How many models in your to-do pile?

After seeing some of the collections of unbuilt kits for sale on this and the F1 modeling forum, I'm curious to know how many kits people have lying around waiting to be built.

I returned to the hobby in September and have one project underway, four more on the shelf and two more headed my way in the mail. :icon16: It's funny, because when I got started, I told myself I wasn't going to be one of those guys who's hording kits. :lol:

I once saw a photo of a modeler's garage on the F1 forum and it looked like the warehouse at HLJ. :eek: :lol:

So... how big is your pile?

Rough estimate puts around 150 in my pile of 'to build' kits and I think 9 started and in various stages of completion.

About 30, nearly all GT1 racers.
Started with a few, but don't seem to have the time to be actually building them :banghead:

Probably close to 50 car kits in the to build pile, and a half dozen or so started in various states of incompletion.

I didnt plan on hoarding either, but many of us learn the hard way that if you see a kit in your LHS that you know you will want to build, its easier to get it now than find it and pay for it on Ebay in a few years....

About 40. But since I'm now turning to customer's builds, they're probably never get done, and I'll likely just end up selling them when the store opens...

I have about 150 (give or take a few) of various types of models in my closet.

(this pic is old, the pile is slightly larger now)
http://www.bhop73.com/models/post-9-1136182986.jpg

Guess i have some kind of selfcontrol most here have lost. I have NO to do pile and only 2 models which I'm working on ;-)

I have about 40, down from about 200 a few years ago (Built some and sold alot), and of that 40 at least 25 are in storage

I would have to guess that I'm in the 150 range of kits in the "to do" pile. I too have learned long ago that if you see something you like it's much easier to get it know than to try and find it later (usually at a much higher price). Have to admit though, never thought I'd get to this level of madness.

Mike

I have about 60-70 kits waiting to be built.

(Better hope that my girlfriend doesn't read this post...):chair:

I'm currently working on three kits. Although working might not be the accurate word :wink:. My headquarters are located on the attic and with the current temperatures here of around 25-30 C it's no fun working on my models.

In my to do pile are 32 models, consisting of 14 Ferrari`s, 2 Porsche`s, 5 Lamborghini`s, 2 Mini Cooper`s, 4 Subaru`s, 4 Mitsubishi`s and a lonesome Bugatti. I have a Nissan 180SX and a Porsche 959 in progress, and 3 Mitsubishi`s in the mail, 1 from hlj and 2 from ebay. When am I actually gonna complete one? :dunno: Oh I also got the Mercedes SLR McLaren on pre-order from hlj.

Guess i have some kind of selfcontrol most here have lost. I have NO to do pile and only 2 models which I'm working on ;-)

It's not always about self control.

I'd say at least half of my pile is OOP kits, or limited production resin kits that were bought with a 'get it now, or it'll be gone' type of mindset. All the rest were just deals that were too good to pass up at the time, or trades.

I must admit it is nice to have a hobby-shop sized choice of what to work on when I want to start something new.

bhop73- Is that a Minmay figure I spy in your pic?

a.

bhop73- Is that a Minmay figure I spy in your pic?

a.

Yes it is. :D It's a toy figure, but it's nicely detailed for a vinyl toy.

I currently have approximately 200 kits but I plan to probably sell about half my collection off towards Christmas. I have about 7 started models that I put back away again to finish at a later stage for one reason or another and 2 that I am currently working on. They are all (bar 7 anyway) race cars, predominantly Tamiya or Hasegawa in 1/24 scale with some old school rally 1/43 and a few 1/12. I never intended to get so many, but with prices going the way they are for even semi-rare kits I grab bargains whenever I can (occasionally on eBay but more commonly at hobby stores).
I also have transkits of one form or another for about half of these models.

I am currently suffering builders block though and don't seem to be able to get started, I am sure it will come to me though...

I'm down to about 30. It would be MUCH higher, but I havn't had the money to buy kits recently.

About 40 or 50, including the 7 or 8 that are currently in build. Currently, I'm only buying kits that I REALLY want :wink: :iceslolan

The quick answer is all 850 kits but as far as the number of kits already started,that would be about 35.
I plan to live to be 400 years old and build them all!

Self Control HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! What's That????????????

132 Plastic 1/12
6 Resin 1/12
173 Plastic 1/20
224 Resin 1/20
402 Plastic 1/24
71 Resin 1/24
87 Plastic 1/12 Bikes
2 Resin 1/12 Bikes.

My inventory list is 1861 line items long :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: .

This includes everything from decals bought for a decal change to transkits along with all the base kits.

No I don't own a shop and I rarely sell anything. I just love the hobby and thought I would set myself up for retirement. I figure as I get older I can always sell off some rare kits to offset my retirement (or lack there of).

