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The Stash. dare you show yours? updated

Easy one!!

No!!!! I really mean ONE = 1!!

HobbyBoss Helix KA27.

No more, the end!
 
Not going to list mine. Compared to some there are a lot, but compared to others there aren’t. I know I have a good few hundred figures to paint, and enough kits in most genres to keep me happy so I really don’t buy anything like as much as I used to. I sold a lot of stuff I knew I would never build again during first lock down, and will probably cull some more this year, but the majority are subjects I’m interested in. Some of these model shop sized stashes amaze me. I can probably build a subject a month or about fifteen figures, so know I have several years worth here, why buy more?
 
Not going to list mine. Compared to some there are a lot, but compared to others there aren’t. I know I have a good few hundred figures to paint, and enough kits in most genres to keep me happy so I really don’t buy anything like as much as I used to. I sold a lot of stuff I knew I would never build again during first lock down, and will probably cull some more this year, but the majority are subjects I’m interested in. Some of these model shop sized stashes amaze me. I can probably build a subject a month or about fifteen figures, so know I have several years worth here, why buy more?
I usually have a 'do I really want this' once a year.
 
I sell off lots of kits every eighteen months to two years and the last time I did in 2022/3, I freed up over £5000! I am due to have another sales drive this year and will try to get my stash down to my comfortable 200 kit level.

Dave
 
My "stash" can just about be seen under my bench:



Probably 6 or 7 kits, 3 bought especially for upcoming group builds :tears-of-joy:

I'm not one for collecting, I buy to build, but I'm sure it'll creep up slowly.
Anything less than 10 items does not count as a 'stash'. Please go to the fast checkout aisle...
 
I sell off lots of kits every eighteen months to two years and the last time I did in 2022/3, I freed up over £5000! I am due to have another sales drive this year and will try to get my stash down to my comfortable 200 kit level.

Dave
Just actually read through the list...

THREE Airfix SAM-2s? Talk about a 'hens teeth rarity'
"We will not see it's like again"
 
I'm down to about 400 now. I keep telling myself it's time I had a sale but ....
 
I'm down to about 400 now.
'We demand to see the evidence, your honour!'

Hmm. Was it on here a couple years back, talking about the stash, someone posted a pic of a house that split open due to boxes in the attic?
Nearly had something similar myself, but that was my partner's comic collection...
 
Anything less than 10 items does not count as a 'stash'. Please go to the fast checkout aisle...

I just scrape in them with a measly 11 :tears-of-joy:

I did have quite a few more but thinned it down to stuff I’m absolutely, definitely going to build.

Then I just buy stuff that I want to build in the here and now such as for group builds.

Geoff.
 
I just scrape in them with a measly 11 :tears-of-joy:

I did have quite a few more but thinned it down to stuff I’m absolutely, definitely going to build.

Then I just buy stuff that I want to build in the here and now such as for group builds.

Geoff.
Um, I think you just defined why any of us buy anytjing

Other than 'I don't normally do that... But it's very pretty.'

Wait! Does that make us the same as some people and SHOES!?
 
Nope - no way am I revealing my treasure house! It's taken me years to build it up, and I can sit there & open boxes, and gloat to my hearts content - and it's MINE all MINE - not that I'm possesive, or anything....................................
Dave
( just kidding, but watch out for the electric fences )
 
Wargamers always talk about their lead pile, which is basically the same thing as our stash, because gamers figures always used to be made from white metal. There was a case reported in the late 1990s whereby a gamers stash fell through his bedroom ceiling, and onto the bed where he was asleep with his wife…..apparently SWMBO was less than impressed…..especially as he had been hiding most of it.
 
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