Bit the bullet...

[Guest]

When I left home to go to college I cleared a great number of Airfix aircraft off the bedroom shelves, put them in a carrier bag, and gave them away to a young lad who was the son of a friend of my girlfriends mother. I sometimes wish I hadn't and I would love to know what was in the bag now, but I like to think he had some more hours of enjoyment out of them before they finally ended up in the bin. If we all had all the models we had ever made none of us would get through the door!


As long as they gave you pleasure to build them Si that is what matters.

[Guest]

Aaugh...don't...I wanna keep em all!
If I really could keep them I would...having another look in the shed and musing...there really is no more space.

More shelves, bigger shed, give the missis a smaller wardrobe (do not tell her that was my idea!), convert the attic, dig a cellar in the back garden. Get creative Si, that's what you are good at!!

[Guest]

I have reached the limits of my small shed, it's filed with old kits I've just bought off eBay because I don't want to run the risk of never owning them.


I have made a promise to be much more organised and build my next kits much faster and more methodically than I do currently but I won't make the quality get worse, it has to improve each build (I hope)

[Gern]

It's one of the Universal laws of Nature Si. Whatever you build/collect, you will ALWAYS run out of shelf space. I have the same problem with my books, every so often I have to get rid of those I'm least likely to read again. Choosing which ones that have to go is a nightmare!

[Guest]

Hard cheese Si difficult to part with things which mean a lot.Getting to the stage were although not full it is cluttering up making


it difficult for friends to view.


What I thought was !. We have a museum which is dedicated to boats Jersey being a place where boats were made in numbers


fishing etc For instance the first life boat was made in Jersey.


I go and have a look around the museum every so often and the last couple of times I have noticed a couple of exhibits not in


the boating tradition. So I am thinking of approaching the museum


This is to offer to set up a scene with aircraft and military models in. Not to give away but to change the models every now and then.


Gives them an exhibit and a bit of space here. Plus I would be delighted to show my models to the public as it all seems much better,


after spending all that time on them, to be seen by interested members of the public.


May also inspire some people to take up model making. Plus others to explore the history around the machines portrayed by the models.


Laurie

[Guest]

It's one of the Universal laws of Nature Si. Whatever you build/collect, you will ALWAYS run out of shelf space. I have the same problem with my books, every so often I have to get rid of those I'm least likely to read again. Choosing which ones that have to go is a nightmare!

Very much Dave. Downsized and gave away near on 800 books. But now I have Kindle and all the books are there to read again at any time. 6"*4" by one third of an inch. Will not get to 800 but it will be nice to have shelf space for models.


Laurie

[eddiesolo]

Hard cheese Si difficult to part with things which mean a lot.Getting to the stage were although not full it is cluttering up making
it difficult for friends to view.


What I thought was !. We have a museum which is dedicated to boats Jersey being a place where boats were made in numbers


fishing etc For instance the first life boat was made in Jersey.


I go and have a look around the museum every so often and the last couple of times I have noticed a couple of exhibits not in


the boating tradition. So I am thinking of approaching the museum


This is to offer to set up a scene with aircraft and military models in. Not to give away but to change the models every now and then.


Gives them an exhibit and a bit of space here. Plus I would be delighted to show my models to the public as it all seems much better,


after spending all that time on them, to be seen by interested members of the public.


May also inspire some people to take up model making. Plus others to explore the history around the machines portrayed by the models.


Laurie

That sounds really good Laurie, wouldn't work in my case-not good enough I feel. I am okay at modelling and can get something out of a kit but not enough to pass on to something like that.


Si

[Guest]

I do not think so Si. After all you have put them and others before up for sale. Think Si you underestimate your work.


Look all of us here admire your work like viewing what you have done. Face the fact we are more critical than the Public believe me.o_O


Laurie

[eddiesolo]

I do not think so Si. After all you have put them and others before up for sale. Think Si you underestimate your work.
Look all of us here admire your work like viewing what you have done. Face the fact we are more critical than the Public believe me.o_O


Laurie

Beg to differ...I feel comfortable with showing here and the few I have shown at my boat club. I don't think they're museum grade.


Glad that you like them though

[Guest]

The last models I built were quite massive, when I was into Radio Controlled Model Ships. This was over 20 years ago now. I built a few warship models around that period, but my best was a model of the Aircraft carrier Victorious in 1/96 scale. She was one of four Illustrious Class Carriers built in 1941. The model was all scratch built except for the open top moulded fibre glass hull, which had to have a fair bit of work done to it, by cutting out all the deck openings below the flight deck, along both sides and arround the stern. The flight deck itself was made from an 8 feet x 2 feet sheet of 1/16th inch marine ply, cut to a total width of 10.5 inches, with a central lift out section and the bow and stern parts of the deck, moulded into place using two part epoxy car body filler and smoothing to shape.


