Mr T Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 My stash number is fairly static in terms of types as most of my buys are 'better' kits than those already there (eg my MPM Wellington is never going to get built as the Airfix kit is so much better and possibly an easier build) land so stuff gets moved along. I have stopped worrying about the size of the stash and just get on building, the number of unmade kits is probably actually reducing. I don't think about the fact I am never going to finish everything as then you can start getting morbid. What I have started doing is those models I have always wanted to build, but have put off for whatever reason. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPuente54 Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 @Filler, only 58 in your stash? I have that many on my basement floor and a shelf system, and 200-300 in my garage. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Bryon Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 4 hours ago, Graham Boak said: But how many are you buying each year? Must be considered.... It's a fair point...which we are ignoring at present Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Once when buying a model for my son at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune I mentioned the size of my stash as it was back then to the lady serving us. "Ah" she said. "You are just like my husband - sable" Odd thing to say i thought and then she explained Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy If my son inherits the stash and starts building we might just both manage it combined 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Filler Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 I suppose I was thinking in the question that we’d realise that we need not buy any more kits. But who am I kidding? 116 years worth of kits or not, I will buy the Kinetic F-104S kit as soon as it’s out. So soon to be 118 years to finish my stash. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecov Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 There is also the symptom of "stash-itis" where you keep putting kits in it instead of building them in the hope that manufacturers will eventually bring out a newer toolings of those kits. They then go straight into the stash while you wait again for yet another new-tooling to correct the problems with the most recent release. And so it goes on until one day, you finally build what you think is the (almost) perfect kit and the stashed ones are then readied for sale. Dave 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tzulscha Posted May 18, 2021 Share Posted May 18, 2021 Hi. My name is Q. It's been 32 years since I have last had a really good stash clean out. I am a plastic modeler... Please help me... 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Well lets see … I currently have 89 kits in the stash. My build rate for the last three years has been 2018 = 19, 2019 = 30, & 2020 = 38. Three years total equals 87, and Im trying to slow my build rate down currently as I have zero space for storage. Sadly just tossed about 15 models into the recycling bin today, mostly older kits that were rattle-canned or broken. So going on those numbers 3-4 years. I will be 53-54 when that runs out but as I will buy more in the mean time doubt I truly run out. Dennis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mottlemaster Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 My stash has an R rate of 2 . For every one i build i buy 2 more . My stash should probably be known as the Devon Variant. Alistair 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iang Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 (edited) I think ageing has an impact on my attitude to the stash. When I was in my 40s I didn't care how large it was, subject to the space constraint of the loft size (just the eaves I hastened to add, as the house has a loft conversion). Now I'm in my early 60s things have changed, and I've been selling off kits at the rate of 10 a month or so and starting to build (not finish please note) around the same number a year. I did have around 680 and am now down to around 420. I have broad modelling interests, and model in a variety of scales, so it's harder to rationalise the stash, or so I tell myself (I model WW1, interwar and WW2 land, sea and air subjects in 1/200, 1/350, 1/72, 1/48, 1/32, 1/24 or, and 1/35). I've ended up regretting selling kits that I've subsequently bought again, which is something I really wish to avoid. I think I would be "happy" if I could reduce the stash to around 250 for my eventual retirement, which still sounds ridiculous to most non-modellers (and most of my family). Certainly, I've started to shun some new releases that a few years ago I would have been keen to acquire. Edited May 19, 2021 by iang 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Hmm.... I started an excel list back in the days when my stash was very reasonable but this list was not to count my stash but to check which extras I would like to add or which I have included in the bo, so I do not buy anything twice by mistake (yes - I lost overview). But even if I stop doeing anything but building kits I guess it would take a few centuries. Really need to start selling kits again. Sounds so easy when you are not in front of the peronal toy store in the basement... At least the rate at which I buy kits has reduced a lot the past two years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackroadkill Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 Sorry, finish? I keep buying kits that never make it as far as the stash and then building them, so although I'm outputting I'm not throughputting. Worryingly, during a build I tend to buy about three additional kits that do make it into the stash, too, so I think that whatever this "finish" means I'm very unlikely to see it anytime soon. I have, however, just imposed a kit-buying moratorium on myself until the end of July - the day after I ordered two more Airfix Hurricanes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisTheBear Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 (edited) 100 years at a rate of 3 completions a year. I'll be 155 years old then. DennisTheBear Edited May 20, 2021 by DennisTheBear Spelling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 Only if there's posthumous group builds..... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.sin Posted May 20, 2021 Share Posted May 20, 2021 How long has the universe been around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral Puff Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 More to the point, how much longer will the universe last? In my case, it will need to be quite some time ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) On 5/21/2021 at 4:51 AM, Admiral Puff said: More to the point, how much longer will the universe last? In my case, it will need to be quite some time ... Depends whether our universe is on some higher-dimensional being's shelf of doom...... Edited May 22, 2021 by IanHx 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxbat Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 I sold 90% of my stash a couple of years back when times were hard. The current stash is now bigger than the one I sold. Given my completion rate is way lower than the rate I keep buying new stuff, the stash will never be empty unless I have another massive clear out. Doesn't help that my tastes change often before I get to a kit I really wanted to build when I bought it. Now ask me if I care - that's a totally different question Andy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DStewart Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 As I don't know the size of my stash I can't calculate, but at least my buying rate has slowed. Just 3 in 2020 and so far none this year! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 currently buying them way ahead of completion rate so the heat death of the universe will come before the stash is finished 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimpion Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 6 minutes ago, PhantomBigStu said: currently buying them way ahead of completion rate so the heat death of the universe will come before the stash is finished Maybe this is why old kits don't fit together properly. The expansion of space-time since the kit was designed results in a big gap between the fuselage halves! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy54 Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 Last year was an anomaly for me, I built 14 models (a feat I had not accomplished since 1963) and only acquired 14. This year I have finished 4 with 3 in process, have acquired 4 and 2 on preorder. With more of the Fine Molds Phantoms (hopefully) being available later in the year the prospect of enlarging the stash looks imminent. As to when the stash will be empty perhaps in a 100+ years? It's not only the models in the stash it is also the books and magazines which I continue to acquire, at least I read those. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanHx Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 (edited) On 5/18/2021 at 10:44 PM, JohnT said: Once when buying a model for my son at the Museum of Flight at East Fortune I mentioned the size of my stash as it was back then to the lady serving us. "Ah" she said. "You are just like my husband - sable" Odd thing to say i thought and then she explained Stash Acquired Beyond Life Expectancy If my son inherits the stash and starts building we might just both manage it combined According to the missus, the knitters down here have their own version - STABLE - STash ABove Life Expectancy. All I know for sure is that there are certain cupboard doors that I cannot open without re-enacting the Star Trek "overhead storage bin full of tribbles" scene with balls of yarn....... Edited May 21, 2021 by IanHx 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klr Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 To paraphrase Zager and Evans: "In the year 2525 ... if modelling kits still survives ... ... by then I might be finished." 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted May 21, 2021 Share Posted May 21, 2021 When I die I hope to go to heaven. If it was Hell the heat would melt all the polystyrene 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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