Do you build more than one catagory of models?

Armor 1/35 + 1/48

Aircraft 1/48

Ships 1/350

All of those and mostly in the same order of preference. There are not many sci-fi subjects coming out now that I am interested in, and I am picky about ship subjects.  They do take up a lot of room as I prefer 1/350.  I think I have all the aircraft models bought that strike my fancy.  That means that armor gets most of the purchasing and building from me now. 

As far a building, my stash is huge and I can freely rotate around depending on what I feel like building. I even have a ton of figure sets, and someday I should start painting them.  About the only subject that I have no interest in is automobiles, or airliners. 

Doug

Pretty much the same as you sgt.

Armour - 1/35th

Aircraft - 1/72nd with a select few 32nd

Ships - only a couple of U-Boats at the moment, but looking to expand. Planning on going 1/350 for the larger ships.

And Sci Fi - Only Star Wars and Star Tek at the moment. Don't think i will expand beyond that.

Add to that are 1/6th Fantasy figures which is stock piling with the catagories.

sgtsauer

I have in my stash the following catagories of models...

* armor
* aircraft
* ships
* sci-fi

Anyone else here buy multiple catagories of models? If so, what catagories?

I have somewhat the same list with a little bit of everything.  No sci-fi, yet, but I have a Dodge Ram to build with the boy sometime soon.

Also have some model train stuff too.

sgtsauer

I have in my stash the following catagories of models...

* armor
* aircraft
* ships
* sci-fi

Anyone else here buy multiple catagories of models? If so, what catagories?

Ditto for all those.

Lately, I seem to be specializing in one scale as I've added recent re-releases of armor, 1960s era Show Cars, and an old MPC "The General" steam engine kit in 1/25th.

Yep.

* Aircraft (primarily WWI, a little WWII, hardly any modern stuff) all scales

* Armor (mostly German WWII, some allied WWII, less of the modern stuff) 1/35 & 1/72

Could count on one hand the number of ship and sci-fi builds I've done - would have to be something very special to me before I tried another one.

Upon returning to the hobby six yrs ago (from a 30 yr hiatus) I've been building ONLY armor, but just this month started building a WWI German Pfalz fighter biplane.  I've since bought two more AC kits, but I'm not sure if this is the start of a trend towards AC or AC/Armor since I love tanks and 99% of my stash is armor.

Absolutely... I'm not an "Aircraft" or "Armor" modeler or any one sub-genre.  I build dioramas, and show the model(s) "doing their thing"...

Guess if I had to label it, I'd be a "Military Story-teller Modeler".. Even with a sci-fi subject, it's military, and I'm telling a story with the diorama.. 

Real space

Scifi/Fantasy/Horror- spaceships, vehicles, figures (everything!!)

TV/Movie related- vehicles, houses (lots of crossover with scifi)

Historic- Enola Gay, Titanic, Sherman tank, Panzer, Uboat, Stagecoach, Zepplin

Personal experience- cars, trucks, planes I've ridden in. (Still looking for a Mercury Bobcat wagon!)

Dioramas- incorporating all the above

It would be so easy to get big ino armor, planes, and ships. I have a hard enough time with the above.

Yes, I'll build two or three peices of armor, then move on to ships, then move onto....

Space (real space): All scales

Armor: 1/35 (but I do have a few 1/72's  kicking about)

Planes: 1/48 & 1/72

Cars: 1/24

Ships: Mostly 1/700 but have other scales

Other oddball stuff such as Dr. Deadly and some larger scale figures.

Usually I'll work on one"major"  kit at a time and in between projects I'll do a weekend project kit or two such as the Flying Sub (the small version,) or The Lost In Space Robot (again the small one) etc etc...

1/35 WWII armor

1/32 WWII A/C and modern Soviet jets

and 1 random Aurora Planet of the Apes "Cornelius" figure that I've been reshelving over the years...

I have models from every category, including real space, and a lot of stuff I have to enter in misc.  Weirdest model was a model of the Gutenberg printing press (yes, it was a kit).

Just finished Lindberg's Concord Stage Coach.  That, for a Lindberg model, is a very nice kit and turned out great!  I 'll post a picture soon, now that summer is here in Minnesota (I prefer sunlight for model photos).

now that summer is here in Minnesota

LOL.. Same here in Iowa.. But keep your eye peeled on that scud out west.. Gonna change things next week I'd venture, and remind us all it's still only March.. And it it might go out like a lion..

Hans von Hammer

 

now that summer is here in Minnesota

 

LOL.. Same here in Iowa.. But keep your eye peeled on that scud out west.. Gonna change things next week I'd venture, and remind us all it's still only March.. And it it might go out like a lion..

