Just me but I would feel more embarrassed by having a few hundred kits that I would never build,I think you got the sweet spot where your at.
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Thanks TOJO. Most of my kits are from the 70’s and 80’s that I inhereted from my dad passing. Cars trucks planes and I think 2 ships. I plan on building them. Just life is in the way at the moment and I am still workoing on my shop for building. I will definately post photos when I start them . This site has been a fantastic insperation on getting all that done.
About 20 years ago, I was worried about the 20 kits I had in the stash, but that has ballooned up to almost 90 kits and then I retired from work. I now have 75 kits in my stash plus untold counts of detail kits, paints and spare and extra parts.
I keep it small, part of the fun for me is to go to the LHS or borwse the on-line stores. 2-3 kits max. Currently I have only 1 box and one WIP.
Can we do a Secret Santa where we just send kits? I’d be on board.
My rationale for the stash I have is. At this point of my life I have the disposable income to buy kits. In 10 or so years when I retire I probably won’t. So I’ll buy now.
Tempestjohnny, that was my rationale for creating my stash along with the reason that I was hoping to get my three kids into modeling eventually. Well, I’m two years into my retirement, all three kids tried modeling but didn’t stick with it, and my stash has grown into 4 digits! My buying has slowed down now but I still have a smile on my face. When the pandemic started I had lots of kits to choose from to build and there’s never been a boring day of modeling.
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Can we do a Secret Santa where we just send kits? I’d be on board.
This is a terrific idea.
I have about 30. Mostly 1/48 aircraft. I have given a few away. When I started in this hobby about 3 years ago I didn’t understand the large stash thing. I was only going to have 3 or 4 and build one, buy one. Now I get it. I like the reasearch, build videos, and looking at completed models here, and ultimately getting that kit. It’s nice to have many options when inspiration hits me.
I think hundreds of kits is like another hobby. Some guys like to collect. A guy in my club has something like 10,000. He’s a collector. He’s also a very sick man.
About 50 or so.
Mine stopped growing a while ago. There’s a good 300+ kits in there so that is more than for me, more than enough for a lifetime if I can get to be 400 years old at the slow pace I build. My problem is that I start with an OOB build mentality and branch out to scratch build additional details complicating the build.
We don’t build 'em fast enough. That’s one reason a stash grows-we buy more kits than we can reasonably build.
I bought kits with an eye towards completing theme builds. For example, I have a bunch of 1/48 yellow-wings USN aircraft, for a “Yellow Wings” theme. I have a bunch of airplane kits for a collection of every type of US aircraft used in the Battle of Midway (including a B-24 to finish as General Tinker’s ill-fated Wake bomber). I have another set of kits for a similar “Doomed at the Start” theme collection, USAAF airplanes in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked. I’ve got the first 7 US aircraft carriers, except for the Langley, in 1/700. And so on.
The only collection of kits I know I will finish is my Maschinen Krieger stash. They’re faster to build, and even at 1/20 scale, they’re easier to display.
Wow! I thought my stash of fewer than 30 was big! Now I don’t feel so bad. [H]
I don’t have an exact count, but after 5 years of whittling it down I have spent the last 2 years replenishing my stash. Somewhere between 120 and 150 as an estimate. I am slowing my replenishment purchases now (although I have one to pick up from LionHeart hobby in Kyle, Texas when I travel from Austin to San Antonio this Friday, who knows what I will add to that purchase while I am browsing their store). I actually don’t expect to build them all.
First part is to acknowledge the problem, second step is to seek help and I am here to help…for a small fee I’ll be happy to help [:)]
Nice little MaK stash there, too, Real G! Gotta start building those!
I agree Baron, MaK is meant to be built and then dirtied up to high heaven! [:P] So many good kits to choose from today, unlike the pre-1999 Great MaK Drought. It’s a great time to be alive!
Castelnuovo, bring a carboard box with you. [:D]
LOL, you asked for it. Will be in Hawaii in November (I think you are in Hawaii)
PM me for a hobby shop tour of Oahu.
Not a very big stash, sold all my stuff a few years back (close to 400 unbuilt kits) and started getting back into it a couple years ago.