That looks really nice 
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Beautiful. Although the Tamiya kit seems to be the gold standard, your model shows just how good the Hasegawa kit can still look in the hands of a skilled modeller.
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Finished up real nice
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Very nice build, Troy!
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Man that turned out nice. Great job.
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The finish on this is awesome- really nicely done!
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In the process of finishing up my shop and ordered the new benches last night. I primarily do ships and aircraft, but I think I have joined the darkside of armor modeling as well. picked up and Abrams and Lepard2 A6 kit yesterday and now am looking at adding more to the stash.
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Finishing up the custom dump trailer build for the Western Star, new tailgate today, then build light bars to match truck.
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Great looking build Gary. So much custom work to soak in on these. Thanks for posting!
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Not exactly ON my bench but…
I noticed a trend of some of the boxes in my stash getting rankled fron all the weight on them and did an intervention.
I moved all my stash to various open flat spaces and created additional shelving to alleviate the crush issue.
Original stash
New and improved shelving to reduce crush damage and reorganize & add all the recent purchases
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Okay, you’ve officially destroyed my definition of a stalled project. 
An SBD started in the mid-90s and finished this year is incredible.
I really like the idea of deliberately working through the “children of doom,” though. I actually have a 1/48 Revell B-1B that I started about 30 years ago. I got into some modifications that were well beyond my skill set at the time, and it eventually got put away.
The funny thing is that aftermarket parts are available now to do what I was trying to scratch build back then, and I’ve bought them. So eventually that big monster is coming back out. It might take me 40 years to finish the thing, but you’ve given me hope that someday it’ll be done. Then I’ll just have to figure out where the heck to put it. 
I think you may have crossed the line from having a stash to needing a warehouse management system.
I’ve actually had this exact conversation with my wife. She asked me why I couldn’t just stack all my kits in a closet out of sight, and I had to explain that eventually the weight starts crushing the boxes underneath. They just aren’t strong enough to support a big stack like that. So apparently visible shelving is a structural necessity.
Now I have to ask — do you actually know what’s in all those boxes from memory, or have you reached the point where you need an inventory to keep track of everything?
Ok…my memory truly is horrible, I know it, the wife knows it…so my work around has been to keep a steno book with content broken down by manufacturer and sub categories by scale.
I brought it with me to the I.P.M.S. Nationals so I wouldn’t buy duplicates, saved me a ton of money too.
Standard answer is usually:
I …I…I can qquit any time I want to…I jjjust don’t want to…
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I use Scalemates.com for stash control, then it’s always on my phone should I be tempted to buy a kit I forgot I already had. As if that would happen.
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Phones die…computers let the smoke out…but a steno book written in pen is close to stone tablet permanence…(as long as you don’t have a dog).
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Even my wife thinks THAT is hilarious.
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I have a spreadsheet for everything. I can keep track of the kits in my head okay, it’s all the AM parts that I don’t remember if I have purchased or not. For example, I have a couple of canopy masks and other parts that I purchased twice by mistake thinking I needed them when I already have them.
Now, like you, when I go to a show, I take the list.
That’s hilarious! Good one Keav!
