how many models have you built?

[Snake45]

  On 1/15/2019 at 5:54 PM, Snake45 said:

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. 

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Finished my list. I ended up with 136 pre-1970, and 61 '70-present or undated (such as dragsters), for a total of 197.  Was pretty close with my initial estimate of 200. 

I have three other teenage builds that are complete and displayable and would have been counted, but I can't find them. I SHOULD have them, but they're missing in action and have been for some time (I've wanted to cleanup/restore them). I'm still hoping they'll turn up somewhere, sooner or later. 

[Little Timmy]

  On 1/17/2019 at 2:38 AM, Snake45 said:

Finished my list. I ended up with 136 pre-1970, and 61 '70-present or undated (such as dragsters), for a total of 197.  Was pretty close with my initial estimate of 200. 

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Did I misunderstand the topic of this thread ? 

I thought it was how many you have built over the year's. Not, how many do you have..... which in my case , would be around 25 .... almost all of them in storage box's.

[Snake45]

  On 1/17/2019 at 2:56 AM, Little Timmy said:

Did I misunderstand the topic of this thread ? 

I thought it was how many you have built over the year's. Not, how many do you have..... which in my case , would be around 25 .... almost all of them in storage box's.

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Okay, I went back and added a sub-list, everything I can think of that I've built but have been lost, destroyed, given away or sold, or are currently disassembled or otherwise unfit to display. That comes to 31, about a dozen of which I still have but are stripped for rebuilding or otherwise "not ready for prime time."  So that puts me somewhere around 225-230 lifetime total. 

[Pete J.]

Good Question- In the "Modern era" probably 50+  By the modern era I mean Since I got back into building the second time which happened after my son was about 5, so the modern era is the last 25 years.  I built many, though I have no idea how many,  from when I was a child until after my first year in the Air Force.  In pilot training we had a contest for the students who built them as decorations for the Squadron ready room ceiling.  Stopped then until my son came along, so there was a gap of 15 year. 

It is kind of interesting.  In my modern building I can remember details of each build, but it doesn't seem like I built over 50.  It seems like far less.  Many of them I gave away. 

[urrutiap]

I lost count lost track of how many i put together years ago such as two decades ago.  Ive put together some decent stuff and then some crappy stuff 

[Russell C]

Thought about this last week, as I turned in for the night. Was able to count up my current unbuilt projects easy enough, 20, but only dredged up memories of around 50 before I fell asleep, of all the ones fitting the "completed" status. Had to use a spreadsheet program a day ago to pop in every one I could remember where I could use the column next to the list to rapidly count them all up.

95 altogether, with the bulk of them being from the early years where I could build them in a week or two and play with them in the carpet 'til they fell apart. And I still may be missing one or three in the ol' memory ...