Is this a start of something serious????

Welcome to plastiholics anonymous!

Since getting "serious" about the scale modeling hobby I've learned that it's a lot easier to build my stash than it is to build the kits. I think I'm now in Phase 2, in which I am determined to finish all the ones I started before buying any more....but there's a new kit that may not ever be reissued. and look at the price of that old one on eBay, and you get the picture.

You've got a reasonable stockpile of nice kits - hope you have a lot of peaceful benchtime building them!

I once went over to a guy's apartment after he advertised on C-List that he had some models for sale. He went to an estate liquidation where he got a deal that was just too good to be true.

Over 3000 kits. They were stacked in his hall, his living room, his dining nook.

He introduced me to his wife, who wouldn't look up...

Makes you wonder who the poor soul was that he got them from.

Every time I try to count mine, I loose count. I started building at 6 and I'm 78 now and still building and "acquiring" more. At the rate I'm building, I have enough to keep at it for at least the next 200 years. Guess I'll just keep hoping that there is a great workbench in the sky and the boss will let me bring the stash with me.

Jim  

Please sit down as I have something to tell you,..... Yes, it is serious. 

Anytime someone chooses to gather, hoard, collect, or what ever the current term is, everything else is hopeless, completely hopeless I say.

Some have recommended a modelers diet. That consists of choosing only one subject and selectively buying within it. What you are doing cannot be cured, just ask the many others here who have been "collecting" for decades. 

Others have sunk into a modelers syndrom. When  this occurs, the modeler will often choose to work on a kit versus visiting (non-modelling) friends ,and then call it "therapy". 

I have seen where even shock therapy does not work. That is when the modeler dives "all-in" and makes some high dollar, large quantity purchases. The shock occurs when thier spouse see's the bill or they realize they spent thier lunch money and have to fast for a few days. 

Treatment or therapy does not help. The only treatment that can console a "collector" of model kits, is to treat themselves to another (kit).

Hi, my name is Ben, and I am a like minded model collector..... (Hi Ben).... 

Not serious yet.....noticed I didn't see any floaty things or flappy wing things, so there might be hope for him yet, but appears to be fading fast.

*edit*  my apologies, on closer look, there are 4 of the flappy wing things......alas all hope is gone.

Don't do it,buy only what you can build,there will always be a bigger and better version of what you have in your stash

Looks good,I got around 30 myself

GMorrison

Amateur... call back when you get to 100. Nice models.

 

LOL!

Amateur... call back when you get to 100. Nice models.

I'm sorry there is no other way to put this, but the infection is already started and there is no know cure. :)

Must join plastic anonymous before it get out of control................ 

German Armour

Well, I must be getting somewhere...

It has to start somewhere.

Didn't mean in any way to belittle your collection. It's more like..."Seek help now, before it gets completely out of control...."

Well, I must be getting somewhere...

It has to start somewhere.

A closet shelf is nothing. Some of us have stashes that have their own room....