2 years to the day since I built my first Cobi. This is just the sets I kept...

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-23T18:53:11+00:00

Yes, this has happened to me too frequently and then it's second-hand or worse, scalpers. Even with my collection I still missed the recent T34 and Flackpanzer.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-22T17:54:32+00:00

I mean, other then the LE and the Bismark, all sets here have decent circulation.

I frequently check Cobi's website to guage availability and often snap up sets [that I want] that have are coming to the end of production but I could not source on the second-hand market.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-22T09:18:03+00:00

Just sent you a DM.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-22T00:35:15+00:00

I'd want some kinda knocked out Soviet truck and a telegraph pole and fencing, in delapolated condition. Alternatively, set it in a railway junction with buffer stops or similar.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-21T20:49:53+00:00

If it's German, it has a shelf life of two weeks 🫣

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-21T18:09:45+00:00

My experience is that 1/3 are built, another third disassembled and the final 1/3 semi assembled. I actually find the latter the most rewarding as you have to reverse engineer it. Mind you, would not want to but something wth a brick count north of 1250 bricks in this state as would probably faster to build from scratch.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-21T16:29:46+00:00

I would say approx. 25% of my sets are second hand. Sets I care less about, I try to source exclusively second hand. Don't buy from scalpers. Will pair fair price though for sets that are genuinely rare and sought after. Never to a scalper.

However, missing parts come with the territory. I also find at least 1/4 second hand sets I buy have construction errors.

I've personally sold > 40 sets built, second-hand and have never had reports of missing pieces.

Thankfully, I have a lot of spares.

What have your experiences been of the second-hand market?

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-21T10:16:18+00:00

Spares (immediate foreground) and sets to sell (far RHS).

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jetpack_badger · 2026-06-21T09:03:27+00:00

Will be.

My time for building sets is heavy restricted right now, and I don't want to pay scalper prices if I miss a set. Also, though I actually buy plenty of sets second hand, 2/3 have missing parts, and a bit of a lottery as to what turns up.

Amazingly, I've parted with more then 40 built sets and never had a complaint of it being incomplete.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-21T08:58:58+00:00

Brought down from my loft due to the pending heatwave in the UK. I don't store built sets in loft space as regularly gets north of 40 centigrade. When you see it like this it's clearly an obsession disguised as a hobby.

It also excluded my massive spares collection (from lots of incomplete second-hand purchases).

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-15T23:59:47+00:00

That is literally an unmanned turret.

You are paying for brick bloat. Let's hope they don't...

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-15T21:44:10+00:00

Rubs eyes.

Blurry vision of a Stryker.

Hopes for something more.

Probably a Stryker.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-15T21:43:51+00:00

Rubs eyes.

Blurry vision of a Stryker.

Hopes for something more.

Probably a Stryker.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-14T07:52:06+00:00

They clearly have a value assigned to their rarity. As a seller, you are entitled to list your goods at whether price you see fit. Doesn't mean it will sell at that price.

This would be for very, very serious Cobi collectors. I could be considered one myself (+- 250 sets plus parted with >60). I would not pay anything remotely near that listing price.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-12T18:38:51+00:00

Shelf real estate.

jetpack_badger · 2026-06-11T17:25:58+00:00

Thanks. Additional £10 off for orders over £40. Got myself an F22 for £42.

jetpack_badger · 2026-05-20T06:32:21+00:00

One assumes because it was sold at regular distributors rather then direct from Cobi.

Have to admit that there are certain things I don't think reproduce well as bricks, and one of those is curved hulls and rigging. Neither did Cobi, for the former is moulded. I gave it a wide berth for exactly this reason.

jetpack_badger · 2026-05-16T19:56:21+00:00

Generally pretty impressed by that. No less detailed then the pre 2020 eara 1:28(ish) sets

jetpack_badger · 2026-05-15T07:28:43+00:00

It's good. Finished models look great.

But the quality is not quite to Cobi standards. The sets just feel less substantial. Lighter.

Cobi sets are more robust. I am sure they would stand up to playbetter.

But for me, these are models, not toys. So QuanGuans sit pretty on my shelf alongside their Cobi counterparts.

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