how many models have you built?

[l88 chevelle]

I was wondering about how many models I have built in my lifetime,i am 57.my rough guess is at least 400,how many do you think you have built??

[cobraman]

Hundreds for sure but who can remember over 50 + years ? Not me !

[StevenGuthmiller]

Probably a couple hundred.

But my guess is that I only have about 40 in my collection right now.

 

 

Steve

[Lizard Racing]

I have about 80 on the shelf or in the stash, plus another 20 I left with my son when I moved (that's part of his inheritance).

Like most people on this forum, there have been several incarnations of my model activity over the years.  I built my first car model in 1960 with aircraft for a couple of years before that.

I sure wish I had back some of those kits and projects that are now long lost.

[BigTallDad]

A couple of dozen, over a 60 year time frame. I go for quality, not quantity, and I have other hobbies(woodworking, stained glass, etc.) that share time with building models.

Edited January 12, 2019 by BigTallDad

[vamach1]

Have not counted to know for sure.   Probably about 150 including all scales of which at least 50 are Mustangs.  Just took a count and only to about 100.    I have some work to do as the unbuilt ones must be double that.

Edited January 13, 2019 by vamach1

[Snake45]

Funny you should ask. I have no idea lifetime, as many of my childhood models are long gone. Just today I came across in the computer a forgotten file I did about five years ago called Built Models. I seem to recall when I did that list, I had about 100 airplanes and 100 cars on it. I've done quite a few cars since then (and at least four airplanes). I completed 42 model car projects last year (2018), but 18 of them were diecast pimpouts which I wouldn't count as "built models" for such a list, and at least one of the models I would count was a restoration of one I built as a kid so I wouldn't count that one again either.  I'd have to guess that I'm somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 built cars, plus or minus 20. If I can come up with a more accurate count, I'll let you know. 

I do still have somewhere around two dozen of the model cars I built as a teenager between 1966 and 1970. 

[Eshaver]

Bruce , I had 400 + BEFORE Hurricane Agnes flooded Richmond Virginia in 1972 . They all washed out to the Atlantic with the exception of two that I still have . I began building again in the late 1980s . I probably have 150-200 again .

[l88 chevelle]

wow

[Snake45]

This thead got me thinking, what should I count as a "built model"?

Many of my diecast Snake-Fu jobs probably shouldn't be counted. Most don't have more than 2-3 hours in them and I didn't change anything fundamental, just did some minor detailing. 

But I've built the Revell '55 Chevy, '68 Charger, and '68 Mustang diecasts from kits, and had a fair amount of time and effort in so doing. I'm thinking they should count as "built models." 

I had a fair amount of time and effort in correcting the diecast '65 GTO I did, and am currently putting a fair amount of work into a diecast '67 Chevelle, including adding a complete new interior. Thinking maybe those should be counted as "builders," too. 

Thoughts, ideas, opinions? (It's a slow night....) 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Since 2012 I've semi-finished 1.5.

[Little Timmy]

This was a topic on another forum ( I cannot remember which ) 

And I cannot remember my "model's built count".

So I will start over.

I have been building model's since I was 4 year's old. Started out on Snap-together kit's ( about 10 kit's )

First glue together kit when I was 6. From 6 year's old ,until 14 year's old  ( about 300).

I then started to build for "Customer's " From 14 to 32 year's old (  about  2000 )

I slowed down around 35 year;s old so  35 to 50  ( about 500 ) 

For the past 2 year's , I havent been able to complete A Darn thing ( So o kit's ) 

TOTAL LIFETIME COMPLETED KIT"S :  2810 .   I may be off on my count, so figure 150 kit's  one way or the other. .... yea ... I'v "sniffed" a  L O T of glue, over the year's ...

Edited January 13, 2019 by Little Timmy

[TomZ]

49 minutes ago, Snake45 said:

This thead got me thinking, what should I count as a "built model"?

Many of my diecast Snake-Fu jobs probably shouldn't be counted. Most don't have more than 2-3 hours in them and I didn't change anything fundamental, just did some minor detailing. 

But I've built the Revell '55 Chevy, '68 Charger, and '68 Mustang diecasts from kits, and had a fair amount of time and effort in so doing. I'm thinking they should count as "built models." 

