I Really Need to Reduce my Stash

Mach71,

You know, if you straightened out the kits you could fit maybe 25% MORE on the shelves?  

The photos I posted were taken in my living room with all the kits pulled out of the bedroom, so I'm not really organized.    I had to sort them to get an idea of what I had.

Mine are very well organized.  I have all mine set up by armor, aircraft,  spacecraft, and ships.  Then I have them divided into manufacters.  So all my Tamiya, Dragon, Bronco, AFV Club , Meng, Tasca, Hasegawa, are together in the same shelves.  They are nicely stacked, even and orderly not helter skelter.  It looks like a store.  If I can figure out how the camera works....

Greysnake,

We seem to have a good deal of kit overlap!

GreySnake

Here is mine I’m in the middle of reorganizing the closet so these pictures aren’t as neat as I’d like.  

 

There are a few armor kits not shown being used for reference for other builds.

 

 

I really think I have too many figure kits and this is just the plastic figures.

Here’s the bin of resin.

Almost forgot about this one.

 

There are a couple of aircraft models somewhere in the closet as well.  

 

Wow! Way too organized!

Very nice!

GreySnake

 

Here’s the bin of resin.

There are a couple of aircraft models somewhere in the closet as well.  

 

That Female sniper by Wolf, what is the name of that kit?  Searching for Wolf resin female sniper on Ebay certainly did not give me the results I was expecting, but they were certainly fun to look at 

RG, I was noticing the same thing looking at what you had in 1/35. I’m particularly envious that you have the Meng A7V and Fine Molds Type 61.

 

Glamdring

 That Female sniper by Wolf, what is the name of that kit?  Searching for Wolf resin female sniper on Ebay certainly did not give me the results I was expecting, but they were certainly fun to look at 

 

The figure number is WSH 15 and name is Red Army Female Sniper Prokhorovka 1943  (Not sure why they say Prokhorovka as there’s nothing linking this figure to Kursk.) made by Hornet & Wolf. Originally this figure was made by Sovereign 2000 a British company I’ve never heard of.  I’m assuming Hornet bought them at some point and reissued this figure.  

 

I wouldn’t recommend this figure unless you really want it. The detail is soft for whatever reason the right arm is molded in white metal along with the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle. I did a quick test fit and nothing lines up.

 

The head on the figure is very soft looking and doesn’t look right.

 

The hair on the back of the head doesn’t have detail at all.

 

Other problems are the camouflage coverall doesn’t look baggy enough at least to me. They were meant to go over the regular uniform. Also factor in till late in the war uniforms were only made for males and female uniforms didn’t start showing up till late 1944 I believe. So if anything the coveralls should be much baggier. The figure should also have a side cap on as well or the hood on the coveralls pulled up.

 

The Mosin-Nagant seems to be very oversized and poorly detailed when compared to a Zvezda version.

 

Zvezda has a 1/35 Soviet Sniper Team set that has one female figure and is widely available and I’d suggest picking that up over the Wolf figure. 

 

Apologies for the longwinded reply.

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No, thank you GreySnake for that long winded reply!  Saves me the hassle of tracking down a subpar OOP kit, and overspending on it...  

While pulling my modeling "stuff" to the center of the basement during my remodel, I thought it a good time to try and get some photos of most of my stash. Perhaps in between the phases of the remodel I will pull together and organize the stash, till then this is how it looks. And I already sold off over 100 kits at a regional hobby show last year. I think I could sell a few more and still not miss them.

May larger scale car kits with a smattering of aircraft and other stuff too.

There are 11 U-Haul boxes some shown here which are full of models as well.

More auto kits.

A few ships with my 1:18 cars.

Some of my armor stuff, most are still in the U-Haul boxes.

Ben