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                        Estimate how many models you've built in your life

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                        djrost_2000
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Where the coyote howl, NH
                        Estimate how many models you've built in your life
                        Posted by djrost_2000 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:29 AM
                        For me it's probably about a modest 150 Big Smile [:D]

                        DJ
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:34 AM
                        Believe it or not, it's not that many. If you exclude miniatures, only about 50 or so. If miniatures and wargaming stuff is included, it is well over 1000 (just those requiring assembly). Depends on who you ask as to what counts or not.

                        demono69
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                        djrost_2000
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Where the coyote howl, NH
                        Posted by djrost_2000 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:41 AM
                        Ok, to clarify: model kits (plastic, wood, whatever) and scratchbuilt models count. Miniatures do not.

                        DJ
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                        Keyworth
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: NE Georgia
                        Posted by Keyworth on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:52 AM
                        Over 200
                        "There's no problem that can't be solved with a suitable application of high explosives"
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                        djrost_2000
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Where the coyote howl, NH
                        Posted by djrost_2000 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:45 AM
                        FINAL CLARIFICATION:

                        Just realized that there can be quite a lot of building in a miniature, so anything that is a "build" counts. Any model kit, scratchbuilt model, figure kit with assembly or significant figure modification counts as a build. A diorama may be comprised of multiple builds and therefore each sub-assembly counts as one.

                        Yes I've been partyingBig Smile [:D]

                        DJ
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                        Woody
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Third rock from the sun.
                        Posted by Woody on Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:55 AM
                        Around 600-650 including those I've built for others. If you include Starfleet Battles minatures you can bump that up to just under 1000. They all required assembly but were very simple to build.

                        " I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." --John Paul Jones
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                        djmodels1999
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: United Kingdom / Belgium
                        Posted by djmodels1999 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:59 AM
                        466 since I've been keeping records, that is since 1979, but there must have been around 150 to 200 more before that...

                        Domi
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:04 AM
                        I'd have to guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 kits. Started in the early 60s, stopped in the early 70s, & came back in the early 90s.
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                        U-96
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: United Kingdom
                        Posted by U-96 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:16 AM
                        Compared to you guys, so few I can name 'em! Tongue [:P]

                        as a kid...
                        1. Fairey Delta II 1/72 back in around 1982
                        2. incomplete Airfix BAC111 from around the same time

                        false start...
                        3. Airfix 88 Flak and SdKfz 7 in 1995
                        4. Italeri 1/35 PzIV H in 1995

                        now we're rolling... (within the last couple of years)
                        5. Airfix 1/72 FW190 D9
                        6. Revell 1/72 Eurofighter prototype
                        7. Revell 1/72 Bf110C
                        8. Fujimi 1/24 Renault Megane Coupe (workbench queen)
                        9. Revell 1/72 Hurricane IIb
                        10. Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hunter FGA9
                        11. Italeri/Zvezda 1/35 T-34 M1943
                        12. Hasegawa 1/72 F104-G (work in progress)
                        On the bench: 1/35 Dragon Sturmpanzer Late Recent: Academy 1/48 Bf-109D (Nov 06) Academy 1/72 A-37 (Oct 06) Revell 1/72 Merkava III (Aug 06) Italeri 1/35 T-26 (Aug 06)
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                        RAF120
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Exit 7a NJ Turnpike
                        Posted by RAF120 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:49 AM
                        In my 36 years I would have to guess at 250. It would be alot more if I add each 1/35 scale figures.
                        Do they count?
                        Trevor Where am I going and why am I in this handbasket?
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                        Prince of Styrene II
                        • Member since
                          September 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by Prince of Styrene II on Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:11 AM
                        This is going to be a hard one to think of. My first kit was at seven years old & I'm now in my 30's. Cars, planes, a few figures, lots of sci-fi... at least over 100, though I can't think of the specific number.

                        "Hold the weapons, Daddy. I'm going to go get my monkeys." The Dutchess of Styrene

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                        berny13
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Panama City, Florida, Hurricane Alley
                        Posted by berny13 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:40 AM
                        Somewhere around 300-350 kits. Built a lot of cars in the late 50's and early 60's. One a week.

                        Berny

                         Phormer Phantom Phixer

                        On the bench

                        TF-102A Delta Dagger, 32nd FIS, 54-1370, 1/48 scale. Monogram Pro Modeler with C&H conversion.  

                        Revell F-4E Phantom II 33rd TFW, 58th TFS, 69-260, 1/32 scale. 

                        Tamiya F-4D Phantom II, 13th TFS, 66-8711, 1/32 scale.  F-4 Phantom Group Build. 

