Insuring your models?

[kingbob]

A good mate of mine had someone break into his shed and steal his racing E-maxx along with tool box, batteries, chargers etc. And this wasnt a stock truck, i think the only original parts on it were the body mounts. Was aluminium, titanium, carbon fibre, custome made cromolly gears etc, had to be worth upwards of $6-7k by itself. Letalone the 20 odd batteries at $100 a pop.

The insurance company got a hobby shop to quote for replacement. Luckily guys from the shop raced as well and knew perfectly well what was on the truck, so they added it all up. Pretty sure he got paid out a good percentage of its material worth.

But of course how do you vallue the time put into one of our trucks?
Ultimately its the working on it, and creating it that I enjoy the most. If i have 100 hours of work invested in one (a perfectly reasonable amount), do i value that at what i'd earn at work in 100 hours?