Why Do You (we) Stash?

Ahh yes lets not forget LEARNING! When researching a build it's like taking a semester on WWII sometimes. Not like the above mentioned computer games where, keep in mind this is a true story, playing Call of Duty. Guy says "Have you ever noticed how WW2 games are always about U.S. vs. ***, it's so dumb why can't they make it U.S. vs Russia like newer games?"

The **** is Germanys political party name in WW2 apparently the forum software doesn't like it...

340 kits you say. Wow! No doubt that you're going to leave on hell of a legacy behind you for your grandchildren. I can only hope future generations will appreciate the joy as well as the adventure of building models. It's a great experience, and teaches you a lot about history. Also a brilliant hand and eye coordination excersise, that helps to sharpen our wits. Some kids nowadays resort to computer games and mischief that stimulates their antisocial behaviour. We need them to keep building. I hope this wonderful hobby never dies out.

Good for you, Enjoy your every purchase and immerse yourself into all aspects of model building!

Henrik :c)

Yes, it is an obsession for me. But I also look at kits I have wanted in the past and missed out. Thankfully some of them are being re-popped. I pick up at least 1 new kit a week at Hobby Lobby. They know me by name and the 40% coupon that is bookmarked on my phone is helpful too, I get alot of kits from Ebay as well.

I have more kits than I can ever build at around 340 give or take. Ranging from may Sc-Fi kits to tanks to cars and planes. I just turned 50 and the way I look at it my grand children will have them when I am gone.

I buy kits because I want them and I have no regrets.

Kenny

Yessss....Yesssss!

We stash model kits for the same reason women stash hand bags and shoes. So we're obsessed! It's good to stock up on kits. More the merrier. Think of the long and cold winter. We must have something to do to kill time.:c) If you can afford to stash kits without spending more than you have, don't let go. Keep racking up those kits. There's no deadline. You have a whole lifetime to build. Keep it up.

stcat

Zombies...I stash to have something to occupy my time when the zombies attack.  And it may be the choice of barter in a post apocalyptic world.

You good sir, are freakin awesome. Best comment ever lol.

My stash is sitting at the 70ish mark, maybe a tad higher and is a mix of reasons.  The largest culprit being immediate influence of television, magazine or book where I have a build a kit of that.  My next issue are three catagories of must have as soon as I see them available for a decent price: any plane flown by the 111th TRS/FIS/TRS in 1/72 or 1/144, any model of the USS Texas (from ironclad to submarine) in 1/700 and finally the one I typically jump on without financial restraint is any kit of LVTs or AAVs, preferably in 1/72 but 1/35 seems beyond resistance as well.  I swear I have plans to build them all, just that the in is faster than the out.

I must have about 300+ in my stash.  When I was layed off of work a few years ago I sold some of the ones I thought I could do without.  On the other hand I work part time at my LHS and I can get good deals when they come along.  I agree, I get some of them because I'd like to get another chance at doing it right.

I also operate under the addage  "I can't die until I've finished all the kits in my stash"  I should live to be about 400.       LoL

John

Zombies...I stash to have something to occupy my time when the zombies attack.  And it may be the choice of barter in a post apocalyptic world.

Thanks to all who answered!  The reason we stash remains elusive, true (for me, anyway), but some good food for thought emerged from all y'all, and I appreciate it.  Putting kits away for an economic rainy day is a real good one - we've all taken a hit in the pocketbook of one kind or another in the last five or six years.  That ties right in with another good one - look for that there recent "Tamiya is Raising Their Prices" thread.  But, then we're not gonna stop, no matter what, right?  So, the best reason of all just might be because we want to ...

Mikey, Goose...

The nice thing about that is that if you store the ones you get distracted from carefully, you have a "head start" on a project when you rediscover it later! 

Scorpiomikey

yeah it got replaced with oohh shiny because my generations attentions spans are.....what?

I know the feeling..............ooohh, something shiny..............

yeah it got replaced with oohh shiny because my generations attentions spans are.....what?

Scorpiomikey

i stash because OOHH SHINY!

Those Chrome plated P-51s are shiny

Is that out of favor these days?

i stash because OOHH SHINY!

My stash really grew from about 15 years ago until 5 years ago or so. The prime reason, a good amount of disposable income. I had the money, and by this point I knew that if I saw a kit, better to buy it        because I may not get another chance.  In my 20s, browsing rather than buying at the hobby store was the norm for me due to finances. In my 30s that changed for the better. Now in my mid to late 40s the pendulum has swung the other way.  Ebay, when I first got on there, there were so many good bargains to be had. The gougers and online stores were not too common so it was often a case of somebody selling off their stash for whatever reason or the estate sale of a deceased modeler. And finally, it was a case of stocking up for the coming famine. Although I did not foresee the financial difficulties the would fall upon my family a few years later, I knew that the kits I was buying then and there would not always be available or affordable.... I still have enough kits to last me the rest of my life and I can ponder if any new releases are worth it or not. It's a nice position to be in.

