How long to build your entire collection?

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

How long to build your entire collection?

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:43 AM

If you stopped buying Model Kits and then build through your collection, from beginning to end, how long would it take you to finish it at your current build rate? Would it exceed your life expectancy?

I was depressed to think it might take me 25 years! But then I comfort myself with thinking that someone out there must be doing far worse than this!

I lay down the gauntlet.....

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Foster7155

Member since
July 2003
From: Pensacola, FL

Posted by Foster7155 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 10:51 AM

If I maintain my current build rate of 1 model per month (approximately) and didn't buy another model kit, it would take me 22 years - give or take a year or two - to get through my stash.

Robert Foster

Pensacola Modeleers

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:03 AM

Smile [:)] It would probably take me another lifetime, at my present rate of building.

Cheers,

Hooker_JL

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archangel571

Member since
June 2005
From: NJ 07073

Posted by archangel571 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:05 AM

If I am optimistic enough to say I can ever start building two per month, it'd take 20 years to finish. Let's not look at the worst case scenario...

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks

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Bgrigg

Member since
May 2005
From: Left forever

Posted by Bgrigg on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:16 AM

I'm not as bad as all that! I have a small stash and try to get through it before I start buying more kits. By getting through it, I mean I start the kit, usually building it up to fully assembled and requiring only paint or sometimes only decals and a final flat coat before it's done. However actually finishing the model appears to be beyond my ability, so while it should only take me a short while to use up my stash, it will take beyond my life expectancy to fully complete them! Tongue [:P]

So long folks!

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wayne baker

Member since
February 2003
From: Medina, Ohio

Posted by wayne baker on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:34 AM

At my current build rate, 75 to 200 years. I'm hoping to improve on that. Many are in process, but few are close to completion. At the moment, the kids will probably put them on ebay as their only inheritance.

I may get so drunk, I have to crawl home. But dammit, I'll crawl like a Marine.

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LemonJello

Member since
February 2004
From: Green Lantern Corps HQ on Oa

Posted by LemonJello on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 12:32 PM

A model a month???? I can only dream of a day when I can turn out a model a month. As it stands now, it takes me anywhere from two months to a full year just to get one kit done. Barring deployments, I should get through my current collection of kits in 12 to 24 years. But my stash is a living being, like a hydra almost. For every kit I build, two or three are added to the shelves.

A day in the Corps is like a day on the farm; every meal is a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade... The Marine Corps is a department of the Navy? Yeah...The Men's Department.

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Tankmaster7

Member since
August 2004
From: Nowhere. (Long Island)

Posted by Tankmaster7 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 12:40 PM

at my current rate, I estimate 6-8 years.

-Tanky

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Triarius

Member since
January 2003
From: Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic of Illinois

Posted by Triarius on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 1:51 PM

You really know how to hurt a guy… Sad [:(]

Oh well, my older son likes to model, the stash will be part of his inheritance…

The way kit prices are going, that may make him independently wealthy… Shock [:O]

Ross Martinek A little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing… Wink

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 1:59 PM

The way it's going right now it will take me 200 years. I have 200+ kits waiting in the closet. I don't have a place to build them right now since we are remodelling the house, so my builds are just sitting there waiting for my room to get done and the rest of the house.

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Yann Solo

Member since
March 2006
From: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada

Posted by Yann Solo on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 2:28 PM

I only have approximately 6 kits in my stash. I try to complete each model before starting another one. When my stash goes down to three, I buy three more. That way, I always build kits that I'm interested in. I noticed that my interests changes after each model I build. An advantage to that, is that all my purchases are a lot easier to justify to my wife. So if you take my current building rate which is approximately two per month, I always have about 3 months of work in front of me.

Not bad !

No matter where you go ....... there you are.

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Thehannaman2

Member since
August 2004
From: Buffalo NY

Posted by Thehannaman2 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 2:37 PM

I'm looking at 3-4 models a year. That in mind, I'm looking at 15-20 years. HOWEVER, my current aquisition rate (which is running in "I'm-not-buying-anymore-kits mode") is 2-4 new kits a month.

UH-OH! Eduard is making Dual Combo Kits! ....two planes one box... Noooooooooo!!!!!

Justen

"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success."

Member IPMS Niagara Frontier. "The BuffCon Boys."

IPMSUSA Member 45680

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Neptune48

Member since
February 2006

Posted by Neptune48 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 3:25 PM

At my current rate I'll finish the last kit when I'm 163 years old.

One of our IPMS chapter leaders cited a statistic (I don't know his source) that 80% of all kits manufactured never get built. They languish in stashes, graduating to estate sales, then begin the endless cycle of swap meets, trades, e-bay, etc.

"You can't have everything--where would you put it?"

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Glamdring

Member since
February 2005
From: Nashotah, WI

Posted by Glamdring on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 6:58 PM

Neptune48 wrote:

One of our IPMS chapter leaders cited a statistic (I don't know his source) that 80% of all kits manufactured never get built. They languish in stashes, graduating to estate sales, then begin the endless cycle of swap meets, trades, e-bay, etc.

