I finally got to the point where I need to stop buying and do more building
Disclaimer,saw this on Armorama !!!
Going to take 10 years to sort through and find the next subject to put on the bench…
Looks like an episode of Hoarders Buried Alive. Man I hope I can control myself.
LOs!
I actuaally saw a stash about like that once. The guy was on Swanny’s and had a bunch of kits for sale. I went over to his apt. and there were kits stacked chest high all up and down the hall, in rooms.
Introduced me to his wife; she wouldn’t look me in the eyes.
Bill
That’s funny. [:)]
Solid retirement stash there!
Funny, I don’t see any Tamiya or DMLor Italeri kits in there. Of course, I can’t see it all clearly. Otherwise, it looks like my collection off the shelves. My wife had a good laugh.
And here I thought that selling around 130 kits from my stash last year was a case of me having too much stuff, …this here is an addiction or mental health issue. Then again, it could be he got them from a trust/will, or business closure (?).
And now the question, will he sell them for what they are worth, in one bulk price, or for pennies on the dollar?
Another question that begs to be answered, are all of those models inventoried and in a database or spreadsheet?
Seeing this makes me feel sane now [;)], sad that I am using this to justify my stash as a rational thing.
Ben
That doubles as a cat exercise “tree”.
There’s not as many kits as you think. It’s hollow in the center. (At least mine is…)
Nino
I met a guy at HL and he used to own a hobby store. He said he currently had a two car garage floor to ceiling, wall to wall full of kits. He guessed he had over 4K kits. The funny part was he was at HL buying MORE. [:S] This dude was easily in his 80’s.
BK
My best friend, sadly, has been diagnosed with an untreatable form of prostate cancer, and has been trying, unsuccessfully, to get rid of his stash of only 30 or 40 kits. I tried helping, and contacted a dealer in Seattle who had sold me a model of the hospital ship USS Haven. The wife of the owner told me that they are both beyond retirement age, and would like to dump their stock, but they too are having a lot of trouble finding anyone who wants to buy it.
Stamp collectors are having similar problems — most of us collectors are older folks now, and young people just aren’t taking up collecting like their parents and grandparents. One result is a huge surplus or ordinary stamps and covers, and relatively low prices for better stamps and covers, although I did “manage” to spend more than $300 recently on a rare cover. (Not so long ago, I would have thought that spending $300 on an old envelope was the height of idiocy. But this morning I spent $85 on groceries that will last about a week!)
Bob
It is interesting to note that the LHS over here have been seeing an uptick in kit purchases.
The photo of the “Model King” on his mountain of kits spooks me out, as I was just thinking of pulling out my entire stash to sort and thin. The LHS do consignment sales, so it might be a good time to do so.
Now if only the LHS are allowed to open…
I have been having the same thoughts lately about my stash of 200+ kits with the way the world is going, and my own long term incurable health conditions.
It’s my hope to at least get my money back for them, or maybe even make a small profit to pay down debt, but my fear is these kits won’t even sell now, other than for a song.
I am stunned, but feeling much better about my far more modest stash
So that’s why I keep seeing (out of stock)when I try to order something I want:)
When I lived in Okinawa, I used the spare room in our base housing home to store the its I bought. I filled the closet and had stacks all over the room. It took three packing crates to load everything when we returned to the states. Back then the yen rate was 265 to the dollar and I went out every payday after a trip to the bank on Kadena to grab enough yen for the trip to the local toy stores. I ended up selling most of them to a local store and a couple club members when we arrived here. My job at the time wasn’t paying much, the government was trying ot grab money by saying we were over our weight allowence by 1,500 pounds for the move and trying to charge us by the pound despite us having less than the first time but the difference was the same as before. Somebody was making money on this, We were not the only ones who came back with this exact problem, and the shipping section on the local base here woiuld not even listen to the complaint when they called us to show up at their office.
Heaven!
Well it’s a nice beginner stash. In 5-10 years it might be a decent sized one…
[:P]
Nah, that’s what storage units are for!
Don’t go there…my lady has a unit and every time she opens the door she gets a look of disgust. Only about 75 or so there. The rest are at work.