I’ve got about 175 to 200 models in my stash, cars, aircraft, tanks, and ships. Mostly aircraft. I buy to build, if I see something I like and I have the cash, I buy it. Things have changed and now I’m committed to build out of the stash this year due to hard times. I do open every model I buy, just to see what’s inside the box. The only exception is if I’ve seen it out of the box before, maybe at a club meeting or in the hobby shop. But there is something about building out of the stash. A while back when I had an extra buck I would find myself buying a kit that I already had instead of building the one I had on the shelf. Do you find yourself doing this as well? Does this make me a collector? I really intend to build them all. My wife thinks I’m nuts. But there are guys in my club that have thousands of models. I consider them collectors.
Ken I have about 190 kits in my stash and I do plan on building every one of them Alot of them are OOP or just hard to find and I never even thought for a second about not building them. When I received the Royal Class 190 it was the first time I ever had a kit in my hand and was not sure if I was suppose to build it or not. That is why I put this question here to all of you guys to get feedback and I am overwhelmed by all of the great responses. I now have no doubt in my mind I am going to build at least one of the kits before the end of this year. I went about a year without buying a kit and was just buying paint and supplies at the hobby store. Then about two months ago I became very sick and stuck in bed alot. This in turn lead to me spending alot of time on eBay and I recently started purchasing kits agian. I am just starting to feel better now and am back building so I think I am done buying and I am going to get crackin at the stash agian!
Not a bad idea Bob! As you can see at the bottom of my page been there got the badge 2008! I would definetly do it agian. mabye later this year if I could convince enough people to do it agian.
Open it, view it, enjoy it, build it…that’s what it was made for. A Ferrari 288 GTO looks a million bucks sitting still, and is worth a king’s ransom, but it was designed and built to be driven…hard.
One of my neighbors is a serious wine buff…and has a fair number of bottles in the $500+ region…and he buys them to drink them… otherwise they’re worth nothing more than a humble doorstop.
I hope you do whatever makes you feel best - good luck.
Funny you mention automobiles Leetree. I have a small collection of automobiles. 67 Corvette 36 Ford Cabriolet 55 Chevy Convertible 91 Camaro Rs 5 speed and all of them get driven when the weather is nice. Whenever I take the Corvette or the Camaro out I always give them a sound thrashing as I go through the gears. My cars were definetly purchased to be driven not looked at! I guess I should apply the same logic to my model stash.
If you every take a trip over here to the States and are in the New England area look me up Leetree. I would be more than happy to hand you the keys and leave a little rubber on the road with you! The 36 Ford blew a headgasket today! Oh well at least its not that hard to change though its going to cut into my benchtime this weekend for sure.
LMAO!!! Soulcrusher, thank you very much for that more than generous offer - and I feel your pain with the headgasket…and I will take you up on that offer to “heat up the tires a little”…hopefully sooner rather than later…and should you need a hand, I’m a qualified engineer and have been restoring vintage autos (mostly Daimlers and Jaguars) for the last 30 years…I’m pretty handy with a spanner.
I got mine a year ago from Hannants for 60 pounds and now it´s at 102. You can still get a “profi pack” wich is a lot better and about the same price as anything you can get from nippon. The “weekend edition” is alot cheeper and still better than anything else. My advice, get one of the latter two, build it, decide what to do with the Royal.