I've been watching that storm system.

Have had an unusual string of 80 + degree F days around Chicago area lately.

Storm due to hit us this week.

Illinois already hit by at least one tornado.

Don't want any more.

Summer? We still have snow mounds at least 4' high running along each side of the driveway from front to back, and the white stuff is on average 2' deep all across the property. Summer's gonna have to wait a while.

Yup-

• 1/72 aircraft with a handful of 1/48 and 1/144 mixed in
• 1/35 and 1/72 armor
• NASCAR, NHRA drag racers, and Formula 1
• 1/24 and 1/25 civilian vehicles, mostly tractor-trailers and heavy equipment
• Star Wars and Star Trek
• Real space
• a few ships of various scales

Nothin' like variety

i build it all  cept figures    painting them  is too complex    with a thous. shades  and skin tones

Stage_Left

Yup-

Nothin' like variety

DURR

i build it all  cept figures    painting them  is too complex    with a thous. shades  and skin tones

Get with me back-channel and I'll show ya quick & easy figure painting and conversions for 1/48 and 1/35th scale figures... All that muckity-muck about needing fifteen different steps to paint a face is bull..

I can show you how I do a face in 6 steps that's mostly washes and dry-brushing, once the initial color is laid down and cured.....  Then the rest of the figure in 4 steps..

All the stuff that most figure-painters do is because they approach the job as a blank artist's canvas, and because they want to photograph it so that a 1 1/2" tall figure looks like he's 12" tall.. Which is fine, if that's your thing, but realistically, your eye can't focus on anything that closer than 4 inches away, and nobody but judges and other modelers bother trying to do that.....

You don't need to do that much work to get pretty proficient with figures for dioramas... Once you've done a few my way, then you can expand from there if you wish (but you don't have to to make really good figures for dioramas) and ...

1/350 Ships, 1/72 aircraft, a few armor. One or two each Kustom Kars, 1/35 figgies. I do have a really slick 1/35 Italian MAS boat I need to make room for to start...

I have never built any armor but I have built lots of airplanes, NASCAR models, ships, and some science fiction kits. I like to build 1/48 scale airplanes but have also built other scales when a model wasn't available in 1/48 scale. I have also built a number of Batman models including figures and the stage coach kit like Don mentioned.

My stash (and interest) is really only:

- WWII Luftwaffe & US planes;

- Modern Jets (1970s to present); and

- WWII Armour.

I've only built one car - that was about 15 years ago and was a NASCAR.  Not really into automobiles, unless they're military versions (eg, i built a SAS Range Rover last year).

Also, no real interest in ships (they intimidate me) or sci-fi (except Star Wars - really want to build an AT-AT one day).

1/48, 1/72 Military Aircraft

1/144 Airliners

1/35 Armor

1/24, 1/25 Auto

No sci-fi yet.  Planning on picking up a few Ma.K kits to give it a try.

Nice thread Sarge!

Started with 1/72 wingy things

Then build a couple 1/24 wheely things

Then wandered into sci-fi

Stashed a couple 1/48 aircraft kits and built some

Then got addicted to 1/700 floaties

And many ships later, it's the occassional car/sci-fi/1/72 aircraft that serves as refresher builds.

Stash consists of about 50% ships, 20% sci-fi, 15% 1/72 aircrafts, 5% 1/48 aircrafts, 5% bikes & auto, and 5% misc that can't classify, like buildings, figures etc.

Only thing I don't do, and probably will not do, is armour.

Hammer, I'd be interested in your method. I have a B-24 bomber crew I need to put in the "done" column!

I build mostly aircraft anything that flies.  A little intimidated by biplanes with the rigging but I'd be willing to try.

1/200

1/144

1/72

1/48

1/32 is just way to big don't have the room would love some for the detail but wouldn't know where to put it.

A few car kits maybe one every five years. 

I would be interested in some Star Wars but I would want everything as close tot the same scale as possible.

mitsdude

Hammer, I'd be interested in your method. I have a B-24 bomber crew I need to put in the "done" column!

 

Start a "Conversation" with me and I'll see what we can do, Dude...

sgtsauer

I have in my stash the following catagories of models...

* armor
* aircraft
* ships
* sci-fi

Anyone else here buy multiple catagories of models? If so, what catagories?

yes, in order of activity:

aircraft 

sci-fi

helicopters

armor

Airliner/civilian

scratchbuild

ships

figures

autos

diorama

in some not posted works again ,but the stash cover all the section except for the space.

The rule is "build what want"