Serious modeler envy

[MustangGuy23]

I see many of you post pictures of your stashes or workbenches and I'm so jealous. Everything model related I own is in the picture below, minute a couple glue bombs. All my kits, tools, paint, everything. As jealous as I get sometimes, you all really inspire me and show me what I have to look forward to. Someday I'll have a stash to show off.

Edited July 14, 2014 by MustangGuy23

[Harry P.]

No picture.

[MustangGuy23]

No picture.

Fixed it. Thanks Harry.

[freakshow12]

We all have to start somewhere. It can also be a curse lol. I sometimes envy the guys that buy 1 kit, build it and start again. Makes you stick with projects lol

Edited July 14, 2014 by freakshow12

[Scuderia]

I'm 31 and when i started building on my own at around 15-16 years old I had a similar setup. A folding chair, the basic 'square jar' paint colors A (1) brush and he plastic xacto. lol I think some of the joy in each completed build is acquiring additional supplies as you get more into it and go along. We all start somewhere, don't worry!

[The70judgeman]

Everybody starts from meager beginnings.

[Watertown]

We all have to start somewhere. It can also be a curse lol. I sometimes envy the guys that buy 1 kit, build it and start again. Makes you stick with projects lol

Amen!! I watch the TV show, "Hoarders," and while my living space doesn't look like that, I certainly understand the compulsion. I have more kits than any one person could build in 8 lifetimes. (Except for maybe John Teresi).

Edited July 14, 2014 by Watertown

[DynoMight]

Amen!! I watch the TV show, "Hoarders," and while my living space doesn't look like that, I certainly understand the compulsion. I have more kits than any one person could build in 8 lifetimes. (Except for maybe John Teresi).

[Quick GMC]

I started with less than than that, on my kitchen table. Now I have a whole room for it. It comes slowly, but you can appreciate everything more when it's harder to obtain.

[Old Buckaroo]

I use to build WWII aircraft - I bought several modelers estates and amassed several thousand kits. The idea was to pick out the rarities and sell the rest. I could only build about one a month , figured my age and build ratio Selling them on ebay was more of a job then working 12 hr shifts. Kits had taken over every room of the house. I finally started giving , trading and selling by as many I could stuff in a box.

I quit building for 4 years and got back into modeling by a semi truck trade for box of aircraft resin and photo etch. I only have a few truck kits on the shelf and I could not be any happier.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

I see many of you post pictures of your stashes or workbenches and I'm so jealous. Everything model related I own is in the picture below, minute a couple glue bombs. All my kits, tools, paint, everything. As jealous as I get sometimes, you all really inspire me and show me what I have to look forward to. Someday I'll have a stash to show off.

Over time, take it slow. Like the boy in Gran Torino when he is in the garage looking at all the tools. You just accumulate over time.

I would hate to even attempt to go out and replace the tools, paints, kits and so forth that I have accumulated since I got back into model build back in 1990

[Helix]

Like everyone has said Michael, we got to start somewhere!

I'm at the point where I need to have a spring clean, way too much on the bench and surrounding areas !

You will get to a point where you have a huge bench and your work is confined to about 10 inches on that desk because the rest of it is full of other projects, tools, paints etc etc !

Cheers

Ray

[slusher]

Everybody starts from meager beginnings.

When I was a kid, I mowed grass and odd jobs for a kit. When I started back building I was 23 with 2 kits. Its nice to have a stash but you also have to try to keep it under control...I try

[Lunajammer]

I'm not sure a vast inventory is the objective. Looks to me like right now you have everything you need to make a quality build. A few more tools and a little more space and you'll be set for life. As with anything, if you gather too much then you don't own your stuff, your stuff owns you.

[The70judgeman]

@Carl- I started with nothing. My dad "tested" the waters with me and bought a kit for me to build with him. Well, lets just say I far surpassed his expectations. As far as a stash is concerned, I don't have any pictures, but it gets bigger and bigger.

[Dale W. Verts]

I gave up trying to "keep up" right off. Havin' Fun, Fun, Fun.

Dale

[Tom Geiger]

It's all relative. There's probably a guy who looked at your picture and wished he had that chair! Seriously, you may have more stuff than others on the board.

When I got back to the hobby 26 years ago I went to shows and bought everything in sight. I'd see other guys from my club at the show walking around empty handed. They'd say there was nothing they needed there. I couldn't understand it at all. 26 years later, after attending several shows a year, and buying on eBay and many other ways, I have a sizable hoard. I can go to shows and not buy a thing. I now see their point of view.

You will be the same way. The massive hoard builds a kit at a time over time! And before you know it you'll have much more than you could ever build in a lifetime. Believe me! It kinda creeps up on ya!

[johnbuzzed]

Don't worry, Michael. You'll catch up to the rest of us one day, then wonder why you did...

[Brett Barrow]

Good modelling friend of mine (he builds military) used to buy 1 model at the time and build it and buy the next and build it. He never had a stash until he noticed that kits he wanted would go out of production before he had bought them so he started keeping a modest, single-digit stash. But he has 2 big glass countertop display cases like the ones you see in hobby shops full of his built ups. He's like the bizzaro-world me.

[johnbuzzed]

One of our club members builds some phenomenal models, pretty much box stock but with basic wiring, ultra-clean BMF, decals and gorgeous paint. It's contest-quality work, without a doubt, but his rate of building is scary. Whatever stash he has must be really small.

[gtx6970]

Everybody starts from meager beginnings.

Amen,,,

Sometimes I wish I didn't have the stash I have now. ( but not enough to give it all away though ) It might give me more incentive to actually build something

[om617]

Started out around a year ago and are still on the kitchen table. Have yet to go onto the airbrush,only reason i want to try is to get

better finish on small part where the brush is usually used. I`m impressed by the stash,tools and space many have to work with,but

i have to start out somewhere,also still having fun with the little i have,and it`s said to be the most important.

[heinz74]

i just build from a spare bedroom floor on a sheet of vinyl..no specific tools except for an airbrush ..the rest is all crappy builders supplies.

you don't need a milion dollar space to build nice

the best 1/1 cars i've seen build were done in a one car garage with a dirt floor sometimes...

you don't need eyes to see you need vision...is what they say...

[ewaskew]

Yea man, you got as much as a lot of us started with at one time.

Now just keep buying and stacking and buying and stacking and one day you'll look at that big stash and say man I'll never get these built before I die.

Then the thought of selling some of them come's to mind and then you decide not to sell and end up buying more.

Its nice to have so many models it's like having your own hobby store.

I get to thinking about certain kits at times and go Shed Shopping as I call it, lol.

It's a bad habit after a while.

In my stash if it Floats Fly's or Rides I have it.

My problem is when I see a model and think Man that's cool.

I buy it and stack it and may never build or sell it.

So be careful about why you want a big stash of models and be sure you have plenty of room.

I have to pay rental shed fees for some of mine so they can just sit there untouched. Dead Money so to speak.

I may down size and get rid of most of mine now that I sit here and think about it.

God Bless

[disabled modeler]

We all started where you are and you will catch up with many of us here don't worry about that one. I started with nothing... Still have most of it...lol.