How long to build your entire collection?

Tryin' to cash in on MY idea, eh, Yann?

osher wrote:

I tried counting my stash, I'm upto 250+, and maybe half way.  As I build maybe 5-6 a year, I might be a wee while.  However, I have set myself a goal to have as many done by the Spring as I can (as I plan to move then).  Let me see, hmm 35 weeks, 2 models a day, that should be perfect!  Er, there is a flaw to this plan though... Actually, I have a few stashes, as follows: Long term.  Those which I will do, one day, but require a lot more skill than I can now muster Medium term.  To be done, but not in the next month or so Short term.  To be started within a month Workbench.  Actually started, or about to be.

Hey, I can help you out at getting rid of the stash before spring, just send me a couple and I'll build them.

I tried counting my stash, I'm upto 250+, and maybe half way.  As I build maybe 5-6 a year, I might be a wee while.  However, I have set myself a goal to have as many done by the Spring as I can (as I plan to move then).  Let me see, hmm 35 weeks, 2 models a day, that should be perfect!  Er, there is a flaw to this plan though...

Actually, I have a few stashes, as follows:
Long term.  Those which I will do, one day, but require a lot more skill than I can now muster
Medium term.  To be done, but not in the next month or so
Short term.  To be started within a month
Workbench.  Actually started, or about to be.

Let's see, at my current rate of building..............uh, how old was Methuselah?!?!?!?!?

thehannaman wrote:

Don't get me wrong.... I love my stash.  Sometimes it a huge stress reliever just sitting in front of it and basking in all it's glory.  I think about all the fun and relaxation concentrated on those shelves.  I have every intention of building every one of those kits, because, otherwise I would not have bought them.  I have a project or idea for almost every kit.  My problem is I have to start building faster than I buy.  And if I don't get through them all before I hit that big Hobbystore in the Sky, that's what my son is for. No biggy.

sometimes just the opposite for me i look at the stash and it stresses me out.

 too many-choices and i keep buying but i only buy 1-3 a month for the last 6-8 months prior to that it was 8-13 a month

then the way i build ..... most people find strange

i build tanks till i get tired of them then cars  till i get tired etc

and the other thing i do is gather up all the same type of kits  say jap zeroes

and build the 6 at once it speeds up the building time to the time it takes for 4  thus reducing the stash at a faster rate

Don't get me wrong.... I love my stash.  Sometimes it a huge stress reliever just sitting in front of it and basking in all it's glory.  I think about all the fun and relaxation concentrated on those shelves.  I have every intention of building every one of those kits, because, otherwise I would not have bought them.  I have a project or idea for almost every kit.  My problem is I have to start building faster than I buy. 

And if I don't get through them all before I hit that big Hobbystore in the Sky, that's what my son is for.

No biggy.

Wee hee!!!!!

rudy_102 wrote:

If you guys are mad at the size of your stashes, I'll take what I can get . I'm kinda serious 'bout that.

haha, it's more of a love-hate thing between me n my stash.  i am sure we'll work it out eventually.

If you guys are mad at the size of your stashes, I'll take what I can get . I'm kinda serious 'bout that.

It means you're on your way to needing to rent a space at the self-storage place off the interstate so you can keep the huge stash you're gonna have by the time you retire.

I build about 5 models a year (at least, that is my target) and have a stash of 100 kits (okay, I stopped counting at 100, it's probably 110). Or about 20 years of works, but its best to add 5 extra years for the more complex kits (vac forms etc.)

So, I have got 25 years of work/hobby ahead of me. Since I am 27, my whole stash should be fhinished before I retire! Does this mean I can buy more?

I average about five or less models a year. It would probably take me about two or less years to finish my entire collection, which is small. I have no plans on buying any new kits until I’m down to my last two kits-- unless I find something interesting and it’s only available for a limited time. I'll probably end up breaking my own rule and buy a  kit that does not interest but has nice box art. I did it last week. lol

 

Well it would take me maybe a week.  LOL I sold a LOT of my models on ebay to get some cash up to buy modeling took and things I needed.

