Models to be made

Hi People!

I had an idea in other modelling forum.
Each one of us show to everyone our models to be made.
Our tower of waiting models. :evillol::evillol:

I start :icon16::icon16:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/179/dsc00230wq.jpg

Still have some not in the photo....

http://i1.hk/u/attachments/day_090929/20090929_1e5ffaba5b74695900adwYqF3dkynZKz.jpg

Me and my dad have about 40 boxes waiting around the hose.

Good idea:naughty:

My "tower"http://www.sg.hu/kep/faces/idiota.gif

http://iaro.3dmax.hu/kep/DSC00243.JPG

So many models, So little time :(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/crzystng/Model%20Pics/misc/IMG_1308.jpg

Wrong section, those do not look like completed models to me.

Wrong section, those do not look like completed models to me.

So... tell me where I can post this thread...

So... tell me where I can post this thread...

In the general "Car Modeling" forum. This one is where you show off finished models.

In the general "Car Modeling" forum. This one is where you show off finished models.

Please some admin transfer the topic to the right section...

My little stash of precious dust collectors. I _might_ have a few boxes to many, but I doubt it ;).

This topic surely brings up those special moments: Ooooh.. that one I _need_ as well for my collection!

Mind you, this is not my complete collection at the moment. Somehow some pictures have gone missing (and as have some kits...)

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Photobucket doesn't allow hosting pictures anymore, so I had to remove the links to them.
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Here are mine as of mid-2009. The stash has grown since then!

http://www.stclairassociates.co.uk/images/Misc/My%20stash%20015.JPG
http://www.stclairassociates.co.uk/images/Misc/My%20stash%20016.JPG
http://www.stclairassociates.co.uk/images/Misc/My%20stash%20017.JPG
http://www.stclairassociates.co.uk/images/Misc/My%20stash%20018.JPG

My modest collection
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg105/endacurran/DSCF2788.jpg

You know your an "attic" when you have to build shelves for your models.

http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp280/cratecruncher/Miscellaneous/swbfrt013.jpg
Here is my "Tower of Power". There are only three plastic models shown here. The projects haven't even started yet already include about $300 in extra resin, photo-etch, decals and paint. What's not shown are the 100's of photo's and pages of documentation I've been accumulating. Each car will take about four months to complete so this is my car hobby work for at least the next year. At that rate I can only build 30 models per decade!

jesus christ!!! i have, like, 6 left to be completed. that's alot for me. lol

you guys gotta lotta work ahead o ya haha

jesus christ!!! i have, like, 6 left to be completed. that's alot for me. lol

you guys gotta lotta work ahead o ya haha

Do you think that is too many kits? :iceslolan:iceslolan check out this thread (http://www.automodelista.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6611) in a Portuguese Modelling Fórum :evillol::evillol::evillol:

Hi guys,

Couldn't resist this one. Here's my next few projects lined up:

http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt121/ScratchBuilt917/90803130.jpg

Somewhere amongst that lot there's a Porsche 936, 935-78, 956 / 962, all in 1/8 scale...!:biggrin: At my current rate of progress that's about the next seven or eight years modelling taken care of.

Seriously though, here's my small selection of unbuilt kits:

http://i604.photobucket.com/albums/tt121/ScratchBuilt917/90803128.jpg

I'm not expecting to do anything with them, but the 956/92's could be useful references when I build one in 1/8. Anyway, I thought having a stash of unbuilt kits was a necessary part of being a member of this forum?!

Cheers!

ScratchBuilt

I've posted these photos before, but anyway...

