how many built models?

[Miatatom]

18, but none in the last year.

[alan barton]

I haven't counted for quite a while but I would estimate somewhere around the 500 mark built and on display.  Predominantly 1/24 or 1/25  hot rods but a large collection of 1/32 scale rods plus a handful of 1/8th and 1/16th.  The stash is somewhere around 500 as well so I guess  1:1 would be a good stash to built ratio?  I have been averaging 12 builds a year for about 20 years but last year got really focussed and pushed that up to 20.  My count is based on when the tyres hit the glass, so they could have been started a week ago or decades ago! This collection started around 1965. I'll take a wild stab in the dark and estimate about 100 W.I.P.s - I am not very disciplin............look, a squirrel!

 I have lost, sold or swapped maybe a dozen models in my lifetime so it is a pretty accurate representation of everything I have built since I was about eight years old.

On the other hand, my toy and diecast collection, which started seriously about thirty years ago, is estimated around 4000 items. That is every hot rod item imaginable from 1/144 Micro machines to 1/5th radio controlled monsters. I deliberately chose to collect toy hot rods because, hey, there's not that many, right?  Stop laughing, you guys.  My first trip to the USA was in 1992 and that is when all hell broke loose!  I now have two double bedrooms set up as a mini museum with floor to ceiling cabinets and it is reaching capacity - it won't last til the end of the year!  Unless I start gluing them to the ceiling!

Plastic kits will always be my first love and if I had to buy a kidney, the diecast goes first!

I have a few sub-collections including oval track dirt cars, mid fifties to mid sixties customs and street machines, caravans and trailers ( my grandfather had his own caravan business), speed boats, tow trucks and Australian made cars.

It keeps me busy and keeps me happy!

Cheers

Alan

[Scott Colmer]

Since 1985, I've finished 21 models. It usually takes me years to finish because I suffer from snowball disease. I do enjoy the process and challenge of figuring out how to replicate something, so that pace is OK.

I also have about 10 unfinished projects waiting, and another 20+ planned. 

I also have one survivor left from the 70s. 

So the problem is, why is my stash so large (between 500 and 600).  Hmm, let's see... that's an average of 1 model very two years. So if I build them all at the same pace I will be...click...click...click 1,058 years old when I finish. If I don't buy more. No problem!

Scott

[slusher]

On 3/13/2021 at 12:42 PM, Gramps46 said:

182 Built Models - all 1/25 or 1/24 

Now that impressive !!

[Brutalform]

Due to allowed space, I have approximately 60 completed builds, and 60 unbuilt kits as well. It also seems I have about 10 projects going on as well. There are some completed builds I’ve sold, as well as 1 or 2 “in progress” projects as well. I really try to keep things in check with these numbers. As soon as I see some items not fitting on my current shelves, and getting placed somewhere else, I try to thin the herd a bit. 
I plan on buying a Pace paint booth, and an air brush set up, that will be set up and used in my model room as well. So I can’t see my collection growing anymore than me buying 3 or 4 rare kits I really would like to have. 

[Brutalform]

On 3/13/2021 at 1:42 PM, Gramps46 said:

182 Built Models - all 1/25 or 1/24 

Nice.