do you save them or dump them
me if i am doing cars the only parts i keep are the xtra wheels ,tires and engines the unused body parts i dump
on aircraft i keep xtra missles bombs rockets
on ships i dump all extra
on armor i dump all xtra
I keep everything… until I have too much that isn’t useful. I usually keep road wheels and spare items that I can use for stowage or another build.
I always keep all of them. You never know when you might need a replacement wheel, or some little cockpit detail. It’s also niceto havethe parts around for scratchbuilding purposes.
I keep everything as well…spare parts, decals, bits of sprue, and instructions.
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Me too. And you also never know when someone else may needs a part that has been devoured by the carpet monster. Jayapck knows what I mean[:-^][;)]
I keep everything. Even the PE sprues.
I have most of my excess pieces, including some sprues, in a drawer. I had to dig through it a couple months ago and found a reasonable substitute for a canopy on my F-86, which Academy didn’t feel compelled to include in the kit.
I keep pretty much everything, including lengths of sprue. Since I’m a Warhammer 40k collector and player, any leftovers are usually swept into a large bin (known among the initiated as a “bitz box”) for use in future conversions and scratchbuilds. I’ve made entire vehicles from scraps.
I keep all the spare parts (including decals) and some sprue. Never know when they’ll come in handy.
pitch most of it.
I keep all the parts and decals, as well as longer lengths of sprue. The box is filling up fast, so I may have to organize it.
As a hardcore scratchbuilder, I could cry at the notion of all this modelling goodness in the trash. [
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Next time you get a notion like that, at least drop me a line. I’ll happily pay the postage for your discards…
I keep everything. Box, empty sprues decals, pieces, of course, I only have like 6 models, so that won’t last long. But for now its all useful. For a spare? yes its nice, stowage or scratchbuilding? yeah, thats good too, but My favorite use is in dioramas. For example a wrecked urban city diorama has tons of uses for pieces of almost anything as rubble, even pieces you screwed up. Even if you somehow managed to completely deform and mangle with a knife, or even light a piece on fire (trust me, its happened before [:-^]) you could still use it as rubble and trash in a diorama. Hey, I payed for, Im keeping it, aleast until my collection gets too big (if that truly is possible.)
I keep all the parts and decals. Since sprue is in abundance I trow that away.
I also have a lot of models I build as a kid (just glued, no paint). Those are about 150 models so I have my own miniature AMARC [^]
While we’re on the subject of sprues, what are some of the things you can use them for ? I’ve only ever used them for antennae on armour, or to fill a seam now and then. Sorry about the [#offtopic], but this thread prompted me to ask. I have boxes of them which I’m sure I’m keeping for something ?
I’ve used them for structural braces, armatures and scenery building. It also makes an abundant source of paint stirrers and plastic profiles
Sprue is also an important part of my gaming hobby and the accompanying scratchbuilding. For example, this monster:
Everything gray is made of sprue, including the hinge blocks for the hatch, the cross brace of for the fighting compartment floor, the side reinforcers for the armor plating, the winch frame and the drawbridge frame.
Agamemnon that is very creative
really cool
I keep everything not used, and TRY to keep the different kinds of “bits” separated, using the kit boxes as an impromptu filing system. Now if I could just remember what was in each of those boxes …
Thanks, DURR. The carrier is designed for the game Warhammer 40k, which is a sort of gothic science fantasy setting, full of anachronisms, so an open-topped land transporter with a chain-driven drawbridge fits with in.