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 .
Just short of a billion I’m guessin’
Pushin 200 I reckon.
Another member of the “200” club. . . but I’m looking to move up[:)]
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
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
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
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.
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.
At a rough estimate I would say about 300+ over about 37 years of modelling.
I stopped counting at 600. I was about 35 then. I’m 54 now and average about two models a month. I have about 11 projects on the bench right now. Mostly for my customers. Once and a while I build one for the pure enjoyment for myself.
Well building since the 60’s. Then of course we didn’t have any distractions like our kids do now. Like the internet.
I say on again off again, planes, cars and ships with a couple of sci-fi all toll about 200, (Have that much stashed in the closet). Have averaged 7 builds a year with at least 5 in progress as they rotate off the workbench.
Chuck
Fly Navy
Geez, I don’t know…somewhere between 500 and 1,000, I’d guess!
And out of all those, there are only about 20 or so I’d post pix of.
The vast majority of those models were done in my modeling youth, when I could pump out a model every week!
Ditto for me too. Only I remember the day I had $20 and bought 4 Monogram 1/48 airplanes (1 was a P-38, another was a P-61, I don’t remember the other 2). And I put all 4 together in 2 days. Boy did I have a lot to learn!!!
J-Hulk, I 'd guess that the majority were built before you met your fiance?..That’s the end?..LOL. Just teasing. It’s Saturday night and I’m bored; the wife is out with her parents. House to myself! [}:)]
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
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It’s Saturday night and I’m bored; the wife is out with her parents. House to myself! [}:)]
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I’ve still got 12 beers left (I’ve had a “few” so far). come on over.
Since I’ve been doing this since 1953, probably in the neighborhood of 1500. If you count the number that got started but didn’t get finished for one reason or another, would probably be a lot higher. Of course, back in the my teens and twenties, thought nothing about working five nights a week and all day Sunday on my models.
I’m in my 40’s (41 to be exact) and that’s what I do!!!
Well, since i started 2 years ago i´ve built 8 aircraft 1/72 scale all about WWII,
i´m still developing my skils and i dont consider my self a good modeler, i just love to sit down a bit and work on it to relax from work. I do it slowly and paciently
Last year I did 14. Counting what I help my students build, that would be over 25. I have done all of this after 10 years out of model building.
This past year has been a hard year for me and my family, with some very dark days.
I restore vintage kits, so it takes much longer. My goal is build the model like it was my last. Make it a work of art.
Some model builders just don’t get me and my passion for my model art. In some model groups on the web im the out guy, keep Dale out he’s to much for us! Don’t let him post his models on our site.To me when you take a model that is forty years old and give in a new life, when you restore it to 100% vintage, thats prue passion for model building, prue passion for art. I sometimes have buy 5 vintage kits to get one kit with all the parts. The price can for $20.00 - $100.00 per kit.
When you give your life to art as I have done, most of the time you are alone in your own world. I have told the kids that I have worked with over the years “Make sure you want your art it’s a hard life”! It’s a lonely life!
It’s sad to say that my work is never in any model shows, only a few guys restore vintage Aurora models. I build them and post them on my website. Everyday I look to see the hits on the website, some days are good others are bad. I fear that some day I will wake up and the world of Aurora models will be over, gone just like so many other things. A part of what was once good in the USA is gone.
I have been thinking about some day selling models, but how do you put a price on ones ART? My talent is worth more then what most would pay for a 100% vintage Aurora model. I have forty years as a visual artist, I have done some things in art that others dream about or can’t understand.
I build for me and what I like, pure passion, prue ART! No big numbers at years end. Like it or leave it!
Dale’s Model Art
http://community.webshots.com/user/dales_model_art