If anyone wants a copy of my list I can email it to you.

Icon Modeler

omg. what a list! :lol:

I started building about 2 years ago, and have been serious sbout it for about a year. In that time, I've accumulated about 25 kits (4 of which are in progress). This year, my New Year's resolution was zero growth - finish a kit for every kit I buy. I wish I could say I was sticking to it.... :rolleyes:

Hrm...geez...About 300(+/-) Too many. Some are here. Some are there. Most are hiding.

I have about 500!!!

My inventory list is 1861 line items long :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: :screwy: .




Where do you keep your warehouse? Because, I can't imagine storing that many kits in a bedroom closet..

Where do you keep your warehouse? Because, I can't imagine storing that many kits in a bedroom closet..

His wife told him "Either those kits go or I go!"

I'm sure he misses his wife.

:lol:

Around 80 Ferraris

5 in progress
25 built that will be stripped and redone
50 more or less unbuilt

2 M-B's
1 Chevy
1 Iveco
1 Ford

-Niko

Approx 250-300 although I lost count around 200.

http://www.spc.org.uk/gallery/albums/uploads/kits/unmade-kits-01.jpg

This is just one photo (showing the Skylines) to see them alland save me post them all here have a look at here :
http://www.spc.org.uk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=84

Not counted them all but too many. :evillol:

Wow! After reading what you guys posted up, I feel much better about just having kits lying around collecting dust. I thought i was out of control until i read several of you are in the hundreds and one of you has over 1000 kits:eek: I only have 7 underneath my bed and 2 in progress.:p

I guess maybe 40/50, but only ever one in progress. A few 1/12th F1, mostly 1/20th and 1/24th competition but a few 1/12th bikes and a couple of 1/43rd
Oh and loads of decals, c/f, p/e etc.

Guess that lot will keep me going for years...

About 350, mostly 1/24 plastic, about 20 or so are resin/multimedia; plus the aditional oddities in 1/12 and 1/32.
I guess most are about closed-wheel racing, but there are also a dozen of F1.
About 1/3 of them is started in various degrees, about 20 are about to be finished, just can't bring myself to do it.

Zé

Thank you Hiroboy for providing us with an excellent opportunity for a simple test. How do you react to seeing the pic below? Be honest, if only to yourself!

If you look at it and think, "Ooo, too many!" than you do posess some measure of self control and discipline, and there may in fact be hope for you.

http://www.spc.org.uk/gallery/albums/uploads/kits/unmade-kits-01.jpg

If instead like most of us you see a pic like this and immediately think "Wow- cool stash! OK let's see- gotit, gotit, needit, needit, gotit, needit...", than theres no hope yet for you, and your stash is fated to grow ever larger. The same applies for any of you thinking "Wow, where did he find-??!! I wonder if he'll sell me...?" :grinyes:

I hope you've enjoyed this fascinating tour of your inner psyche. :p :evillol:

My test answer, Andy, is "Too many for Hiroboy; cool stash for me ;) )

I tought I'm crazy with approx 200 but I cans see Icon make much better: well some few years to join his result ;) BTW this is the "at sunlight" stash and the other... I can't do pics of the covered-up super-secret stocpile ;) I hope my wife don't read here ;)

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2436/stash11av.jpg
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4356/stash25qp.jpg

and here started item approx 20/25 :(

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/5261/stash39qe.jpg

Let's see- gotit, gotit, gotit, needit, gotit,

Hey Gio, where'd you get the-

If instead like most of us you see a pic like this and immediately think "Wow- cool stash! OK let's see- gotit, gotit, needit, needit, gotit, needit...", than theres no hope yet for you, and your stash is fated to grow ever larger. The same applies for any of you thinking "Wow, where did he find-??!! I wonder if he'll sell me...?" :grinyes:


That's me.. I saw a few things in there that I "need".

I'm gald that I'm not the only one whose owned sooooo many models:iceslolan For 1/24 plastic kit, guess I have less than 300 personal collection...lost count. 1/24 resin is about 12-14pcs. 1/12 F1(6pcs), 1/20 F1(20pcs), 1/12 bikes(35pcs and still climbing). I got more on others model like Garage kit (about 150pcs included 1/4 Minmay:naughty:), Military (about 12-20pcs. Most of them had go for sale but just bought the new Tamiya Char B1 bis:banghead:), Gundams (more than 500++ models and still climbing:screwy: :screwy:) I think I will never finish building till the end of my life:shakehead :rofl: So most of them will go for sale very soon...lolz! On my workbench, got about 20pcs, some half done, some collect dust.:rofl:
Rtuned

feh!
i don't need any of them...




whether or not i want them is another matter entirely.....

