How big is your stash?

Brhino

Wow, you guys are putting me to shame.  I can't imagine having 100+ unbuilt kits around.  I don't know how fast you guys build them but that would take me a lifetime to put together.  Do you expect you'll build them all, or do you acknowledge that there's more there than you'll ever get through? 

We don't build 'em fast enough.  That's one reason a stash grows-we buy more kits than we can reasonably build.

I bought kits with an eye towards completing theme builds.  For example, I have a bunch of 1/48 yellow-wings USN aircraft, for a "Yellow Wings" theme.  I have a bunch of airplane kits for a collection of every type of US aircraft used in the Battle of Midway (including a B-24 to finish as General Tinker's ill-fated Wake bomber).  I have another set of kits for a similar "Doomed at the Start" theme collection, USAAF airplanes in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked.  I've got the first 7 US aircraft carriers, except for the Langley, in 1/700.  And so on.

The only collection of kits I know I will finish is my Maschinen Krieger stash.  They're faster to build, and even at 1/20 scale, they're easier to display.

Wow!  I thought my stash of fewer than 30 was big!  Now I don't feel so bad.  

I don't have an exact count, but after 5 years of whittling it down I have spent the last 2 years replenishing my stash. Somewhere between 120 and 150 as an estimate. I  am slowing my replenishment purchases now (although I have one to pick up from LionHeart hobby in Kyle, Texas when I travel from Austin to San Antonio this Friday, who knows what I will add to that purchase while I am browsing their store). I actually don't expect to build them all.

Real G

Yeah...I think I may have a problem.  

And I have not taken any photos of the aircraft kits in the stash.    What time is it?  I think it's time to streamline the stash.

 

First part is to acknowledge the problem, second step is to seek help and I am here to help...for a small fee I'll be happy to help 

Real G

Nice little MaK stash there, too, Real G!  Gotta start building those!

the Baron

 

 

Real G

 

 

 

Nice little MaK stash there, too, Real G!  Gotta start building those!

 

I agree Baron, MaK is meant to be built and then dirtied up to high heaven!    So many good kits to choose from today, unlike the pre-1999 Great MaK Drought.  It's a great time to be alive!

Castelnuovo, bring a carboard box with you.  

LOL, you asked for it. Will be in Hawaii in November (I think you are in Hawaii)

PM me for a hobby shop tour of Oahu.

Not a very big stash, sold all my stuff a few years back (close to 400 unbuilt kits) and started getting back into it a couple years ago.

Real G

PM me for a hobby shop tour of Oahu.

 

Will do, as soon as I know where in Hawaii we will be. You know, we devided the organization: she plans and I pay 

I know somebody that at last count several years ago had over 3,000 unbuilt kits stored in a huge backyard shed on commercial grade shelves!! All aircraft in 1/72 scale, staked by aircraft variant. 

Im sure his stash has grown since then. 

North of 400. That's all I'm gonna admit to...

Tojo72

 

 

lurch

WOW I feel imbarrassed. thought I had alot. But all you guys have many more than I could imagine. I believe I have only 15 to 30 models kits. About 25 to 30 rc vehicles to either restore or build. Guess I am the little guy again. 

 

 

 

 

Just me but I would feel more embarrassed by having a few hundred kits that I would never build,I think you got the sweet spot where your at.

 

I think you got the sweet spot where your at.

I agree. That is where I'd like to be.

I have roughly 50. 30 or so are from my 1980s model phase. I dropped out of the hobby then restarted years later. I need to donate some from the old stash. I will never build them.