Modelholic?

During the past week I bought 5 kits.....Added to the unbuilt list of 60+
I have just cut the parts from the sprues and keep dryfitting them ever since ......
Because it is a bit cold I can not paint them or glue any bit. Ventilation problems, since some members of the family claim that the smell of glue and paint stink....as if...lol
Is this sad or what....?

Oh my gosh! I just got back into modeling after a 21-year period where I went to college, got a job, traveled and got married. I decided the day after Christmas that I wanted to get back into it. In the last 2 weeks I have already bought 4 models and all of the equipment that I will need and I still haven't decided which one I am going to build first. It brings back memories of how it was when I was in high school....Yes, I too am a modelholic. I fell off the wagon and I am back!!!

If it weren't for the fact that my wife manages the funding in this household, I'd be a homeless modeller. I cannot go into a store unless I go straight to the model department, and make sure they don't have something I must have. I wonder how many homeless modellers there are out there? Can't you just see it! three shopping carts full of unbuilt models, and picking up aluminum cans for scratch building, and buying more models. God I hope this is not the writing on the wall!! Semper Fi, mike

I too am a modelholic. There are so many of us that the industry can't keep up with our addiction to new plastic. You know you're hooked when you start to search yard sales, thrift stores, and just about any other source for kits.

I just took a 1 1/2 month break from building models. i even took a break from FSM forum. I have three unfinished models. I have been working on two for the last two months. I just got burned out. Now I am back to finish these models this month I have to discipline myself from buying models that I know I will not get to in 6 months...I do have about seven unbuilt kits that will last me through fall. However, most likely when I finish a model I will buy more...never allowing my stack to decrease.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Model Museum For me it also runs in cycles, there are times I will tinker a bit with models but not do anything serious and at other times you can't keep me away from the bench and I will build a LOT of models in a very short time.

This would describe me also, sometimes I will go months without touching a kit, but then other times I will build 2 or 3 in a row one right after another.
I also buy more kits than I will ever build, sales get me everytime.

Around 10 years ago I had over 100 kits stacked up, I gravitated away from the hobby and was getting ready to move across the country, so I ended up selling almost all of them to the same hobby shop that I bought many of them from, I sometimes regret this because a lot of the kits I had are no longer available and very hard to find now.

So here I am again, I've been back into the hobby for several years (off and on) and have once again accumulated 60+ kits I would estimate by counting only the front rows of my growing stacks of unopened kits which I have no room for, you can certainly buy them much faster than you can build them.

Do you think that when I finish my current project I will look through the stack of kits I already have and decided which one to build next? I think you already know the answer, by the time I finish my current project I will have accumulated several more kits that will be my "next" project, but of course my next true build will be the one I bring home brand new from the hobbyshop when my bench is cleaned off and reorganized, or maybe I'll take a couple of months off, I won't know until that time gets here.

I'm a TOTAL binge-and-purge modeller. I can go weeks without getting "dirty;" you know, doing the arm-chair modeller thing, reading mags, visiting the shops, not actually building anything. Next thing you know there's the sounds of Dremel and Badger coming from behind my locked door as I take on three kits at a time like Bruce Lee kickin' so much ninja butt in Enter the Dragon. The cycle wanes, I re-emerge after a week or two, I clean the acrylic out of my hair....and re-join "normal" society. It's all good.

Hey....like I tell my wife, it's either this or hookers and dice, your call................

I think we can sum it all up here by saying that Dana has a LOT of company (myself included) and that modeling can certainly be addictive.

But not me - I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want to . . .

I just don't want to. That's all.

Well I am addicted, too. Luckily I am able to complete every kit I purchase just before I get the urge to buy a new one. So I have no major stash to speak of.

Sounds to me as if someone has been using his airbrush to accelerate toxins into his cranial structure...I built in college, and one of my dorm mates borrowed my airbrush and compressor one weeked with the thoughts of turning into a "turbo rocket bong"...needless to say, I was not impressed.

I've built non-stop since I about 13, so, 24 years now. I built in college, when I was single, dating, after I got married, and after a child. At one point in time, I had more than 2500 kits in my collection. Then, suddenly, like a 2x4 to the head, I realized I could never build everything I had, and I was finding myself buying the things I really wanted more than I already had. So I started thinning the collection down, and now I'm down to about 150 or so kits, mostly big stuff and resin, and a few 'must-haves' that I refuse to part with.

I'm addicted to the hobby...but it keeps me out of the bars, and it's the last real vice I have left, since I stopped drinking awhile ago. The key is to allocate time each night for your won personal time...with my wife and I, it's generally 2-3 hours after our daughter goes to sleep. That time is mine for whatever I want, video games, modeling, reading, watching the tube...my wife has her hobbies as well, painting, ridiculous soap operas, and TV shows about people whose problems are always solved in 60 minutes or less.

