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Robert1968 said:
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
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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....

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Steve
 
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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!:D

Steve - You may only have two unstarted kits, but how many reference books have you got in your 'stash'?:)
 
stona said:
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
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Thanks fir that Steve and my Specisl hobby Tempest will get built ( one day )
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Robert
 
Gern said:
Steve - You may only have two unstarted kits, but how many reference books have you got in your 'stash'?:)
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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.
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Steve
 
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Steve, I don't collect reference books, but I have about 1200 fiction books on my shelves. All read, some of them many times.
 
Gern said:
Steve, I don't collect reference books, but I have about 1200 fiction books on my shelves. All read, some of them many times.
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You are way ahead of me then !!!!

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

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Steve
 
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stona said:
but the books tend to get passed on or donated.
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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!
 
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 :D
 
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.
 
Sorry, teach me to look in the right place for the name:oops:
 
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