.....and it is a prime number.....

Hmm, 2,347 is an odd number.  No it really is odd.

Manstein's revenge

The same reason I have 37 cats and 2,347 boxes of breakfast cereal in my study...

Ooohhhhhh, not a pretty picture in my mind's eye...

Manstein's revenge

The same reason I have 37 cats and 2,347 boxes of breakfast cereal in my study...

The same reason I have 37 cats and 2,347 boxes of breakfast cereal in my study...

fermis

Impulse buys!...Get while the gettin's good!

Kinda like hunting; bag 'em when ya can.

I have around 300. My thought was to try and get one of every type of war plane out there...still have a ways to go...lol. I`ve thought about selling some but just can`t pull the trigger `cause I still think I can build them all....HAHAHAHA!!

The vast majority of my stash came from vendor tables. Too many great deals to pass up. Many of them were..."I will probably want to build this at some point", so I buy it, so I have it on hand when that time comes. There's also a fare amount of "nostalgia" kits, that I built as a kid, and would like to have another "go" at. Out of the 200 or so kits in my stash, maybe a dozen were bought retail at the LHS, only 2 of those are not Revellogram.

Impulse buys!...Get while the gettin's good!

Old Ordie

Bockscar

Ordie:

LOL....If someone really thinks that stashing kits is "strange behavior," then I suppose it makes sense to ask the question "why do you/we stash?".

I can't answer the question. Maybe building miniature plastic machines in the first place is the truly strange behavior, and collecting them is just an associated and complimentary symptom?; kind of like how addictions always come in threes.

I never considered this behavior, i.e. the desire to build kits, as the least bit strange.

But then, the professionals say it is dangerous to try and diagnose yourself.

Hmmmm......strange behavior........how about base jumping, or feeding sharks by hand?

Dom

Dom,

Hey, I live for danger .

Not asking about the desire to build, but the desire to stash kits, which I, and many of you, do at a far greater rate than we can possibly build them.  It's like buying and storing 137 automobiles because you want to drive one.  That's strange, however you slice it.  (On the other hand, simply collecting them isn't strange ... if that's what you mean.)

I'll stipulate as to the base jumping, shark feeding by hand, and (how about) jumping out of perfectly good airplanes at altitude, just for fun, LOL!  Those are much stranger behaviors ...

Ordie

YAAAAAAAHOOOOOO!!!!!!

Dom

I left out a part

It is very hard to build an F-8D using a Muroc resin conversion set if you don't buy the Academy base kit to use it with

Buying the resin sets committed me to needing a matching number of base kits,,,,,do that for enough aircraft types and even the most ardent "anti stasher" will wonder about his sanity when he has 5 conversions for OOP base kits

Bockscar

Ordie:

LOL....If someone really thinks that stashing kits is "strange behavior," then I suppose it makes sense to ask the question "why do you/we stash?".

I can't answer the question. Maybe building miniature plastic machines in the first place is the truly strange behavior, and collecting them is just an associated and complimentary symptom?; kind of like how addictions always come in threes.

I never considered this behavior, i.e. the desire to build kits, as the least bit strange.

But then, the professionals say it is dangerous to try and diagnose yourself.

Hmmmm......strange behavior........how about base jumping, or feeding sharks by hand?

Dom

Dom,

Hey, I live for danger .

Not asking about the desire to build, but the desire to stash kits, which I, and many of you, do at a far greater rate than we can possibly build them.  It's like buying and storing 137 automobiles because you want to drive one.  That's strange, however you slice it.  (On the other hand, simply collecting them isn't strange ... if that's what you mean.)

I'll stipulate as to the base jumping, shark feeding by hand, and (how about) jumping out of perfectly good airplanes at altitude, just for fun, LOL!  Those are much stranger behaviors ...

Ordie

Because if I don't buy that kit now Now NOW! I will never see it again here, at this price, or hear at this price.  Someone else will buy it and I will be laughed out of the hobby for being the only modeler NOT to have this kit......That's why.

For me, it's probably due to some kind of a complusive-hoarding disorder that only manifests itself with certain, specific interests- models and certain comic-book lines.

Old Ordie

Bish

... It also means that when a GB comes up that i am interested in, i will probably have something that fits.

I have also noted this particular benefit, though it came well after the advent of my stashing ... .

 

Same here, i have a smallish stash before i started entering GB's. But it does give me added incentive, and justification