[#ditto] I agree with Matt! Quincy wins, hands down! But I’ll bet I’m pushing close to the same numbers of unstarted kits! (Don’t have the “in storage” horde, though!!)
Zok: There is something terribly wrong with this kind of thinking. Have you considered seeing a therapist?? That’s what “Model Clinics” are for, you know!
Robert: LOL FUNNY! I never before realized my initials were an acronym for my life!!
I agree with Zokissima, I can’t have more than 1 kit going at a time. I don’t feel right leaving any partially built kits laying around. I have to complet one before I start another. Space is not a concern, I have a whole garage as my workshop, with a large bench dedicated to modeling. I just can’t leave one uncompleted. I guess I am just too organized, or too anul. It is just the way I am.
I can’t see more that a square foot of work table-I have an old shop table, with lots of drawers-filled with plumbing and electrical stuffnot mine of course and the top is piled high-like half a foot in some places with sprues and instructions, and shelving units around me, are covered in more not mine junk, and models, stashed whereever. There is ample foor-but I live in an old house and walls leak around here*water comes in, so it is built like everything is on flood stilts.
lol
I don’t know how anything gets done!
Actually the majority of the kits I have are older kits - about 10 years ago I flew down to see my youngest son who was attending college down at Independence Ks. While waiting on him to come and pick me up I noticed a display case in the airport lobby that had about 80 1/72 models in it. I was looking at them and mentioned that I built that scale aircraft and the airport manager mentioned that the lady who had given the models to the airport had recently lost her husband (the modeler) and she had a bunch of kits she wanted to get out of her garage.
He gave me her number and the upshot was I bought 600 kits for 500 dollars and hauled them home. ended up and kept about 300 of them, sold a bunch to friends and have a bunch of 1/4" Aurora kits in storage. Some times you just luck out (I was really suprised that wife let me buy them).
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I guess I am lucky. I have the Sherman Calliope and a Tamiya Panther A on my work bench.
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I got:
hasegawa
1/32 p-51
Trumpeter
1/32 f-105g wild weasel (what a dog![V])
Dragon
1/35 King Tiger Porsche Turret
Academy
1/35 Pzkpwn 4 H (not started but itching to)
And a whole bunch of Dragon infantry kits that have been opened and mismatched!
What a mess! Nothing like wipw’s mess, but it’s sizeable.
Hey, I resemble that!!
Actually, mine aren’t all over the work bench. I’ve got most of them cubbyholed. I just pull out the parts I’m working on at any given time.