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I really need to get a move on...
Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:51 PM

Tonight, I just realized how many kits I have in my stash since I was up and about putting every kit in one spot instead of in closets, garage, under TV stand, etc...

 

Here's what I have so far:

1/48 scale:

Tamiya kits -

P-47 Thunderbolt Bubbletop (currently working on but put on the back burner)

P-47 Thunderbolt Razorback

De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI/NF Mk.III

Spitfire Mk.IXc

Bf109G-6

Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib

 

Hobby Boss kit -

British Fleet Air Arms Hellcat Mk.I

 

Ark Models

Mig-3

 

Revell -

Stearman N2S-3 (PT-17) Trainer

 

Airfix kits -

 

C-47 Skytrain

Boston Havoc Mk.III (1/72 scale)

 

Others-

 

Toyota Pickup kit - 1/25 scale

70's era kit 1/72 scale Spitfire seaplane (forget the brand)

1/25 scale 57' Flip Nose Corvette (MPC or Monogram)

There are 2 kits I know I have hidden somewhere in this Godforsaken house of mine but for the life of me, I cannot find them!

They are:

1/72 scale B-52 Stratofortress bomber with Griffiss AFB markings

1/48 scale Tamiya or Hasegawa A-10 Thunderbolt Warthog

Young Modeller's Club kit of 1/35 scale '66 Ford Mustang (The other kit was a 1/72 scale F-16. Kit plastic were warped in coupel areas and had numerous flash on the sprues. I decided to build it as my second junk kit to use for practicing my airbrushing skills for camouflage schemes, etc....)

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:55 PM

Sounds like a good start... But quite manageable at the same time...

 

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 9:33 AM

Yeah... I have sort of an "addiction". LOL! Funny thing is every time I pick up a FlyPast magazine, WW2 aviation books, internet sources, aircraft profile pages, etc... I want to build them as portrayed.  

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Posted by Devil Dawg on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:24 PM

Heeheehee! You ain't alone in that regard, Black Sheep! Every time I pick up an aircraft magazine or book, I get the urge to buy more kits!

Devil Dawg

On The Bench: Tamiya 1/32nd Mitsubishi A6M5 Model 52 Zeke For Japanese Group Build

Build one at a time? Hah! That'll be the day!!

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Posted by GMorrison on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:54 PM

Rookie!

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 9:27 PM

Devil Dawg - you have no idea how long my list of aircraft, armor, and auto kits with aircrafts being the longest. LOL!

On top of that, I've got at least  8 novels of my favorite authors I bought within the last year I have yet to read. Where in the heck am I gonna find time to read? LOL!

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Thursday, September 18, 2014 8:01 AM

GMorrison - rookie? Hardly so considering I returned to this hobby a year ago. In my younger days, I was building new kits every week for 10 plus years. Sadly a majority of those kits are no longer here now. LOL!

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Posted by TarnShip on Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:25 AM

I think he meant Rookie in the kit accumulator sense.  I join in with jokes about "you don't have a problem" when someone talks about a stash of 50 (or less).

But, there is a warning hidden in there.

All of the stashes you have read about with 2, 3, 5 hundred kits, or 1 or 2 thousand kits in them, started life as a smaller stash.

Somewhere before you get to 100 kits or so, we need to figure out if we are buying "everything we see that is cheap", just to have a bunch of models,,,,,or if we are buying for a specific purpose.

I have had two different stashes so far in life, three if you count the stash of "anything I can get" from before I ran off to Boot Camp. I cut the last large stash down to concentrate in my current USN and USMC theme, and this stash I have today is now larger than the big stash that made me cut down my inventory.

The one difference is that almost everything in this stash contributes to my building goal.

This post is just a long winded way of saying "make choices today in what size stash you will be comfortable with" and then do what it takes to have your stash stay that size. Trade some kits off, sell them off, or buy less often, whatever works so that your own model stash makes you happy to look at,,,,,,,,,,if your stash causes any reaction other than being glad you have all those models,,,,,,then it isn't what you want it to be. If you are happy with it at 25 or 200, then it is just the right size for you.

Rex

almost gone

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:19 PM

My purchases are up this year due to so many recent re-issues of kits I either wanted but could not afford as a child or had built but lost during my first childhood move.

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Posted by modelcrazy on Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:46 PM

I have at last count 46 kits with 2 more on the way. As far as reading favorite authors,  I listen to audio books while I build.  2 birds with one stone.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:50 PM

Tarnship,  I know he was joking. Speaking of which.. I couldn't stop myself again today. You got it. I bought another kit. LOL! This time I got a MiniCraft 1/144 scale VC-54C Sacred Cow - The Original "Air Force One". Here I was stopping by to get some paint. I need help.... LOL!

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Posted by modelcrazy on Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:58 PM

My wife would definitely agree with you that we all need help.  And now that I'm on the forum,  she hardly ever gets to talk to me. That's an exaggeration of course, she just thinks she never sees my any more.  Fact is I just send an hour or two a few nights a week in the garage (wher she booted me to by the way). Can't wait for winter.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/

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Posted by Bish on Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:02 PM

My kit buying has actually gone down this year, and I think this is the first year in a long time that I have bought less than I have built. I do have some kits on my shopping list, but nothing that's a must have. 4 of the kits I have bought in the last year are ones I have seen and straight away snapped them up, 3 of them new releases.

I am happy with the stash I have, around the 200 mark, mainly because I always have something that interests me to build with enough variety. But I just can't bear the thought of any not being built.

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

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Posted by panzerpilot on Friday, September 19, 2014 8:06 AM

I hear ya. I need to get a move on as well. I have a whole closet full of kits. About 120, or so. With all the supplies to do them. Ships, Armor, etc. Around 50 1/32 aircraft.  AM for about a third of them. I would like to just hold what I've got, but those pesky marketers get me every time. Even Airfix, with their recent Tiffy. Then there's Tamiya.  Who can pass up those Hasegawa limited releases, either? My build to buy ratio is not that great these days!

-Tom

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 1:36 PM

Ah;

I thought I was the only guilty of putting something away so it's safe and forgetting where that is . Did you try the ceiling space in the attic ?

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Thursday, September 25, 2014 2:29 PM

I haven't looked in the dormer of my house but I may have to go look anyways. The last time I saw them was in the cellar. I hate it when I can't find lost kits. LOL!

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