I have 500 ish in the stash. Right now im at 120 ish made
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This guy has all of you beat
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Dont have more than 10 right now. Unfortunately I gravitate to the 1/12 scale open wheel race cars and they ain’t cheap. Got an old Testors 1/48 C130 to build in the Fat Albert Blue Angels livery. One day. I cant help it I like big plastic.
Stash of approximately 130 (excluding miniatures).
About 20 kits completed and a couple dozen miniatures painted in the last 4 years. At the current rate, assuming no additional acquisitions, I should be good for the next 26 years.
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Holy Smokes Tojo… 
where did you take that picture?
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Grabbed it from another site.
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@Toimi_Tom I loved that game. Wish they’d have made an LA Noire 2.
Cheers,
Mark
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My parents make me finish a kit before I buy a new one 
but I keep the empty boxes lying around so does that count XD
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There was a post like this a few years ago and one of the members then posted pics of his stash. I forget how many he had, but the pics were of one shelving rack after another filled with kits. Must have been well over a thousand.
Me, my stash is two. Just don’t have the space for the stash that I’d like, so now I build as I go.
I agree,stashes with thousands,even hundreds that will never be built make to sense to me,but I feel you still need to go a few kits ahead,prices go up and kits disappear,so some you may need to grab before their gone.Me, I got between 35-40 still more then I will probably get to.
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Comrade, Keep doing that system of build one then buy one! You’ll have money for college and your parents won’t have to pay for a storage unit for your kits!!
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I bought models in college… I still haven’t started many of them. That was the late-80s… LOL…
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My present stash buildup started after college when I reentered the hobby. At first it was one or two kits for me. Then once the kids were born it was a few kits for them when they get older for something for us to do together. Sure they built a few with me but then their interests changed so the flood gates opened for me to buy kits for me to build in my retirement. The rest is, as they say, “history”
Haha true! Although there are some kits I’d like to get before they sell out… ugh the temptation! But I have very limited space so maybe it is a good idea…
@Comrade_Shmersky, Old model kits really never ‘sell out,’ they just get harder to find on eBay. Half the fun of being older with the disposable income to support your hobby is (a) remembering the old kits you liked, and (b) looking for them! Buy what you can enjoy and build now, and put the ones you can’t afford on your holiday gift list(s). 
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I’d say that your “prime stash accumulation” years for modeling must be in your 20’s -50’s. When you’re young, your modeling budget is dictated by your allowance, lawn mowing money, and money you received for your birthday or Christmas. When you’re either nearing retirement or are fully retired then you’re on a fixed income/budget.
Thats why my stash is what it is. I’m 7-10 years from retirement. When that time comes I know I won’t have the same hobby budget.