1. Before...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/hirofkd/misc/1modeltowers.jpg

2. After the avalanche...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/hirofkd/misc/2modelslides.jpg

I don't dare taking a picture of my stock...
One good thing of being a student and living at home is building up a stockpile. But mine is taking shape so I have the rest of my live enough to built already... My stock is carefully stashed away to be unseen for 80% :evillol:
well trying to list them anyway...
8 AM DBR-9's and 6 ready/nearly ready (different makes)
2 '04LM 550's (own decals) and 2 03LM 550's
3 ScaleProd. C5-R with revell + another 4/5 normal revell's (with FFSA decals)
1 S27 C6-R a dozen Revell C6-R's
3 S27 Viper GTS-R (one '03LM Larbre) and another Viper (pre S27) '97LM
2 S27 Supra GT
1 Panoz '98 nearly ready
3 Tam '96 911-GT1 (1 Schubel/larbre '97)
2/3 UTModels 911-GT1 evo '97 (still searching for a '98 evo LM winner...)
1 S27 McLaren F1 longtail '97
3/4 Tam CLK-GTR's
2 Tam Nissan R390's
3/4 Tam CLK-DTM (1 mika 01 West test nearly finished)
2 Tam SLR + 2 different makes for the 722GT TK -> Fictional LM GT1 racers (with enough West/Vodafone/Mercedes decals)
2 Tam CarreraGT + 1 Geronimo TK (turning into 2 different fictional GT1 racers, one pre G TK advanced wip)
2 Tam Mobil1 SC430
1 LMM Bentley speed8 '03LM
3 Fujimi Murcielagos with 1 ScaleProd. TK and 2 Nick de Wachters Slotcar Murcielagos (06/07/08LM body) for 3 GT1 racers (not sure which ones yet :rolleyes: )
1 revell R10 audi and a R8 audi street (maybe for a racer)
1 Tam 911 street (GT2?...)
2 Rev. McLaren MP-20 and a advanced wip MP-12
2 Tam NismoZ's
2 Tam GTR nismo's
1 Tam FXX + enzo (fictional GT1?)
1 Tam F1 Ferrari '00 + '01 + MP4-13 + 1,5 FW24. 1,5? yes a busted built when I was too young :p recycling the parts for a pit scene?)
1 Fujimi + revell 599GTB + the 599FXX TK for a fictional GT1 racer
1 Tam Ferrari 360 + rennaisance TK ('03 LM risi silver one)
1 Tam Pennzoil Skyline JGTC + a skyline LM '95
and 3 little tanks for a change :smokin:
1 revell ferrari california hardtop I won from revell

Got the feeling I am forgetting kits... I counted about 80 to 90 1/24 kits/ready cars last time I fully checked. Thats what you get when hiding them... :sarcasmsign:

A rather modest stash, if youwant to call it that. The SVT Lightning is a WIP, with the others waiting in line.

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll29/smitherymodels/Picture008.jpg

I have three drawers full, the underside of my bed is filled with kits, and I still have a couple extras after that. Does that give a fair image of how many I have? :D

I have three drawers full, the underside of my bed is filled with kits, and I still have a couple extras after that. Does that give a fair image of how many I have? :D

Not at all, we demand pictures. Prefered without you posing ON the bed ;)

I need more kits

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh152/Spike2933/100_4483.jpg

I think i out lived my models to build already!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/midmazar/Model%20Kits/IMG_0147.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/midmazar/Model%20Kits/IMG_0142.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/midmazar/Model%20Kits/IMG_0146.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/midmazar/Model%20Kits/IMG_0143.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/midmazar/Model%20Kits/IMG_0145.jpg

I heard on a dutch forum that the red Tamiya Golf V5 was rare... Now I know why: MidMazar has them all :O.

Real nice collection mate, makes mine even looks smaller :D.

Hi guys,

the theme of this thread comes from time to time, another top theme seems to be " I wish, Tamiya (or another company) makes this or that model"

Just to keep you all down, here some photos from a non-public German modelling forum, where you can see (parts of) the collection of one German modeler

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4173/pc120024.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/1113/pc120026.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/651/pc120025.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6434/pc120029n.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9194/pc120030.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6429/pc120031f.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5573/pc120032.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/3171/pc120033.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8295/pc120034.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9846/pc120035.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5059/pc120036.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4586/pc120037.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/181/pc120038.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5593/pc120039.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1510/pc120040.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5992/pc120041.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9855/pc120042.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1964/pc120043.jpg
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/5347/pc120044.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2298/pc120045.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9215/pc120046.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/9016/pc120047r.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/6869/pc120048.jpg
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/690/pc120049.jpg

Dear God...:eek2:

How many lives are planned building kits? :runaround:

Mine collection exluding hidden 1/43 stash :) and recently purchased 1/12 NSX Rosso Marshal Car

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b22/Macio4ever/Lakiernia/DSC_1442a.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b22/Macio4ever/Lakiernia/DSC_1443a.jpg

these are my to do model

The size of that German collection is really impressive. Too big for me though!

