While pulling my modeling "stuff" to the center of the basement during my remodel, I thought it a good time to try and get some photos of most of my stash. Perhaps in between the phases of the remodel I will pull together and organize the stash, till then this is how it looks. And I already sold off over 100 kits at a regional hobby show last year. I think I could sell a few more and still not miss them.

May larger scale car kits with a smattering of aircraft and other stuff too.

There are 11 U-Haul boxes some shown here which are full of models as well.

More auto kits.

A few ships with my 1:18 cars.

Some of my armor stuff, most are still in the U-Haul boxes.

Ben

No, thank you GreySnake for that long winded reply!  Saves me the hassle of tracking down a subpar OOP kit, and overspending on it...  

RG, I was noticing the same thing looking at what you had in 1/35. I’m particularly envious that you have the Meng A7V and Fine Molds Type 61.

 

Glamdring

 That Female sniper by Wolf, what is the name of that kit?  Searching for Wolf resin female sniper on Ebay certainly did not give me the results I was expecting, but they were certainly fun to look at 

 

The figure number is WSH 15 and name is Red Army Female Sniper Prokhorovka 1943  (Not sure why they say Prokhorovka as there’s nothing linking this figure to Kursk.) made by Hornet & Wolf. Originally this figure was made by Sovereign 2000 a British company I’ve never heard of.  I’m assuming Hornet bought them at some point and reissued this figure.  

 

I wouldn’t recommend this figure unless you really want it. The detail is soft for whatever reason the right arm is molded in white metal along with the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle. I did a quick test fit and nothing lines up.

 

The head on the figure is very soft looking and doesn’t look right.

 

The hair on the back of the head doesn’t have detail at all.

 

Other problems are the camouflage coverall doesn’t look baggy enough at least to me. They were meant to go over the regular uniform. Also factor in till late in the war uniforms were only made for males and female uniforms didn’t start showing up till late 1944 I believe. So if anything the coveralls should be much baggier. The figure should also have a side cap on as well or the hood on the coveralls pulled up.

 

The Mosin-Nagant seems to be very oversized and poorly detailed when compared to a Zvezda version.

 

Zvezda has a 1/35 Soviet Sniper Team set that has one female figure and is widely available and I’d suggest picking that up over the Wolf figure. 

 

Apologies for the longwinded reply.

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GreySnake

 

Here’s the bin of resin.

There are a couple of aircraft models somewhere in the closet as well.  

 

That Female sniper by Wolf, what is the name of that kit?  Searching for Wolf resin female sniper on Ebay certainly did not give me the results I was expecting, but they were certainly fun to look at 

GreySnake

Here is mine I’m in the middle of reorganizing the closet so these pictures aren’t as neat as I’d like.  

 

There are a few armor kits not shown being used for reference for other builds.

 

 

I really think I have too many figure kits and this is just the plastic figures.

Here’s the bin of resin.

Almost forgot about this one.

 

There are a couple of aircraft models somewhere in the closet as well.  

 

Wow! Way too organized!

Very nice!

Greysnake,

We seem to have a good deal of kit overlap!

Mine are very well organized.  I have all mine set up by armor, aircraft,  spacecraft, and ships.  Then I have them divided into manufacters.  So all my Tamiya, Dragon, Bronco, AFV Club , Meng, Tasca, Hasegawa, are together in the same shelves.  They are nicely stacked, even and orderly not helter skelter.  It looks like a store.  If I can figure out how the camera works....

Mach71,

You know, if you straightened out the kits you could fit maybe 25% MORE on the shelves?  

The photos I posted were taken in my living room with all the kits pulled out of the bedroom, so I'm not really organized.    I had to sort them to get an idea of what I had.

RealG,

You are WAY too organized! :-)

I have about 140 kits, I've built about 10 so far this this year but I've bought about 6.

I guess I'm moving in the right direction.

On the other hand, leaving the loved ones the stash to deal with is sweet revenge for all the dirty looks and heavy sighs we have gotten from those that just don't understand or just tolerate us.

Real G

...I have a thing for MaK, so I'm keeping all of it.  But I did find one duplicate kit just with different markings, so I could possibly part with one.

Same here.  I may get rid of all of my airplane and ship kits, but I'm keeping my MaK stash.  It's a little bigger than that, but not by much.  The thing about MaK kits is that the finished models don't take up as much room as my airplanes and ships would.

Hookay, I pulled a portion of the stash out this past weekend.  Yeah, I have a serious problem.

I have a several more Tamiya tanks in my room still.  In my defense, a couple of armor kits are moving down the assembly line.

I have a thing for MaK, so I'm keeping all of it.  But I did find one duplicate kit just with different markings, so I could possibly part with one.

Miscellaneous anime and a smattering of cars.

Anime up the wazoo.

The sharp-eyed will note there are no airplanes in any of the photos.  There were just too many, and the living room was in shambles by the time I got to them. 

Even if I fnished a model a month, by my estimate I will only "need" 240 models before I pass on.

