How Many Shelf Queens Do You Have?

Real G

Member since
May 2011
From: Honolulu, Hawaii

Posted by Real G on Sunday, January 24, 2021 7:42 PM

I have enough to run a pageant. Shameful, really.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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cbaltrin

Member since
May 2004
From: Land of Lakes

Posted by cbaltrin on Sunday, January 24, 2021 6:45 PM

I lost count

On the Bench: Too Much

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tankboy51

Member since
September 2004
From: Denver

Posted by tankboy51 on Sunday, January 24, 2021 6:35 PM

None. However, I am working on 3 at the moment, 1 is finished, a DML Panzer IV F1 awaiting be weathered and dull coated, a ESCI 1/9 Kubelwagen, in progress, and a Tamiya M-10 that is being assembeled. That is average for me. I like to finish every one I start.

I do have a few kits that were damaged by curious kitty. He walked across storage table in the basement that I had a bunch of finished models on, mostly armour and some 1/48 planes. He did minor damage on a few, nothing serious. But it was a daunting challenge to fix them. Oh well, I'll get around to it, sometime.

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Eaglecash867

Member since
April 2020

Posted by Eaglecash867 on Sunday, January 24, 2021 6:04 PM

Too many here as well. But, I am almost done with my F-16CJ which I started 4 years ago...only to have it be a shelf queen for 3 years. So, that will be one fewer shelf queen. Now, if I can just get rid of my hangar queens at work I'll be set.

"You can have my illegal fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers...which are...over there somewhere."

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GMorrison

Member since
September 2012

Posted by GMorrison on Sunday, January 24, 2021 5:45 PM

More than Castro Street on a Saturday night...

No seriously, too many to feel proud of.

Bill

Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

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Pawel

Member since
May 2009
From: Poland

Posted by Pawel on Sunday, January 24, 2021 5:31 PM

Hello!

The short answer would be: too many!

It's a sad topic, isn't it? Even one is actually too many! It hurts me to count them. But I hope there arent as many as in your photos.

Good luck with finishing them and have a nice day!

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

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Tojo72

Member since
March 2003
From: Western North Carolina

Posted by Tojo72 on Sunday, January 24, 2021 5:29 PM

None,I'm only working on a Meng Merkava 4M. None on hold.

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bufflehead

Member since
July 2006
From: San Francisco Bay Area

How Many Shelf Queens Do You Have?

Posted by bufflehead on Sunday, January 24, 2021 5:24 PM

NOTICE - I did check the forums to see if this topic had been posted recently, but I couldn't find anything (going back over a year)!

Towards the end of December I was finishing up my 12th build and realized that 2020 was my most productive modeling year, but I also realized that all those kits were new/unstarted. It occurred to me that I had a bunch of unfinished builds languishing on the shelves gathering dust, some going back 12-13 years! I had to ask myself why I never finished those kits. Some were half built, some ready for paint, some even had decals on and just needed to be finished up. So i decided for 2021 my modeling goal is to complete as many of those "shelf queens" as possible.

First - take a count! Turns out I have 20 kits in various stages of completion, most of them armor. Here's a couple of pics (some of the builds are still in boxes so they aren't in the pics)

Second - decide which ones to start first. Still working on that, but I will be posting my work in the armor forum!!

I don't plan on completing all of them this year, nor do I plan on working on them exclusively....there are some unstarted kits in the stash that I plan on building this year!

So how about you? How many shelf queens to you have? Is 20 a lot? Hmm