Let's see the stash!

Hey Tarnship, if  I ever come across any, they are yours!  I have one A-4 in my stash.  The 1/32 Minicraft/Hasegawa kit# 1109.  Funny thing about that kit.  When I was a wee lad back in Tampa, there was a hobby shop in the Westshore Mall.  My dad took me there just about every Saturday.  And that big ole A-4 was in the display case as you walked in.  Man, did I ever want one of those!  Of course I couldn't afford the "top of the line" kits like those, but man did I ever put some smudge marks on the glass checking it out!  

Eagle90

Eagle,,,,,,,all kidding aside, things would be easier if I had a few more Fujimi A-4B and A-4C kits,,,,,I wouldn't have to change the noses on all of those Esci kits to get some of the pre Viet Nam aircraft finished for my theme

Racedriver......WOW!  You have some of everything!  Great collection.  Especially the F-15's (those are my babies!)

Eagle90

Tarnship........I'm speechless!  I think you need a few more A-4's......just saying!  

Great collection!

Eagle90

Tojo...what a great collection!  Looks awesome!

Eagle90

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Rex.   So now I know why I am having trouble finding Fujimi A-4's and F-4's.  You have all of them 

here are a couple of shots of two of my aircraft types in the stash,,,,,,I have noooo idea how I became known as a Scooter Fan or a Phantom Phan, lol

there are a few Phantoms and Scooters that have escaped their places in the living room stacks shown above,,,,,,but, for a good cause, they are on the workbench

all of the other aircraft types in the USN have their stacks, also,,,,,but, none of those have as many as the A-4 and F-4 do,,,,,,only about a dozen A-6, or fifteen F-8,,,,,small quantities like that

Rex

Here's mine.  Not small but.  I've really but back on the purchased. trying to thin it down.  Now I've been buying decal sheets like crazy.  Especially when Squadron has there $2 a sheet sales.

Now you've done it, wait until Rob Grovonius see this thread and upload a pic of his basement stash. Unbelievable.

I took these pics while unpacking form a recent move. I thought my stash was big, until I saw this thread.

....seven years without buying a new kit??? I couldn't do it. My stash is small, about 20 kits or so. I buy about 4-5 kits a year and build about 6-10 models a year. Now my aftermarket stash....gotta be about 300 items or more. Alot of that is decals sheets. I bet I spend 75 bucks a month or so on am/decals/tools/paints/supplies. Thats my crutch.

I don't know the Why of having 5000 kits,,,,,,,,but, I do know the Why of having 550

You get to 550 aircraft kits because kits and decals are OOP immediately when they are released, it just takes a while for all the places the kits get dispersed to to sell out

So, if a Tophatters Phantom F-4B gets released,,,,,,they only last until sometime before the next F-4B is released by that same company,,,,,and the next time might be VF-84 Jolly Rogers instead

Then, later on, when you have VF-102 and VF-84 built,,,,and you need VF-14,,,,,,,those kits in that VF-14 release are only at places that buy collections and re-sell them

This only has to happen about 10 times before you learn to just go ahead and buy kits when you see them, instead of paying collector's prices later on when you really need them

You also end up with "non mainstream" kits that are bought to supply one or two weapons or detail,,,,,and if you don't throw them out afterwards, they sit in the stash, because no one wants that kit with the missiles picked out of it (and nope, it is not okay to tell me that I can't buy Hasegawa second generation Phantom kits just to pick out the 2 travel pods and the outer wing pylons for use on "better" kits)

I never remember who it is,,,,,,,but, there was a guy with a Shipping Container full of model kits as his stash,,,,,I think he is here on FSM

Rex

An acquaintance of mine claims that he had about 5000 kits in his stash (?!?)  when his house was destroyed by lightning.   I find this hard to believe, but I suppose there may be a few people who have this many!  And why?

I have about a dozen.

There is a mathematics constant (I´m not sure if it was discovered by a nuclear physicist or by a psychiatrist) which reveals that for every kit built, we buy, at least, five others. At this moment I´ve got more than 120 kits in my stash and I´ve just bought more eight in the last 15 days...

That´s a kind of fetish.  Perhaps in the future someone will develop a pill which will keep us from buying a lot of kits (for a while, at least...)

Eagle, dont envy, this is a NIGHTMARE!!  You should try to MOVE with a pile like this.  Yes there are cars but also armor, ships and some aircraft mixed in too.  I have been working the last year and a half pumping this stuff through E pay and other outlets.  I'm too old for this, gotta get it down to what sub fixer is talking about.  I'll build em till I can't see em but I would have to live to be 175 to put a dent in this.  Just another one of those dumb things I did in my youth.  The 1:1 Yugo was easier to get rid of than this stuff.

Rommelkiste!  You said you had a lot of autos, but WOW!  You weren't kidding!  Awesome stash my friend!  I now have car envy!  

Eagle90

I've got eight models left in my stash. I made a promise to myself that I was not buying anymore models than I can hope to build and that I won't buy anymore until I finish the ones I have. I have been whittling away on the pile for seven years now and have pretty much kept my promise. I don't want the unfinished ones  going into the dumpster when I croak.

It's not a stash, it's a nightmare.   It's what happens after 30+ years of not paying attention to what your adding to the pile.  

I didn't add pics of the other two closets.   I still don't know what the heck I was thinking in my younger days.

Jay I think we all have quite a bit, but how many of us ever really get to them all. For every build I'm buying 1 or two more, it never ends. So many kits, so little time.

Hey Jay,

Nothing modest about that stash!  Just guessing,but I think you like armor!  

Yes, there has been threads before on stashes, but hey, I love looking at kits!  Thanks for starting a fresh one!

Have to do a panoramic of mine.  There are some under the benches in the first 2 shots and the last shot (yes, there are some in the rafters!) is my display shelving project.  The glass shelves deal went sour, so I'm having to adjust for wood shelves.  And yes, it is a mess, I know! 

Eagle90