What is the point of a stash ?

 I didn't start keeping a stash until only about 3 years ago (before I was one of those guys who would buy 1 kit, finish it and then go buy another one) and I went on a moderately crazy buying rampage but it became clear to me last year that my stash was causing me more "hobby stress" than it was aleviating so I got rid of over half it.

I wanted to build all of 'em... in fact I felt like I was obligated to. Unfortunately I have limited time to build and I like big, crazy detailed/complicated projects with losts of modification and aftermarket goodies, so I basically ended up gathering the stuff and making mental plans for something like 10 projects that would each be at least 1 year-long builds and I couldn't help starting to tinker with most of 'em.  You can see why I had created a problem for myself! It led to a serious case of burnout that kept me away from my workbench for most of 2015.

I think we all have to do a little self-examination at one time or another over our hobbies... I had to take a hard look at myself, figure out where the pleasure was and wasn't in what I was doing and discipline myself rather than going on an expensive hobby free-for-all to nowhere. 

For me, that meant new ground rules: 1 kit at a time beginining to end, keeping a greatly reduced stash, not doing any work on a pending project and "keeping it real" when I planned/execucted my current project so I stood a chance at finishing  before I got sick of it. 

That took care of my stash problem...now I need to figure out what to do with my "shelf of doom"

if ever you decide on a garage sale , please let me know ,lol.

steve5

3000 !!!!

 

Wirraway

I was hoping Bronco ...............over 3000 kits inside a semi-trailer parked in his yard.....

3000 !!!!

I really dont need a reason or excuse to buy a kit. I buy a kit simply because I can. Many times good deals come along and I will jump on them. Back many years ago you could find models selling in small lots on ebay for a good price. I grabed a few small lots back in the day and I believe this was the point my collection started to grow. buying kits has never busted my bank, it has only taken up space. I have found myself reselling some of my stash on ebay and getting better prices now than what I orignally paid for the items.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

 

 

the Baron

 

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... in time you'll be telling yourself "Oh, I didn't know I had this", "Where'd it come from?" and "I don't remember buying it" etc...

 

................. I know it's in my house, but just don't know where.

  

........... I know I have it but for the life of me, I can't find them. Drives me crazy looking for them.

 

Dunno why, but that is how it always works for me.

Well add a nother one to puma stash. ..1/48 revell B -25 J MITCHELL that's, ,,,hmm let's see I'll have to go in the next room .......yup 423 ..loven this hobby 

Pete

Which reminds me...   I know I have a 1/72 Heller Transall kit somewhere.  I know its been years that Ive been looking for it but I know I have it...

the Baron

 

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... in time you'll be telling yourself "Oh, I didn't know I had this", "Where'd it come from?" and "I don't remember buying it" etc...

 

 

 

I go in the other direction--I know I have a particular kit, and can't find it.  For example, I have Tamiya's 1/48 WWII US Navy Pilots set with moto-tug.  The figures are great and I bought the set to use them with my various builds.  And I can't find the damned thing.  I know it's in my house, but just don't know where.

 

You're not the only one. I know I have a Hasegawa A-10 Thunderbolt kit and a 1/44 scale B-52 Stratofortress Kit with Griffiss AFB markings. I know I have it but for the life of me, I can't find them. Drives me crazy looking for them.

Dash8

Not knocking it or anyone just trying to

understand the reason. Some of the guys

on here look like they have a retail store

for a basement lol. I build one model

then finish it then buy another model

and repeat.

Because I can!

All seriousness aside, I have about 60 unbuilt kits.  I could have tons more because my wife and I are fortunate enough to have enough of a disposable income to do so.  I just retired.  I have time to build now.  I've purchased multiples of one kit because I have various projects in mind.  Having said that, I'm at the stage where I'll buy a kit when I need it or a rare one becomes available for another project, like 48th and 72nd scale CF-100 Canucks although I'm not going to pay an arm, a leg and possibly a left or right testicle for said CF-100.   

For example, the next 32nd scale Sabre I build will complete my project of building one Sabre to represent each of the 12 squadrons Canada deployed to the four wings of 1 Air Division in France and Germany in the 50's and 60's.

I will also buid a few more Sabres to mark them up in different Air Forces that flew them; USAF, RAF, South Africa, Malaysia, etc.  I have also built a few Sabres and presented them to ex RCAF Sabre pilots I know.

I have multiple CF-104 Starfighters; 3 colour birds (421, 439, 441 Sqns), overall green, overall NMF dual from Cold Lake, varigated camo from 4 Wing.  I still want to do a 439 Sqn Starfighter with a Vicom recce pod and an overall NMF based in Europe.  It had a different paint scheme on the horizontal stab than Canadian based CF-104's had.

I have enough CF-101 Voodoos to represent all the squadrons that flew them in RCAF service.

