What do you do with the kit boxes?

[Dave W]

I cut the shiny box lid into squares and use them as paint and glue pallets.I keep all the unused parts and cut up the Sprues for use as paint stirrers.And I'm another who doesn't like the Revell end opening boxes.So when I'm about to build one I transfer the contents to an old top opening tray type box.

[monica]

well i tend to keep them if i have more than one off the same will bin it,

and then pull all the small box,s into a bit box, them into the shed for a spider home

but all the bits say Brit,planes or German planes all go together and like wise with tanks and so on,

[spanner570]

I sling them under the sticks to light the b.b.q!!!

[papa 695]

I save the spairs and decals then sling the rest

[rickoshea52]

For my GCSE Art exam I cut out the pictures of the models from the box lids and made a collage with them........I got a D.

[Guest]

Parts & decals all go into a large plastic box that previously housed a well known brand of chocolates, decent bits of sprue get shoved in a box with paint brushes and the rest gets recycled.

[Vaughan]

I just normally put them in the recycle bin but should have kept the last one (Fiesler Storch) as it would have been a good box for the Revell BF109G6 as is usual with Revell it has a side opening lid. The spare decals and unused parts I keep just incase I need them for a future build.

[stona]

I keep the boxes and any left over bits together and 'file' them in the loft. That way if I need, say, a blown canopy for a Fw 190 I know it will be in one of a few boxes rather than in a heap with spares from everything else.

I keep instructions in the box too.

Unused decals go into freezer bags and then get boxed by nationality. I often use spare decals, rarely spare plastic.

About once every few years senior management forces a rationalisation programme upon me and I have to consolidate the spare plastic and recycle some boxes. I try to keep the spare plastic by type (Bf 109, Spitfire etc) but sometimes lump some together by nationality.

I've never taken much interest in box art, though I do retain a soft spot for the action packed art work that used to grace the old Aifix kits. Some of that was seriously good and I used to like the bombs raining down, smoke and flames etc

Cheers

Steve

[colin m]

I kept my B36 box. For some strange reason I can't throw it away so it now lives in the garage with the B36. All the rest did get recycled. But having read this thread, I like the idea of saving just the front, if it's worth keeping.