The length of the ship was just a tad over eight feet long, at 8ft 3.5 ins to be precise. It took me just over two years to build it and it could just about fit inside my car, with the front passenger seat folded forward and the rear seats laid flat, (a Vauxhaull Astra at that time). It was a beautiful model complete with thirty corsair model aircraft parked on the flight deck ( these were 1/100 scale metal models, I manged to find on ebay in a job lot for £50). These were just slightly under scale, but which were just the right size for the model. I added wheels to each plane, made from axles and wheels from matchbox toy cars. One plane was attached to the rear of the flight deck on a piece of piano wire about three inches above and two inches away, which gave it the appearance of coming into land. (this just clipped in place when the model was being used. It was a very heavy model and had to be lifted in the water before inserting the lead ballast and 12 volt car battery which powered it. This was done by removing the flight deck, once in the water, placing the battery in situ, just forward of midships, together with 12 lbs of lead in the bow and stern for ballast. It could sail for at least four hours, at a speed of 25 scale knots, without any noticeable drain on the battery.


The cost of the hull was just over £85 which was built to the scale of 1/96. I built the rest of the model from actual Admiralty plans, which cost me £65 from the Maritime Museum. The rest of the build was scratch built using various kinds of wood, aluminium strip, plastic sheet and strip, brass wire, and many other bits and pieces I could utilise etc. It had three 1.5 hp motors and three bronze propellers (centre shaft having five bladed with the two outer being three bladed as the original ship and twin rudders all controlled from four internal servos) It was built as it appeared during the second world war, spending its last war years on loan to the American Navy in the Pacific under the name of USS Robin, before being returned to the RN, after the war with Japan was over. It was converted to an angle deck carrier, during the early sixties, and was scrapped after a serious fire in one of the engine rooms in 1966, deemed it too costly to repair, so after 27 years service, she was finally scrapped in 1968.


I had the model for over five years, before deciding to sell it, because it was taking to much room up in my workshop, and was not used for a couple of years. I sold it for £450 to a guy from Southampton, who came to collect it. It was too big and heavy to post it. Somewhere I have some photos of it, but gawd knows where they are at the moment, probably somewhere up the loft, together with many other long lost items that have found there way up there over the years.


Do I miss it, well I did after I sold it, but I don't now as it was so long ago. But I had hours and hours of pleasure just building it, let alone sailing it and it always attracted lots of attention when on the water, at the model boating lake, not far from where I live. It didn't owe me anything, as I got more for it than it cost to build (not counting time, as you can't measure that when building such a large model). But at the time it had to go I'm afraid. Now I have retired, I'm sticking to car modelling for a change and hope to at least keep these to build up a decent collection, before I pop my clogs. They will then end up gawd knows where after I am gone, but at least I will have had the pleasure of building them into my old age.


It is sad to part with models, when you have spent so much time building them, but there comes a time when you have to part with them I'm afraid, for one reason or another.


Geoff

[Guest]

Glad that you like them though

Yes I do Si. There was one by a river bank a boat or submarine , memory hazy,. Some time ago now. You asked how to finish the bank. a fence or something. That is one.


Then another I remember was a ruste lorry with things growing in it and around it. Those are just two I remember from some time ago which I thought were quite something


Only remember good things and that is out of all the hoards of finished items on this Forum teeming with every item under the sun.


Any way you should be tucked up in bed at this time. Only old men like me are allowed up at this time.


Laurie

[grumpa]

I've been thinking about a bloke who has been collecting military vehicles {real ones} and has a bit of a museum / military surplus store on site, not desperate to sell stuff, a bit well off I think. He has some real gems, quite a gentleman he is, fellow vet. Spoke to him a while back about a kind of a "lend lease" situation where I can display my stuff and I might be willing to sell if the price is right. I offered him a commission, but he wouldn't hear of it. trouble is that nothing I have is , well, "bin-able" And I would feel great if someone would think enough of my work to actually purchase it and display it in their home which would free up much space for future projects, just got to get off my duff and pay him a visit and work things out.................Jim

[Guest]

Alas Si, I know the feeling, have managed to scrunch a bunch of individual models in a bookcase and have several shelves about but it seems that "Eye Deep In Hell" has put me "over the top" {no pun intended}. But all of my models are like my children, very hard to part with, but then again

After all that frustration and happiness over completing the model, we all find it hard to part with the art we create


John

[peterairfix]

Just seen this i have already got two boxes full and i am about to start on a third but i just can't part with them so in a few years i may part with them i think like every body we build so much but we don't give much thought to "now where am i going to put this one"

[Guest]

Firstly Geoff welcome to the friendliest forum on the net, sorry missed your joining. The trouble is Si you and countless others on here are too good which Is why you get attached to your works of art (that is surely what they are). I have no trouble chucking my rubbish in the scraps drawer or the bin, once done, I loose interest in them very quickly, although I am not allowed to bin the La Reale, swmbos orders, even in her unfinished state. I get ideas sometimes where I need a bit to make a dio or model, well if I find that bit on a completed model I pinch it and dump the rest in the scraps drawer, as I said that's full to overflowing now so it will have to be the bin, or I will have to sort the scraps drawer.