When I got back into models in the '90s I started buying kits at local shows off vendor tables. It was a lot of common stuff. I didn't even know what I liked yet. Then eBay came along and I discovered all kinds of model kits I hadn't known existed. WOW! I sorta went crazy buying stuff. My collection swelled to over 300 kits taking up a good portion of a spare bedroom. It was around that time I realized that acquiring kits wasn't as much fun as it had been when I had begun buying years before. It was as though each new kit I bought meant just a little less than the last, to the point where I scarcely glanced at them before I plopped them on the shelf never to be opened again. I concluded there were two things going on: 1) I had so many just looking at 'em overwhelmed me...and 2) I was simply running out of kits to buy that even interested me.

About 2000 I started thinning my hoard by selling off kits I had multiples of. Then I started narrowing the focus by selling peripheral subjects I wasn't that interested in. Then I really started selling when I began getting rid of stuff I knew I could get anytime, anywhere (..unless of course it was in the "soon to be built" stack!).

Guy's, I'm still selling kits off but I'm down to things that are really hard to get that I'm sure I will always want to build some day. My goal is to have a collection of about 30 kits at any given time. Frankly, it's getting a lot harder now selling a rare kit because I know that it might not be available later if my interests change. Funny. Though I worry about this I haven't regretted selling any to date.

I hope by sharing this experience it will save someone 15 years of energy(and a lot of closet space) coming to a similar conclusion. For me, listing models on eBay is boring and a large collection wasn't nearly as much fun as the small concentrated one I have now.

Micha, are you sure your not a hobby dealer :lol:

dear god that is a big collection

Micha, that guy's collection is simply insane! http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/klutz100/SMILEYS/wonkeyeyes.gif
Have to admit I say some kits in there I'd like to build though.. :D

...a large collection wasn't nearly as much fun as the small concentrated one I have now.
:iagree: :1:

To me I think it may also be due to the box art. :screwy:

I've still got hoards of boxes left but with no models in them (sold/broken/lost).

My pile still grows... :uhoh::nono:

Hi,

well guys, the man that owns these many kits is 55 to 60 years old. For sure, collecting model is the dominant aspect, building models happens by the way. He also owns some oldtimers.

My opinion is, that we all have too much kits at home, of course myself (about 250 kits). From time to time I look at all the unbuilt kit very critically and ask myself the question: "Will I build this kit in the next time?" - If not, I sell it. Thus the number of unbuilt kits remains nearly the same.

The ideal thing would be to build a model and before it is finished getting the next kit.

I have lots of resinkits, that run only a short time, but concerning plastic kits - don´t worry, there will be reissues every few years.

I guess I'll post mine,
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4260084919_a745fb7c16.jpg
My workspace
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4260095865_c6d59696d2.jpg
The shelf in my office
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/4260840228_72e507b617.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4260840458_86aa227404.jpg
Main stash
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4260787756_1c8998f5c2.jpg
And a few more in the garage
Micha doesn't have a shop, more like a museum of built/unbuilt kits!!
I have to show them to my wife, she thinks I have to many! lol

Jake

Here are mine as of mid-2009. The stash has grown since then!




http://www.stclairassociates.co.uk/images/Misc/My%20stash%20018.JPG


how much for that firehawk kit ? i want it bad.

how much for that firehawk kit ? i want it bad.

why not check on ebay... CLICK ME (http://cgi.ebay.com/Lindberg-Pontiac-Firebird-Firehawk-1-20-New-Sealed_W0QQitemZ300384190058QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_ DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45f04afe6a)

Whoa, that German collection is....don't even have a word for it....vast? :-)
Just like CrateCruncher, I had way to many kits collected over the years (thousands), only to realize that I will never touch them - so I sold most of my kits. I'm down to about 300 of the ones I really want to build, mostly resin and rare plastics, with few favorite subjects mixed in:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/jter/Zapasy03.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/jter/Zapasy02.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/jter/Zapasy01.jpg

Do you think that is too many kits? :iceslolan:iceslolan check out this thread (http://www.automodelista.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6611) in a Portuguese Modelling Fórum :evillol::evillol::evillol:

oh my...

Alex I see that you have a couple more Ferraris to build! ;)

Alex I see that you have a couple more Ferraris to build! ;)

Yeah, just a couple more left. :biggrin:

Nice collection alex. Defenitly complete those mfh ferraris soon!!