I have become "that guy".  

So come on guys, help me by posting photos of your even greater stashes, so I won't feel so bad!

OK, a PSA announcement time guys - We are all mortal with a finite lifespan.  Do NOT leave your mess for your loved ones to deal with after your demise!

I have had more than one model buddy pass on, and some of them left behind rooms, garages, and storage units FULL of model kits.  The bargain hunters' eyes gloss over in excitement, but if you had to personally deal with ridding the bereaved of these mega-stashes, it is no fun at all.  My sister told me that she would kill me if I did this to her.  By the tone in her voice, I believe her.  My sister has long arms (like Baron Ottomatic from "Tom Slick"), so she'd be able to get me, somehow. 

In my fantasy world, I finish the last model on the shelf and then die in my sleep that night.  In the real world, it's not going to happen that way.  The best I can do is cull the collection and be careful of what I buy.  Ha-ha, that's like saying I'm a dog and promise not to eat all the pieces of cheese sitting on the table when no one is looking.

But yeah, I have a seriously huge stash.  It is time.

The poem that was placed in the last issue of FSM was great. It really nailed it.

BK

A quote I saw in an Australian modeling magazine - it went along the following lines - "I've gradually come to understand that modeling is actually two seperate hobbies, building and collecting."

fox

Must be nice to have such a choice right at hand. Jim 

Absolutely!  Both the chap in the picture and the one with the trailer are definitely spoilt for choice!  Whatever subject they feel like at the time, whatever level of complexity they want, there's something there - if they can a) remember that they have it, and b) remember where it is.  There's probably not a GB in the world they couldn't enter!

I think of my (fairly modest - 30 or so) stash as my personal model shop.  When I'm ready to start a new build, I'm not restricted to what's in the LHS at the time, or whether or not I can afford it.  The vast majority of kits in a shop hold no interest for me, or are too expensive, but all of those in the stash are kits I want to build, and they're already paid for.  Two good reasons to have a stash - of whatever size suits your needs

Quite a while back, we had a post like this and IIR correctly didn't one of the guys say he had an 18 wheeler trailer full of kits along the side of his house? I forget how many he said were in the trailer before he lost count. Must be nice to have such a choice right at hand.

Jim 

Stay Safe.

goldhammer

 

 

Mopar Madness

Nah, that's what storage units are for! 

 

 

 

 

Don't go there....my lady has a unit and every time she opens the door she gets a look of disgust.  Only about 75 or so there.  The rest are at work.

 

Mopar Madness

Nah, that's what storage units are for! 

 

Don't go there....my lady has a unit and every time she opens the door she gets a look of disgust.  Only about 75 or so there.  The rest are at work.

Nah, that's what storage units are for! 

Well it's a nice beginner stash. In 5-10 years it might be a decent sized one...

Heaven!

When I lived in Okinawa, I used the spare room in our base housing home to store the its I bought.  I filled the closet and had stacks all over the room.  It took three packing crates to load everything when we returned to the states.  Back then the yen rate was 265 to the dollar and I went out every payday after a trip to the bank on Kadena to grab enough yen for the trip to the local toy stores.  I ended up selling most of them to a local store and a couple club members when we arrived here.  My job at the time wasn't paying much, the government was trying ot grab money by saying we were over our weight allowence by 1,500 pounds for the move and trying to charge us by the pound despite us having less than the first time but the difference was the same as before.  Somebody was making money on this, We were not the only ones who came back with this exact problem, and the shipping section on the local base here woiuld not even listen to the complaint when they called us to show up at their office.

I am stunned, but feeling much better about my far more modest stash

I have been having the same thoughts lately about my stash of 200+ kits with the way the world is going, and my own long term incurable health conditions. 

It's my hope to at least get my money back for them, or maybe even make a small profit to pay down debt, but my fear is these kits won't even sell now, other than for a song.

It is interesting to note that the LHS over here have been seeing an uptick in kit purchases.

The photo of the “Model King” on his mountain of kits spooks me out, as I was just thinking of pulling out my entire stash to sort and thin.  The LHS do consignment sales, so it might be a good time to do so.

Now if only the LHS are allowed to open...

My best friend, sadly, has been diagnosed with an untreatable form of prostate cancer, and has been trying, unsuccessfully, to get rid of his stash of only 30 or 40 kits. I tried helping, and contacted a dealer in Seattle who had sold me a model of the hospital ship USS Haven. The wife of the owner told me that they are both beyond retirement age, and would like to dump their stock, but they too are having a lot of trouble finding anyone who wants to buy it.

Stamp collectors are having similar problems — most of us collectors are older folks now, and young people just aren't taking up collecting like their parents and grandparents. One result is a huge surplus or ordinary stamps and covers, and relatively low prices for better stamps and covers, although I did "manage" to spend more than $300 recently on a rare cover. (Not so long ago, I would have thought that spending $300 on an old envelope was the height of idiocy. But this morning I spent $85 on groceries that will last about a week!)

Bob