Purchases limited by Backpack Size Query

[Cobra]

Hey Guys, have you ever had to Carefully Decide what Models You'd because of Backpack Capacity? I sometimes have to Decide about buying Models because I'm Not Sure What i can Get Into my Backpack. What Say You? Thanks for Looking. Dan

[Captain Canada]

I took the new Italeri Sunderland lid off, and flattened it. Then I cut up some sprues and folded the top corners down of the bottom box.....LHS guy thought I was crazy !

[kerick]

My limiting issue is cash on hand.

[PR19_Kit]

Backpack? What's one of them?

I never use one, just carry the model box in my hand, or under my arm if need be.

[Weaver]

I once decided I wasn't going to buy cheap Tu-22 Blinders at Modelzone because I was on my motorbike and they were just too big to carry.....

[kerick]

You've never been to Asia. I saw an entire family, mom, dad two kids and the baby all on one motorbike in Bangkok.

[Bungle]

Hey Guys, have you ever had to Carefully Decide what Models You'd because of Backpack Capacity? I sometimes have to Decide about buying Models because I'm Not Sure What i can Get Into my Backpack.

It's not the size of the backpack that's the issue it's what I can smuggle past SWMBO. I have agreed to a monthly maximum spend (with no carry overs) so some times I need to come up with a cunning plan or two. Like Weaver I have problems with a  Tu-22 Blinder. Sticking it down the trousers doesn't work as a concealment plan.

[sandiego89]

Size has been a limiting factor in some of my hobby shop visits when traveling on buisiness.  My all time favorite is the Ace Hardware store in Berkeley California, USA- it has one of the few remaining old model store feels to it.  Last trip there I carefully pondered what would fit in my suitcase and carry on, found a few 1/144 and small small 1/72 aircraft and the like that could just fit in the suitcase... but then a 1/72 K2 Victor at a super cheap price jumped off the shelf and begged me to take it home   - and has a huge box, so I had to think fast- all planning went out the window, bought the K2, and about 5 other kits, a box, and walked down to the post office and mailed myself a present    

[PR19_Kit]

While I was in Minneapolis on one of the numerous occasions I went there in the last 35 yrs or so, Monogram released their monster 1/72 full stack Shuttle kit, so I figured it'd be cheaper to buy one while I was there. However none of the umpteen model shops in the area had one, except the one en route to the airport on my way home! 

So I bought the kit and headed for my flight, but with the kit as hand baggage as there was NO way it would fit in my suitcase. I asked the check-in girl if I could take it as checked baggage and she said 'I wouldn't recommend it sir, I'm sure some of our baggage handers are modellers.....' so I carried it aboard. The Chief Flight Attendant gave me a sideways look as I struggled through the DC10's door with my carry-on bag over one shoulder and the Shuttle kit under the other arm and said 'So you bought your own lifeboat with you?' 

She said she'd find a place to stash it for me '....well away from the flight deck or they'll have built it by the time we get to Gatwick!' 

[Steel Penguin]

yes and no....
my normal show bag is a bright red 45L rucksack ( the guys will have seen this) its useful as if im with my wife she uses it to help spot me if we separate ( wargaming wife and shows occasionally we spot different things the "ohh shiny" takes over and we have to find each other again.)
the trick is wile the main part is big ( it swallows the Saladin Ac box and the Tamiya Brachiosaur box  both 1:35)  the compression straps arnt sewn to the front so I can then add more boxes to them, and still add a box or 2 under the  top cover
if I remember rightly I got 3 airfix 1:48 warrior kits in it and another 2 or 3 outside.
and as  captain Canada says, if push comes to shove, and it ever gets that bad, the boxes will get cut up or dumped, and the plastic will come home without them.   

[kerick]

Just don't forget the instructions!

[Runway ? ...]

I keep one of these on hand.

You'll struggle to fully inflate a double airbed in there but that's just my problem.

[Go4fun]

Let me tell you about the time I went to the grocery store and did two weeks shopping then stopped at the hobby shop.
It was all going fine until I realized I had used my BICYCLE and not my car to get there.

[Weaver]

So I bought the kit and headed for my flight, but with the kit as hand baggage as there was NO way it would fit in my suitcase. I asked the check-in girl if I could take it as checked baggage and she said 'I wouldn't recommend it sir, I'm sure some of our baggage handers are modellers.....' so I carried it aboard. The Chief Flight Attendant gave me a sideways look as I struggled through the DC10's door with my carry-on bag over one shoulder and the Shuttle kit under the other arm and said 'So you bought your own lifeboat with you?' 

She said she'd find a place to stash it for me '....well away from the flight deck or they'll have built it by the time we get to Gatwick!' 

LMFAO - 

[Weaver]

You've never been to Asia. I saw an entire family, mom, dad two kids and the baby all on one motorbike in Bangkok.

Problem was, I wasn't in Bangkok, I was in Manchester. You'd only see that here if you were lucky enough to see it before a policeman did...