I have a lot of paint but I can’t say I have too much. I will admit that I did buy a few extra bottles of Model Master Enamels in FS and other colours that Testors has discontinued. For the most part, I generally buy what I need and go from there. The only colours that I tend to over buy are a few shades of grey (mostly 36495 and 36231) and flat black.
I don’t have a problem with paints. In fact, since I use Testors enamel, which has a short shelf life once open, I now plan on buying paint when I start building each kit, unless I know I have a bottle of something that has never been opened.
On the other hand, I certainly have way too many kits. As I approach my Eightieth birthday, I realize I have far more kits than I have years left in which to build them. Still, if a new kit comes out that I just have to have, from many mfgs who only do small runs and don’t repop, I have to go out and buy it!
““And then worst part is, I will still even with all this great paint still reach for some $.89 Delta creamcoat to avoid “wasting” the good stuff!””
I have a problem too…
Although I have mass amount of high quality brushes and paints collected over the past few years when I had some extra cash, I will still used cheap or used tools and paints I have lying around in order to “save” the good stuff. Then when a finish goes completly south, or I end up botching a build because the tool failed, I get all frustrated and want to quit.
New Years Resoltion #2, to purge all cheap, broken, worn hobby stuff from my premises so I am no longer tempted to “cut” corners. No more brushes that had seen better days, no more paint that I bought 35 years ago and is more goo than pigment, and of coarse, replace that stupid worn, bent, airbrush tip with the new one I just got from Santa.
I have a similar problem. I’m always afraid I am going to run out of something and it’s going to stop my build in its tracks, so I land up buying 2 of a lot of things. At one point I found out I had 6 different packages of paint brushes! I have 2 of quite a few different paints, the colors that I use most. I’m broke 99% of the time which keeps me from buying stuff I don’t really need at the time. But as soon as I get some extra cash or gift cards, like I did at Christmas it’s an all out shopping spree. I went through my $50 giftcard at hobby lobby in one trip and that was just on a few bottles of paint and other supplies. I purchsed 4 kits online, and then bought 2 more at the local hobby store. Keep in mind I have a much smaller stash than most, 22 kits total.
Apparently, I am in recovery. I got some Amazon GCs. and loaded my account. Only bought a VJ Model Air basic colors set. I had a Tamiya Char Bis and Beaufighter in the cart and looked at my stash of 25ish and deleted the cart. I need to get into the building instead of buying mode.
I suffer from the same problem…my lady is going to freak when we finally move in together this next year. Closet full of kits, more MM and Tamiya paint than I can carry in a big box. And to top it off, when one of the LHS’s closed, I just about wiped out his Alclad stock, and have never fooled with it at all.
Already told her my work bench is going to be a 52" Husky roll around tool cabinet that I bought just for that purpose. She knows we will have to make a spot for it somewhere.
With that amount of money I would be going the tattoo route! It’s another one of my addictions, but I rarely, and I mean very rarely have enough money to get another. The last one I got I didn’t even pay for…the BIL did for letting him use my truck for a month. That was almost a year ago. Certainly seems like time to get another one. I would like to get my Camaro tattooed on me somewhere in memory of my Dad. But that is going to be a pricey tattoo!
Very important you choose a good artist for that one. I have 2 tattoos…thinking about cover the one on my left arm with the Kraken. But this money is modeling money.