I also have a few that I'll build to take my mind off the Sabres and Starfighters.

I guess there are just as many arguments pro stash as there are con stash.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... in time you'll be telling yourself "Oh, I didn't know I had this", "Where'd it come from?" and "I don't remember buying it" etc...

I go in the other direction--I know I have a particular kit, and can't find it.  For example, I have Tamiya's 1/48 WWII US Navy Pilots set with moto-tug.  The figures are great and I bought the set to use them with my various builds.  And I can't find the damned thing.  I know it's in my house, but just don't know where.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... in time you'll be telling yourself "Oh, I didn't know I had this", "Where'd it come from?" and "I don't remember buying it" etc...

 

And my favorite ( from experience    ) ..........

" I really didn't intend to buy a spare..............".

Yeah... in time you'll be telling yourself "Oh, I didn't know I had this", "Where'd it come from?" and "I don't remember buying it" etc...

KillinMeSmalls

I  currently have 12 kits awaiting to be built and a 13th kit currently in production. I fully intend to build the kits I have so far and i see myself buying lots more to come. Of course I have the better part of the next 35 years or so to work on these kits while I still have my health lol. 

You are going to notice how that stash misteriously multiplies as time passes by.

Im on both typical sides of this. I have thoroughly been bitten by the collecting bug, so everytime I find myself in the LHS I 95% of the time leave with a new kit. I very well may be one of the youngest members on here, and even then my "stash" is nothing compared to others on here. I  currently have 12 kits awaiting to be built and a 13th kit currently in production. I fully intend to build the kits I have so far and i see myself buying lots more to come. Of course I have the better part of the next 35 years or so to work on these kits while I still have my health lol.

I make no excuse for the number of kits in stash ..I too built hundreds of kits ..then got in to cars hotrod ..I used to build and restore hi performance classic muscle cars had and sold my warhouse shop ..had all sorts of engines ..transmissions car parts ...thousands ..it took 15 years to get ride of ....no I'm just a plastic junkie. ...no alsers ..no costumers ..just fantastic plastic. .AWWWW. .my huge stash..

Cadet Chuck

If you have a big enough stash, the old lady will never know when you add another one to it.  Keeps peace in the house.

 

Yes thank you! Plastaholic describes me perfectly. I loved building models when I was a kid, then 20 years into adulthood, I took it up again. Now another 30 years after that, it brings back stronger than ever the joy of childhood in my second childhood. I have built hundreds of kits but know I'll never build the hundreds I still have collected. I often enjoy just going through the stash and looking at and savoring the box contents. 

(Oh and I have given my wife info on who buys kit collections once I have corked off!)

Dat true too... LOL!

If you have a big enough stash, the old lady will never know when you add another one to it.  Keeps peace in the house.

Theuns

I have friends that literally have 1000 pluss kits in their stach, sometimes 4 or more if the same kit....all good and well for them is it "floats their boat"

Here is how I see it (for my personal veiw)

a. with something like that they will have to become 350 years old to build it all.....maye that us the plan

 

I have high hopes for developing medical technologies. 

tempestjohnny

 

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

 

 

 

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

 

Just think about it: in what other things in this world is the word "stash" used?

You got booze, you got pot, you got porn... need I say more?

lol

When you're sitting on a nice stash, you can chuckle when you read someone desperately searching for an out of production kit that you may have one or two of, and them having to pay evilBay big bucks to get one.

Anyways...everytime I think about slowing down my kit purchases because I will have to live to at least 150 to build what I got now, some manufacturer comes out with another must have model. Like the 1/32 T-28 Trojan.

BlackSheep214,

Well put.....couldn't have said it better

Bish

 

tempestjohnny

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

 

 

 

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

 

 

 

 

We already have. We are all being assesed since the moment we joined

 

Yup... from the moment we opened up a tube of glue or a bottle of glue. Once that's done, you're far too gone to be rehabilitated. LOLOL!!!

I've always kept a stash for many different options. I'd buy armour or artillery and get the proper figures to go with it to beable to build a dio. Or I'd get 2 to 3 ships or planes at once so I'd have them. At my best my stash totaled alittle over 500. Keeping a stash is what we do as modellers....it's in our blood 

ther is a point in stash.Just do not stash to much until you move out of mom and pop's house and get your own place.

I've lost track of how many are in my stash, though I'm pretty sure it was over 1,000 at one time. 

I mainly buy subjects that either caught my eye as a kid, because I had a history with a particular subject or because I simply love the particular aircraft. (Re: 30 F-14 Tomcats).

Biggest addition in recent years was my wild idea to build a 1/72 carrier so of course I had to buy the air wing first! Oops. 

So right now I've got two big boxes of kits set aside I'll get around to selling ...... Sooner or later.