If you stopped buying Model Kits and then build through your collection, from beginning to end, how long would it take you to finish it at your current build rate? Would it exceed your life expectancy?
I was depressed to think it might take me 25 years! But then I comfort myself with thinking that someone out there must be doing far worse than this!
I lay down the gauntlet…
If I maintain my current build rate of 1 model per month (approximately) and didn’t buy another model kit, it would take me 22 years - give or take a year or two - to get through my stash.
[:)] It would probably take me another lifetime, at my present rate of building.[:)]
Cheers,
Hooker_JL
If I am optimistic enough to say I can ever start building two per month, it’d take 20 years to finish. Let’s not look at the worst case scenario…
I’m not as bad as all that! I have a small stash and try to get through it before I start buying more kits. By getting through it, I mean I start the kit, usually building it up to fully assembled and requiring only paint or sometimes only decals and a final flat coat before it’s done. However actually finishing the model appears to be beyond my ability, so while it should only take me a short while to use up my stash, it will take beyond my life expectancy to fully complete them! [:P]
At my current build rate, 75 to 200 years. I’m hoping to improve on that. Many are in process, but few are close to completion. At the moment, the kids will probably put them on ebay as their only inheritance.
A model a month??? I can only dream of a day when I can turn out a model a month. As it stands now, it takes me anywhere from two months to a full year just to get one kit done. Barring deployments, I should get through my current collection of kits in 12 to 24 years. But my stash is a living being, like a hydra almost. For every kit I build, two or three are added to the shelves.
at my current rate, I estimate 6-8 years.
You really know how to hurt a guy…[:(][BH]
Oh well, my older son likes to model, the stash will be part of his inheritance…
The way kit prices are going, that may make him independently wealthy…[:O]
The way it’s going right now it will take me 200 years. I have 200+ kits waiting in the closet. I don’t have a place to build them right now since we are remodelling the house, so my builds are just sitting there waiting for my room to get done and the rest of the house.
I only have approximately 6 kits in my stash. I try to complete each model before starting another one. When my stash goes down to three, I buy three more. That way, I always build kits that I’m interested in. I noticed that my interests changes after each model I build. An advantage to that, is that all my purchases are a lot easier to justify to my wife. So if you take my current building rate which is approximately two per month, I always have about 3 months of work in front of me.
Not bad !
I’m looking at 3-4 models a year. That in mind, I’m looking at 15-20 years. HOWEVER, my current aquisition rate (which is running in “I’m-not-buying-anymore-kits mode”) is 2-4 new kits a month.
UH-OH! Eduard is making Dual Combo Kits! …two planes one box… Noooooooooo!!!
At my current rate I’ll finish the last kit when I’m 163 years old.
One of our IPMS chapter leaders cited a statistic (I don’t know his source) that 80% of all kits manufactured never get built. They languish in stashes, graduating to estate sales, then begin the endless cycle of swap meets, trades, e-bay, etc.
Interesting fact, yet I can still not find a 1/35 Dragon “Maus” anywhere…
Anyways, I’m looking at about 60 years at my build rate of 2.5 per year.
HA! I build about 5 or more (!!!) models a month, and my stash is about 15 models now. So that’s about 3 months. My aquistions are limited by the fact that I need to use my allowance to get a model, which makes it about 1 model each month. The reason I have so many in stash is that I just came back from almost limitless shopping in Poland.
33 years at 1 kit per year. [
] I hope to increase it next year when things die down a bit. Of course there is always retirement in the distant future.
It’d probably take me about a year, or maybe (probably) closer to 6 months. I work on multiple models at one time, so all my kits are in progress to some degree.
Well i’ve only got 12 kits in my stash and the way iam building 1 to 2 a month it shouldnt take to long to burn through, my goal is to have a hobby shop stash that way i cant say iam broke[:D]
I’m with the majority here, at least 20 years at my rate. I never stop buying but I seem to slow down in building. Not to mention the advancements in this hobby that I continue to chase and learn. Someone told me once when you get older and you think you got it all by the nads, watch out the end is near. Maybe thats why I keep a few/too many in the stash. I just don’t want to see it end…stay[8D]
I seem to average about one a month so it would take me about two years to get through my stash.