Garage Sale page #1 of Campbell structures I must start selling my extra structures that aren't a part of my layout. Each one will get the final detail established as you see in the diorama below. Some of the future sale items are seen in the background. Professional kit builders tell me that they charge 2 & 1/2 times the cost of a kit, plus the kit cost for their labor. Even at that rate, They can't be involved in gain full employment to feed their families as kit building takes much time to do them right. I post this formula for some kits listed so you'll see the savings. In all, there are 60 Campbell kits assembled like you see below. I would sell the whole lot for $6,000.00 and included are a few kits in the box and a couple scratch built from pictures. After that, there are a lots of other structures and dioramas to be sold. This offer is for those that don't have the time or skill for building craftsman type kits. How much is something worth? I recently saw a 1957 restored Oldsmobile get bids up to $100,000.00 and the party wouldn't sell because they wanted $125,000.00 so go figure that, and it's just a car.   SOLD   Assembeled kit #363 Campbell Supply Co. $100.00 I would assume that this kit is the first one that Leo Campbell produced as his first kit. The early kits were aquired when Leo took over the Ayres Line and made them his first products. Around this time, Leo invented the "Profile Shingles" and "Corrugated Aluminum" for building materials. This kit included all the platform barrels, and crates with shipping stickers as you see in the photograph. View larger picture here   Today, the kit sells for $69.28 and I would sell the finished model for $100.00 and you save $142.48 that a kit builder would charge you.   SOLD #364 Sheriff's Office The current kit price is $47.95 and I'll sell the model for $100.00 Establish Law and Order on your layout with this detailed and weathered model. Larger picture   SOLD  Kee Ling Laundry & Cigar Store $100.00 This is Campbell Scale Models kit #365 mounded on a diorama and posed in a scene like the companies color catalog #8. This may be the only diorama ever built with my scenery products. The kit sells for $67.24 and I'll sell this competed scene for $100.00 plus $12.00 shipping. Plus; all figures are included. View large picture here. To have a reputable kit builder do this kit for you without the scenery board, it would cost you $235.34. Would he even do as good a job as I did? Buy it on eBay   SOLD  Assembled kit #366 Stephenson Drug & Barber Shop $100.00 Detailing and weathering make these little structures come to life. The gang planking has been chipped away for the distressed look. Some of the siding has been worked loose and popped out for those warped boards that happed with time. The Profile Shingles have been lifted up for that curling effect. Finally, the paint and stains have that worn see through look form sun and rain. Figures are included with this set. This two structure kit sells today for $67.24 in the Walthers catalog. Like most things today, model railroad products have become over priced like this kit and would still cost a bunch to have someone build it for you. View larger picture   SOLD Assembled kit #367 Skull Valley Station diorama with freight platform, Gorre & Daphetid Engine House and manual turntable. $500.00 Leo Campbell drove to Prescott Arizona in the 70's to photograph and measure the actual structure for this kit. I spent a lot of quality time by having some open windows with the curtains blowing out ,detailing and weathering. All the platform junk and figures go with it. I could remove the structures from the diorama and sell them separately. View larger picture    I like to arrange the "uptown" buildings into any order that looks pleasing and that is why they are never glued down.