And I only have 1200 odd. Mind you I am not looking at them as possible resale items.

Gondor

From a very old modelling buddy i got this big thing  ... Bought it because it is Matchbox!  Unfortunately i have no Intention to build it...

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And a comet for the next projects

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So, is the 163 going to go vertical, out climb the two Jugs and escape, or is it toast?

Quote from: Gondor on November 02, 2024, 03:07:35 AMAnd I only have 1200 odd. Mind you I am not looking at them as possible resale items.

Gondor

My stash^TM is ca 750, and even that is far beyond what i ever can expect to build within my lifetime.

But bugger that. I find that I generally draw quite a bit of joy just from plucking about among my kits, planning my builds as well. And replanning, come to that. And that joy is also a worthy and rewarding joy, and accordingly, I feel very little shame for buying another kit - as long as I do have an interest to complete it when I am procuring it.

Mrs z came into my shed during the week and started poking around in drawers and cupboards.
She picked drawers without models in and then got bored and wandered off before revealing too much.
I take that as a win for my dispersed stash storage system although to be honest it was more luck as the odds are pretty good that if you pick a cupboard at random it has models in.

A quick count of what's in the modelling room came up with about 225 model kits - excluding single figures, figure sets, upgrade & accessory sets, & diorama accessories.

Fairly sure the shed stash is bigger but I've neither counted. nor inventoried them.

The stash includes 1/35 armour, 1/32 &1/24 cars, 1/35 landing craft & boats, 1/48 aircraft, some 1/72 aircraft, a few 1/72 vehicles, & 1/350 ships.

Quote from: Pellson on November 02, 2024, 05:09:55 AMMy stash^TM is ca 750, and even that is far beyond what i ever can expect to build within my lifetime.

But bugger that. I find that I generally draw quite a bit of joy just from plucking about among my kits, planning my builds as well. And replanning, come to that. And that joy is also a worthy and rewarding joy, and accordingly, I feel very little shame for buying another kit - as long as I do have an interest to complete it when I am procuring it.

Exactly, and sometimes you have to buy something because you like it, it's cheap, not likly to be in production for an absolute age, or simply because you can

Gondor

Alot of the models i buy I consider future stock...cause ya just never know do ya .
I get em like most of you blokes..it's cheap or I have plans or just why not? models ...some I've wanted for yrs and when the opportunity comes along ya just grab it ..that's a want model..the need models are the same deal ..strangely I do seem to have a good amount of luck when it comes to kits falling into my lap ..im not hunting or even really wanting anything and then bang ..a Tamiya Heinkel 219 in 48th for less than half of what I payed for my first one 
Same this week with the Vulcan..it's not needed or to be honest wanted but dudes ..they ain't falling of trees here for the price I got this one for .
Long may this keep happening 

Quote from: Pellson on November 02, 2024, 05:09:55 AM

Quote from: Gondor on November 02, 2024, 03:07:35 AMAnd I only have 1200 odd. Mind you I am not looking at them as possible resale items.

Gondor

My stash^TM is ca 750, and even that is far beyond what i ever can expect to build within my lifetime.

But bugger that. I find that I generally draw quite a bit of joy just from plucking about among my kits, planning my builds as well. And replanning, come to that. And that joy is also a worthy and rewarding joy, and accordingly, I feel very little shame for buying another kit - as long as I do have an interest to complete it when I am procuring it.

.My stash isn't huge, but I have two sons casting eyes on it, a daughter in law who is  about to begin  backstory  writing  and two grand daughters for whom I am laying down a variety of simple  kits.

Hurrah for the inter-generational stash.

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Quote from: Pellson on November 02, 2024, 05:09:55 AM

Quote from: Gondor on November 02, 2024, 03:07:35 AMAnd I only have 1200 odd. Mind you I am not looking at them as possible resale items.

Gondor

My stash^TM is ca 750, and even that is far beyond what i ever can expect to build within my lifetime.

But bugger that. I find that I generally draw quite a bit of joy just from plucking about among my kits, planning my builds as well. And replanning, come to that. And that joy is also a worthy and rewarding joy, and accordingly, I feel very little shame for buying another kit - as long as I do have an interest to complete it when I am procuring it.

.My stash isn't huge, but I have two sons casting eyes on it, a daughter in law who is  about to begin  backstory  writing  and two grand daughters for whom I am laying down a variety of simple  kits.

Hurrah for the inter-generational stash.

The family that makes models together, stays together!  