                         

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:15 PM
                        In the last fourty years more the 100 but probably under two hundred.
                        The first 5 years at least 100.
                        I took 25 years off to raise a familly.
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                        djrost_2000
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Where the coyote howl, NH
                        Posted by djrost_2000 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:53 PM
                        RAF, 1/35 figures with assembly count.Smile [:)]
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 1:04 PM
                        About 250 since I started in 79, took a few years off to play with the bigger toys in the Army but that's my best guess. In high school I had over 60 planes just hanging from my ceailing. Alot more on shelves though. All were pretty much destroyed by mom trying to store them for me when I shipped off to basic. Oh well, guess I'll just have to rebuild them all.
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                        TANGO 1
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: A secret workshop somewhere in England
                        Posted by TANGO 1 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 3:20 PM
                        Wow! Some of you guys out there have been busy! Right now I'm working on kit No.41.
                        I still have about 50 waiting to be started! I look forward to 2028 when I can retire and get stuck into them.
                        Regards, Darren. C.A.G. FAA/USNFAW GB
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                        tigerman
                        • Member since
                          March 2003
                        • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
                        Posted by tigerman on Sunday, September 21, 2003 4:02 PM
                        Probably the 100 and up group. Unfortunately the vast majority are in the landfill. Currently I have 12 on display, of which a paltry 5 are worthy of this site(being nice to myself!). Maybe someday, if I can figure it out, I will post something of interest and pride. Smile [:)]

                        "It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it."R.E.Lee

                        http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

                         Eric 

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:35 PM
                        About 1 or 2 hundred when I was younger. Now I'm like U-69, I can name them all:

                        1:12 Chris craft cruiser
                        1:72 mahoghany tunnel hull racer
                        1:12 sailing dory
                        1:72 Bluenose

                        Working on in 1:48:
                        HMCS Chicoutimi (Flower class)
                        Foundation Franklin (ex Dainty class salvage tug)
                        Bluenose II
                        Halifax B-VII
                        1:18 Duesenberg

                        Researching:
                        HMS Admiral Gardiner
                        RCMP St. Roch

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                        Dwight Ta-ala
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Philippines
                        Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:39 PM
                        Just started late last year.

                        I have about less than thirty built. I gave away some so I can't really be sure.

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:39 PM
                        Probably about 100

                        Then again, those were when I was little and didn't paint them, and they were generally real cheap little kits.

                        I've built two since my return to the hobby a few months ago because I've been busy with work and college stuff.
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                        lizardqing
                        • Member since
                          July 2003
                        • From: Dahlonega, Georgia
                        Posted by lizardqing on Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:48 PM
                        I would be pushing it if I said 50. Built a good bit when I was a kid ,all of them as my lil brother recently came clean about got played with and disapeared to the trash when he broke something. Since then a few here and there till recently when I got into it pretty regular now that I can get a little more time to myself .
                        Chris The Scale Firehouse The Lizard's Workshop
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:50 PM
                        Just short of a billion I'm guessin'
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 22, 2003 7:26 AM
                        Pushin 200 I reckon.
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                        paulnchamp
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: Warwick, RI
                        Posted by paulnchamp on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:26 PM
                        Another member of the "200" club. . . but I'm looking to move upSmile [:)]
                        Paul "A man's GOT to know his limitations."
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:17 AM
                        About fifty so far. Unfortunately the quantity is required to get (some kind of ) quality. Many of them I'm not satisfied with. But this is all we do for fun, isn't it? A bloody fun. ha-ha
                        kriszme
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:19 AM
                        About fifty so far. Unfortunately the quantity is required to get (some kind of ) quality. Many of them I'm not satisfied with. But this is all we do for fun, isn't it? A bloody fun. ha-ha
                        kriszme
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                        nkm1416@info.com.ph
                        • Member since
                          September 2003
                        • From: Philippines
                        Posted by nkm1416@info.com.ph on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:02 AM
                        Around 150. I have more than 200 kits still unassembled and I would like to build them all if I'll have the display space.

                        Nestor
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:27 PM
                        Probably 400 to 500 but most of those were in the 70's when I was a teenager. Since 1980 - 2 - in 1987. Not a one since. But looking to change that starting the first of the year(New Years resolution). Problem is I'm an obsessive -compulsive research hound and that quite often kills a project before it gets started.
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                        Helo H-34
                        • Member since
                          September 2003
                        • From: Australia
                        Posted by Helo H-34 on Friday, September 26, 2003 2:36 AM
                        I've built 12 -1/32 scale model kits.
                        13 -1/48 kits.
                        118 - 1/72 kits.( mostly U.S. military helicopters and modern fighter jets).
                        I still have 57 - 1/72 kits to build.

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                        South Aussie
                        • Member since
                          August 2003
                        • From: South Australia
                        Posted by South Aussie on Friday, September 26, 2003 4:38 AM
                        At a rough estimate I would say about 300+ over about 37 years of modelling.

                        Wayne I enjoy getting older, especially when I consider the alternative.
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