Paper model collecting

[Isaac]

Guys

It is a form of OCD ( Obsession Compulsive Disorder ). We tend to collect more than we need and then it is an obsession.


The electronic hoarding is cheap and low cost. However, it is time waster ( instead of a space waster. You don't need book cases and shelving for it ).

As long as it does not interfere with your daily life and you still have money for food and shelter, you are OK.


He who dies with the most toys, wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Cheers

Isaac

[Jim Nunn]

Card,

There are some basic rules to this hobby and the first is that you cannot die until you have built all of your kits, free down loads are optional but you get extra points for building them.

Jim Nunn

[card]

Free downloads and the like off the net etc was the first area i stopped bothering with as in general i didnt feel the quality was up to some of the kits i had bought from GPM, modelik, Schreiber etc. They were fun to learn on/fool around with, and pass the time but the finished product wasn't overly thrilling. Its funny how after years of working on plastic wood and brass etched kits that its almost like going back to school learning new techniques to use on paper. I have a new appreciation for those that build the top paper models...

[card]

I'm with Isaac, who dies with the most toys wins... I'm having fun and enjoy my leisure time.

[southwestforests]

Look at it this way, independent of if you build it, your purchase has helped stimulate the economy of the seller and helped them buy next week's groceries.

[nikischutt]

True, hoarding of purchased models is still money in someone's pocket, it's still a sale, regardless of whether it's built or not.

Until the day that there is an easily searchable online archive of all free and/or purchased models, we'll still carry on hoarding "just-in-case". Saying that, that's an idea...

Niki

[CMDRTED]

I with you all. I read a quote and I'm paraphrasing it as it relates to guncollecting. My only fear is when I die my wife sells off my stuff for the price I told her I paid for them!

[leighpilot]

A Russian modeler did point out the advantage of paper kits over plastic when collecting. 50 unused plastic kits would be be a pile over 9 feet high. 50 paper kits would be about 12 inches high. That can be hidden under a chair or bench thus avoiding the wrath of the wife. 9 feet of plastic kits is a dead give away, inviting the wrath of the wife on ones head.

[Amccombs3]

OK, consider the alternative. I read a story in a plastic-modelling magagine once, about a guy whose genre was muscle cars. When the writer visited his home, he had 500 built models in display cases, one or two projects on his workbench -- and NO unbuilt kits! I admire him as an idealized role model, but ... does anyone know anybody else like that?

[rjm]

ISAAC mentioned OCD, maybe that's why I have the whole collection
of "Monk" on DVD's.