I spent all my money on a model.
No Honda Accords story here. This particular model was entirely plastic (ah but which ones aren't you ask?).

Back in my youth at the end of a family summer holiday we went to the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune. Buoyed at the time by my summer holiday money, and having a love of all things sci-fi or flying, I went straight for the shop. As I scurried about my eye caught it, a plastic model kit of a Babylon 5 Starfury! For ages before this I'd been searching for some sort of Babylon 5 toy, but they just weren't carried in many shops...mostly because it wasn't really a 'toy' kind of show (plush Londo Mollaris are probably flying off the shelf in a parallel universe).

The only problem was the £25 price tag. But I wanted it. The parentals encouraged me to think it over, but as we traipsed around the museum my thoughts were focussed on what I'd soon be buying. My mind made up, I marched up and paid my money. It was perhaps as we were leaving that the first thread of doubt crept into my mind.

Of course by the time I got home I was beginning to regret my choice, and by the time I realised that this was a fragile plastic model and not something that suited flying around going "zoom" it was too late.

I don't think I even managed to paint it. It sat in a plastic tub for years and years, bits breaking off until I moved out and remembered what a folly it had been.

Since then I've rated every purchase, every impulse buy on the Starfury scale. It's saved me a heck of a lot of money!
(chuckle_h0und You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:36, 1 reply)

I have one of these!
My dad made it, sprayed it (keen model maker my old man with his spray gun and bits) he even made a stand and plastic case for it. Its the nuts.
(Beaverman Opulence, I has it., Fri 1 Oct 2010, 13:53, closed)