Is this a start of something serious????

A closet shelf is nothing. Some of us have stashes that have their own room....

Well, I must be getting somewhere...

It has to start somewhere.

German Armour

Well, I must be getting somewhere...

It has to start somewhere.

Didn't mean in any way to belittle your collection. It's more like..."Seek help now, before it gets completely out of control...."

Must join plastic anonymous before it get out of control................ 

I'm sorry there is no other way to put this, but the infection is already started and there is no know cure. :)

Amateur... call back when you get to 100. Nice models.

GMorrison

Amateur... call back when you get to 100. Nice models.

 

LOL!

Don't do it,buy only what you can build,there will always be a bigger and better version of what you have in your stash

Looks good,I got around 30 myself

Not serious yet.....noticed I didn't see any floaty things or flappy wing things, so there might be hope for him yet, but appears to be fading fast.

*edit*  my apologies, on closer look, there are 4 of the flappy wing things......alas all hope is gone.

Please sit down as I have something to tell you,..... Yes, it is serious. 

Anytime someone chooses to gather, hoard, collect, or what ever the current term is, everything else is hopeless, completely hopeless I say.

Some have recommended a modelers diet. That consists of choosing only one subject and selectively buying within it. What you are doing cannot be cured, just ask the many others here who have been "collecting" for decades. 

Others have sunk into a modelers syndrom. When  this occurs, the modeler will often choose to work on a kit versus visiting (non-modelling) friends ,and then call it "therapy". 

I have seen where even shock therapy does not work. That is when the modeler dives "all-in" and makes some high dollar, large quantity purchases. The shock occurs when thier spouse see's the bill or they realize they spent thier lunch money and have to fast for a few days. 

Treatment or therapy does not help. The only treatment that can console a "collector" of model kits, is to treat themselves to another (kit).

Hi, my name is Ben, and I am a like minded model collector..... (Hi Ben).... 

Every time I try to count mine, I loose count. I started building at 6 and I'm 78 now and still building and "acquiring" more. At the rate I'm building, I have enough to keep at it for at least the next 200 years. Guess I'll just keep hoping that there is a great workbench in the sky and the boss will let me bring the stash with me.

Jim  

I once went over to a guy's apartment after he advertised on C-List that he had some models for sale. He went to an estate liquidation where he got a deal that was just too good to be true.

Over 3000 kits. They were stacked in his hall, his living room, his dining nook.

He introduced me to his wife, who wouldn't look up...

Makes you wonder who the poor soul was that he got them from.

Since getting "serious" about the scale modeling hobby I've learned that it's a lot easier to build my stash than it is to build the kits. I think I'm now in Phase 2, in which I am determined to finish all the ones I started before buying any more....but there's a new kit that may not ever be reissued. and look at the price of that old one on eBay, and you get the picture.

You've got a reasonable stockpile of nice kits - hope you have a lot of peaceful benchtime building them!

Welcome to plastiholics anonymous!

Of course it's serious.  Only four aircraft.  Not enough planes and too many targets.

LOL!  Don't fight it friend (I have 477 in my stash..and that's nothing compared to some of the others here on the forums!).  There is no cure, just roll with it.  LOL!  You have a great start there in your stash!

Its deffinatly a start. I think you are now at that point of no return.

Don't worry, Most of them are going to group builds.

German Armour

Don't worry, Most of them are going to group builds.

 

Oh man, that's a good one LOL. That's what I tell my wife.

It's only one closet shelf. Honest

tempestjohnny

It's only one closet shelf. Honest

 

Oh my. My stash of some 80 kits seems so puny.

German Armour

Don't worry, Most of them are going to group builds.

My big Achilles' heel is 'projects.'

No matter what I'm actually building at the moment--be it one kit, or several--my addled brain is always 'cranking' on the dozen-or-so 'projects' I'm plotting and planning for the future...and, of course, gathering 'materials' for, in the form of more kits and accessories.

Somehow the stash seems to grow at a rate embarassingly disproportionate to what I'm managing to turn out. [And wouldn't you know it? The 'projects' I haven't acquired the kits for always seem so much more tantalizing than the ones already 'in stock'....]

My stash isn't near as many as most, but it's migrated to two different areas.  I keep telling myself to quit buying and start building.

There is 54 total.  If hubby actually knew how many.......  He usually just shakes his head at me, lol. 

In all seriousness, I find in this hobby an impulse to buy and collect kits to build in the future, is literally a part of the hobby.  So a stash just comes with the territory.  Some that don't keep stashes must just have the greatest self control ever.

Keyda, you need to add some cars to that!

German Armour

You tell me........................ 

 

Its very serious... buy two models, build them immediately, and drink plenty of fluids.

German Armour

Don't worry, Most of them are going to group builds.

 

That almost made me choke on my coffee laughing.

Worst excuse I've ever heard, and it's so bad that it's good. Brilliant!

Wa'll:

          I guess it's how you want to look at it . Since 1982 I have kept the stash to a wall of the Garage .Used to be Three small Barns till the Tornado in December of that year saw to it my stash was trimmed down !! I can actually laugh about it now LOL.LOL. These things do stuff in the dark I think ! T.B.

midnightprowler

Keyda, you need to add some cars to that!

 

I'm not real big on cars for some reason.  Unless it's like a vehicle I've owned it just doesn't really appeal to me.  I can't for the life of me explain why, lol. 

  When the back of your storage unit, (8×10), demands an audience and an offering BEFORE removing the air conditioner in the front....then you have a problem. Right now your just running a small fever. Take Stiks advice buy two kits build them quick, stay hydrated. This will pass........in ten or twenty years........maybe. Lol