The size of your figure stash

[Blind Pew]

And given the number of companies that have stopped trading in the past few years, there's also the question as to how long a piece you like will actually be around for, so better grab it while you can before you have to start posting appeals on forums or paying daft money on eBay to get one.

- Steve

Sadly, this is too true......

 

[brian]

I'm a bit of an oddball when it comes to grey armies,as i don't really have one,but i've got quite a few that i've started and went off them and stuck them back in the box.I usually punt them, as out of site out of mind.If i'm painting away quite nicely and another figure gets delivered,my mind keeps drifting to the new one that's just arrived ,which to me is a bit off putting
I know what the answer to the problem is,but i just love hearing the postman shoving a package in my front door.Since i've retired i've been buying many,many figures.
In the above message there's a lead in for Derek to have a go at me with one of his caustic remarks.I've left it in to see if he's slipping in his old age

 

[billyturnip]

In the above message there's a lead in for Derek to have a go at me with one of his caustic remarks.I've left it in to see if he's slipping in his old age

I don't think he should have any difficulty Brian, in fact I might have spotted two.

 

[peedee]

Not so much. Around 20 or so. I promised myself years ago that I first finish a figure before I buy another.
Well, I lied to myself......edit Marc

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Thank goodness Marc...for a moment then I was going to report that post and complain to the moderators about your 'attitude'.


Paul.

 

[peedee]

I was going give a count of my own, till I read your post. Now I feel like Chief Brody when he, Quint and Hooper were eating supper the first night out on the Orca, and as Quint and Hooper compare their scars and swap stories, he looks down at his appendix scar, then decides not to mention it.

Prost! Brad

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Well...it reminded me to get me a bigger boat sorry cabinet.

Paul

 

[peedee]

I may as well confess my stash which was not supposed to increase this year has increased by another 12 large scale figures in the last few months, with more to come thanks to Valiant and Tecumseh!

My Stash is about 150 kits unmade and sadly about the same started and not finished.
I have to admit it's not very good mental discipline to begin something new with so many already started, but I am totally loving my hobby right now

As a kid, there were many I couldn't afford from my pocket money, then when in the forces I couldn't build/take a collection around, so just made airfix figures and left them behind a bar somewhere, then a family and tight budget stopped me.
Now I am finding treasures from the past that are still the most wonderful timeless kits and they have become available and seem more affordable .

We are not even in the same league as some IPMS modellers.
A good friend of mine had to clear his house because he had only the living room and kitche ledt to live in of a 4 bedroom house, even the stairs were stacked with plastic kits.
He had bought up to 6 of some kits for no reason.
It has taken 2 years to get the collection down to just 1 room !
We then met a guy who has a full sized shipping container and two storage units full of kits, he worked out at one point he would have to build one every 38 minutes to get them done before he croaks it, and unlike the rest of us he has to sneak his missus into the house past the models!

Paul

 

[peedee]

Sometime ago I decided to make an inventory of all the unpainted flats I have. My inventory isn't quite complete yet, probably about 3/4 of my collection are included but I've just had a count up of what is there and I have 981 individual figures waiting to be painted.
However they are complete figures to be taken out and admired and not boxes of arms, legs, heads, weapons and equipment etc. waiting to be assembled like most of everyone else's here. Is that justification enough?

To be fair Roger, I always believed that painted or not, flats are so wonderful.
I would totally respect someone with drawers full of them they could open and simply admire.
Laid out on a black background they would look spectacular and I would love to have as many as you.
They would look like, but appear far better than a collection of butterflies or birds eggs that the Victorians used to collect.

Paul.

 

[Viking Bob]

I'm a bit of an oddball when it comes to grey armies,as i don't really have one,but i've got quite a few that i've started and went off them and stuck them back in the box.I usually punt them, as out of site out of mind.If i'm painting away quite nicely and another figure gets delivered,my mind keeps drifting to the new one that's just arrived ,which to me is a bit off putting
I know what the answer to the problem is,but i just love hearing the postman shoving a package in my front door.Since i've retired i've been buying many,many figures.
In the above message there's a lead in for Derek to have a go at me with one of his caustic remarks.I've left it in to see if he's slipping in his old age

Bloody hell, some one else like me and I thought I was an oddball (the wife know's I am) but I try to catch the postman before the wife.