I had a fair amount of time and effort in correcting the diecast '65 GTO I did, and am currently putting a fair amount of work into a diecast '67 Chevelle, including adding a complete new interior. Thinking maybe those should be counted as "builders," too. 

Thoughts, ideas, opinions? (It's a slow night....) 

I think you know in your heart which ones should count. To paraphrase the Supreme Court Justice (Marshall?) on pornography: "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it."

[Rusty92]

Since I began in 2016 (yes for the first time, I’m 22) I’ve built probably 12. I’ve slowed down to about 2 a year now. 

[OldTrucker]

Since I have been building for over 50 years I don't even want to think about the number!

[Greg Myers]

16 hours ago, Lizard Racing said:

I have about 80 on the shelf or in the stash, plus another 20 I left with my son when I moved (that's part of his inheritance).

Like most people on this forum, there have been several incarnations of my model activity over the years.  I built my first car model in 1960 with aircraft for a couple of years before that.

I sure wish I had back some of those kits and projects that are now long lost.

Probably the best answer.

The start and stop and start nature of this hobby is something that would be most interesting.

[gtx6970]

39 minutes ago, OldTrucker said:

Since I have been building for over 50 years I don't even want to think about the number!

This is my thoughts. Having built models off and on since the mid 60s . I would dare say Ive built well into the thousands.

 

Ive got maybe 150/200 or so built on hand  in the cases now . Lord only knows how many I've sold off  or been  damaged and thrown away over the years.

I'm afraid to think the  $$$$$$$ I've 'torched' in simulated crashes back in my youth

[Tom Geiger]

this falls into my realm of  "I don't wanna know!"

Along with..

I don't wanna know how many hours I spent on  any specific model.

I don't wanna know how many kits I own

 

 

[porschercr]

7 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

this falls into my realm of  "I don't wanna know!"

Along with..

I don't wanna know how many hours I spent on  any specific model.

I don't wanna know how many kits I own

 

 

Well said...

[Deathgoblin]

Through my life?  If I count my previous collection from when I was much younger, it would have to be in the hundreds.  There was a set of shelves in my bedroom when I was younger that my dad had built that filled in an old doorway.  Those were full, plus I had a shelf around the perimeter of the back patio that I had covered.  Those are all gone now.

 

[Jantrix]

Not counting the glue bombs of my youth, I figure around 55-60 since I started really trying to improve my work, which I started around age 20. I have about 45 currently. A big box of early work was stolen during a military move in the late 90's. Unfortunately a good deal of them would be very expensive to replace in todays market. Due to other hobbies, work, family etc, I only built three or less per year.

[Brutalform]

The most honest answer I could give is.. less than 100, but more than 50. 

Im counting 50 completed kits right now in my room, so I figure another 15 or so, that I no longer have would be a good estimate. 

Edited January 14, 2019 by Brutalform

[Ich_Will]

Stuff from my childhood is in the 20-30 range. I got back into models when I was in my late 30 and went crazy with 1:35 military figures...there's well over a hundred. I got into cars again in 2014 and have done less than 20.  . .... oh yeah, I had a model railroad from 1987 to 2000... no way I can give you a total on that. 

[Snake45]

Okay, inspired by this thread, I started a list of my completed model cars. 

I found it easiest on my memory to list them by model years (1957s, 1965s, etc.) I did not count my childhood/teenage builds that are gone, nor those I still have that are in such disrepair that they are not fit to be displayed, nor those that I have stripped the paint of and are awaiting eventual rebuild. I did include teenage builds that are together enough to be displayed (and those I have already restored), adult builds, "glue bomb rescues" and restorations of others' builds, full rebuilds, and diecasts that I've Snake-Fu detailed (but not unmodified diecasts). In other words, anything I have in 1/24-25 scale that's ready and fit to be displayed. So far my list is up to model year 1969 and I'm somewhere around 130 (and only 16 of these are pre-1963). I suspect that the list for years 1970-present will be somewhere in the same neighborhood, maybe a little less. 

Will update when I'm finished. 

[stitchdup]

I think I've built maybe 50 or 60, but some of those I've rebuilt into something else after i would have called them finished. I have some that I've redone more than once but I dont have much display space so some get put back in the stash depending on my mood at the time. For example i did one of the imex caddys with anice black and lace paintjob and withing a week i had had it stripped down as I coulen't bear to look at the massive gap between the roof and screen so its back in the box in bare plastic until I can fix that gap