discussion What do you do with the kit boxes?

[Guest]

Parts & decals all go into a large plastic box that previously housed a well known brand of chocolates, decent bits of sprue get shoved in a box with paint brushes and the rest gets recycled.

 

[Vaughan]

I just normally put them in the recycle bin but should have kept the last one (Fiesler Storch) as it would have been a good box for the Revell BF109G6 as is usual with Revell it has a side opening lid. The spare decals and unused parts I keep just incase I need them for a future build.

 

[stona]

I keep the boxes and any left over bits together and 'file' them in the loft. That way if I need, say, a blown canopy for a Fw 190 I know it will be in one of a few boxes rather than in a heap with spares from everything else.

I keep instructions in the box too.

Unused decals go into freezer bags and then get boxed by nationality. I often use spare decals, rarely spare plastic.

About once every few years senior management forces a rationalisation programme upon me and I have to consolidate the spare plastic and recycle some boxes. I try to keep the spare plastic by type (Bf 109, Spitfire etc) but sometimes lump some together by nationality.

I've never taken much interest in box art, though I do retain a soft spot for the action packed art work that used to grace the old Aifix kits. Some of that was seriously good and I used to like the bombs raining down, smoke and flames etc

Cheers

Steve

 

[colin m]

I kept my B36 box. For some strange reason I can't throw it away so it now lives in the garage with the B36. All the rest did get recycled. But having read this thread, I like the idea of saving just the front, if it's worth keeping.