Spares Box???

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Ok, so peel open any of your hobby magazines…have you noticed that almost every detailing article has something to the extent of: “I replaced that (fill in the blank part) with a more accurate one from my spare parts box.” GRRRRRR - hard to build off those helpful directions if you don’t have a spares box that is super supplied with every part imaginable from ages and ages of modeling. (I AM working on mine though [^] ) What I wouldn’t give for a spare parts box like these authors have!! I have a hard time, because when I read that I think “yeah…well thats great for YOU, but I don’t stand a chance of putting something like that together” - heh, unless I can break in and steal your spare parts box chuckle [:)]

Am I alone?

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Well-I have lots of spare parts and decals-but none that I ever need. Guess that’s why they are in my spares box.

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HEY,
Alot of people buy a cheap kit and use it entirly for spares.

Randy

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Spare parts in my spares box right now 4…thats it! I used to have a really good spares box that got lost/mislabeled or something because I cant find it now…Oh well it will turn up someday.

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I have the same problem. I’m a pack rat.
Everything has a potential use. Just peek into my garage/workshop (the car has never seen the inside of it).
Every two or so years I thin it out a bit. That is when I find out how useful things are.
What I need is what whent to the dump a month before.
I’ve got lots of spares but never the one I need. Example is a 1/32 Mig17 frount cockpit canopy. I don’t plan on building another but… I’ll keep it forever.

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I hear that too and I think “Well gee, that’s useful!” Perhaps a good thread would be to ask “What’s in your spares box” because mine never seems to have the part I need and so the stuff there remain “Spares.” How spare is your box?

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Mine’s left over accessories from various sets and pieces of old models I gave up on as a kid and lost a big chunk of. My first left over option piece will be from a 1/144 P47 Wheels up or down. when I decide which I want.

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I pick up models at yard/garage sales and auctions(estate sales). I get enjoyment out of repairing kits. Some kits are beyond repair but I take them also(spare parts)!

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I’m kinda surprised some manufacturer hasn’t offered an “Instant Spare Parts Box” set of some type.
Just a big box filled with random bits from all their kits!

Ya reckon it’d sell?

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Brian,
If it did sell, I would be the one person that Murphy’s laws would corroborate: The part that I needed the most wouldn’t be in there.

Come to think of it , my spare parts (in several different boxes in several different locations) pretty much fits that Law already…

Gip Winecoff

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I’ve got bits in the spares boxes (plural!) that date back maybe 35 years!, original Frog decal sheets & parts from long out of date kits, for instance. Problem is, some of this stuff is at home in England, so I may well have what I need, but it’s 3000 miles away!
Pete

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I have four of those metal bins with the plastic drawers. Everything is sorted as to where it goes on the aircraft.
The only thing I have ever used out of them is ordinance!!!
But, I still have them.

Randie [C):-)]

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I have a couple of spares boxes; one for aircraft and the other for ships, but only rarely do I find what I need in them. The luck of the draw, I guess.

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I must be poor or I don’t build as many models as you people do; the most of what I have in my spare box is a bunch of multi-color spare spruce from finished models. But when I need to stretch spruce, I’M READY!

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My spares box is starting to grow. I actually found a part last night that I could use on my Sherman. I find that the more I use resin parts the good stuff I find in my parts box.

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I got quiet a spares box too.

Many of the Kits I build come parts that are not needed for that version, etc guess where they end up.

Earthquakes over here at times knock a few Models of he shelf, what can’t be repaired/fixed goes in as well.

Granted some of the spares in there are actually AM sets, Supplies(Plastic rods, etc) and leftovers from them.

Be patient and inspect all your sprues and not used parts like decals, etc. soon the spares box will start to grow.

Also visit fleamarkets and similar and buy cheap old Kits to add to it.

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I have a lot of useless colorful decals…and most of my spare parts are from a kit I ruined (A P-61 Black Widow). I’m in the same boat as you!!

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I challenge anyone to build a complete model using ONLY parts in the spare parts box.
It doesn’t have to be accurate, or even real. But I bet some interesting concoctions would appear.

I’d do it but well, my parts box consists of 8 wheels and thats about it.

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i could build a 1/1 me 262 from all the spares boxes stuff and my endless hours of research

did you know that the me262a1/u4 was the one with a 50 mm cannon?

i still cant find any pics of the rear cockpit of the b1

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I guess I could manage to build 3 or 4 Bikes straight from my sparesbox, but rather keep them in there for a planned Diorama for which I will need MORE bike spares.

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