Nothing like spending 600 or so bucks to learn a lesson. Might I suggest you learn to say NO to your impulsive inner voice more often.

Score! wait until the 3000-4000 in parts you scrapped takes about 500-1000 hours to sell. Go to a show, lay it out, and you will benefit. Selling at the prices you think you have right now are FleeceBay pricing, and you won't get that at shows. Time with son, possibly timeless and priceless. The lessons about dad's decisions and judgement are part of it, and he will come out of this ahead regardless. Some of those plastics are nice.

Tally up all the time, energy, expense and its clear you are driving on what some would call the black ice of business. Kinda appealing at first, enticing, fun and exciting. Yet quickly it turns into a nightmare. One good thing will come from this, a lesson on how to not mix hobby and business.