them to for their enjoyment. My kids and friends are trying to talk me into selling stuff, but then it would become a job and all the fun would get sucked out.
For me, the joy is in hiding the seams, getting the weathering just right, or the grass to look real. After that, I enjoy them a day or two until I get obsessed with the next project.
If it ain’t fun, why bother?
Don [alien]
I just had a crazy idea- what if (after you leave) you somehow get a weatherproof display case for one (or more) of your favorite models. Then mount it to your tombstone for all generations to gaze with wonder on your handiwork!
They do it for pictures, why not for models? I know I’m gonna try to do it!
knowing what bev thinks of models there will be a big fire in the back yard just after i snuff it, (probably with my corpse on top LoL). i will probably tell her to donate the lot to an air museum and my diecast landrover / rangerover collection to the dunsfold landrover trust along with both my real landies (ones 47 years old and the others 30 something so they are both of museum age already) unless the kids want them of course.
thanks for the thought provoking thread.
Greg