What is the point of a stash ?

Dash8

Not knocking it or anyone just trying to

understand the reason. Some of the guys

on here look like they have a retail store

for a basement lol. I build one model

then finish it then buy another model

and repeat.

 

You guys are all in denial . You have a bigger problem here and I will explain .

Many years ago I was bitten by a tri-bug and contracted a disease called trizophrenia. It is explained in a book by the same name, just look it up. Trizophrenia is a disease that involves delusions of grandeaur and success in a marginal/niche sport that involves swiming, biking and for some reason running as well. The cure is long and expensive and involves buying expensive/latest and greatist equipment, hiring coaches and traveling long distances in a delusional hope of reaching some goal.... The more you spend the more there is to buy and you do buy it because it just might be the equipment you need to break from the clouds of mediocracy and achieve "greatnes" . So you have more and more equipment at home, kind of like a stash. I got sort of cured. But you see where it is going and the similarities.

You buy your first model, "just for fun", lets see how it turns out. Then another one. Then, as you bread more and more fumes from the glue and paint (this according to Mrs. Castelnuovo, and Mrs Castelnuovo is always right for two reason: one, she is my wife and two, she is a shrink so I am under constand study ) you get infected by a model bug with styrene dna. So you buy more and more because it may get out of production (this is rational according to us but "so what" according to Mrs C) or the price may go up or some similar reason (excuse). So you build up a stash and end up needing a spreadsheet to know what the hack you have. The cure, just like with Trizophrenia is long and pricey, but on the positive note, you are at least at home and could be kept under control. The cure may come unexpectadly, like having a new baby (due date VERY soon ) so the bug goes into temporary remission. As for now...must...build...somethig...

Oh, a new baby will definitely cure you............

Yeah, my better half told me last night that I'm a hoarder. We just moved into a new house a couple months ago, and I finally pulled out some of the kits in my stash, and I realized she has a valid point. So now, I believe I'm going to start hoarding completed kits! Once a hoarder, always a hoarder!

@Castelnuovo, congrats on your future baby!!

I've just recently started building model kits again (9 months or so) after building them in my youth. I guess I will always have a 'stash' because when I buy a kit, I buy 2 of them, in case of breakage, screw ups, etc. So while I am building, my stash is still expanding.

I'm fortunate that I don't have a wife or children to otherwise occupy my time and my $$$$ and I have been able to also equip a small workstation with lots of different type and brands of paints, msicellaneous tools, storage shelves, airbrushes, compressor, spray booth, etc. Today's modelling is so more complex than what I did 40 years ago, there is a whole cottage industry just for tools, paints, etc that we didn't have back then...

But yes - the real reason I have a 'stash' is solely for my screw-ups.

if I see one on e-bay cheap , I try to buy it . simply to save money .

The kits that you do not build before you die are placed in your tomb to keep you occupied in the afterlife

stikpusher

 

The kits that you do not build before you die are placed in your tomb to keep you occupied in the afterlife

 

Sorta like a miniature version of the Tomb of Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang......

Because sometimes the price is is too good to pass up specially at shows where I can buy  kits for up to 75% off the original price, sometimes with extra decals , pe and resin sets inside.

Squadron sometimes has sales with prices 30-70% off regular sticker prices. I have picked up $40 resin detail sets for $8, decal sets for .50 and so on.

I have a "digital stash" and a "physical stash". For the digital I keep a list of subjects/kits I want to build in a spreadsheet (It lists around 100 kits right now). I keep track of prices and availability of the kit as well as any accessories I want for the kit. When I see a kit I want on sale or at a good price on Ebay, I will buy it. For my physical stash I usually have 15 - 20 sitting on the shelf. I tend to build 10-12 kits a year so the present stash of 18 I have now allows me to pick and choose what I feel like doing next. This also allows me to buy the kits and slowly buy any accesories (PE, resin, decals, etc.) over time. When I am not working on a kit I research the kits I have already for pictures and reference material.

The nice thing about having the digital stash is when the family wants to know what gift to get me for a birthday, Father's day, Xmas, etc. I just give them a print out of the list.

All of the above!

plasticjunkie

 

Squadron sometimes has sales with prices 30-70% off regular sticker prices. I have picked up $40 resin detail sets for $8, decal sets for .50 and so on.

 

castelnuovo

The cure may come unexpectadly, like having a new baby (due date VERY soon ) so the bug goes into temporary remission. As for now...must...build...somethig...