As for the german modeler with that huge collection, he can open a hobby shop. :lol:


Evo8owner, Hopefully we see some builds from you soon. :thumbsup:

These are my stuff....99/140:uhoh:. I don't have any idea when I am going to build all of them:grinno:!!!
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa316/SCORPIONFB/oct1309_140001.jpg

These are my stuff....99/140:uhoh:. I don't have any idea when I am going to build all of them:grinno:!!!
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa316/SCORPIONFB/oct1309_140001.jpg


You can sell me some if you want :grinyes::grinyes::grinyes::grinyes::grinyes:

I was just looking through this thread and wondering, what do people do with the empty boxes once the kits are finished?

I was just looking through this thread and wondering, what do people do with the empty boxes once the kits are finished?

In my case goes to waste :lol:

I was just looking through this thread and wondering, what do people do with the empty boxes once the kits are finished?

I keep just the box art....flat and dry:iceslolan!!!.

This are my kits to do.....

On the pics you can see arround 80% of my kits,the others are covered by other kits.

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_3261636635383030.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_3738363531386138.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_6536316137626635.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_6632633761666338.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_6137643430623834.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_6239396339363931.jpg

This are my builds:

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_6239303738383165.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_3233306262363665.jpg

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_3432613438376137.jpg

Some other builds in my home office room:

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_3838313335616135.jpg

Regards Roger

Ah someone with the same sort of LM taste!. Nice collection, the built ones look great. If you ever want to part with that 1998 LM porsche 911GT1 evo kit let me know :icon16::iceslolan

i keep the boxes. except revell (revell germany - dont like them). i feel they are part of a model somehow..

This are my kits to do.....

Regards Roger

Beautiful collection!

In the last picture it looks like there is a diorama of a Lancia Stratos driving into a watersplash...do you have any closer pictures? It looks really cool from far away!

Thanks

http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/20/673120/1280_3261636635383030.jpg



Those are a boat load of FW24's! Are you planning on building one for every race?? :naughty:

@pawlie

Yes i have closer pictures of the Lancia Stratos dio i have opened a new tread for that:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=974950

@star 21

Those are a boat load of FW24's! Are you planning on building one for every race?? :naughty:

No,i am working as a insurance agent for Allianz and there are some frinds at work,they ask me if i can build them this car.

Now i have all the materials but some of them do not work for Allianz anymore,so now i have to many kits of them incl.the detail kit of Scale Motorsport.

If someone is interested in this i will sale 3 complete sets for 95 US Dollars.
Please make a PM to me.

Roger

Thanks for the new thread on the Lancia Stratos - beautiful diorama

Kits:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh284/koksik752/DSC03049.jpg
Kits with resin extras and wheels:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh284/koksik752/DSC03047.jpg
And more wheels:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh284/koksik752/DSC03052.jpg
And more more wheels :twisted: :
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh284/koksik752/DSC03053.jpg
And some mecha/robots kits:
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh284/koksik752/DSC03050.jpg

Can someone explain me why people buy more than 3 same kits?

one to practice
one to build proper
one in case you want to build it again but better than the last one
one so that you have one for futire building
one to practice on so that future building will have less mistakes
one for spare parts
one for spare parts for your spare parts

wait a minute...
that's more than three.

one to practice
one to build proper
one in case you want to build it again but better than the last one
one so that you have one for futire building
one to practice on so that future building will have less mistakes
one for spare parts
one for spare parts for your spare parts

wait a minute...
that's more than three.

Plus making different versions out of it!

That is my only reason I have mutiple kits of one specific kit. For example I bought multiple S27 vipers is to make the 2000LM #51, 52 and maybe 53, and the forth kit with aftermarket decals make the 2003 LM Larbre viper (not the 2001 because I bought decals from pattosplace. c o m for the 03LM). And with the S27 550 GT1 to make the two 04LM prodrive ferrari's with custom made decals I had someone made for me.

one to practice
one to build proper
one in case you want to build it again but better than the last one
one so that you have one for futire building
one to practice on so that future building will have less mistakes
one for spare parts
one for spare parts for your spare parts

wait a minute...
that's more than three.

that's awesome. maybe i should try that. buy 2 of the same model and make sure the second one is twice as nice as the first :P

practice practice practice.