Brickplumber

I guess I fall into the type 3 investor. I buy and sell sets to fund my large MOC building. I feel I sell at fair market value, not trying to retire, just help fund my hobby. I have been collecting for 17+ years and have recently (last year+) been selling my sets on Amazon. As stated, the older ones sold well, but it takes a lot of storage space and patience to search for sales and then wait till the sets become discontinued. I guess I justify the time as part of my hobby now. I make a pretty good living, but with kids in college, my funds are needed elsewhere, so this is worth it in my eyes.

Well, I too have been collecting Star Wars since 1999 (and Lego for 16+ years now). I really only build big MOCs that are to minifigure scale (2 so far, both around 100,000 piece counts). I have had to start selling off my boxed Star Wars collection to fund my big builds { :( }. I do feel that in order to get noticed it has to be a stand-out build (unless you have had a stand-out build already) and maybe thats why I build big. That in turn does not mean building big accurate MOCs gets you noticed (my second has not got much) but I build because I like it and if praise comes from along with it, then awesome. Also I feel that AC Pin has built sooo many awesome Star wars MOCs that there isn't much left (just kidding, his stuff is stellar). Lego certainly has gotten much better with thier Star Wars sets and the community as a whole has somewhat decreased thier Star Wars MOCs, but I haven't and although the sets are better, many are not accurate to scale and I feel there is a lot of MOCs to build.

I noticed that one of the builders is using my design, I am ok with that. Here is a link to mine. I have built 3 and have a motorized interior winch for raising and lowering troops. I built it about 5 years ago and it took 5 revisions and about 1 years from first try until the models I am using in my Hoth layout. Visit My Website Visit My Website Visit My Website