Kit Acquisition--Informal Poll

1. Went thru a feast period after  I came back to the hobby and before kids entered college. Stash stands at 2.3 lifetimes. Nowadays I just buy books/references and the occasional super-sale or release I cannot pass (ie, Encore's Olympia).

2. Wait wait wait. I have sucha huge stash, I can wait for a new release of an old subject, etc. Also I wait for "premium editions" (ie Academy's 1:350 modern ship releases), build reviews, etc.

3-4. SprueBrothers (their Dragon armor specials are ridiculous), Luckymodel (PE, holiday sales; cant beat their Trumpeter, HobbyBoss, and other brand prices); sometims Dragonusalonline and Squadron (green sales only).

And i always get an armful of stuff at the Danbury AMPS show; rarely kits though.

 

wbill76

You did Andy. Please see Herr Manstein for ticket and accomodation information.

A Gestapo staff car should be at your house within the week.  Please don't offer any resistance to the 4 burly guys in the ankle-long leather greatcoats and feddoras...After being stripped of all of your personal articles and delousing you'll be put in a cattle-car on a train to the East...if you survive that week- long journey sleeping in hay and on cow-patties you'll arrive in Kharkov just in time for the Red Army encirclement...your first activity will be a mine-clearing operation near the southern outskirts of the city....

...Congratulations...

Bill if you think you have a list, you should see the one Dupes takes to the shows ...looks more like a LHS stock inventory sheet ...LOl

I don't have many in the stash and mostly started ones.

I try to buy most of my kits from vendors at shows and may buy around 5-10 kits a year. I also buy from a dealer, Alpenflage Hobbies.

I don't go for the newest release and only buy what catches my eye or if I find ref pics of some cool wrecks. i plan how I would wreck or rust the model before buying it. If it's a newer kit then I may get it just to do a review of the kit or painting and weathering products on my forum.

That's about it for me.

Manstein's revenge

 

wbill76:

 

You did Andy. Please see Herr Manstein for ticket and accomodation information.

 

A Gestapo staff car should be at your house within the week.  Please don't offer any resistance to the 4 burly guys in the ankle-long leather greatcoats and feddoras...After being stripped of all of your personal articles and delousing you'll be put in a cattle-car on a train to the East...if you survive that week- long journey sleeping in hay and on cow-patties you'll arrive in Kharkov just in time for the Red Army encirclement...your first activity will be a mine-clearing operation near the southern outskirts of the city....

 

...Congratulations...

Good thing I won't be home for a week... off to New Orleans for spring break.  Good luck finding me on Bourbon Street.

deafpanzer

 

Manstein's revenge:

 

 

wbill76:

 

You did Andy. Please see Herr Manstein for ticket and accomodation information.

 

A Gestapo staff car should be at your house within the week.  Please don't offer any resistance to the 4 burly guys in the ankle-long leather greatcoats and feddoras...After being stripped of all of your personal articles and delousing you'll be put in a cattle-car on a train to the East...if you survive that week- long journey sleeping in hay and on cow-patties you'll arrive in Kharkov just in time for the Red Army encirclement...your first activity will be a mine-clearing operation near the southern outskirts of the city....

 

...Congratulations...

 

 

Good thing I won't be home for a week... off to New Orleans for spring break.  Good luck finding me on Bourbon Street.

I love NOLA. I went there only once with my wife on and coming back from a cruise out of Miami. Didn't get to do as much as I'd like though, but I'll have to make another trip there.

1) I haven't bought any kits last year.  I guess that with the pace I'm currently building at, my stash of 130 kits will be one day completed by my future grandchildren.

2) I usually wait a long time, mainly to get it cheaper.

3 & 4) I only buy online.  I used to buy them from Military Hobbies, but nowdays, mostly from E-Bay or from a forum buddy that wants to thin the herd.