Interesting fact, yet I can still not find a 1/35 Dragon "Maus" anywhere....

Anyways, I'm looking at about 60 years at my build rate of 2.5 per year.

Robert

"I can't get ahead no matter how hard I try, I'm gettin' really good at barely gettin' by"

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rudy_102

Member since
December 2005
From: Ontario, Canada

Posted by rudy_102 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 8:26 PM

HA! I build about 5 or more (!!!!) models a month, and my stash is about 15 models now. So that's about 3 months. My aquistions are limited by the fact that I need to use my allowance to get a model, which makes it about 1 model each month. The reason I have so many in stash is that I just came back from almost limitless shopping in Poland.

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tigerman

Member since
March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 9:08 PM

33 years at 1 kit per year. Ashamed [*^_^*]

I hope to increase it next year when things die down a bit. Of course there is always retirement in the distant future.

Eric

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Jaypack55

Member since
October 2005
From: Tacoma, WA

Posted by Jaypack55 on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:38 PM

It'd probably take me about a year, or maybe (probably) closer to 6 months. I work on multiple models at one time, so all my kits are in progress to some degree.

-Josh

Current Builds: If I were to list everything I have in progress, it'd take way too long! Some notable inclusions:

Hasegawa 1:48 KI-84

Tamiya 1:48 P-51D (in Iwo Jima long-range escort markings)

4 (yes, four) Tamiya 1:48 F4U-1s (1x -1D, 1x -1A, and 2x -1s)

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smokinguns3

Member since
June 2005
From: San Tan Valley,AZ

Posted by smokinguns3 on Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:05 AM

Well i've only got 12 kits in my stash and the way iam building 1 to 2 a month it shouldnt take to long to burn through, my goal is to have a hobby shop stash that way i cant say iam broke Big Smile [:D]

Rob I think i can I think i can

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gulfstreamV

Member since
October 2005

Posted by gulfstreamV on Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:08 AM

I'm with the majority here, at least 20 years at my rate. I never stop buying but I seem to slow down in building. Not to mention the advancements in this hobby that I continue to chase and learn. Someone told me once when you get older and you think you got it all by the nads, watch out the end is near. Maybe thats why I keep a few/too many in the stash. I just don't want to see it end...............stay Cool [8D]

Stay XX Thirsty, My Fellow Modelers.

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BlackOps

Member since
March 2004
From: Fresno, CA

Posted by BlackOps on Friday, August 11, 2006 1:32 PM

I seem to average about one a month so it would take me about two years to get through my stash.

Jeff G.

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ckfredrickson

Member since
April 2003
From: Halfway back to where I started

Posted by ckfredrickson on Friday, August 11, 2006 8:23 PM

Well, it's been over a year since I've completed a kit due to some life transitions, but at the rate I was building before the hiatus, about 9 years.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 11, 2006 11:56 PM

Considering I have built nothing in the past 10 years, and have some 300 kits.......I will never build my kit collection. i would like to change that however.....wouldn't we all. I finish my masters program in december, maybe life will slow down enough to build then.

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archangel571

Member since
June 2005
From: NJ 07073

Posted by archangel571 on Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:01 AM

BlackBird wrote:
Considering I have built nothing in the past 10 years, and have some 300 kits.......I will never build my kit collection. i would like to change that however.....wouldn't we all. I finish my masters program in december, maybe life will slow down enough to build then.

what kind of masters are you getting?! 300/0 is UNDEFINED!!! =oP

-=Ryan=- Too many kits... so little free time. MadDocWorks

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m1garand

Member since
November 2005
From: Somewhere over the rainbow

Posted by m1garand on Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:05 AM

I have over 300 kits in my basement and I am still buying more stuff. I need a professional help to stop this bad habit. I'm hoping that my kids (I don't have one yet, but currently working on it) will be helping me to build some of my kits.

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MortarMagnet

Member since
May 2006

Posted by MortarMagnet on Saturday, August 12, 2006 3:28 AM

At my lifetime average rate, less than a year. At my current rate, NEVER. I'll have died, and the world will have degraded into some sort of oilless, MadMax, post-apocalyptic chaos before paint falls on half of these mostly built vehicles. I might start all of them...but finish....

Brian

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Chatterer

Member since
November 2005
From: Southwest

Posted by Chatterer on Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:00 AM

Worse then I thought at my build rate eleven years, and thats building four a month Sad [:(]

David

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qmiester

Member since
May 2003
From: Central USA

Posted by qmiester on Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:49 PM

At my current production rate (2 or 3 kits per year), between 216 to 325 years. And I just dragged 17 more kits home from the Nats.

Quincy

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Dwight Ta-ala

Member since
July 2003
From: Philippines

Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:19 PM

1 year at a rate of 1 in every 2 months. So far this year I managed to build 5 models in 8 months so I think 1 in every 2 months is possible. Smile [:)]