Stash

[Robert1968]

Well I must be the straggler in accumulating kits as I possibly only have around 35 kits still in boxes not started etc that I can see ( don't know what's in the garage of late as there's a trailer in there at the moment so can't get to my boxes. I kmow I have room for more but it's just finding the time, then I have around 20 I have started and lost the old mojo for........ However I have about 19yrs left to work before I can take retirement. When I buy a kit and it comes through the door via our freindly postie the wife always says the same " what you bought now another model blah blah blah .
Well I say roll on retirement.
I would love to model all day every day and I would defo get through my stash !!!

Regards

Robert

[zuludog]

When I retired about 5 years ago I had a vision of backpacking trips and model aeroplanes. Do you know how many I've made?

An F-89 Scorpion that has been painted, but no decals yet
About halfway through a Defiant

I have about 35 - 40 unmade kits

that's mostly because I discovered a new hobby - knife making. Search TheNet & YouTube, especially www.britishblades.com

Just tried the link, it doesn't seem to work, so put it directly into Google. You might get a page telling you all about downloading some rubbish or other. The trick is to click back to Google and try again. this is a right pain, but it works. Don't close down, just click back

[Gern]

Thanks guys.

Col (Colin M) - you did ask.

Ian - it's the 1/32 Trumpeter kit.

Col (Bigfoot) - I wish I could build them at one per month!

Graham & Peter - It's a very nice kit going for stupidly high prices on ebay. Yet it was almost being given away a few years ago. I think Revell stopped making it and shops were trying to clear their shelves. Much the same happened to their 1/72 Snowberry - I remember seeing it at one of the shows a few years ago going for £20 - odd.

I don't have any real interest in cars other than as a means of transport - I have even less interest in building models of them I'm afraid.

Rob - I have the same problem. I sometimes lose interest in a build when something else comes along to tickle my fancy (Ooooooohhh!). You need to think about keeping your kits in the garage though. Cold and damp doesn't do the decals any good.

As for the comments from SWMBO - ask her how many pairs of shoes she has! But be careful! You could end up here:

She told me we couldn't afford beer anymore and I'd have to quit.
Then I caught her spending £45.00 on make-up, and I asked how come I had to give up stuff and not her.
She said she needed the make-up to look pretty for me.
I told her that was what the beer was for -
I don't think she's coming back.

Zuludog - Despite having the time now, I still manage to find lots of distractions which keep me from my bench. Still, modelling is a fun thing to me and I do it as and when I want. I'm not going to force myself to do something I'm not really in the mood for just to get a kit finished.

[zuludog]

Yes, you have to be in the mood

A friend makes military vehicles & AFVs. He said when he retired he made a couple 'mechanically', and they looked it. Fairly soon afterwards he scrapped them and started again after a few months when he was in the right frame of mind; they were much more satisfactory

[yak face]

Some excellent kits there dave , and plenty of hard to find ones too. Im well jealous of the trumpeter 1/32 super sabre/ thunderchief / swordfish , i think i might be coming down with a mild case of bigboxitis!

[stona]

Well I must be the straggler in accumulating kits as I possibly only have around 35 kits still in boxes not started etc that I can see

I wouldn't worry about it. I have one kit on the go (special hobby He '113') and precisely two in the stash (Revell He 219 and Tamiya P-51). At least I can be fairly sure that I will finish them all, barring accidents or acts of God
I have had the Tamiya P-51 for several years, for some reason I've never really fancied building it.....one day....

Cheers

Steve

[Gern]

Tony - Beware! Bigboxitis can be catching! Most of the big boxes have come from the shows 'cos postage via ebay is well expensive. They may only be hard for you to find as you find it hard to get your nose out of the bargain bins on the floor. Try looking on the top shelves occasionally - just like your paper shop, that's where the best stuff is kept!

Steve - You may only have two unstarted kits, but how many reference books have you got in your 'stash'?

[Robert1968]

I wouldn't worry about it. I have one kit on the go (special hobby He '113') and precisely two in the stash (Revell He 219 and Tamiya P-51). At least I can be fairly sure that I will finish them all, barring accidents or acts of God
I have had the Tamiya P-51 for several years, for some reason I've never really fancied building it.....one day....

Cheers

Steve

Thanks fir that Steve and my Specisl hobby Tempest will get built ( one day )
Hahahaha

Robert

[stona]

Steve - You may only have two unstarted kits, but how many reference books have you got in your 'stash'?

Good point! Last inventory, putting a value on some of the more expensive references so that they don't end up in a charity shop when I pop my clogs, was well over 200 books. That's counting series like the Luftwaffe in Focus or BoB Combat Archive as one, rather than every issue independently. I don't include a load of magazine type publications which fill one shelf at all!
I certainly spend more on books than models. The trick is paying full price on publication for those which you suspect will become much more expensive (like the four volume Me 262 series from Classic Publications or just about anything from JaPo) and holding on for things that probably won't, or are much more likely to be reprinted. I bought Henry Probert's excellent 2001 biography of Arthur Harris for £2.80 recently and would have paid ten times that for it.
Cheers
Steve

[Gern]

Steve, I don't collect reference books, but I have about 1200 fiction books on my shelves. All read, some of them many times.

[stona]

Steve, I don't collect reference books, but I have about 1200 fiction books on my shelves. All read, some of them many times.

You are way ahead of me then !!!!

I do read fiction, but the books tend to get passed on or donated.

Cheers

Steve

[Gern]

but the books tend to get passed on or donated.

I couldn't do that! Re-reading books is like visiting an old friend I haven't seen for years - I know what they're going to say but I want to hear it anyway!

[eddiesolo]

I have...four in my stash. I knew I would never build them, not a standard I would be happy with, so better they went to others. I just do one at a time now, slowly and when I can be bothered. I still have the 1/16 KT to do for the GB!

Good for you Dave, it is at least a relaxing point, sit with a cuppa and just stare at the pretty boxes

[dave]

On kits I am feeling left out, I have one on the go and one in the stash.

On books I have several hundred military history and several thousand other books mainly science fiction and fantasy. Like germ many are old favourites which are reread.

But books do not count as hoarding. They are a cultural and educational resource.

[Gern]

Like germ

Huh!