Temporary? Sure, it will be temporary once the new bundle of joy comes into the world, he/she will take tons of any free time you may have away for at least the first couple years or so. I, and any father will tell you so. Get used to it. LOL! You won't be doing any building for a long while; especially when the mommy has the says so first. LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

Congrats on the new baby!!

There is no point.

There just is!

Seriously, the other guys have already laid out the reasons. lol.

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

...............yes...............

I have friends that literally have 1000 pluss kits in their stach, sometimes 4 or more if the same kit....all good and well for them is it "floats their boat"

Here is how I see it (for my personal veiw)

a. with something like that they will have to become 350 years old to build it all.....maye that us the plan

b. it takes up a heck of alot of storage space

c. where to put it all when it gets built

d. the advance in model tech it so rapid these days that I can not see myself building and strugling with a 1970's kit if there is a much nicer and better kit on the market now......maybe I am just a lazy modler who knows.

My stach I try to keep at between 15 and 20 unbuilt models of different scales and tipes. I also try and buy at the ipms meetings where a bargain can be had.

Theuns

I know one guy who has over 3,000 kits in his stash, all 1/72 scale aircraft.  and yes I saw the very neatly organized stash.

I wouldn't say there is a point to having a stash, the stash is a result of other things.  For me, it's a case of, "Your eyes are bigger than your belly, son".  I see a kit and think about building it, how cool it will look, how much fun I will have, and I buy it.  I don't think about where I will store the kit, where I will display the finished model, or if I will ever get to building it.  It's actually a pretty dysfunctional behavior, when I think about it.

And I have started thinking, over the past couple of years, of thinning my stash--a modest one, around 180 kits--getting back some of the money I've spent, and getting the kits to modelers who will actually build them, that's what kits are for, after all.

I'm not thinning my grey army, though.  I can get through all of the castings and kits I have in my toy soldier stash.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

tempestjohnny

  

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

 

Sprue-ce Goose

...............yes...............

 

I will be joining, my meeting are the first Sunday of the month at 2:00PM, Cincinnati Scale Modelers, local IPMS chapter!

tempestjohnny

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

 

 

 

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

 

We already have. We are all being assesed since the moment we joined

I've lost track of how many are in my stash, though I'm pretty sure it was over 1,000 at one time. 

I mainly buy subjects that either caught my eye as a kid, because I had a history with a particular subject or because I simply love the particular aircraft. (Re: 30 F-14 Tomcats).

Biggest addition in recent years was my wild idea to build a 1/72 carrier so of course I had to buy the air wing first! Oops. 

So right now I've got two big boxes of kits set aside I'll get around to selling ...... Sooner or later. 

ther is a point in stash.Just do not stash to much until you move out of mom and pop's house and get your own place.

I've always kept a stash for many different options. I'd buy armour or artillery and get the proper figures to go with it to beable to build a dio. Or I'd get 2 to 3 ships or planes at once so I'd have them. At my best my stash totaled alittle over 500. Keeping a stash is what we do as modellers....it's in our blood 

Bish

 

tempestjohnny

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

 

 

 

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

 

 

 

 

We already have. We are all being assesed since the moment we joined

 

Yup... from the moment we opened up a tube of glue or a bottle of glue. Once that's done, you're far too gone to be rehabilitated. LOLOL!!!

BlackSheep214,

Well put.....couldn't have said it better

When you're sitting on a nice stash, you can chuckle when you read someone desperately searching for an out of production kit that you may have one or two of, and them having to pay evilBay big bucks to get one.

Anyways...everytime I think about slowing down my kit purchases because I will have to live to at least 150 to build what I got now, some manufacturer comes out with another must have model. Like the 1/32 T-28 Trojan.

Theuns

I have friends that literally have 1000 pluss kits in their stach, sometimes 4 or more if the same kit....all good and well for them is it "floats their boat"

Here is how I see it (for my personal veiw)

a. with something like that they will have to become 350 years old to build it all.....maye that us the plan

 

I have high hopes for developing medical technologies. 

tempestjohnny

 

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

 

 

 

Does that mean we all have to join P.A. Plasticohlics Anonymous

 

Just think about it: in what other things in this world is the word "stash" used?

You got booze, you got pot, you got porn... need I say more?

lol

If you have a big enough stash, the old lady will never know when you add another one to it.  Keeps peace in the house.