what do you do.....

I usually canibalise them for parts in other builds.

I salvage what I can: Missiles, wheels, cockpits, landing gears, fuel tanks.... and the rest usually gets cut up over the course of time and incorporated into some sort of extra scratchbuilt detail in another model.

Yes, I believe in recycling!

Use it to practice new techniques.

overkillphil wrote:

Use it to practice new techniques.

When I get my new (and first real) airbrush for Christmas they are going to be my learning canvases.

I salvage what I can and toss it!

I try not to think of them as "bad" models, but as challenged ones. I plan to use them as references of where I went wrong. Based on my current stash of challenged models, I should never go wrong again. Yeah, right!

Bgrigg wrote:

I try not to think of them as "bad" models, but as challenged ones. I plan to use them as references of where I went wrong. Based on my current stash of challenged models, I should never go wrong again. Yeah, right!

I have almost alll the models I've ever built since I started, except for the earliest one, and any that got broken in moves. I think I even gave three or four away to a friend of mine too when I was much younger. Eventually, I sometimes pull them back down again and 'refurbish' them. I've never thrown away a model myself.