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retiredyank
Joined: June 29, 2009
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 06:33 PM UTC
I've done it. My stash has reached a size that I can no longer remember what all I have. Two kits that I keep forgetting are the AFV Club M109 kit bash and Meng Smerch. I had planned to have both completed, by Christmas. But, I'm working my way through my shelf of shame, on top of a campaign build.
vettejack
Joined: November 23, 2012
KitMaker: 1,277 posts
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 07:01 PM UTC
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I've done it. My stash has reached a size that I can no longer remember what all I have. Two kits that I keep forgetting are the AFV Club M109 kit bash and Meng Smerch. I had planned to have both completed, by Christmas. But, I'm working my way through my shelf of shame, on top of a campaign build.
You are not alone, brother. This Vet got rid of over 200 kits to Veteran charities, and I still have a 100 sitting on the shelf: most of which I'll never get to. At least they are "current" technology as far as detail, etc. Now, if the price could reflect the 70's and 80's, then all would be right with the world!
oldbean
Joined: July 05, 2004
KitMaker: 769 posts
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 07:47 PM UTC
I feel your pain. I'm trying to keep my stash under control, about 130 right now. I know I'll never get around to building all of them, but those dang manufacturers keep coming out with all this cool stuff!! Wife and kids couldn't care less about my hobby so my only other plan is to invent an elixir to keep me alive for about another 50 years. 
Jesse
Jesse
RobinNilsson
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Joined: November 29, 2006
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Posted: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - 07:47 PM UTC
I reached that point many years ago when I happily bought a kit that I "needed" only to find that I already had one.
I was lucky to find a conversion for it so it worked out.
That was when I decided to make a card register to keep track of the stash. The paper cards have been retired and now the list is in excel, including indexes to pinpoint the exact location.
The problem with this list is that it makes it obvious how many kits there are in the stash .....
I was lucky to find a conversion for it so it worked out.
That was when I decided to make a card register to keep track of the stash. The paper cards have been retired and now the list is in excel, including indexes to pinpoint the exact location.
The problem with this list is that it makes it obvious how many kits there are in the stash .....
TopSmith
Joined: August 09, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 11:24 AM UTC
Hummm.. You have to pinpoint the exact location? Multiple mini warehouses? Impressive!!
RobinNilsson
TOS ModeratorJoined: November 29, 2006
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 12:14 PM UTC
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Hummm.. You have to pinpoint the exact location? Multiple mini warehouses? Impressive!!
Crazy really ....
Some kits are sharing boxes, some kits have been stored in smaller boxes to eliminate most of the useless empty space inside the original boxes, the shelves are deep enough to allow a few kits hidden behind the front row and the visible ones overhang the shelf a bit, it's only a matter of center of gravity.
The stash has "overflowed" from the hobby room into another room. Too many new interesting kits and not enough time spent building. There are over 200 finished 1/35 models in the display cabinet ....
retiredyank
Joined: June 29, 2009
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 12:39 PM UTC
I have five kits loose, in a plastic filing cabinet. I've bought a couple that I forgot I already had. I may spend the day organizing my shelves to see if I can move the ones, in my closet to my workshop.
Bodeen
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Joined: June 08, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 12:44 PM UTC
I have 8 huge rubbermaid containers, an entire bedroom closet and an entire spare room wall filled with unbuilt kits. I will never get to them all.it is ironic that,when I was in my 20s, I bought part of a collection from the widow of man who had amassed a huge stash. I couldn't believe that anyone would need that many unbuilt kits. I probably have 10 times as many kits, plus aftermarket accessories, as that guy had. I'm in my late 50s now and have no plan on what will happen to my "precious to me/ worthless to my wife" collection when I die. I am also a veteran and maybe that is the best option. I have some collector's items that could bring my family some cash. I also have no idea of exactly what kits I have. Maybe it's time to take inventory.
Sandbox
Joined: October 29, 2002
KitMaker: 350 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 05:52 PM UTC
I have my inventory on an Excel spreadsheet. It lists 165 kits plus after market items and reference books. Printed double sided in makes about 10 sheets of paper which folded fits into my pants pocket. I bring it to a show and if I need to check I have my list to consult. All kits stay in their original box until they are started. This should work until we need to downsize our abode.
So if I complete one kit per month that means in 13.33 years I will have all kits currently in my inventory built. Yeah...right! It is a good theory.
So if I complete one kit per month that means in 13.33 years I will have all kits currently in my inventory built. Yeah...right! It is a good theory.
Tojo72
Joined: June 06, 2006
KitMaker: 4,691 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 06:28 PM UTC
I couldn't get in that deep,I feel guilty about the 30 or so kits I have on hand.
vettejack
Joined: November 23, 2012
KitMaker: 1,277 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 06:54 PM UTC
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I feel your pain. I'm trying to keep my stash under control, about 130 right now. I know I'll never get around to building all of them, but those dang manufacturers keep coming out with all this cool stuff!! Wife and kids couldn't care less about my hobby so my only other plan is to invent an elixir to keep me alive for about another 50 years.
Jesse
Funny the mortality of some of us has entered the picture. Over time I have been telling my wife that I won't live to build what is in the stash. Of course, the question arises..."then why do you have so many knowing you can't build them all?"...isn't that kind of a waste of money?"...
Well, as I sit there with a perplexed look on my face trying to ponder her side of things concerning my hobby, I obviously have that instant comeback..."but honey, they only make a few hundred kits of this type before they shut down production and destroy the molds...I have to 'strike' while the iron's hot!"... She's not buying it... 
Then the storage issue, yes, I have that as well. Stuffed those 100 kits into a closet, with all the aftermarket in other spots, I realized I could save some space by actually putting the aftermarket items in the kit boxes! Bang, problem solved! Nope...showed the wife what I was doing to conserve space, and her comeback was..."you mean I have to look in every kit to see if there are extra parts?"..."Yep, you do!" Another stern roll of the eyes 
I explained that these extra parts will get you extra money when I pass on and when you put them on EBay!" Perplexed 
she asks..."you mean I have to sell these for you?"..."with all those extra parts?"..."I thought you said these kits were the most up-to-date kits ever produced!!"..."why on earth did you have to buy extra stuff for them if they are so good?" You guys see where this is going...I will never have the 'right' answer...although in my mind, it makes perfect sense! Right?? So, to this date, I still don't know what will happen to those kits once I leave this earth. 
And I won't be asking, or explaining, all this to her again...ever! 
Bravo36
Joined: January 11, 2002
KitMaker: 247 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 07:50 PM UTC
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Quoted TextHummm.. You have to pinpoint the exact location? Multiple mini warehouses? Impressive!!
Crazy really ....
Some kits are sharing boxes, some kits have been stored in smaller boxes to eliminate most of the useless empty space inside the original boxes, the shelves are deep enough to allow a few kits hidden behind the front row and the visible ones overhang the shelf a bit, it's only a matter of center of gravity.
The stash has "overflowed" from the hobby room into another room. Too many new interesting kits and not enough time spent building. There are over 200 finished 1/35 models in the display cabinet ....
My problem is more in line with display space challenges. I’m out of room for my dioramas. I’ve had to disassemble older ones and either trash or parts-out the components. Of course, the older dios are not as good as the newer generation.
But it hurts...
Biggles2
Joined: January 01, 2004
KitMaker: 7,600 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 08:23 PM UTC
Hmmm...ever forget you already have a certain kit and go and buy another one?
vettejack
Joined: November 23, 2012
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 08:43 PM UTC
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Hmmm...ever forget you already have a certain kit and go and buy another one?
I'll never admit to anything like what u asked? Often...
Kevlar06
Joined: March 15, 2009
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 08:47 PM UTC
For 30 years I travelled the world, buying kits as I came across them, without time to build anything. I also had many my parents kept for me for me from when I was back in high school (I'm 65 now). I amassed over 2000 kits, which stayed in storage for several years, then when I retired, I found they were excellent trading material. When I went to work in a LHS, I used to "wheel and deal" in kit trading to upgrade, buy, or sell to acquire the latest kits or for supplies and materials. I still do on occasion now that I'm fully retired. Now I have a collection of about 200 kits in all scales and genres. I thought I was bad until one of the sons of a 90 year old customer of the LHS came in and asked us not to sell him 10 kits at a time anymore-- he told us his Dad had two entire rooms in the house filled floor to ceiling with model kits going back 70 years. It was so bad, he couldn't get into the rooms to replace the light bulbs-- both rooms had been dark for several years! I didn't feel so bad about my hoard then. But it gave me pause to think about it and that's when I started to slim down the stash. I think I have it to a point I can "control" now. I also adopted a rule my wife still holds me to--If I want a new kit, I have to get rid of five old ones! As I age, I'm concentrating on better kits that are less work to build rather than converting/re-building dogs. So most of what I have left are the nicer, higher quality kits.