Quote from: Wardukw on November 02, 2024, 11:41:17 AMAlot of the models i buy I consider future stock...cause ya just never know do ya .
I get em like most of you blokes..it's cheap or I have plans or just why not? models ...some I've wanted for yrs and when the opportunity comes along ya just grab it ..that's a want model..the need models are the same deal ..strangely I do seem to have a good amount of luck when it comes to kits falling into my lap ..im not hunting or even really wanting anything and then bang ..a Tamiya Heinkel 219 in 48th for less than half of what I payed for my first one 
Same this week with the Vulcan..it's not needed or to be honest wanted but dudes ..they ain't falling of trees here for the price I got this one for .
Long may this keep happening 

I think that around 90% of my stash was bought with a plan in mind , some 9% are/will be parts donors and the remaining 1% are a few impulse buys that kind of belong in the "Why did i even buy it?" category...
And it's the opposite for me when it comes to kits falling into my lap... they don't!
Most of what i bought so far, has been so after at least a few days of looking around in various sources and then deciding what's the best deal for what i want to do

Speaking of buying kits, i've recently made an order at Super-hobby again, this time it's a 1/72 kit that i never had much interest in but since i've built the Matchbox Fiat G.91Y, research about the Italian fighters got me reading stuff about the offer made by a German company to sell F-104 fighters to Portugal before the end of the African colonial wars so i bought the Hasegawa F-104G/S.
Along with the kit there's 1X set of canopy and wheel masks from KV, also 1X 1/48 F-16E and 1X 1/48 F-5N 3D cockpit decals set from Kelik and 1X CMK 1/72 US helicopter crew resin figures.

To be honest most of my purchases are because I either really like the type represented or because it's a type that intrigues me, and yes I do normally have a plan in mind when I buy it, but "best laid plans"  .

I've also made sure that at least a couple of people in my life are aware of the "Stash" and where to go to realise it's value when the time comes to put me in that boat, set it on fire and shove it into the Wandle 

Quote from: NARSES2 on November 03, 2024, 01:32:41 AMTo be honest most of my purchases are because I either really like the type represented or because it's a type that intrigues me, and yes I do normally have a plan in mind when I buy it, but "best laid plans"  .

I've also made sure that at least a couple of people in my life are aware of the "Stash" and where to go to realise it's value when the time comes to put me in that boat, set it on fire and shove it into the Wandle 

Quote from: DogfighterZen on November 03, 2024, 01:24:08 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on November 02, 2024, 11:41:17 AMAlot of the models i buy I consider future stock...cause ya just never know do ya .
I get em like most of you blokes..it's cheap or I have plans or just why not? models ...some I've wanted for yrs and when the opportunity comes along ya just grab it ..that's a want model..the need models are the same deal ..strangely I do seem to have a good amount of luck when it comes to kits falling into my lap ..im not hunting or even really wanting anything and then bang ..a Tamiya Heinkel 219 in 48th for less than half of what I payed for my first one 
Same this week with the Vulcan..it's not needed or to be honest wanted but dudes ..they ain't falling of trees here for the price I got this one for .
Long may this keep happening 

I think that around 90% of my stash was bought with a plan in mind , some 9% are/will be parts donors and the remaining 1% are a few impulse buys that kind of belong in the "Why did i even buy it?" category...
And it's the opposite for me when it comes to kits falling into my lap... they don't!
Most of what i bought so far, has been so after at least a few days of looking around in various sources and then deciding what's the best deal for what i want to do

I'll tell you guys one thing..but yep Chris ..that impulse buy can be great and as Rui said pretty much always for a plan ..but then another plan comes along and then another 😆
A story all of us blokes know all to well .
But as i first said ...sometimes these kits falling into my lap can be a pain ...the last monster score started when a won a 35th AH-IW Cobra for $16 bucks ..then the bloke mentioned about other kits and there I went again ..im not sure how many kits I got off him but I'll bet it's more then 40 and I know some were stupid expensive but it's that classic issue ..temptation guys got the better of me big time and do I regret it? 😆 🤣 nope 😄

I view it as an addiction.  One which has replaced my former addiction to nicotine.
I'm not complaining though as its cheaper and less likely to kill me.

Quote from: DogfighterZen on November 03, 2024, 01:24:08 AMSpeaking of buying kits, i've recently made an order at Super-hobby again, this time it's a 1/72 kit that i never had much interest in but since i've built the Matchbox Fiat G.91Y, research about the Italian fighters got me reading stuff about the offer made by a German company to sell F-104 fighters to Portugal before the end of the African colonial wars so i bought the Hasegawa F-104G/S.
Along with the kit there's 1X set of canopy and wheel masks from KV New Ware, also 1X 1/48 F-16E and 1X 1/48 F-5N 3D cockpit decals set from Kelik and 1X CMK 1/72 US helicopter crew resin figures.

Delivered today...

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