How to manage your model stash

Here are my thoughts and ideas on how to manage your ever growing model stashes!
I've also got a preview of my own stash coming, if anyone wants to have a sneek peak...

[modelermark]

Warren Zevon famously noted that, “We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." I think the same may be said of plastic modelers.

Thanks for posting this!

[MPrybil]

Thanks for the advice and you’re a good father, too! I’m getting back in to model building after a 65 year break. I have 13 kits 12 aircraft and 1 an M43 ambulance like the one I drove in Korea 1966/67. I’ve told myself not to buy any more until I’ve completed two kits. I’ll start with a F6F-5 Hellcat 1/48 then try an A6A Intruder 1/100. The B-24 1/48 will be next year. I was afraid my hobby was starting to become “Buying Kits”instead of “Building Them”!

[scottnau]

Great video. Good to see an Aussie making modelling videos for a change. I started modelling 8 months ago and made a promise I would never have more kits in my stash than completed models.
Tally so completed 2, stash 16. Doh!

[karenthompson]

When my husband retired he had amassed over 500 unbuilt kits, mostly aircraft. About 15 years ago he sold lots of them on ebay and now the inventory is just over 200 kits. He has around twenty 1/72 P-3C Orion kits from different manufactures, mostly Hasegawa.

Today he doesn't build as he use to and says the Testor's Model Master paints are just too expensive ($15) for a 1/2 oz bottle. They use to be $1.69.

Our sons have the same interest in model building.

[ualuuanie]

I love people with large stashes because every so often these people suddenly have a change of heart and decide to make room in their house for other projects or they just don't fancy that kit anymore and decide to sell it off at 50% at the local hobby store and I would snap them up :)

[kellywellington]

Yes...I, too, have a 'stash' and an 'actual stash'. I have a very good idea of what comes next for at least ten kits out...My over-the-top stash (600+ kits) is dedicated to a young man presently too young to build. He may never use them, but he can sell them for whatever cash he can get.

[joburg]

Chris great video, I'am so so guilty of everything you mention in this vid. and you have inspired me to thin out my stash before it's all to late. cheers

[rurushu]

I buy a kit based on what I want at the moment, I also have very little time to visit the shops but more time to build the kits. This makes my stash very small, the largest amount of unbuilt kits I had at one time was 2. Most are Tamiya and Italeri because they're the cheapest and most plentiful where I live.

[jimcurt]

I've got a bunch of old Tamiya 1/12 car kits... just like looking at them- might build when I retire

[robertjohnson]

I have an inventory of my stach, helps to get aftermarket items to increase detail, lots of decals and figures to go with the 1/35 AFV

[benweber]

I'm 13 years old and broke so my stash never exceeds 6 or 7 lol. I love warbirds! (Rn I'm working on a f18 though)

[bobyoung]

Three months ago my stash exceeded 500 models. I also had a box with close to 200 HO-scale models. Now, I've cut that in half and will likely halve it again by June 2019. Sad, but I won't live long enough to finish them all. The good news? I'm making a ton of money selling them.🙂👍

[robo]

I take a few favourites that I pick from the stash and have been known to carry them from room to room inspecting them before putting them back in my stash. I know, I know... 😒

[PAINTMONKEY]

Great idea with the mini ' ready to go' stash. I gotta get this sorted. Thanks for reminding me. Loving the channel.

[flitsertheo]

It's my experience that most kits have a very short production run. They appear in the shops, maybe there is plenty of them but when they are gone they never come back. Or ages later, as a vintage kit.
One such item is the Airfix 1/32 scale Beach Buggy. For more than 40 years it was gone and if you found one it cost a small fortune (for such a small heap of plastic anyway). And now Airfix brought it back, at a normal price and in large quantities. Until those are gone ...

[tacdad]

I just got into this hobby and I already have almost run out of room in my closet. I have found really good deals so my stash has quickly grown to about 20, yes I am a noob. Also, there are certain models that are only out a few years then they sky rocket in price like sci fi models (except star trek). My nre airbrush and paints are on the way!!

[davidpalmer]

Hi Chris, I have a stash of about 30 kits. The best one was the Bandai 1/72 perfect grade millenium falcon, I bought it when it was first release because it was a limited edition. When the wife found out about a year later she went a little crazy at the $400ish price. I sat her down and showed her the current prices on ebay and amazon and she shut up and has never complained since. Please note that she owns horses.

[kenhanson]

Great video, Chris! I like the idea of the ready to build shelf. I began selling kits from my stash on the Military Model Graveyard back in December, 2015. I realized I had way too many kits that I would never get around to building, so why not sell them to someone who perhaps wanted to build it. Started selling the doubles first, then my old MPC Star Wars kits, then the old Revell & Monogram stuff. The money has gone into good tools and paints (and, sadly, a few newer tooled kits).

[HamilkarBarkasScaleModelling]

a lot of model builders are guilty of these things, but afterall i know that i will be able to keep me busy for a looong time :) i rarely get precious kits, i actually enjoy these old imperial series dragon kits. they are rather easy to build and that way you can get through a project rather fast instead of having the latest up to date kit which is extremely complex.

[brucegibbins]

I've no stash, never had one. This happens when a modelers build rate matches new purchases coming in the front door. A narrow, limited or specific interest can once again make new kit numbers also limited, or much fewer than a builder with wide interests and loves everything.