anyway.
at the moment, I've only got around 40kits in my little stash as I'm rather pickey about what I actually buy.
A short list.
Ferrari: 246, 250, 275, 288, 308, 328, 348, 355, 360, 365, 612 (various versions of each) and an Enzo
Maserati: Bora, Merak
Lamborghini: LP400 countach, diablo
Porsche: GT3, GT2, 993 Turbo
BMW: 507, M1
Mercedes: 300SL Coupe
Lotus: Esprit, Europa, Elan
Jaguar: XK-SS, XK-E coupe, XK-E convertible, XJS

the rest are made up of single kits that I like the look of such as tamiya NSX, celica GT4, Revell Mustang 350H and others.

of these, I have in progress,
2x bugatti EB110
1x Ferrari 250 GTO
1x Ferrari 250 SWB
1x Ferrari 288 GTO
1x Ferrari 246 GT
1x Ferrari 348 (formally a GTS but now a GTB....)
1x Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
1x Jaguar XK-E coupe
1x Lotus Europa
1x Lotus Esprit
1x Maserati Bora
2x Porsche 993 Turbo
1x BMW M1

87 Plastic 1/12 Bikes
2 Resin 1/12 Bikes.



Icon Modeler
87 bikes ,you must have some pretty old one's in there any chance you want to get rid of some?
on my stash is pretty small
9 bikes
3 cars
1 heli
4 rider figure
+ 9 bikes in verious stages of incompletion
Only get kits if wife not beside me ,(thank god for internet shopping):naughty:
mind you paid a little visit to a toy shop yesterday to get something for daughter,and seen 4-5 kits that I will have to try sneak past wife .All ways tell her that they are for a rainy day :rofl:
Shayne

Wow...I must have the shortest list here...
On bench:
S2000
Fiat 500
AE-86
Pending action:
Carerra Gt
CLK sportswear
Enzo

Wish list
toooooo long lol.

I only have 154 :frown: :frown: :frown:

About 1000 unbuilts, and 250 or so used builts that need to be restored..

Only 53. They are all stashed in the top of a closet and bit around the room I work in, which doubles as an office for me and my co-habiting girlfriend (who, undoubtedly, wishes they would all stay in the top of the closet).

We're moving in 3 weeks, at which time I will have a whole room to myself, with a whole closet to myself. The stash is likely to grow.

6 un-built but I am proud to say that I only have 1 thats in-progress not 4-5.:grinyes:

In my to-do-when-I-get-back-home list:

Aoshima Mazda RX-7 A Spec Type GT 99'
Aoshima Nissan Vertex Ridge S15 Silvia
Fujimi Toyota Altezza RS200 with GT wing
Tamiya Nissan Skyline R32
Tamiya 1/12 SUZUKI RGV-T '00 Telefonica MoviStar

Tamiya Skyline GTR R34 needs paint stripped and engine from the 32 :grinyes:

I get too impatient often so end up finishing a kit within the week :naughty: .

I have like what, 10 kits!

About 14 with one on the table! Even at that my fiance things I have too many. I try too explain to her about kits going out of production but she doesnt listen too me, she thinks I use it as an excuse! Hiro I have to show her that pic actually have to show her this thread just to show her I'm actually an abnormal builder!

Oh hi Niamh!!!!! :wave:

i got 2-boxes of models over at my mothers place and 2 boxes<1 is a parts box> over at my grandfathers place and one over at my dad/step-mothers place and one at my place where i live now!

My stash, small but quality!!

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7144/pict0004gn9.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/275/pict0006ti5.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3554/pict0005mo0.jpg

I have a few..

About 1200 MIB unbuilts in 1:25th/1:24th, about 275 to-be-restored builtups that I bought used, about 75 resin kits.

no idea...250, 300... maybe more

but i also am going to be getting another box from my landlord and maybe a whole truck<not pickup but ups> load from revell and amt and maybe a taymia <just to see how easy they are cause i have never touched one in my life till i found one at a hobbyshop!>:sunglasse

My stash, small but quality!!

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7144/pict0004gn9.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/275/pict0006ti5.jpg

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3554/pict0005mo0.jpg

you call this smal and quality? I am working on 2 models (tamiya caterham 1/24 and tamiya caterham JPE 1/12) and NO to do pile... that is small and quality ;-)

I took pics of my stash recently.. the reason being I was looking in my closet and found some stuff I didn't even remember buying, so I thought if i document it all, I can keep track of it better (and decide what to build next). My stash has a little bit of everything in it..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bhop73/sets/72157594332322331/

something like 70. mainly tamiya, but also some Aoshima and some resin GT cars

Bufff...my wife is shouting me because I have ten models to do....if she saw yours......she gets crazy hahahaha

I'm sure we are all box collectors instead modeling, no doubt about it... :grinyes:
well, right now just 16 boxes... ops, I mean kits in my to-do pile, all DTM, BTTC and GT Tamiya sport cars, few wheel and tires sets and some photoetches.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p225/924_CarreraGTS/Mykits.jpg

I thought this was a lot. That is, until I read "200-300", etc. Still, these are going to take me a while. I'm not looking forward to that '65 GTO, second up from the bottom right. I am excited about the CLK-GTR (very top), and of course the Enzo and F430. There's also 6 on the workbench.

