Number of Kits

[Guest]

Well, it would be easier for me to take a pick than try and count them,also,as has been said,do you just include AFVs, figures,Dio sets, accessories sets?.... It's a hill of beans really.
I'm with Dave and Tim mind, DON'T feel guilty of whatever you've amassed,or not! AND flitting around due to the "Shiny" syndrome is totally acceptable,(but I would say that wouldn't I ?! )
I no longer smoke, don't go out much,and basically work 5/6 days a week for an average 9 HR day...
..... So WHY shouldn't I buy kits too regularly,that I'll probably never get to build....
..... It's my main interest outside of real life... And I love just looking at the boxes sometimes!!! :smiling3:
Andy

Andy .
Well looking at it that way think I might well just buy when I want and what I fancy kit wise. Like you I don't drink, go out and have as much time between gardening and modelling as I want .:thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::nerd:

[davecov]

I don't drink, smoke, gamble (except the lotto occasionally) and the only vices are modelling, books and DVDs. I live on my own (although my partner, Aileen, of 8 years lives 60 miles away in her own home) and I am free to spend my money how I like. Same with her although she overdoses on crafting supplies! If we did live together both of our collections would have to be managed a bit better but that would open an even bigger can of worms than just having a big stash.

Dave

[Airborne01]

I don't drink, smoke, gamble (except the lotto occasionally) and the only vices are modelling, books and DVDs. I live on my own (although my partner, Aileen, of 8 years lives 60 miles away in her own home) and I am free to spend my money how I like. Same with her although she overdoses on crafting supplies! If we did live together both of our collections would have to be managed a bit better but that would open an even bigger can of worms than just having a big stash.
Thank the Lord, another poor soul lives beside another crafter! I feel your pain brother! :cold-sweat: :loudly-crying::loudly-crying:

[SteveH]

Morning Stuart

I have a previous comment on a similar blog as it is a regular theme on a lot of modelling sites

I have to add to the comments I made last August as I am now fully retired and as expected on a final and lower income.

I "stopped" buying on 1st April 2021, and it wasn't an April Fools joke.

I only bid on E-bay at ridiculously low ball bids on items that I think will be interesting/useful/different and have still added a further 20 kits to the stash.
I use Scalemates to track the stash, to minimise the duplication, which works most/some of the time!

As we are currently going through a serious shortage of plastic for manufacturers and serious distribution problems, the intrinsic value of the stash has risen, but it all depends on how much someones the kit you sell and if there are 2 bidders it can be silly prices.

I feel more a collector than a builder but that will no doubt change once I have moved house and get to finally retire for real once we have settled.



""I am sure I might have ""Shared"" this philosophy before but here goes, I only really buy a bargain, just like our Dave Ward, sensible chap, and spend 2 or 3, 10 minutes sessions a day on E-bay, check with Scalemates for an RRP and set a low bid, and sometimes you get a delivery, WIN WIN.
I know I wont build them all, or even 1/2, but they are an excellent investment to use against all the consumables the hobby requires.
C-19, has cancelled all my share dividends and locked my pension pot, so my only hobby fluidity is the plastic investment in the attic, and whilst I keep working from home, until I can retire for real, its a real buzz to get a great deal, even if you only bought it as an investment.
Am I a hoarder/collector or investor?
A little bit of them all and its fun too
Some interesting buying scams going on out there chaps, my one saving grace is Anna would never even step onto the attic ladder, never mind climb up into the ""Model Shop"" LOL
Regards Steve H ""

The stash on Ikea £7 racks in the attic before I packed it all up to move all 565 boxes


Packed ready to move at some point in the future


Regards

Steve H

[Tim Marlow]

I’m just glad no one asked about records/CDs or books…….I have well north of four figures in the former, and did have in the latter until after I moved and gave away several hundred to local charity shops….it’s the one area I really can’t resist a bargain.
In all honesty, I think modelling develops a type of obsessive kleptomania in its participants……we must regularly locate a steal of a bargain to fulfil our needs….either that or we all have well developed, but warped, “Hunter gatherer” instincts :thinking:

[Guest]

Collecting anything probably is a result of brains wired for gathering food when/if it’s available, I’d say. It serves no survival purpose in a society where you can get all the food you want any time you want it, so it gets turned into a different direction and you end up with people amassing large collections of stamps, comic books, ceramic elephants, CDs, cars, model kits, or whatever else happens to hold their interest.

According to my stash tracker on Scalemates (you need to be logged in there to see it), I have 385 kits — but this includes accessory sets, conversion kits, detailing sets and more as well as actual kits of a specific vehicle/plane/ship/etc. The list is probably also lacking a few items that I do have but didn’t remember when I compiled it about a year and a half ago. If I set it to “full kits” it says 147, but again, that includes sets of figures, weapons etc. that I would consider not kits in their own right but to be used for others instead.

I may have to go and actually count in the loft …

[Nicko]

I think it says a lot that more of us feel embarrassed about our stash rather than proud of it, but in today's society where so much is superficial and use- once, show on social media and throw away/ move onto the next thing, I think we have little to worry about....

At least we can visit the forum and not be made to feel a bit odd... :smiling:

Nick

[Mini Me]

I think something that has been overlooked in all this is perhaps the human need to be creative, as well as a tendency to have variety in one's creative efforts..........add that to what's already been said about "hunting" and "gathering" and you have the perfect definition of "STASH" :thumb2: Rick H.

[AlanG]

Packed ready to move at some point in the future

Holy moly Steve. I would love to have a stash like yours. Spoilt for choice and some i would defo love to build. And i'm not even a proper armour builder either!

[Bobby Conkers]

You know, I spotted this thread thinking it might help me purge my guilt for having about 7 or 8 boxes in a cupboard upstairs. I could "Hi, I'm Andy, and I have a problem." Applause all round, thanks for sharing.

I don't feel guilty now. If models were drugs, you lot are Scarface, Escobar and Cheech and Chong rolled into one.

[Bobby Conkers]

The stash on Ikea £7 racks in the attic before I packed it all up to move all 565 boxes


Packed ready to move at some point in the future


Regards

Steve H

This, for example.

Police say the haul had a street value of £900,000. A man has been arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply.

[Guest]

If models were drugs, you lot are Scarface, Escobar and Cheech and Chong rolled into one.

I can’t speak for others, but in my case it’s mostly a matter of having ideas for models faster than I actually build them. For example, yesterday I spent a good deal of time searching for a Dragon M48A5 kit (which seems to be unobtainable even though it’s only a few years old) because I had the idea to use it with the turret from the Academy M247 Sgt. York DIVADS kit (which I’ve had in my stash for over a decade), to bring the model into the 21st century.

Of course, before I can get to that I really want to finish my Weasel and Type 3 Chi-Nu, and then start on the Sd.Kfz. 7 and/or M4A3 (76) VVSS that I’ve been wanting to build for a while — and that’s just what I’m doing now.

[hirschberg]

Bobby conkers wrote
If models were drugs, you lot are Scarface, Escobar and Cheech and Chong rolled into one.

Cheech & Chong Ha Ha, brings back memmories of a missspent youth, or prehaps not so
misspent, still there in old age!
Roll another one.

[BattleshipBob]

Got about 3 StuG kits :upside::thinking::sad:

[adt70hk]

Got about 3 StuG kits :upside::thinking::sad:

There's a shocker!!!!! Only 3……...!!!! :smiling5: