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Just how big is your stash ?

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Fish&Chip said:
I always banging my head over the ceramic heating plates ventilator, so the set up with a secong floor is not recommended for me:D
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The table started out as an attempt at an HO scale train layout. When I ran out of ideas to make it work I turned it into the work table layout you see here. My wife suggested the upper table for storing unbuilt models.
 
As the moment there is a scratch built PS Waverley sitting on a shelf, a Billings Bluenose which needs rigging sitting in a cupboard, two huge Virgin Atlantic Challengers, an old banger of a car and tucked away under the bench is some old model railway stuff from my youth which has been dragged from house to house for more than half a century.
 
WilhelmII said:
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That does look cosy but it wouldn’t suit me. I only have eight kits on hand but I keep them in their own cupboard, out of sight and out of my mind as much as possible. Otherwise I’d be building them all simultaneously. Ha!
 
Smithy said:
That does look cosy but it wouldn’t suit me. I only have eight kits on hand but I keep them in their own cupboard, out of sight and out of my mind as much as possible. Otherwise I’d be building them all simultaneously. Ha!
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That’s not all of my models. Some are still packed away in boxes. This is part of a one car garage. I also have two recliners and a tv for my wife and me. I want to make room for my wife to do her crafts. Just takes time.
 
WilhelmII said:
That’s not all of my models. Some are still packed away in boxes. This is part of a one car garage. I also have two recliners and a tv for my wife and me. I want to make room for my wife to do her crafts. Just takes time.
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I consider myself fortunate to live only with a small dog. (I tried wives but didn't really like living with humans.) We are happy for the hobby space to be the entire apartment. I build boats or read, on one or other of my recliners :) and he sunbathes and supervises.

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Occasionally he chews a plank to tell me it's time to go walkies. ROTF
 
Bodach said:
As the moment there is a scratch built PS Waverley sitting on a shelf, a Billings Bluenose which needs rigging sitting in a cupboard, two huge Virgin Atlantic Challengers, an old banger of a car and tucked away under the bench is some old model railway stuff from my youth which has been dragged from house to house for more than half a century.
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Hi, I have a VAC2 model, but I’m looking for a VAC 1 model. Do you have one and if so any chance it’s for sale?
 
Just an hour ago, my stash just got even another bit bigger: a Corel HMS Victory from the early 70's (SM7, for the specialists), with no keel, bulkheads or decks, but (hopefully!) complete fittings and plans. That brings us to 35 models in waiting.... And noooooooooooo!, I would neeeever build such an ugly barge bristling with cannons like a purcupine ROTF ROTFROTFROTFROTFROTFROTF
 
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My stash is embarrassingly large: 33 wooden ship models, 32 Lego or alt-Lego sets, and 37 mini-brick sets. I've vowed to stop buying any one type until I build 1/2 of what I have. That should keep me safe for at least 10 years :)
 
I only have these four kits to build, but I’ll ask for two or three more for Christmas. Otherwise, I know exactly what I’ll get as gifts: underwear and socks.
Since I retired in February, I’ve built several plastic kits. They’re small, inexpensive, and fun. I think the next ones will be a U-boat and an oceangoing tugboat, from either Revell or Heller.

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I will wade in here with a couple of "how big is your stash" stories.

I had a hobby store in Montreal back in the early 2000s, about fifteen years after I started my website. I have always been in the high-end scale model business, but this opportunity came up to move into an old Montreal scale-model landmark, and I jumped on it. I decided I would stock one side of the store with vintage kits and encourage clients to drop by to see the "new" collections I was bringing in from time to time.

Through my website, and the work I was doing on eBay, I was receiving calls on a regular basis to clean out peoples' homes, generally after an owner had passed away. One such story happened with a fellow from Boston. He called me and said he had a collection to sell, and would I drive down to Boston to pick it up. So, I zoomed down there with my old Chrysler van, paid $1200 for, I don't remember, maybe 600 kits and drove up to the border. I thought everything was on the level. I had documentation from the seller, a signed packing slip, and whatever else I thought the border agents might need. I was ready to pay the necessary taxes and get to the store.

Well, the nice folks at the border kept me there for four hours. They literally pulled out every single kit, and went through them, looking for, well, something. Finally, they asked me to explain, in detail, how I managed to score such a huge collection of kits, some of which they estimated were quite valuable, for just $1200. I had to go through the entire process with them, explaining how I come across collections on eBay, chat with the owners, slowly reel them in with a decent deal, and then make my way to an owner's house.

It turned out the two fellows were avid kit builders and collectors and they estimated the collection at thousands and thousands of dollars, not $1200. However, after my careful explanation, they took my card, said they would visit my store in Montreal, and wished me a nice day.

I made several other trips to New England in the next few months, and always made sure those two fellows were on duty when I got to the border.

In another story, a fellow here in Montreal called me to say he had 25,000 models to sell, and could I help him out. Well, that was something! His house was so full of kits you could barely walk around. Absolutely every surface was covered with multiple kits. One side of every step in the staircase to upstairs, and the staircase to the basement, were covered pretty well up to the ceiling. The problem with that collection was that he also collected cats, and he was a smoker. Well, I tried to sell a few of his kits on eBay but the poor fellow kept complaining that I could have gotten "two dollars more" for this or that kit. Because of the smell, I had to put a disclaimer on every sale, and I was not even able to bring them into the house to take pictures! I kept them in the garage and only brought home a couple of dozen at a time. I did not even want to bring them to my store, as the smell would have contaminated the entire place.

So, yup, there are some huge stashes out there!
 
And I thought I had a lot of kids well I just turned 80 and I've got 12 models waiting to be finished. Some are kits some are scratch I have about 12 kits that need to be started and I had four solid Hall Blue Jacket models that I knew I would never start so I sold them on eBay and I think I'm going to do that with some of the other kits
So i have a lot of work to do if I am going to finish every thing in time! I also have a large collection of books that I keep seeming to add to, picture attached. 25,000 kits? Wow

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