I have well over 300 kits. I know this because we just moved and I packed all of them and moved them.

I only have 278 in the waiting list, and 26 in process
My Wife one day asked me if I think that I will build all of them?, in an innocent attempt to make me think seriously and stop buying kits... it was hard not to laugh out:lol: , so I patiently answered, "No, I wont, but there they are if I need them", it is better having them and not needing them than needing certain model and not having it.
It is not a matter of self control; it is just part of the hobby. :wink:

I got nearly 100 for the unbuild kits and 80 something for the finished ones. And some diecast in 1/24 and 1/18. It's becoming rare to collect vintage model kits here in Jakarta, Indonesia due to the low number of modelshops that sell modelcars. Most of them only sells Military nor Airplanes..arrgghh hate them!

Here's my list.

I also got some rare ones that I used to bought from Ebay or Melbourne and of course Japan!

AMT
AC COBRA 1:16

Academy
Ferrari 250LM
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud

Italeri
Ferrari Daytona Coupe
Ferrari 288 GTO
American Superliner
Bugatti Royale
Chrysler Imperial Phaeton
Mercedes 540K


Aoshima
Mach 1 Speed Racer
Ferrari 512 BB 1/20
MGB GT Roadster

Tamiya
Jaguar MK2
BMW 635 ETC Racing
Nissan R390 Gt1
Toyota T020 Gt1
Mercedes CLK GTR
Morgan Plus8
Ferrari F40
Jaguar XJ220
Mercedes AMG 500SL
Mercedes AMG 600SEL
Mercedes CLK DTM
Mercedes 500SEC
Ferrari Testarossa
Porsche 935 76
Porsche 935 78
Toyota Cerumo JTCC
Volkswagen KarmannGhia
Nissan 300ZX convertible
Mitsubishi Evo 6
Nissan 350Z
Mercedes C Class DTM Tabacs
Honda S2000 V-Spec
Renault Alpine A110
Porsche GT2 Road Version
Porsche Boxster Special edition
Calsonic Nissan Skyline GT-R
Jaguar MK2 Racing
Jeep Wrangler Soft Top
Toyota Celica 2000GT XX
Nissan Skyline 1984
Morris Mini
Morris Mini Racing


Doyusha
Aston Martin DB5 007
Aston Martin DB5 regular

Revell Germany 1/24
BMW 507 Roadster
Ferrari 288GTO
BMW M1 Racing
Jaguar XK SS
Mercedes 300 SLR Ulenhaut
Jaguar XK120
BMW 750il Zender

ARII
Caddilac Biarritz Convertible
Caddilac Biarritz Hardtop
Chevrolet Camaro Z28
Corvette 1980
Porsche 904

Revell Monogram 1/24
Ford Custom PickUp
Ford Thunderbird 1958
1969 Pontiac GTO
Old Hurst Hairy
Ford Thunderbird 1987
Ford Thunderbird Rookie Of The Year
Plymouth GTX 1971
Pontiac GTO The Judge
Plymouth Roadrunner 1970
Mustang GT350
Ford Pick Up 1955
Charaparall 2D
Cheverolet Monte Carlo 1987
Cord Phaeton 1937
Mercedes 300 SLR 722
1957 Chevy Hardtop
1970 Chevelle
Lotus Esprit 300

Hasegawa
Ford Thunderbird 1966
Jaguar XJS HE TWR
Jaguar XJS TWR Sports
Lamborghini Miura
Ferrari 328 GTS
Lancia 037 Rally

Fujimi
Ferrari Dino 246GT
Ferrari F355
Ferrari Koenig Testarossa
Lamborghini Countach 25th Anv RainX
Porsche 911 carrera targa
Ferrari 512 Tr
Ferrari P4 330
Mercedes 190E Debis Racing
Koenig Testarossa Spider

Gunze
Ferrari 250GTO (original edition not the high tech)
Jaguar E-type
Volkswagen KarmannGhia
Toyota Celsior Metal
Alfa Romeo 2000GTAM

Crown
Maserati Bora

Airfix
Bentley Blower
Bentley Blower 1/32

SMER 1/24
Talbot Lago F1


Spymaker aka Andrian!