As rare as hen's teeth.

Over the years I have made the odd mistake whereby I sold one of my RC items to fund another project but then soon after regretted it, and one such occasion was with this rare piece, the Sand Scorcher XB finished body.

When it was first released in 2011 I hummed and hawed about getting one because they were not cheap, with a price tag of over  £100. Eventually I bit the bullet when they were temporarily offered at a discount price of  £80, and I have to say that when it arrived I was very impressed with the finish.

In late 2012 though I needed to generate some quick funds and decided that, since I actually have an original Scorcher body just waiting to be painted, I could afford to let the XB version go, and I did make a huge profit on it, selling it for  £161 on ebay.

Recently though, with me having a huge pile of projects on the go, and no time to paint the original body, I have been missing being able to admire a nice box-art Scorcher on my shelf so started to look for another XB. As I suspected though, they are now pretty much extinct, but as luck would have it I noticed that Modellbau-Siedel were still listing the odd one from time to time. I'm not sure where they were getting them from but I'm not complaining.

Anyway this replacement was far from cheap at  £121 delivered to my door but taking into consideration the fact that I have paid  £201 for two of these things over the years - but clawed back  £161 from the sale of one of them - then this works out at paying  £40 for a XB Scorcher body, painted to a very high standard IMO. Not a bad deal. :)