 

[Babelfish]

We are not even in the same league as some IPMS modellers.
A good friend of mine had to clear his house because he had only the living room and kitche ledt to live in of a 4 bedroom house, even the stairs were stacked with plastic kits.
He had bought up to 6 of some kits for no reason.
It has taken 2 years to get the collection down to just 1 room !
We then met a guy who has a full sized shipping container and two storage units full of kits, he worked out at one point he would have to build one every 38 minutes to get them done before he croaks it, and unlike the rest of us he has to sneak his missus into the house past the models.Paul

A bloke at our local model club is on that same level Paul. He's got upwards of 3000 (three thousand) 1/48 scale aircraft kits, including up to 10 of the exact same kit in some cases, plus a smaller stash of AFVs for good measure. I've never seen it with my own eyes, but some of the other lads at the club have and they say it is a sight to behold. House literally packed to the rafters with pile upon pile of kits.

He lives on his own (lived with his mum until she turned her toes up last year) and doesn't have a girlfriend. I can't imagine why .....

- Steve

 

[rossbach]

Hoarding?

 

[OldTaff]

Childhood deprivation? Fear of loss ? I don't have any answers, but I feel there's something of an unhappy soul at the bottom of it all.

 

[Babelfish]

Childhood deprivation? Fear of loss ? I don't have any answers, but I feel there's something of an unhappy soul at the bottom of it all.

Yeah, I don't know what the answer is!

Funny thing is that unlike one or two others that pitch up at our club who are seriously weird, he doesn't immediately strike you as an oddball. He's actually a really nice fella with very dry sense of humour who you can have a good natter and a laugh with over a beer at the pub on the way home afterwards. He's a decent modeller as well, brings some nice stuff to the meets, so some of it does actually make it onto his bench. So I'm not really sure what's going on there. He's also the first to admit it's all a bit OTT (I mean there's "having a stash" and then there's "trying to out-Hannants Hannants"), but he carries on buying models anyway.

- Steve

 

[P GREEN]

Im sitting in around the 250 to 300 mark. Tried to keep up with all that Bruno Liebowitz produced for a while, but I layed down and that feeling went away .

Paul

 

[Oda]

Haven't really counted them but I guess 200+ all figures(no plastic planes etc the only plastic being historex and ICM figures).

Oda.

 

[DEL]

I'm a bit of an oddball when it comes to grey armies,as i don't really have one,but i've got quite a few that i've started and went off them and stuck them back in the box.I usually punt them, as out of site out of mind.If i'm painting away quite nicely and another figure gets delivered,my mind keeps drifting to the new one that's just arrived ,which to me is a bit off putting
I know what the answer to the problem is,but i just love hearing the postman shoving a package in my front door.Since i've retired i've been buying many,many figures.
In the above message there's a lead in for Derek to have a go at me with one of his caustic remarks.I've left it in to see if he's slipping in his old age

........... Oh so tempting, so many options ...........is that the doorbell you can hear?..... there it goes again!

 

[billyturnip]

........... Oh so tempting, so many options ...........is that the doorbell you can hear?..... there it goes again!

I keep the gate shut to prevent anything being shoved in the back door.

 

[billyturnip]

I would totally respect someone with drawers full of them they could open and simply admire.

I do that Paul but only when I am alone and prying eyes can't see the enormity of my addiction.

 

[DEL]

I do that Paul but only when I am alone and prying eyes can't see the enormity of my addiction.

Something similar in my drawers Roger ...............what???????

 

[billyturnip]

Something similar in my drawers Roger ...............what???????

 

[Babelfish]

Then I saw a piece I've been looking for for years, A New Hope Design Limited Edition kit, The Gallows Bird, and so all my good intentions went the way of New Year's Resolutions!!!! Ray

I'm not familiar with that one Ray. The NHD web site is still up by the way .... last updated in September 2002 !!! It is a ghostly corner of cyberspace.

- Steve