Lots of space required
-
- Officer - 2nd Lieutenant
- Posts: 303
- Joined: Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:56 am
- Location: In the back woods.
Lots of space required
Ok guys, where are you going to put all these upcoming 1:18th scale models? I hope to have room for the F-14, and the F-15. I have to have the new Admiral Mosquito, so out go the kids.... (just joking)
Fred, really looking forward to the JSI 1/18th scale Grumman F-14 Tomcat.
-
- Officer - Brigadier General
- Posts: 9649
- Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:52 am
- Location: New Orleans
-
- Officer - Colonel
- Posts: 1383
- Joined: Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:27 am
- Location: 1, USA, Ohio, in between Dayton and Cincy
-
- Officer - Captain
- Posts: 706
- Joined: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:03 pm
- Location: Texas
-
- Officer - Brigadier General
- Posts: 6374
- Joined: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:16 pm
- Location: Orlando FL
Re: planes
Thats awesome panzerPanzer wrote:I built a wall of planes to divide the room.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
-
- Officer - Captain
- Posts: 678
- Joined: Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:45 am
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Contact:
I have a question. I've been building models all my life -- five decades. The hobby's come and gone for me and I've gone through different passions -- (then) modern planes, cars, WWII planes, spacecraft, R/C sailplanes, cars again ... went through a 1:18 die cast car phase. Now this. All through that time, the pleasure for me has been in building and/or displaying the models. Now my home office and library are filling up with 1:18 military stuff of the kind this board's devoted to. I'm building some dioramas (well along on an Iraqi street scene) and starting on doing some custom work on the things I've acquired over the past few months.
I know some of the folks here have lots -- some lots and lots and lots -- of pieces in the original boxes. I'm not being critical, I'm just curious -- how do you characterize what you're doing? Are you buying to sell or trade later? To open later? To "get 'em all?" I have probably 20-30 1/25 car kits in the boxes. I open one from time to time to build and customize. With the 1:18 stuff, I confess to having felt some desire to buy and hoard things that may be rare some day -- why I honestly can't say. So what's the motivation to have a lot of these pieces in the original boxes?
I know some of the folks here have lots -- some lots and lots and lots -- of pieces in the original boxes. I'm not being critical, I'm just curious -- how do you characterize what you're doing? Are you buying to sell or trade later? To open later? To "get 'em all?" I have probably 20-30 1/25 car kits in the boxes. I open one from time to time to build and customize. With the 1:18 stuff, I confess to having felt some desire to buy and hoard things that may be rare some day -- why I honestly can't say. So what's the motivation to have a lot of these pieces in the original boxes?
-
- Sergeant
- Posts: 168
- Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:57 pm
Glad To See That Im Not The Only One
I Have a problem myself. Mine are for my son when he gets older, i would rather keep them in box tell then to avoid damage.
-
- Officer - Brigadier General
- Posts: 5405
- Joined: Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:46 am
- Location: SOUTH JOISEY
- Contact:
You can store 'em.
You can open 'em and display 'em.
You can resell 'em.
You can even open 'em and play with 'em.
You can open 'em and customize 'em.
You can even mix and match (store some, display with some, play with some).
You can do whatever you want. Just as long as you don't start buying copies of "The Catcher in the Rye" and putting them on your shelf.......
Then you have a problem.
TTT
You can open 'em and display 'em.
You can resell 'em.
You can even open 'em and play with 'em.
You can open 'em and customize 'em.
You can even mix and match (store some, display with some, play with some).
You can do whatever you want. Just as long as you don't start buying copies of "The Catcher in the Rye" and putting them on your shelf.......
Then you have a problem.
TTT
Sometimes I am the windshield, sometimes, I am the bug.
-
- Officer - 1st Lieutenant
- Posts: 596
- Joined: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:58 am
- Location: 1, USA, MO, St. Louis
It's a disease I tell ya. You first by one because it catches your eye. Then you buy a couple more of your favorite planes from childhood. Next thing you know you're rationalizing by saying they are really for your son. My "9 year old" has probably 15 and many more that I am hiding to give on birthdays and Christmas. You know you have a problem when you can't remember what you've bought already and have to build a spreadsheet to help you keep track of it all! I find myself customizing my "son's" models and he feels like he has to ask me if he can get one down to look at - I think he realizes they are just as much mine as his - the wife knows too.gburch wrote:I have a question. I've been building models all my life -- five decades. The hobby's come and gone for me and I've gone through different passions -- (then) modern planes, cars, WWII planes, spacecraft, R/C sailplanes, cars again ... went through a 1:18 die cast car phase. Now this. All through that time, the pleasure for me has been in building and/or displaying the models. Now my home office and library are filling up with 1:18 military stuff of the kind this board's devoted to. I'm building some dioramas (well along on an Iraqi street scene) and starting on doing some custom work on the things I've acquired over the past few months.
I know some of the folks here have lots -- some lots and lots and lots -- of pieces in the original boxes. I'm not being critical, I'm just curious -- how do you characterize what you're doing? Are you buying to sell or trade later? To open later? To "get 'em all?" I have probably 20-30 1/25 car kits in the boxes. I open one from time to time to build and customize. With the 1:18 stuff, I confess to having felt some desire to buy and hoard things that may be rare some day -- why I honestly can't say. So what's the motivation to have a lot of these pieces in the original boxes?
"Where's dat waskily wabbit?"
____________________________________________
Good Trades: Ostketten, Pickelhaube, Cornbreadfred, Sledgehammer, Pizzaguy, caesarbc3,jwcarpenter
____________________________________________
Good Trades: Ostketten, Pickelhaube, Cornbreadfred, Sledgehammer, Pizzaguy, caesarbc3,jwcarpenter