How about when someone asks you what kit to get you for Christmas or your birthday? I find the kit I wanted at the time usually gets stashed since I’ve already turned my eye to a kit I could start immediately.
Was that the Airfix P-61? I remember that one from the 70s - horrible to build & moulded in black plastic that showed every bit of glue used on it! Don’t recall what happened to it, but I won’t have been sorry to see it go!
A gift kit got me back into the hobby, in a very roundabout way. My parents bought me the 1/24 Bf 109 from Airfix when I was 12 - that was about as good as it got in those days, and a luxury they surely couldn’t really afford, so it meant even more to me. However, this kit had problems - well known now, but not to an excited young lad at the time. I eventually hit the problems & realised they were beyond my capability, so I put the part-built model away. I never got rid of it - it moved house every time I did and, about 18 months back, I found it & opened the box. A little fire - never quite extinguished - was rekindled.
I’ve had a couple given as presents since, but they’ve been ones I’ve hinted at*, so no problem.
Stay safe & happy modelling,
Hutch.
*Like leaving a large note on Mrs 6390’s dressing table with the subject, scale, manufacturer & supplier info all provided for her - considerate, or what?
Most of what I get nowadays are gifts; I rarely buy my own so I keep the stash down. I appreciate the thought, and it’s neat what someone thinks I like, or, more often, something that they thought was neat. My wife buys most of them, she hates guessing and I give her a wish list now, but she’s picked some stuff I would have never gotten myself. Tamiya F4F, Monogram Spirit of St Louis, 64 Pontiac GTO, and Dale Earnhardt Silver Monte Carlo. I haven’t felt obligated to build what others gift, but I commonly do, and I’m reminded of their friendship when I look at the kits.
That’s a white elephant if I’ve ever seen one!
I have been given a handful of kits over the years. They are still in the closet awaiting their turn at the modeling table.
I put a few model kits on my Amazon wish list, just in case someone who might care to get me something takes a look at my wish list.
I don’t have that problem with my family. First they know I have way too many kits and secondly they know I’m very fussy when it comes to plastics so they stay away from it. I do have one particular friend who knows my modeling interests and has given me several kits that he knows I like.
Haven’t been gifted anything I don’t build for many years now. My family and other half know to either get me a gift certificate for SprueBrothers or just pick out something off my Amazon wish list.