How many Whiffs does it take to create something new?

[McColm]

Hello,
The subject of what happens to your prized Whiffs after completion has been raised before, but what  if your Whiff could be merged/recycled to build something new?
Do fellow Whiffers swap their Whiffs with each other?
I know space is a problem, shelves get full and there is only so many kits you can hang from the ceiling.
Scenes can be created, even model train layouts/slot car tracks adapted.
Carriage and delivery may pose a problem, but your Whiff won't matter if it is damaged as it can be glued back together.
Just a thought!!

[PR19_Kit]

Ooooh no! The very thought of NOT having mine on display fills me with dread!

OK, so I do store many of my RW models away in large carboard boxes liberally filled with foam chips, the sort that you fill cushions with, until they're needed for shows etc. But all my Whiffs are on display on the multiple shelves I have around the lounge and model room. My fave Whiffs are in a glass fronted cabinet where our visitors can see them and ask 'Oh, did your Dad fly those?'  

The PR19's centre stage of course........

[Weaver]

There are some folk on here who keep everything, and others, with small houses, who give a lot of their stuff away, or even bin it.

[McColm]

I was thinking for those people who run out of space or the otherhalf decides to decorate without telling them. Instead of binning them they could be used by another Whiffer.

[lancer]

Being one of those with a small flat, I tend to display my most recent wiffs or other (real world) builds and photograph them and then put them in storage. You're right space or lack of it is a royal pain in the proverbial.

[arkon]

not exactly in the whif catogory , but i make a lot of cheap paper models ( can be done in a weekend ,not alot of detail but gets the basic shape done) and i give them away to freinds and coworkers .has gotten a couple to start modeling again or their kids.

[raafif]

Carriage and delivery may pose a problem, but your Whiff won't matter if it is damaged as it can be glued back together.

NO IT CAN'T   most of my (mostly whiff) models were seriously broken by the removal company -- boxes squashed & broken open so small bits were lost forever.

Glued 2 afv's back together but they are still missing bits like hatches etc.
Keep them in the cabinet to look at tho.  One day I might be moved to fix the others but doubt it -- too demoralizing  

Having said that, one of them started out as a recycled non-whiff hull anyway but want to keep all my whiffs as intended -- I'm proud of them, no matter what the "real-world" Geeks say  .

[Alvis 3.14159]

One really good way to make whifs disappear is to send them overseas. They never reappear.

Alvis 3.14159

[McColm]

Thanks,
I see that pride gets in the way of parting with your models.

[manytanks]

Just get out a can of pink spray paint

[PR19_Kit]

I see that pride gets in the way of parting with your models.

And shouldn't it?

The only models I've ever got rid of, both RW and Whiffs, are those that have been irepairably broken. They're a record of accomplishment to my mind. Sometimes, as in the case of some Merlin kits I could mention, of EXTREME accomplishment. 

[McColm]

OK before words are exchanged, that might cause an argument.
Lets just say, you've been working on something and it's causing you a headache. You could ask a fellow Whiffer to take it off your hands
I'm sure that there are fellow Whiffers that are good sprayers, that would be glad to apply your finish to your Whiff.

[Joe C-P]

That's what nephews are for, or friends' or neighborhood kids. I've given away to the first two, and hope to have a good summer for being outside and letting the neighbors' kids see me.