How many kits at once?

Hi,

I should say, I expirience the same problem. So, I decided to stop buying new kits, except of the kit, that are hard to find. For example, it`s very difficult to purchase a Opel Blitz vehicle at the moment.

Now I have plenty of soldiers, that are not painted. Some parts of this staff are 50-70 percent painted.

My idea, how can you deal with it: when you are going to build, a Hanomag for example, you can buy a 3-in-1 kit from Dragon and Tamiya one. Two kits can supplement each other. Tamiya Hanomag has not too much details. Dragon one has too many.

...my skills at managing money are nationally recognized. Any funds that don't buy plastic only go to buy guitars. And I STILL manage to both maintain zero debt AND save money.

...what local hobby shop? I'd have to stop my mail delivery and discontinue my ISP.

Almost done - relinquished my membership to get out of being "president for life" of my chapter. Only a loose group of 3-5 hardcore addicts are hanging on.

That's really easy in the middle of the Mojave...we got no trees (and there's a girl behind every one) - check!

...especially if I keep buying kits. They won't be able to fit them all in the van.

I'm and insensitive, conservative, type A personality...I'd never buy that one...kits also serve, that sit and wait.

...now I am getting a bit misty-eyed.

Braggin' rights are braggin' rights...we used to have a contest where that was the prize - a certificate for bragging rights, good for one years...now I'm beginning to see how this thing feeds on itself...

Ref: see what I said about "a girl behind every tree", above...damn right I ain't completin' any sexual acts...

Twenty-nine started at the moment.

Active (work on almost every day, even if only for a few mnutes): Two Yakovlev Yak-11 conversons, Payen Pa.22, Ames AD-1, Long Midget Mustang.

Occasional (some work once per month or so): Aerospatiale Alouette III, Nord 262, Piasecki HUP, Polikarpov I-15.

Rescued (Either started by someone else or completed but somewhat disassembled, occasional work ): BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde, Etrich Taube, Fokker Dr.I, North AmercanP-51D, Supermarine S.4.

After market parts & decals being obtained (Higher up on the build list): Avia S.199, Curtiss P-40N, Letov S.328, Lockheed T-33, Vickers Wellington.

Started more than twenty years ago but still consdered as n the works: Douglas XCG-17, Fieseler V-1, SAAB Draken.

Not started but in the build pile as opposed to the 2000+ garage storage: Albatros D.V, Curtiss YP-37, Disney Moon Rocket, Fieseler V-1, Mignet Pou du Ciel, Republic Sea Bee, Yakovlev UT-1.

Master for MAI kit:Ryan Brougham.

Other than 1/72 scale: Short 360, Liberty Ship.

Models for frends/cutomers: Five WWI/Revolution Russian vignettes and small doramas.

Completed in the last couple of years: Northrop GB-1, PKZ-2, WWII Russian Glider/Truck/Wagon diorama, three WWI/Revolution Russian vignettes/small dioramas. Rescued and repaired: Morane-Saulnier MS.

I find myself building more and buying less over the last couple of years. More spent on paints, decals and after market parts to complete started projects.

Tom

I did try to actually build a kit without purchasing any brass, tracks, interior, etc. I made myself a challenge to do the best job weathering, rather than getting bogged down in little bits. Of course, I still bought all the brass and two of each kit so I could do it "right" in a second version, but these never got done.

Buying and building only one kit at a time? Get real. I happen to like 1/35 armor, as well as 1/48 and 1/32 aircraft. Once I own every one of these, and all the possible brass and resin for each kit, then I will start finishing them one at a time (or so it seems).

It would be nice to actually finish one once in a while. However, on the few that are done, I sit it on the mantle, and think about what I would have done differently to make it "perfect"

Sometimes, this "hobby" can drive one crazy. It's like getting to the critical last piece of photoetched brass, and have it go zinging off into space, never to be found.

...they may not be hairy (actually, some of them may be...), but I did develop a system for rating them by altitude - theory being that thinner air allows a behind to expand more rapidly and to a greater extent.

Our valley floor is at about 2300 feet...and I prefer to shop at sea level.

Am I dull! Here I thought you were commenting on the hirsute qualities of the local womenfolk.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Sometimes I feel, that I spend more money for new kits, than for food or new computer devices. Now I have about 12 started little projects (diorama with 3-5 soldiers on it doing something). Besides, I spend 2 hours each day for this hobby.

the figures will be skewed unless you remove the bleach jobs. which means about 98% of the sampling.

- Rufus

Here in the Piedmont zone we're somewhat lower. Empirical evidence in this neighbourhood suggests your theory has flaws. I've been wondering if there was some strange program going on that made multiple copies of

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

...A-HA...that's why my sample set skips from 18 to over 45.

I suffer from tunnel vision. 2 is the most I can have going at one time.