I generally avoid the cycles by building everything...I used to build only 1/72 WW2 planes...now, with a collection of 850 or so...what the hell do I do with them all?? So now I build slower, and build more diverse subjects.

Jeff

Sorry about the rabble getting roused up. it's just that...*sniff*...I've been alone for so long...No model kit at my side...err, well, table...although it's not really a teble...It's more of a rug...with newspaper on it...Oh, I'm so ashamed.Bwahahahahhhhh!!!! Well, I guess i'lll for the time being.

By the way:

QUOTE: Can I have my pen back now?

He stole my pen and the ransom was 5 posts on this site.

Unfortunately I'm in remission, only a couple of hours spent in "that" room over the last 3 weeks, in fact very little actually done all year but I can feel, the pressure building up!

Comrade Sergei your for real am I correct? I mean no disrespect, but some of your comments.....well.... they're a little imfammatory.

Yep, me also just made space for another 2 boxes of medication.

I just took mine.

Hey! it's not an obsession just a hobby right? Like me, I have 5 or 50 kits and just because I like to relax for 3 or 4 hours just blissfully building models oblivious to everything else it's not a problem right? RIGHT?? Besides I can stop ANY TIME I WANT!!!!!!!!!! it's just a hobby , just a hobby, Juuust a Hhobbbyyyyy. I have to go take some medicine now.

well then sergei. hang tight mate. and invest in a respirator. you sound like you need it. lol. defenitely the disease smallius stashus

Both, actually. My stash consists of the drop tanks that are not currently on my F-16. I am rationing them so they will last until January, when my modeling desert will end. I will then get 4 new kits, which I will take 14 hours to build each. I will be done with them so fast and they will be so terrible that I will come very close to commiting suicide. Then I will be saved on february 20th by the arrival of new kits, some of which will be dioramma-like in nature. scince I have no clue what to do with diorasmma-l;ike materials, I will be sticken dumb for long enough to postpone my lack of model kits until summer, at which point I will have better things to do.
As to my rabble-rousiness, I have this to say: Comrades, even though my lack of model kits is due entirely to my stupidity and negligfense, I blame others, for this is how I have been taught, and this is the way i shall remain for so long as no-one kills me.

That, or he needs better ventilation when he's using his glues and paints.

I think Comrade Sergei might be suffering from small-stash syndrome.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Comrade Sergei You...You haver of model kits that are waiting for you when yopu get home!!! I despise your kind!! They think not of us that have naught to do except stare at the kits we have built and invent crappy camoflauge schemes with whioch to paaint them! I cast you down to the depths of my cold and cricket-infested basement! there you shall rot as an exaple to all others who have more important things to do than stare at a blank wall! Can I have my pen back now?

comrade sergei seems to be a bit of a rabble rouser eh? and a bit insane as well. yes you can have your pen back. lol.

You...You haver of model kits that are waiting for you when yopu get home!!! I despise your kind!! They think not of us that have naught to do except stare at the kits we have built and invent crappy camoflauge schemes with whioch to paaint them! I cast you down to the depths of my cold and cricket-infested basement! there you shall rot as an exaple to all others who have more important things to do than stare at a blank wall!
Can I have my pen back now?

i fail tot he see the problem bones! im exactly like that. get home from scvhool. finish the blasted homework, and straight to the workbench!

Hi...My name is carl...and...and...Oh, god, this is hard...well...For a while now iv'e been addicted to model kits. I..I thought it was just a temporary thing, you know? Well, it started out small...One model kit here, another there, but now I just want more and more! I can't Stop! I'm a monster!!! I haven't been building models for a few months now, and I've resorted to painting toy soldiers just to get a feel of the modeling life!
(Starts crying and runs from the room in shame)

give it time, you'll burn out, and then....you'll want more, and more, and more, AND MORE AND MORE!!!
hmm...maybe I should go get some air...

Yeah, I was tearing through one of my 1/35 Cobras and then, nothing. I haven't touched it for a few weeks now. Too many other things taking priority away, but I know soon I'll be back at it like a madman and then maybe I'll finally have some pictures to post.

When I got back into the hobby when I was in college I was the same way. I didn't want to go to class, didn't want to go the intermship I was doing as well, all I wanted to do was stay home and build. Things slowed down a bit after I moved into my career and now it runs in cycles. Right now I am ramping up on a hot peroid with my thoughts on modeling more. In time I am sure it will cool off for a bit but until then I am going to enjoy the ride. :)

I also go in phases and have for years. Typically, these have been dictated by available time and space since I moved around a lot in my 20's. Now that I'm married and have a workbench, I've been pretty regular in my building (if somewhat slow). For various reasons, I decided that when I got married that my marriage would be my top priority, so it easy for me to set aside models for a week or two to get 'honey do' projects done. But as soon as the coast is clear, I'm heading for my bench.