Builder or collector...???

...collector...but I do build sometimes

Guess I'm a collector.  The stash has some 50 kits and I've only built six. 

Maybe I spend too much time in the Forum?

Definitely builder. The stash is at over 100 kits, but almost half have been started......I'm admittedly a very slow builder.

I bought a 1970's 1/25 International Transtar cabover by ERTL (1st in the series) in absolutely mint condition. It's gonna see glue and paint someday....

Regretably collector.  Best intentions to build, but many reasons it doesn't happen. However lately the trend is towards building, so maybe I can make the transition. 

A Builder

i'm a buildellor

I'm just a slightly slow builder, I buy them quicker than I can make them and I only do one at a time, I always buy with the intention of building the kit, usually by the time I get to build the new one I've purchased I've changed my mind and go get another

Cheers...

I started out as a builder, but am creeping up on collector.  Still able to tell myself I have every intention of building all that I have.  I have built more than I have in my stash, but the number is catching up.

But I would probably use the term "accumulator" for myself rather than "collector", as "collector" seems to imply some kind of sense or strategy to acquisitions, rather than the haphazard way I seem to go about it.

Paul

SuppressionFire

How about criteria for this?

IF:

You own more un-built kits than completed you are a collector. (me)

IF:

1/2 or more of your kits are finished you are a builder.

To make my situation more accurate I would have to add 30-30 to my affliction, that is 30% of my kits are 30% or more complete.

That being said I would be a 70-30 modeler.

Confusing? A bit... It will be interesting how others reply...

 

I'm primarily a builder, but I hedged on one kit. I had long wanted an Ace Midget race car kit, a balsa wood scale model produced by Ace Mfg, a california company of WW2 and forties era.  I finally made contact with someone on net who had one and bought it from him.

I wanted to have my cake and eat it too- to build and yet still have the kit.  This was possible.  The kit was a collection of balsa wood, with four composition wheels/tires.  Many of the body pieces were pre-shaped only in profile, some were just plain stick stock.  I bought balsa of the needed thickness, traced the kit pieces on stock and cut out with bandsaw.  I then started constructing the pieces using the new balsa, while saving all original pieces (made RTV molds from the wheels).

Hung up on the grill- the kit used a decal but I want to make something a bit better and that will be a real job.  It is possible one of the grills from the new Revell midget might work but I doubt it.

How about criteria for this?

IF:

You own more un-built kits than completed you are a collector. (me)

IF:

1/2 or more of your kits are finished you are a builder.

To make my situation more accurate I would have to add 30-30 to my affliction, that is 30% of my kits are 30% or more complete.

That being said I would be a 70-30 modeler.

Confusing? A bit... It will be interesting how others reply...