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Estimate how many models you've built in your life

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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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Posted by djrost_2000 on Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:53 PM
RAF, 1/35 figures with assembly count.Smile [:)]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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