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FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - JAWS - 11-15-2013
Check this out.....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Model-U-S-Navy-Sealab-III-of-AURORA-1970-/171173360947?ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:AU:1120
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - 3phase - 11-15-2013
Holy cow batman
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - Stefan Hacker - 11-15-2013
Made of Gold.....
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - Wombat - 11-15-2013
I'd want free shipping at that price..
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - Junk Pilot - 11-15-2013
Free shipping? Are you kidding? If you can afford this then you can afford to pay for bloody shipping as well.
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - Mr. Wabac - 11-17-2013
If PT Barnum was right there should be a buyer any minute now
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - LastBattlestar - 11-17-2013
'May not ship to Australia'. Oh well, I'm out then.
Someone seriously needs to repop this kit. Although they'd only likely sell a few hundred at most? Seems like a vicious circle: demand/rarity drives the kit to insane prices, yet it would probably hardly sell if it were released again. Would be a great opportunity for a garage kit outfit to repop them and flog them off for 200-300 bucks each!
Weren't the original moulds destroyed in a train crash or something like that?
Mike
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - JAWS - 11-18-2013
I believe they were destroyed.
By what means I am not sure.
Would make a great movie.
Sea Lab III Epic Story Of Styrene Madness.....
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - Junk Pilot - 11-18-2013
That would have to have been one hell of a train crash to destroy large metal molds.
As far as repopping the kit goes I believe there has been some talk to have Round 2 reverse engineer the kit to make new molds. I'm not sure where this stands at the moment whether it's seriously being considered but it would be aimed at the studio scale modeler because the kit is so prevalent in many SS builds.
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - Mr. Wabac - 11-19-2013
I believe some of the Aurora molds were destroyed.
Keep in mind what would happen to the ejector pins and what would happen to the molds left exposed in a wreck for some time.
As part of the lore of the great Aurora train wreck I also had heard that some molds were simply junked by Monogram upon receipt or purchase.
These were kits that either duplicated products already offered by Monogram or were poor sellers or poor quality.
I really would like to see a repop of the SeaLab - I think that there would be a much larger audience than just Studio Scale modelers.
Consider that Moebius has repoped a number of obscure kits in recent years, such as the Voyager from a 40+ year old single season cartoon.
The Sealab would also be a nice addition to the sub kits Moebius has produced - Seaview (Movie and TV) and the Skipjack.
The challenge, as has been stated in the past, is the need to match both sides of the SeaLab kit, including ejector pin locations, if it is to be of value to both the general modeller and Studio Scale modeler.
RE: FS ebay the most expensive Sea Lab III yet... - LeeS - 11-20-2013
The story I heard was that there was a wreck and the molds were either damaged or destroyed because they sheared across each other. Thus not destroyed in the way me think, but totally unusable again. There was also word that Aurora 'reused' the metal in some molds as it was expensive copper. That said there's no reason someone couldn't make a new styrene issue of it. The cost isn't cheap but it's affordable.