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The wifey and I are trying to sell a house we own since we tried to rent it and that didn't work out (it's 70 miles from here). So the last two days, the wife, our two boys and I have been cleaning out the basement (stuff we had stored there and stuff the renters left behind. We almost had the first room empty when my eldest points at a fair to middling sealed box and says "What's in that" and I promptly reply "How the heck (family forum) do I know, why don't you open it and see what's in it"
I go back to whatever I was doing and then he informs me "It's a bunch of models" which gets my attention because this wasn't my modeling room and there shouldn't be any models in there. I wonder over to where he is and sure enough it's a box full of sealed kits. Seven of them to be exact - all B-24s, all in 1/72 and all un-started. 6 Academy/Minicraft, 1Hasagawa. 3 B24Ds, 3 B24Js and 1 PB4Y1. And I don't remember buying them, or putting them in that box or putting the box into that room. It had to be me because the dude who rented the house liked to make fun of adults who build "plastic toys" (his hobbies seemed to be A. Drinking, B. Driving his FWD pickup through wet and muddy fields C. Drinking D. Shooting Bambis mother and E. Drinking) Anyhoo, I seem to have added to my stash without remembering when or where - and that's somewhat scarry.
Think of it as a nice surprise. Like finding a 50 in your pocket you didn't know you had.
I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so
On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3
Bish Think of it as a nice surprise. Like finding a 50 in your pocket you didn't know you had.
Besides, it really beats the alternative:
Looking high and low for that box you know is there, but can never find.
Greg
George Lewis:
Your house elf did it...
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
Oh, good grief, I've looked for that box for ages. On the other hand, I was recently motivated to try to find a seaplane to build because of a book I read. After asking on the aircraft forum for a recommendation, someone mentioned a few kits. I googled the kits and one of them had a very familiar box art. I went to the basement and o and behold, the first box I looked in had that kit on top. The price tag was still on it and was purchased at a shop I haven't been to in over 12 years.
I've taken to inventorying my large moving boxes with the lists on a spiral notebook. I've attempted to consolidate similar type kits into each box. I've inventoried over twenty boxes and am not even halfway finished.
The seaplane kit was found in the first uninventoried box I looked in, that was plain (plane?) luck.
I know this feeling! I am constantly buying books I already have, paints, videos, decals, and even a few kits! My worst was opening a kit box (not sealed) and finding it already partially built! And I don't remember working on it! When you hobby stretches back over 20 or 30 years it's hard to remember everything, but that was ridiculous!
*******
On my workbench now:
It's all about classic cars now!
Why can't I find the "Any" key on my keyboard?
I lost a box with 7 bombers, still sealed.
If anyone sees it, please let me know.
You need a better class of renter. The drinking while armed thing is ok, but dissing modeling?
Unacceptable!
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
You looking to build or sell them or some of them?
How cool is that! Awesome story and find! Congrats on the stash increase!
Eagle90
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