What is the point of a stash ?

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

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!

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.

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 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

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

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

 

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

Yeah... we're all plasticohlics.

There is no point.

There just is!

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

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!!

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.

 

All of the above!

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.

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.

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......

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

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

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.

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!!

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

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...

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.

 

Greg

Q:   What is the point of a stash?

A:    To annoy our wives or significant others.

 

ROFLMAO!!! So true...

Greg

Q:   What is the point of a stash?

A:    To annoy our wives or significant others.

  

If I knew I could get a kit I wanted when I wanted it at retail prices, I wouldn't have much of a stash. I got tired of seeing kits on the shelf, but them being hard to get when I actually wanted to build them. Now sometimes by the time I actually get around to building a kit, it has been re-issued a couple of times, but other times it hasn't.

I don't buy as an investment, but yes kits do go up in value with demand. Take the AMT 1984 GMC 4x4 pickup, or Dodge Little Red Express I snagged half a dozen or so of each of these when Walmart had $7 kits. Now if you go to ebay you find the LRE starting around $35, and the GMC about $50. I'm sure sooner or later Round 2 will re-issue these and the proces will drop to something more reasonable (probably $25-30 retail), but I still only paid $7 a piece for them. 

Prices also drop, I picked up a 1/2 dozen or so of the Ford C cab kits from an online wholesaler a few years back, and only paid $10 a kit. Those kits have been re-issued a few times since then, but never that cheap (typically $30-40 retail).  

Ultimately I have space for the stash, it doesn't cause fights, and I only buy when I can afford to. When money is tight, I can go "shopping" in the stash and it costs me nothing.

I used to think a stash was a terrible idea. Why buy a bunch of models that would take you thirty years to build? I have since changed my mind. Mainly I look  for the cheapest price of the kit I want. Then I try to find it cheaper.  I can't pass up a good deal on a kit I want, it's kinda a game for me, so that is how my stash is growing. I WILL build them all, eventually. 

Q:   What is the point of a stash?

A:    To annoy our wives or significant others.

Bish

  

the doog

 

Straycat1911

 

...check out what's being asked for the oop Testors B-2 bomber. $900.00!!! Are they on dope???

 

That's just called good old fashioned GREED. You find it in abundance on eBay...

 

Unfortunatly you find it all over the place, especially when somthing is rare or out of production. I have seen books that sold for £16 when in print and people trying to sell them for over 1,000.

 

I have been noticing the same thing about OOP books.

Local Half Price Books had a couple of out of print books about the history of the Luger Pistol and Luger pistol collector information  for almost $200.00 each. 

Don Stauffer

...............if I think I want to build it at all, I need to buy it while it is available, regardless of what I have on the bench during the period it is available.  ..........................

 

Thankfully, I have been able to obtain some OOP kits at local swap meets. Consequently, my stash has ballooned- though for less than what I would have paid retail. As I explained recently to someone: " I can't build it if I don't own it." 

the doog

 

Straycat1911

 

 

...check out what's being asked for the oop Testors B-2 bomber. $900.00!!! Are they on dope???

 

 

 

 

That's just called good old fashioned GREED. You find it in abundance on eBay...

 

 

Unfortunatly you find it all over the place, especially when somthing is rare or out of production. I have seen books that sold for £16 when in print and people trying to sell them for over 1,000.