How Many Models Do You Have On Display?

yeah, my story almost eggsackerly.

boxes in the garage yet to be unpacked, and about 250

me thin out my collection every time we moved.....

Yes, I did. About once a year I spent days doing every last one. I usually used a 1 inch-wide brush but later on I also used those dust rags they sell that pick up dust with static. Those worked very well on cleaning canopies. Invariably my return to building was in re-attaching parts knocked off in the cleaning. In an attempt to cut down on the dust I bought some clear plastic and draped it over the shelves and kept it tight with magnets I bought at a fabric store. That worked very well at keeping the dust off but I really couldn't see through it all that well.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

I've sold quite a few recently, but still have139 in my one-bedroom apartment.

Pat

I've stuck most of mine in book cases with removable sheets of glass over the front.

Pat

sounds like my boston place. do you have a huge record collection, too?

On Apr 10, 4:27=A0pm, Pat Flannery wrote:>

snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net wrote:> > now has anyone ever bothered to dust the little buggers? =A0all my kits> > are spread all around the garage, each with a nice coating of dust...> > I've stuck =A0most of mine in book cases with removable sheets of glass> over the front.> > PatTwo dozen from kits, another dozen diecast, a couple of prototypes done for customers.Only a few of the diecasts are on shelves and need dusting. The rest are in display cases and a few plastic display/storage boxes from the Container Store. The only one that is too big is the Russian glider/truck/wagon diorama, which should fit in the new corner display case later this summer.Tom

Topped out at over 550 CDs. Converted all of them that I wanted to save to MP3s and sold them. Here's a good one...how many _unbuilt_ models do I have sitting around? Answer...1.

Pat

he ain't human, i tells ya, mugsy. he just ain't human.

Beats the hell out of all those half-built models I had when I was a kid. Firm rule now: Don't get a new model until you've finished the last one you bought. If nothing else, it gives you a inspiration to finish up what you've started before moving forwards to something else that intrigues you. Women really appreciate it when a man has this approach to life, as it shows "commitment". The fact that "commitment" generally refers to being involuntarily sent to a mental asylum should not be considered a negative aspect to this approach to life, as let's face it, we're all a little off of our rockers, each in our own unique and individual way. Near as I can figure, H*mo Sapiens went nuts as a species and individuals about the time we started carving model woolly mammoths out of slaughtered Neanderthal soup-bones around 50,000 years ago. From that moment on, Aurora's "Famous Monsters Of Filmland" series of of model kits was pretty much inevitable. :-D

pat

oh no, mugsy, he's spoutin' detoiminism!

" snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net" wrote in news:c69f8a9e-3f48- snipped-for-privacy@e67g2000hsa.googlegroups.com:

Heh. 8, on a bookshelf. But, then, I've only been back in the hobby for a year.

And I don't spend a whole lot of time building. Much of it is research

-- trying to find out what color is the top of the axle plane on Berthold's D VII; how to duplicate the nozzle color on the F-18A. Just what is the camo pattern on the AVG P-40B. And, of course, I get sidetracked by other questions. I have a lot of info built up.

I've got several "in progress," because I get bored with one, or can't find info on some detail, or don't have that color paint yet, or just want to change it up a bit.

So now I've almost finished my Kitech 1/72 F-14A, and am well along on my AMT (nee Matchbox) 1/72 F-86A. My Revell 1/72 Me-262 is awaiting RLM

Soon, I hope to start on some quality kit, now that I've done my share of mistakes on the cheapy kits.

" snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com:

Ah, yes, dust. When I decided to get back into modelling, I had already packed all my remaining models surviving from previous decades. I took the opportunity, after moving to our present location, to sort through them. A few unbuilts, but most of the builts were in boxes with the dust they had gathered when last on display. (As a matter of fact, more of my models met their demise from my mother's attempt at dusting them with a feather duster than from any other activity, such as nephews or firecrackers.) I picked out a few to refurbish (Revell 1/72 Me-262; Revell/Monogram (don't remember which) 1/48 Bf-109E, Monogram 1/48 P-

When I get my own house (not this rental place), I'll get a glassed-in display case. Well, I can dream...

careful, you can get addicted to super detailing the cheap kits to eliminate their short comings. like making a lindberg gladiator look as good as the roden. to the extent of making all the 3rd paty detaol kits mean for a roden work on the lindberg. just a little sanding and putty, hmm, can i vacform those details....?

What? no LPs? no 45s? no 8-tracks? no 78s? ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

no cylinders, wax, or dvd's? horrors!

snipped-for-privacy@some.domain wrote

Y'all forgot them there wire recording thingummies, too.

RobG (The Aussie one)

i don't have a wire recorder. everything else, though...

Nope, just a few CDs left. The unbuilt model is the EVA models Harrison Schmitt resin astronaut kit in 1:32 scale.

Pat

I actually played around with a wire recorder as a kid, the sound fidelity was pretty poor to put it mildly.

Pat