Maker or Collector?

[BattleshipBob]

You know where you can stick that:rolling:

[Allen Dewire]

I don't know exactly which one I am. I love to build kits I buy, but never finish that many of them. I love to buy kits for good prices for project ideas that I have for down the road when I retire, hence needed things. The stash is a tick, bit, little over 200, but that is kits and accessoires too................

So, does that make me a maker or a collector??? Personally, I think my lights are on and nobody's home, and I need help................

Prost
Allen

[Guest]

I’d say you’re a collector only if you buy them without the intention to build them. (Of course, you can be both a builder and a collector at the same time, if you buy some kits to have rather than build.)

[stona]

It seems that many people will collect more kits than they can possible build in three life times, never mind the one we get!

What happens to all these kits when the inevitable finally happens? Do they end up in car boot sales, or in skips?

I have quite a collection of books, some of which are now quite valuable, so I made an inventory of the ones that would actually be worth selling when I'm no longer here to read them. The family ought to get something out of them, and daughter number one is a keen online seller already. The rest might as well be given away.

Cheers

Ptolemy II Philadelphus

[Guest]

What happens to all these kits when the inevitable finally happens? Do they end up in car boot sales, or in skips?

On another forum I’ve seen it a few times now that someone joined specifically to sell the stash of a modeller who died. IMHO this is the best way to go about it, but of course, I suppose you’ll probably best arrange this in advance, because some people will just see it as stuff to throw out.

I have quite a collection of books, some of which are now quite valuable, so I made an inventory of the ones that would actually be worth selling when I'm no longer here to read them.

I think I would want my entire library (which is about one-half reference books on AFVs, aircraft, etc., military history books and modelling magazines, and one-half books for role-playing games and wargames; plus some assorted other stuff) given to a second-hand book store — assuming any of those are left at all by the time I die … About a decade ago, I walked into one in my area and found a whole lot of books on military vehicles that I’d never seen there before, and it turned out nearly all of them had the same person’s name and address stamped inside. Though I never knew him, he must have collected those books over about forty years, so the only explanation I have is that he died and his collection then went to this store. (Many of them are now on my shelf, but I kind of wish I’d had the opportunity to buy more of them still )