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Hello. I have a rather sad story to share here and I am not sure what to do. I am 28 years old and currently 2,000 miles away from the home that I grew up with. I was inspired by the model airport at YMX, and started collecting 1:600 planes and made a small airport. That expanded and I switched to 1:500. The internet came about and that expanded my knowledge and love for planes and collecting. The airport got bigger and eventually had to move into a section off building of a old Kennel. My father had his equipment and tools on one end, and the airport was in its own section. We had a few barn cats that would sneak onto the airport and I would often find my planes turned and cat prints on the runway.
I got older, and got into other things, but my planes stayed there. They collected dust. The winters were cold in New England, and it was decided by my father one day to destroy my airport, put all the planes in a big box and use that area for our two house dogs to stay when everyone was at work for a whole day.
It only lasted one day, but the damage was done. My planes are still dusty and down in this kennel. Obviously, have lost all value. I would like to just give them away to someone that would care and do good with them. Its such a large collection (about 200), so I feel someone would have to literally drive to my house in upstate Vermont and get them.
You could donate them to a homeless children's shelter or some other organization that deals with disadvantaged children. Other than collectors, I'm not sure who else would be interested. I also don't know if these are "toy" grade planes that would be suitable for kids.
My parents chopped up my old piano for firewood after I moved out, so I know how you feel about the airport.
Not familiar with the sizes... could you have a family member ship them to you? Then you could display in your current house on shelves or hang from a ceiling? If you must get rid of them, maybe they could keep a handful or one or two out per your specs and mail them to you, so you'd at least have a few for the memories and it wouldn't be as sad.
I like the idea of donating to a museum or shelter. Or perhaps a hospital children's ward.
I was able to display them in my old childhood room. I took an old bookshelf, cleaned it off, removed the books and put the planes on there, then I was able to put a glass cover over it.
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