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a good friend and fellow railway club member passed away suddenly a couple of years ago, leaving his widow to dispose of all his railway paraphernalia. not only was there the obvious modelling items - locos, stock, track, buildings etc, in numerous scales(O,HO,OO,N,2mm finescale- he collected items from US, UK, continental railways) there were also masses of books, pictures, modelling tools, tools in general, videos, wood and a host of other things that we modellers collect, which are so useful to only us - detailling parts, card, plastic, even carpet underlay. just think about everything you have collected thats not just layout and stock. anyway several fellow club members got together to catalogue everything that could be useful to fellow modellers, that his widow no longer wanted. they started with the obvious locos and rolling stoct, then went onto, books, magazines, videos, tools, paintings and other items, listing each in turn. The lists were priced up at realistic prices - remember his widow was not interested in realising every last penny of worth from the collection, she only wanted to get rid of it, so the prices reflected good second hand value, so that the stuff would move. the lists were then circulated among fellow modellers, club members, scale society members, traders and hobby shops (the exhibition circuit is good for this) and the gear was gradually sold. obviously the good stuff went first, but as the lists went down the items became cheaper as time went on. funnily enough i ended up with Peter's small collection of American HO, which got me started in the scale. the whole process took over 18 months from cataloguing the items to finally getting rid of it, but remember, the list of locos and stock was being sold, while the next list was being drawn up. think about it, the process is no different than if you were to completely get out of the hobby now, how would you sell your collection.
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