discussion Let's see your stash

[Guest]

Well, they always float around on forum sales. For example, I was always after the Eduard Limited Top Falcons. 1500 were produced in a limited edition format. Then it popped up here and I acquired it. It may be out of production, but it doesn’t mean it is gone

The two I hesitated on were probably the last two on eBay and they haven't been seen since...
I hope they pop up one day and at a reasonable price, but this I doubt since they both were pretty limited to begin with.
The current plan is to fabricobble one of them with the help of a 3D printer and a lot of putty and sanding, but it's a simpler model so it's perhaps possible?

It's all part of the hobby I guess?!

 

[spanner570]

All good fun, I guess, but like Paul, I too have contributed to this type of thread on here in the past. So I guess it is a bit 'Groundhog Days'

.....but still interesting to see member's collections.....and more importantly, the awful excuses for such mammoth collection of plastic!...:smiling::thumb2:

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Is that A-10 a good kit?
Thinking of starting a jet stash. Also, what scale is it?

It's not as bad as I had read online, I've got a build thread going here: http://scale-models.co.uk/threads/bowcats-tamiya-1-48-a-10a-thunderbolt.29555/page-2#post-370951. I only paid £10 for it so I'm happy enough. It's 1/48 scale, but a lot bigger in real life than I expected. I'm going to need a bigger shelf.

By all accounts the Hobby Boss kit is the best one to go for.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Then it popped up here and I acquired it.

Theres a sales section here?? I see a page listed the Market Place but nothing happens when I click on it?

 

[Ian M]

Theres a sales section here?? I see a page listed the Market Place but nothing happens when I click on it?

It's a sub section in the marketplace it should show up under the marketplace header.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Ian, I wasn't switched on for it, I am now.

 

[Guest]

Here is my little stash compared to you guys. A few tanks and a fee figure kits and one wingy thing ...View attachment 294155


And here are my books...View attachment 294156

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And finally a look inside the cave of completed builds and dioramas....View attachment 294158View attachment 294159

 

[dave]

Here is the bulk of the books on modelling and military history, there is another stack on the kindle. There is a fairly ecletic mix.

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[yak face]

but knowing that many of you have many times bigger stash than I have is comforting and makes me feel a little bit more sane again :tongue-out:

Thats what I keep telling myself Jens!!! Ive only got about 70 in my stash -still more than enough to last till im about 200 years old at current build rate - but I know that 70 is small change compared to some of the big guns out there!

 

[kcole4001]

I thought I had a lot until I saw some others' stashes, so here's my modest pile:
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Above on the left is the end of the box of a 1/350 Bismarck kit awaiting it's turn, and there are 5 1/72 vehicles currently in the diorama pipeline which I will complete this year (promise!).
The big white box is a box of SuperTrees, and the lower boxes are some HO wood craftsman kits from Kanamodel.

I like to keep to the same scale (mostly 1/35) when possible, gives a better frame of reference regarding the relative size of the subjects, but you can pack in so much with 1/72 it's hard to resist at times!

 

[Guest]

Oh, what the hell, I’ll take a couple of pictures for this thread and the other one as well …

Let’s start with the books. Well, most of them, I’ve got a couple of piles of them sitting elsewhere for easy reference, and this doesn’t include over twenty years’ worth of issues of the magazine That May Not be Named™ plus thirty years’ of De Tank and assorted other magazines, as well as a collection of mainly American and Dutch technical manuals on 1960s–’90s vehicles.

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And most of my stash of kits:

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Some of these are partly or mostly built, but put back into their boxes for various reasons. There’s also a bunch not visible in the photo because they’re obscured by others, including a Trumpeter Faun Franziska, a Tamiya 1/25 scale Centurion, and a bunch of 1/72 scale WWII kits for wargaming. Oh, or my collection of accessory sets and conversion kits that I keep actually in my hobby room.

Many of them are also so old that I paid for them in guilders rather than euros, and though I still intend to build most of them, chances are I never actually might

 

[kcole4001]

I also had intent to use 1/72 for gaming, though in my case our game group planned to go through an RPG 'Behind Enemy Lines', which it turns out is quite rare and long out of print.
We created characters (a pretty long and involved process) and played the first mission which was part of the D-Day landing, and then never got any further.

I scored a somewhat tattered copy in the used section of a now long gone game and comic shop back in the early 1990s.

I miss those old game shops, loads of used goodies, if only I had more money back then.
I'd have dozens more old games I have no time to play! :smirk:

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Kevin and Jakko, I too game occasionally in 20mm (or 1/72). Currently using the Chain of command set from a Two Fat Lardies. Personally I th8nk they are the best WW2 set I have yet used. If you are looking for rules, give the TFL website a look. There is a new set out now called “what a tanker” that seem interesting as well.....sorry for the brief diversion on the thread by the way....
Cheers
Tim

 

[kcole4001]

There are also 1/285 miniatures under the Micro Armor name still available, popular for Deluxe ASL (larger hexes).

 

[Guest]

I also had intent to use 1/72 for gaming

I picked it mainly because I once bought copy of the Operation Overlord[ wargame Italeri released at one point, and because 1/72 has a far wider selection of models available than the currently fashionable “28 mm”/1/56, and is a lot cheaper.

I miss those old game shops, loads of used goodies, if only I had more money back then.

I wish I could say I missed them, but there never were any around where I live to start with.

I'd have dozens more old games I have no time to play! :smirk:

Want me to post pictures of my shelves with game books? All circa eleven linear meters of them?

 

[jameshoughton1997!!!!]

Its almost another hobby collecting model kits do any people think that one day we might do all the kits we buy because i certainly dont think i will and im only 24 but i just cant stop buying more and more i pre orderd some classic kits from airfix yesterday to add to the top of the wardrobe

 

[peterairfix]

Its almost another hobby collecting model kits do any people think that one day we might do all the kits we buy because i certainly dont think i will and im only 24 but i just cant stop buying more and more i pre orderd some classic kits from airfix yesterday to add to the top of the wardrobe

I know were you are coming as I got another ten from the boot sale this morning I don't know if I will make them but it's just because they were cheap

 

[jameshoughton1997!!!!]

For me its either there cheap i want one or what if they stop makeing it !

 

[Guest]

Its almost another hobby collecting model kits

There are people whose hobby is indeed collecting model kits rather than building them. Usually they collect old, hard-to-get kits, but I suppose there are also ones who collect brand-new ones.

do any people think that one day we might do all the kits we buy

Not really, if you’re asking.

im only 24 but i just cant stop buying more and more

I used to be in the habit of buying kits on the basis of “I want to build that at some point and it’s cheap now” but stopped doing that quite some time ago. Now I only buy kits that I either do want to actually build in the near future (and even then I fail half the time or so …) or that are rare enough or such _very_ good deals right now that I know I’ll never be able to find that again at the time I will actually get round to wanting to build that particular subject.

 

[PaulTRose]

i knew somone on another forum (in the states) and he admitted that he was more of a collector than a builder.....when he moved house and he got to add up he had just over 5000 kits, he had been collecting for over 40 years mind you

i remember when i got back into this lark over 10 years ago, i got into a buying frenzy, at one point the stash was over 240 kits....that was when ebay was actually somewhere you can get bargains lol.......i had a clear out last year when i moved and sold off everything i had no interest in, down to about 100 now which i think is ok........so far this year i have only bought 7 kits......i only buy if its somthing i really REALLY want