93Z34 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 This is my stash and work area. These pics are a couple years old though and don't include pics of the 100+ drag kits I've added to the collection. I have more kits packed away than I do on the shelves now...
niteowl7710 Posted January 23, 2011 Posted January 23, 2011 (edited) I have never claimed to be the brightest bulb in the box and I'm sure not now, but I just don't understand having that many models on hand to build. No offense is meant I just don't understand it. Well for me the vast majority of my pre-existing kit collection came from carefully orchestrated bribery from my parents during high school. My mom somewhere read you should pay your kids about $5 for "A"s to motivate them. Well you know what else was about $5-7 in the early 90's. So instead of money I parlayed it into 4 trips a year (H.S. was orientated around 9 week grading periods) to Trumbull Camera & Hobby a year. (As a side note in the late '90's they dropped the hobby part, and tried to go solo camera store...that lasted 2 years and the closed...pwn'd). So for those 100+ kits, I don't have a dime tied up in them... My mom started to wonder if her plan was a good one once the kits reached the ceiling from the old kitchen table I built on in the basement. In my defense it was a drop ceiling While I did build quite a bit of those "bribe" kits, obviously a lot more survived into a few moves around Ohio and then into a storage locker for 7 years. Now they have seen the light of day again in my basement. I have started to trade off the "I have no idea why I bought this" kits, but the rest I would actually like to build. Sure I have a 14 1/2 year supply of models, and I'm still buying new kits to boot, but as Mike pointed out a few posts up it's not a boat, jetski, ATV, RV/Camper, or a 1:1 money pit "restoration". Although I've limited myself to getting truly new (or at least new-to-me) kits, and filling in stuff I built (read - ruined) as a teenager. For the guys who have multiples of the same kit (at least for me) it tends to be "build one of what this kit is" and then the rest are... 1) Variation base...maybe a 6cyl Duster, or a base model Biscayne... 2) Base Kit...I'm guilty of this...I have 24 Lindberg Crown Vics...which will eventually be 24 different police cars. NASCAR builders are especially guilty of this too. I have to believe there are close to 500 decals sheets floating around, but they only made maybe 2 dozen kit variations (not counting limited/collector/50th Anniversary editions) of 90's-present cars. 3) Donor Kit...either a new chassis/drivetrain for an older annual/reissue or underpinnings for a resin project. Edited January 23, 2011 by niteowl7710
MsDano85gt Posted September 14, 2013 Posted September 14, 2013 Hey adam de coste...... can I have your Anglia gasser?? lol j/k but seriously i'll trade you..... about to post pics of my ginormous stash covering two places, 1. storage unit and 2. apartment closet ! lol
MsDano85gt Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 storage unit stash! apartment stash! workin on it everyday here at the apartment homested!
Harry P. Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 I think there are several members here who could get arrested if they showed you their stash...
o-man Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 I think there are several members here who could get arrested if they showed you their stash... Why does that not surprise me?
High octane Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 While I have plenty of kits in my "stash" to keep me busy building for life, buying more kits to ad to the pile is "getting old." Sure I will buy a kit now and then, but I'm cutting way back and hopefully increase my buy to build ratio.
slusher Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 l still don't think l have a big stash at about 200 kits. l plan on cutting way back from now on and have stoped buying kits on ebay. all my kit but a few have come from Hobby Lobby with a 40 percent coupon. Sometimes my wife buys one for me. lt's a great hobby and it keeps me home. Just looking at them unbuilt makes me feel good on a bad day. l plan to build most of them...
RodneyBad Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 While I have plenty of kits in my "stash" to keep me busy building for life, buying more kits to ad to the pile is "getting old." Sure I will buy a kit now and then, but I'm cutting way back and hopefully increase my buy to build ratio. X2
tbill Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 nice collections, must feel good walking into your own hobby shop I've only got about 2 dozen kits so far, but I've only been back into it for a month or so.......
Erik Smith Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 X2 While I have plenty of kits in my "stash" to keep me busy building for life, buying more kits to ad to the pile is "getting old." Sure I will buy a kit now and then, but I'm cutting way back and hopefully increase my buy to build ratio. X3 - it has to be fairly special or really catch my interest. I end up selling or otherwise getting rid of a lot of plastic... It's easy to confuse buying something with doing something...and I am as guilty as the next.
peekay Posted September 15, 2013 Posted September 15, 2013 I think there are several members here who could get arrested if they showed you their stash... True. And others would be risking divorce.
Evilbenny Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 This is most of my stash. I have more stashed in various other places.
brett Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 well I too plan on building all mine, so none for sale but I seem to be buying a LOT more than I'm building lately
brett Posted September 16, 2013 Posted September 16, 2013 most of this next pic's of the last few weeks aquisitions and what cant be seen on top is anpther Johan Boss Hoss fc and resin and unboxed kits fill these
Daddyfink Posted September 17, 2013 Posted September 17, 2013 Congratulations, Brett! You are normal! I outpaced my building to buying ratio a long ago! I went from builder to hoarder, er, I mean, collector!
RodneyBad Posted September 17, 2013 Posted September 17, 2013 Congratulations, Brett! You are normal! I outpaced my building to buying ratio a long ago! I went from builder to hoarder, er, I mean, collector! I like to say Historian. Hoarder just sounds soo Dirty and We don't walk on our models.
Daddyfink Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) Free! Wall paper! Edited September 25, 2013 by Daddyfink
Ben Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 I have never claimed to be the brightest bulb in the box and I'm sure not now, but I just don't understand having that many models on hand to build. No offense is meant I just don't understand it. No offense taken here, I hear that quite often. Let me ask you this, have you ever seen a really cool kit that was released years ago and now, if you could find one, you would pay 20 times what it orignally cost? That's why I grab every kit I can, when I can. They don't all "have" to be built but it sure is great to have a project come to mind and have the kit you need, right at your finger tips! Not only that but I have found that kits are a good investment. I always try to buy two of every kit so that I could sell one later if I need extra money.
Ben Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 LOL, didn't notice that post was two years old!
brett Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 Had another 5 turn up today . I think I'm probably in the youger half of the demigraphic ( I think thats the word I want) of this forum and fate notwithstanding intend to build all what I've got. Like Ben I tend to grab them when I see them as sometimes they just become unaffordable in thier old age . In saying that I have certain projects in mind( with pics to remind me) for almost every kit I have, there's only maybe half a dozen that dont have anything specific planned for them. And if by the time I get round to that project and my tastes hace changed (un likely) I'll sell on or trade for what I do want. And if I do kick the proverbial bucket before my hobby supportive wife, she knows roughly what they are worth to sell.
disabled modeler Posted September 25, 2013 Posted September 25, 2013 Free! Wall paper! VERY NICE collection!....nice to see some I had as a kid
cmfowler Posted October 6, 2013 Posted October 6, 2013 While not as impressive as some, Here is my stash. As many have mentioned the build to buy ratio is very skewed in one direction, hard to find time ti Build as I finish up my Masters Degree
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