Parts box

I could probably build a model from the parts stash, but it would be a bit odd-looking.

To date, the only parts I've ended up using for a completed model were the engines from the "Anakin's Podracer"  kit that I pooched and an intake cone from an SR-71 that got damaged beyond repair while in progress.  Those ended up being used in the "No Aftermarket" GB. 

No........I have a couple of boxes where the unused or recycled stuff ends up.

Hercmech

I keep my stuff...why I don't know as I almost always build OOB anyway.

Had to laugh about that, 'cause it describes me perfectly also.

I probably could finish a few, maybe 20-30 if I just added random stuff together in to something silly. I have 2 60 drawer organizers filled to capacity. Since I am mainly a car builder..or was until a long story, they are mostly headlights, air cleaners, radiators etc... but now some of them are filling with armor bits. In addition to that I have several model box tops on shelves in the closet containing a mixed bag of who knows what, and several more cardboard boxes with parts for specific kits in ziploc bags inside. I never toss anything anymore either. Might say 'well I never use it so I'll toss it" but I did that a few years back....The next build I did I needed something I threw away and luckily I hadn't taken the bag to the dumpster yet. Digging through a 30 gallon Hefty for an ant sized piece is NOT FUN!

I coild probably build at least four modern ships and two clippers.There are two that are wip,s for ironclads.as far as cars and armor well----    TANKER-builder

I build armor, and have more "parts boxes" than kits in the stash. I've already built several complete models from parts boxes, one of my favorite things to do, actually. This is the latest:

There are several more "possibilities lurking up there in the parts stash, but that's one of the qualities of armor modeling, IMHO.

I build mostly Ships and AirCraft and keep a "spares" box for each.....I also never seem to use all the PE from a set so I have a ship and an AC PE spares box as well......I need to do a "clean-out",..but just as soon as I do,...there will have been something I needed that got pitched...

I need to attend some type of group therapy........"Hi!  My name is so-and-so,....I suffer from Advanced Modelers syndrome"...  :)

Thad,

I tend to agree with you. I keep my PE sets but thats about it. I'm clutter exterminator so anything that doesn't get used in 5 yrs gets tossed. I have bits and pieces that I used to have as a horder but most is gone. Sounds like  I need to keep some on hand though in case somebody needs it...................

A complete model no, but the volume has sure increased since I started building Dragon armor kits.

Since I've only built four planes and one ship so far (am still working on the fourth plane, actually), I don't have much of a parts box yet.  However, I'm using three extra parts from my last build on the current one, and so see how useful they can be.

I could build hundred of things from mine...

hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/.../a-plethora-of-parts

I save anything from any kind of model that might be useful for one of my planes. If I had the landing gear parts for the old Monogram Hurricane I would have enough to build it into a complete airframe. I've thoght about casting parts for ir from metal so that it would get built.

Wow, that's pretty cool, y'all. Have any of the clubs out there thought of having a parts box swap meet?

Glenn

After 65 years of building, and rebuilding, I have computer paper boxes full of car bodies, plane parts, and ship parts. I also have the plastic bin boxes with separated drawers like engine parts, headlights, taillights, wheels and hubcaps for cars, and all types of parts for planes and ships too.

I could probably build at least 20 complete cars, maybe 10 planes, and 5 complete ships. If I build them "custom", I could add more to the totals. Some have been built several times over the years.

Jim  

My parts box is an old steamer trunk about 3 foot by 3 foot and i could probably build a compleat kit of somthing out of there but every time i look in i wind up spreading all the parts out and playing a little game of "I remember that kit" untill i cant see straight anymore!

I keep my stuff...why I don't know as I almost always build OOB anyway.

I've got 3 "parts" boxes, or "stuff outta kits" boxes I guess. All about 9" y 12", maybe 2-3" deep. One with decals (spares and AM), one spare parts, and one scraps of potential scratchbuilding stuff, styrene, wires, various bits & pieces.

I've got 2 spareboxes, aircraft and armor. Enough to build a kit for sure, a kit of what, I don;t know.

I use to keep everything and noticed I never used any of it. So I have streamed line my parts box and got rid of most of it.

Thad

I don't have a parts box... I have a dozen or so parts BOXES, lol...  Plus parts-bins, parts-drawers, and parts-crates... I've been building and tearing down models for 40 years, and have parts and more parts, and parts of parts... (I don't keep many models, preferring to build, photograph, and tear down)...  But I reckon that if I had to, I could resurect about 100 models from the parts on-hand...  I've always wanted to organize them, but it just ain't gonna happen.. It'd take weeks, if not months, and I just ain't that dedicated, lol..

The only real organization I do is for figures, by scale and nationality, and their weapons, and battle-rattle... Also Heads, torsos, right arms, left arms, right legs, left legs, etc...  I hate stock figures, and I re-pose or totally reconstruct them into what I want, or need rather than what the factory thinks I should have..  Sometimes it's as simple as a turned head or raised arm, others are pretty elaborate...

I always have about a dozen that *could* be made by combining multiple company moldings together, but, every once in a while, I dive in there to make a new paint mule

the parts get in there from improving other kits, and left overs from the "Hasegawa style" of molding,,,see their Phantom or Tomcat to know what I mean if you don't already

I have three parts boxes, one each for planes, ships, and cars.  They are all overflowing.  I use them as detailing for scratch projects, or for modifications of kits (different engines, etc).  I used to keep spare/extra PE in those same boxes, but they get damaged, so am thinking about three more boxes/trays for PE of those subjects.

No,not like that,it's mostly stowage,ordinance,wheels,tools,leftover decals,no major components

I have a couple old model boxes for spare parts....one for unused ordnance, guns, fuel tanks...one for clear parts, figs....one for random parts...and another small one that I keep on my bench with tiny stuff that my be usefull for cockpits. I also keep 4 boxes for spare decals, seperated by WW2 US, modern US, German, and the last is very anything else.

I couldn't make an entire craft from spares alone, but I have enough parts, that could be added to a kit to make some interesting "whifs".

Not me... Just wheels, instrument panels, extra bombs, and the unselected options. Might be able to build a 144 connie since i have 3 half kits...