I don’t. I love box art and keep empty boxes. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can keep doing so. I keep my stash and empty boxes (a total of about 100) in a closet, but storage space is running out.
I have a few, old AURORA and HAWK boxes from kits long built and discarded during moves but saved the boxes for reuse. I have also saved kit boxes from other manufacturers and am slowly trimming empty boxes for faming sometime in the future- provided I have wall space.
Unfortunately, assembled kits and my research library have eaten up a lot of space.[^o)]
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Sure wish I had saved other model kit boxes but it appears Round2 Models is giving me a second chance by re-issuing kits from my " yoot " , as Cousin Vinny might say.[whstl]
I usually don’t, but I have purchased some kits that have some really nice box art. I’m thinking of cutting the box so the edges are gone, and then placing the art in a frame for display.
i had perhaps a thous from the 60’s on up i cut them along the edges to fold them up for space but a flood a couple of yrs ago turned them into a pile of muk
I have kept many of the tops, flattened out for easier storage, but I think I’m going to throw them out next time I think of it. Damned clutter will overwhelm ya!
I guess I’ll flatten out the tops and store them. I absolutely love Tamiya & Hasegawa box art.
No I don’t, and for a very basic reason : space !
I live in a very small house, and every shelf space is heavily monitored either by my wife or me. Besides a few large and robust boxes that I can re-use, I throw them all in my cardboard recycle bin.
I’m already lucky to have a tiny area in my basement for my stash, so no place to keep empty boxes.
But I keep all my instruction booklets though.
Sure do.
Yes,right in the recycling bin
I’ll keep the real good ones like Hasagawa and others and maybe put them on the wall. I do horde my instructions though.
I don’t. Another reason why… excessive amount of empty kit boxes stored has a potential to be a fire hazard. Not worth it. Recycle them instead.
I keep the instructions in case someone else might need a copy but the boxes go in the recycling. Just don’t have the room.
I cut the sides off of the tops and put them in a large envelope with the instructions.
I use one of each aircraft type as the Spares Box for that type. I save one of each box art by cutting the ends and sides off and putting those in the bottom of the Spares Box.
I get rid of all but one copy of each set of instructions on the purchase date, though. I also save those after the build, but I try to only have one set of each.
My unbuilt kit collection is a true “builder’s collection”,it is almost worthless to a kit collector. Nothing is shrink-wrapped, the decals are all in decal keepers, the instructions are in a file cabinet (with dupes discarded),and if I bought a kit for some specific part in that box, that part is in a baggie in the spare parts box for that aircraft type.
I have to say,having all your Crusader spares in a box with a Crusader on the spine sure speeds up the “parts search”.
Rex
tarnship that sounds so organized and great
Well, it “is until it isn’t”,If I think I have something, and it is not in the Skyhawk spares box,then every other box that it might be in is a “wrong box”. And haha, we all know what searching in “wrong places” means,it means you can’t skip any because that might be where it is. I do have a “seats box” and a few “weapons boxes” and etc,so the search isn’t as bad as it could be.
I once sold a used model for about $5 plus shipping, the guy that bought it was a nice guy,and emailed me to tell me that he had a full box of seats, weapons, wheels, masks, and decals for the model and asked “did you intend for this?”. I got the aftermarket parts right out of everything after that so it wouldn’t happen again. (and I let him keep the goodies, it wasn’t his fault)
Storing the flat box art is not that hard,and I agree that I wouldn’t store empty boxes intact, space just costs too much these days. (plus, Anne might think they are part of the stash, reducing the number of kits I could still buy without fussing at me)
Rex
Yup. Use some of the boxes to store my built kits.
For now I do save boxes. I realize the day will come when I have to get rid of them. To save some space I place smaller boxes inside larger boxes. Also some boxes have a crease near the corners that allow them to be folded flat. I don’t expect newer kit boxes to ever be of any value but I like to sometimes look at them.
I also pitch box but keep instructions
I remember the Revell kits with the box art advertised as “suitable for framing” back in the 60’s. I kept a few thumbtacked to my wall back then.
These days I pitch the boxes when I’m done. Mostly because I don’t have the space and secondly because most of the current boxes are so thin and flimsy compared to kits back in the 60’s.
I do keep all of my instruction sheets, with most of them in large three-ring binders.
Mark