I am cleaning out my basement and have a bunch of unbuilt kits that are all 25+ years old. I would like to donate them to a local IPMS or similar group.
I live in Boston. Any suggestions on who to contact?
Many thanks for your help.
Contact the Veterans groups in your areas. They can use them.
I got in touch with a local IPMS branch who have been super helpful and will take the kits off my hands.
How about veterans organizations.
I will say .
It would’ve been nice if you had taken them to the local V.A Recreation Dept for the vets .They are always needing our help .
My brother was wondering if I would teach a class to homeschool kids for credit hours in model building.
he has two boys and two girls and they belong to other home school groups.
I would love to show anyone who was interested in modeling!
When I was starting you could buy 1/72 scale Revell kits for .88 cents! Now a days I was looking into buying kits and the cheapest I could find was $5 to $7 ! that ads up if you have 20 kids. I would pay for shipping if that would help. Take pictures of the kids. Whatever would make it easier. Let me know if you are interested…
Bart
Hi,
I’m going to try and clean up my house this weekend, before it gets too close to the holidays. I know that I have a half dozen or so random kits still lying around that I will probably never get too. If I can find them, I can try and send them to you. ’
Pat
That would be awesome Pat, My brother is excited about this!
let me send you my information
Do you take paypal? so I can pay you for shipping?
Awesome!
Bart
Hi, I have family in town right now for the holidays, but I should be able to get some stuff together may be next week or so. Pat
Pat, Here is the video I made for my nephews to introduce them to model building.
I sent them the models, and they were very Excited!
I will post more here if they do the the next step and make the models.
Bart
Hi,
Thanks for the heads up [:)]
Pat
In the UK we have ‘Help for Heroes’, which takes unbuilt kits, paints, tools, glues, magazines, etc. It runs programmes to help ex-soldiers with injuries to rehabilitatate. I’ve personally donated a whole load of kits, paints, and tools. https://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/
Throughout my adult life, until maybe the last 10 years, I donated unopened model kits and supplied to military hospitals. When they stopped accepting them I tried the VA. That worked for a shot while. They started putting limits and what could be donated for safety reasons (no blades, solvents, etc). Eventually they withered the list to nothing. Now they are not allowed to accept any. That’s been my experience locally though. I don’t know if that limitation exists nationwide.