What do you do with your model boxes?

My spare parts are all sorted in a hardware organizer, you know that thing that has several small plastic drawers to keep the screws and nuts!  And my decals are already in enveloppes in a drawer.  Everything is well organized but those boxes are empty and useless, but I can'T put them in the trash!!!!!

Yann Solo wrote:

My spare parts are all sorted in a hardware organizer, you know that thing that has several small plastic drawers to keep the screws and nuts!  And my decals are already in enveloppes in a drawer.  Everything is well organized but those boxes are empty and useless, but I can'T put them in the trash!!!!!

I know what you mean.  In a way the empty boxes represent your accomplishments. 

Haha.  So I'm really crazy?  My girlfriend's sister is a psychologist ..... maybe I should call her.

I could be diagnosed as a "Emptyness keeper"  Whooohoooo.

lazybather wrote:

I re-use them: either to protect painted orders going in the post for customers or to send sub-masters of miniatures to my mould maker.........either way....to stop the post office from destroying them! stuart ;) :D

espins1 wrote:

I know what you mean.  In a way the empty boxes represent your accomplishments.

 I keep those box art tops as well.  at the same time, my way of keeping track of my accomplishements was to actually keep those instruction manuals in boxes n folders, much better consolidated than empty big boxes that all have irregular sizes (one thing u gotta give it to Tamiya n Dragon, most boxes are uniform in sizes in the same subject over the years.  i.e. those 107 bikes have 2 box sizes, the bigger ones came after kit# 55 the '86 nsr500; n those 50 something F1 cars also have only two box sizes (exact reverse of the bike boxes) as well, with the smaller ones came after the RE30 turbo, spanning over 30 years.  same sizes applies to their 1/24 cars.)

I know when I am done a model, the box get trashed.

I look on the tree's and see if there is anything left over that I might ant to save.

But other them that I trash the box's

Bud

@ Yann Solo

I'm basically an optomist :D

I hope using the boxes will stop the post office from destroying the hard work, but the pessimist in me makes sure they are insured too ;)

 stuart :D :)

lol Yann I hear you, I used to suffer from the same syndrome myself. But I had to fight the urge, and fought it I did.

Just think, you're doing a good thing for our country every time you recycle, so throw them away. You can do it, I believe in you

I know what you mean brother.

When I got back into the hobby about a year ago, I didn't want to throw them out either.

Eventually I will stick them to the walls and it will do for me what all of my unbuilt kits do for me sitting on my shelves, motivate me.

If you model in the basement like me, its actually a nice decoration.

Good luck.

I cut out the nicer box top artwork and they are on my building bench. Especially Hasegawa photos of the real machine boxtops, Gumdan inserts (they have a cover in full color of the built up model that acts as a cover over the kit parts) and Dragon paintings.

 David

Lately I've been trimming out the front panels and tossing the rest. As soon as I can get the junk room cleaned out it will become the designated hobbyroom, and I will put the box art up on the wall.

 Seemed like a shame to let such nice artwork go to waste.