Bud

Hi all,

It's questions like this that bring into focus one's problems in life. I haven't done any modeling since the middle of June because (1) I'm spending too much time on the computer, (2) my work area is too cluttered for me to work on a model, and (3) the summer has been pretty busy.

Having realized that, I plan on cleaning up the work area tonight, so I can start a new kit tonight. My most recent two builds have each taken more than a year to complete. Partially, I think, because I didn't spend a lot of time per week on them, and partially because I was learning new techniques and trying new things as I went along.

At that rate, it'll be 20 years or so before I finish my stash.

I've been working on a wooden ship model, but that is very slow going because it's a different world in a lot of ways from building styrene airplane kits!

I've also noticed a disturbing trend in myself to want to make every build a build of a lifetime. So I've scaled down my expectations for the kit I'll be starting tonight. I'm going to build it almost out of the box with a scratch-built instrument panel being the only non-standard part of the kit.

My plan is to focus on doing a great job on assembly and painting. I want to finish it by the PennCon model show at the end of September.

If I can build two to three kits a year, it'll only take me six to ten years to finish my models.

We'll see how that goes.

Regards,

Well, I build 2 or 3 a week, on average. As the glue or paint or whatever is setting on one, I do another. It takes sometimes about 2-3 weeks to get one finished, but I just mostly do OOB stuff without all the extra detailing. So normally, I have anywhere from 3-10 kits in various stages of completion at any one time.

Of course, even at that pace, if I work steadily at it, I could probably finish what I have stashed now in 4 or 5 years, probably more.

qmiester wrote:

At my current production rate (2 or 3 kits per year), between 216 to 325 years.  And I just dragged 17 more kits home from the Nats.

You'll have to hire peoples to build them!!!!!!!   Or perhaps they find a remedy to this sickness?????

I'd say somewhere between 5-7 years. I only have 30something kits in the stash, but many are bound for fairly complex and large projects...so...

at  2 a month about 26-27 yrs

that is if on the seventh day i rest

1 year at a rate of 1 in every 2 months. So far this year I managed to build 5 models in 8 months so I think 1 in every 2 months is possible.

At my current production rate (2 or 3 kits per year), between 216 to 325 years.  And I just dragged 17 more kits home from the Nats.

Worse then I thought at my build rate eleven years, and thats building four a month

At my lifetime average rate, less than a year.  At my current rate, NEVER.  I'll have died, and the world will have degraded into some sort of oilless, MadMax, post-apocalyptic chaos before paint falls on half of these mostly built vehicles.  I might start all of them...but finish....

I have over 300 kits in my basement and I am still buying more stuff.  I need a professional help to stop this bad habit.  I'm hoping that my kids (I don't have one yet, but currently working on it) will be helping me to build some of my kits.

BlackBird wrote:

Considering I have built nothing in the past 10 years, and have some 300 kits.......I will never build my kit collection. i would like to change that however.....wouldn't we all. I finish my masters program in december, maybe life will slow down enough to build then.

what kind of masters are you getting?!  300/0 is UNDEFINED!!!  =oP 

Considering I have built nothing in the past 10 years, and have some 300 kits.......I will never build my kit collection. i would like to change that however.....wouldn't we all. I finish my masters program in december, maybe life will slow down enough to build then.

Well, it's been over a year since I've completed a kit due to some life transitions, but at the rate I was building before the hiatus, about 9 years.

I seem to average about one a month so it would take me about two years to get through my stash.

I'm with the majority here, at least 20 years at my rate. I never stop buying but I seem to slow down in building. Not to mention the advancements in this hobby that I continue to chase and learn. Someone told me once when you get older and you think you got it all by the nads, watch out the end is near. Maybe thats why I keep a few/too many in the stash.  I just don't want to see it end...............stay

Well i've only got 12 kits in my stash and the way iam building 1 to 2 a month it shouldnt take to long to burn through, my goal is to have a hobby shop stash that way i cant say iam broke

It'd probably take me about a year, or maybe (probably) closer to 6 months. I work on multiple models at one time, so all my kits are in progress to some degree.