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Posted by John 3:16 KJV on Saturday, May 4, 2019 11:34 AM

A Baby Stash:

(Awww) Smile

These may be all my unstarted kits...

(The Lindberg kit I’m counting as such because I haven’t started the P-47.)

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, May 4, 2019 10:49 AM

Years ago, it was very easy to operate in this hobby that way. Buy, then build. Once a kit came out, it would be on the market for years and years. Now many production runs are short and if you don’t grab a kit when it’s first available, it might not be available later on.

 

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Posted by Ted4321 on Saturday, May 4, 2019 10:43 AM

When I started into this hobby way back in December, I told myself the hobby was building models not collecting kits.  I had the same philosophy with my model railroad and finished new stuff before buying more.  I had awesome self control.  

Currently I have one kit finished, and one on the bench...

... and 7 or 8 in the stash.  Tongue Tied

Oh well. Big Smile

T e d

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, May 4, 2019 10:12 AM

Fesan

My stash is only maybe 7 lol guess i didnt catch the fever you guys have. On a serious note with some of you with these huge stashes what do you do with all the models as you build them?

 

Build naval aircraft with folded wings Wink

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

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  • From: New Braunfels , Texas
Posted by Tanker - Builder on Saturday, May 4, 2019 6:57 AM

Oh, Good Bevins to Hetsy !Eagle90;

 Yours is actually neater than mine .I did have it sorted one time, then I was " Gifted" 26 more. Thus started another overwhelming amount . 

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Posted by GreySnake on Sunday, April 21, 2019 6:53 PM
My stash seems to grow every time I open the closet door.
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Posted by Bish on Sunday, April 21, 2019 5:39 PM

Fesan

My stash is only maybe 7 lol guess i didnt catch the fever you guys have. On a serious note with some of you with these huge stashes what do you do with all the models as you build them?

 

Hope i don't run out of shelf space.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by Fesan on Sunday, April 21, 2019 5:28 PM

My stash is only maybe 7 lol guess i didnt catch the fever you guys have. On a serious note with some of you with these huge stashes what do you do with all the models as you build them?

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Posted by Eagle90 on Sunday, April 21, 2019 4:17 PM

Problem?!  What problem?  There's no problem here...........o.k., I have a problem.  LOL!

Yeah, that's my walk in cloest...and yes, floor to ceiling around both corners.  Whistling Embarrassed

Loving the pics of the stashes!

 

 

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  • From: Parker City, IN.
Posted by Rambo on Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:05 PM
I counted mine last night for the first time since moving in to are new house mostly feared the number it grew to. I'm at 205 right now, 55 of them are dragon figure sets. My new years resolution this year was not to buy anything new only AM parts and supplies, that lasted until mid February lol.

Clint

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  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, April 21, 2019 2:44 PM

German Armour

Hummmmmmmmm......

Your never going to use them.

So why not equalize all us poor stashes???

(nudge,nudge, wink,wink) :)

 

no modelers redistribution of wealth here... this is not a socialist site... Wink 

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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Posted by German Armour on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:40 PM

Hummmmmmmmm......

Your never going to use them.

So why not equalize all us poor stashes???

(nudge,nudge, wink,wink) :)

 Never give up, never quit, never stop modelling.Idea

 

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Posted by E Baker on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:32 PM

tempestjohnny
It's only one closet shelf. Honest

My stash is only about 10-20 kits, so if you're ever in the giving spirit... (wink wink hint hint)

Sad thing is, my build rate will tank in the next couple of years going to college.

 

edit - thought I got the picture in the quote too, but I guess not.

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Posted by German Armour on Sunday, April 21, 2019 10:44 AM

tempestjohnny

It's only one closet shelf. Honest

 

*GASP* That's alot of kits. But you still have a ways to go to reach some modelers stashes.Big Smile

 Never give up, never quit, never stop modelling.Idea

 

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Posted by armornut on Sunday, April 21, 2019 9:59 AM

  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

we're modelers it's what we do

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Posted by Keyda81 on Sunday, April 21, 2019 9:55 AM

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. 

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Posted by Tanker - Builder on Sunday, April 21, 2019 9:15 AM

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.

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Posted by Greg on Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:59 AM

German Armour

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

 

That almost made me choke on my coffee laughing. Smile

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

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:38 AM

German Armour

You tell me........................ Angel

 

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

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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Posted by midnightprowler on Sunday, April 21, 2019 8:31 AM

Keyda, you need to add some cars to that!

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Posted by Keyda81 on Sunday, April 21, 2019 7:31 AM

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.......Tongue Tied  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.

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  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Sunday, April 21, 2019 7:20 AM

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'....] Embarrassed

Greg

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"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
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Posted by fotofrank on Sunday, April 21, 2019 6:35 AM

tempestjohnny

It's only one closet shelf. Honest

 

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

OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...

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  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:22 AM

It's only one closet shelf. Honest

 

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Posted by modelcrazy on Sunday, April 21, 2019 12:17 AM

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.

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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  • From: Ice coated north 40 saskatchewan
Posted by German Armour on Saturday, April 20, 2019 10:02 PM

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

 Never give up, never quit, never stop modelling.Idea

 

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Posted by Bish on Saturday, April 20, 2019 10:48 AM

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

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by Eagle90 on Saturday, April 20, 2019 9:17 AM

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!

 

 

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Posted by murph on Saturday, April 20, 2019 8:24 AM

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

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