Not asking about the desire to build, but the desire to stash kits, which I, and many of you, do at a far greater rate than we can possibly build them. It’s like buying and storing 137 automobiles because you want to drive one. That’s strange, however you slice it. (On the other hand, simply collecting them isn’t strange … if that’s what you mean.)
I’ll stipulate as to the base jumping, shark feeding by hand, and (how about) jumping out of perfectly good airplanes at altitude, just for fun, LOL! Those are much stranger behaviors …
It is very hard to build an F-8D using a Muroc resin conversion set if you don’t buy the Academy base kit to use it with
Buying the resin sets committed me to needing a matching number of base kits,do that for enough aircraft types and even the most ardent “anti stasher” will wonder about his sanity when he has 5 conversions for OOP base kits
The vast majority of my stash came from vendor tables. Too many great deals to pass up. Many of them were…“I will probably want to build this at some point”, so I buy it, so I have it on hand when that time comes. There’s also a fare amount of “nostalgia” kits, that I built as a kid, and would like to have another “go” at. Out of the 200 or so kits in my stash, maybe a dozen were bought retail at the LHS, only 2 of those are not Revellogram.
I have around 300. My thought was to try and get one of every type of war plane out there…still have a ways to go…lol. Ive thought about selling some but just cant pull the trigger `cause I still think I can build them all…HAHAHAHA!!
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The 2,347 boxes of breakfast cereal attract the mice so the 37 cats have food?
Though my stash has grown since I returned to the hobby, I’ve so far managed to stay within the theme build parameters.
My stash really grew from about 15 years ago until 5 years ago or so. The prime reason, a good amount of disposable income. I had the money, and by this point I knew that if I saw a kit, better to buy it because I may not get another chance. In my 20s, browsing rather than buying at the hobby store was the norm for me due to finances. In my 30s that changed for the better. Now in my mid to late 40s the pendulum has swung the other way. Ebay, when I first got on there, there were so many good bargains to be had. The gougers and online stores were not too common so it was often a case of somebody selling off their stash for whatever reason or the estate sale of a deceased modeler. And finally, it was a case of stocking up for the coming famine. Although I did not foresee the financial difficulties the would fall upon my family a few years later, I knew that the kits I was buying then and there would not always be available or affordable… I still have enough kits to last me the rest of my life and I can ponder if any new releases are worth it or not. It’s a nice position to be in.
The nice thing about that is that if you store the ones you get distracted from carefully, you have a “head start” on a project when you rediscover it later! [:D]
Thanks to all who answered! The reason we stash remains elusive, true (for me, anyway), but some good food for thought emerged from all y’all, and I appreciate it. Putting kits away for an economic rainy day is a real good one - we’ve all taken a hit in the pocketbook of one kind or another in the last five or six years. That ties right in with another good one - look for that there recent “Tamiya is Raising Their Prices” thread. But, then we’re not gonna stop, no matter what, right? So, the best reason of all just might be because we want to …
I must have about 300+ in my stash. When I was layed off of work a few years ago I sold some of the ones I thought I could do without. On the other hand I work part time at my LHS and I can get good deals when they come along. I agree, I get some of them because I’d like to get another chance at doing it right.
I also operate under the addage “I can’t die until I’ve finished all the kits in my stash” I should live to be about 400. LoL