VR, Russ
VR, Russ
BravoTwoZero
Joined: June 11, 2009
KitMaker: 461 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 09:07 PM UTC
I am like you as well. I have a lot in my stash. Just when I think I have bought my last "must have" kit. A new one will be released. Also, along with kits, I also have trouble keeping tabs on what paints, weathering products and reference materials (books and mags) I already have.
retiredyank
Joined: June 29, 2009
KitMaker: 11,610 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 09:14 PM UTC
Thankfully, half of my library is digital. Forget and buy the same kit twice? No, never... Maybe... I have etch sets I forget about, often. Detail parts are worse. Have a date, then on to the overhaul.
Biggles2
Joined: January 01, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 10:46 PM UTC
I think the combination of glue and plastic can cause Alzheimer - inhaling...not eating!
retiredyank
Joined: June 29, 2009
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 10:49 PM UTC
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I think the combination of glue and plastic can cause Alzheimer - inhaling...not eating!
Do you have a problem, with me sampling my supplies? Testors, with the steel applicator tastes the best. I prefer to wash it down, with some of my Floquil paints.
m4sherman
Joined: January 18, 2006
KitMaker: 1,866 posts
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 11:27 PM UTC
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Quoted TextI think the combination of glue and plastic can cause Alzheimer - inhaling...not eating!
Do you have a problem, with me sampling my supplies? Testors, with the steel applicator tastes the best. I prefer to wash it down, with some of my Floquil paints.
I think I got the load down to 80 or so, with numerous detail and track sets. Several times I managed to get the same kit that I already had.
It occurred to me years ago that the manufacturers must have an addictive agent in the mold release. Why else do we get so hooked in?
TopSmith
Joined: August 09, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 11:40 PM UTC
I am here to help you guys! I see there is a lot of angst among us about the unfortunate volume of kits that have accumulated over the years. I can (even from here) feel the stress you are under. I feel bad that your life span may be shortened due to the excessive stress. I realize that this stress could be transferred to your survivors having to care for or disburse all of those many kits and aftermarket parts. So as the good Samaritan that I can be, please have your next of kin send me your kits and I will assume the stress for you. If you wish to avoid the burden of having your survivors package and ship those all of those kits, You could ship them now and your loved ones will appreciate how much you truly care about them. No need to thank me, it's just my contribution to our hobby. 
sherb
Joined: August 25, 2004
KitMaker: 752 posts
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 12:08 AM UTC
It's not just you Matt. On more than one occasion I've found myself looking at something in my stash and having no recollection at all of ever buying or trading for it.
sherb
Joined: August 25, 2004
KitMaker: 752 posts
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 12:26 AM UTC
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Funny the mortality of some of us has entered the picture. Over time I have been telling my wife that I won't live to build what is in the stash.
My father-in-law passed away about a month ago and he was a HUGE collector of Lionel/O gauge trains. We just finished packing everything up and moving it out of his house. He had a room where the walls were covered with floor to ceiling shelves of trains, a second room with with a 16'x20' layout he had been working on and a third room with a smaller mostly complete layout and dozens of plastic tubs full of extra trains, accessories, tracks and parts.
We sold some of them but it didn't seem to make much of a dent. Long story short, my wife and I can no longer park our vehicles in our garage and I've got a new sales project to work on this summer.
It really got me thinking about my own stash to the point that I returned home from Mosquitocon this past Saturday with just one kit in hand and thoughts about downsizing.
armouredcharmer
Joined: June 09, 2009
KitMaker: 670 posts
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 12:33 AM UTC
Brothers (and Sisters) I feel your pain and have had a few embarrassed belly laughs - with a stash of around 300 kits, mostly armour and figures. My biggest problem is shelf space is at a premium whilst the stash continues to grow, albeit at now reduced rate but I still find my self seeing a kit online and then going to check whether I have it or not!
RobinNilsson
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Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2018 - 12:46 AM UTC
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Brothers (and Sisters) I feel your pain and have had a few embarrassed belly laughs - with a stash of around 300 kits, mostly armour and figures. My biggest problem is shelf space is at a premium whilst the stash continues to grow, albeit at now reduced rate but I still find my self seeing a kit online and then going to check whether I have it or not!
OK. Time to admit to my sins or come out of the closet, whatever you want to call it. I have about 10 times as many kits as Danny. I'm hoping that medical science will solve the problems of aging so that I can live until I'm 200 years old.
Still getting new ones, who can resist the S400, THAAD, Scuds tank transporters et.c. ....
/ Robin
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