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Perry Mason would love this!!
What is IN your Stash?
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C.A. Whitecloud
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When I was 19 I made ticket deliveries to business for a travel agency. My normal car was a VW Rabbit. When that car died one summer I had to use one of the boss's Cadillacs, a 1960 convertible. I got plenty of attention that summer.
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What's in your stash? Nunya business. LOLZ!
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I do not have a stash, at least technically, and it does seem to be pretty rare.
Allow me to be more specific...
I have boxes full of old work, finished kits in various stages of disintegration, mostly stuff from childhood that deserves only to be stored in dusty old boxes. When I recently caught the modelling bug again (my 3rd time) I went through all that mess and discarded about 80% of the mess. I kept some key components like the top cover of my greatest Christmas present ever, the Tamiya 1/24 scale Tiger-I that I was given at age 13. It is a disaster, but I still love her. But a few (now down to one) boxes of poorly built not maintained old kits is not a stash right?
So when the bug bit again (recently) instead of rushing out to buy a new kit, I promised to either finish or sell the ones I still had in their own boxes, not the community graveyard boxes mentioned before. The kits I had that were started are:
Kits I have that I do not want to build (they are way over 25 years old) are:
So yeah, no stash in the way ya'll mean.
Allow me to be more specific...
I have boxes full of old work, finished kits in various stages of disintegration, mostly stuff from childhood that deserves only to be stored in dusty old boxes. When I recently caught the modelling bug again (my 3rd time) I went through all that mess and discarded about 80% of the mess. I kept some key components like the top cover of my greatest Christmas present ever, the Tamiya 1/24 scale Tiger-I that I was given at age 13. It is a disaster, but I still love her. But a few (now down to one) boxes of poorly built not maintained old kits is not a stash right?
So when the bug bit again (recently) instead of rushing out to buy a new kit, I promised to either finish or sell the ones I still had in their own boxes, not the community graveyard boxes mentioned before. The kits I had that were started are:
- 1/48 Tamiya FW190A
- 1/48 Revell Pro-Modeller Me410B
- 1/48 Hasegawa F86 Sabre
- Verlinden B-17 Waist Gunner (120mm)
- (I have finished the top three, not sure what to do or where to take the last one)
Kits I have that I do not want to build (they are way over 25 years old) are:
- AMT 1968 Shelby Mustang "Custom"
- AMT 1967 Mustang Coupe
- Fujimi 1966 GT-40 with PE
- (I plan to put these on FB Marketplace)
- AMT Dodge Viper GTS (I'd guess maybe a 1995 version?)
- Monogram 1997 SVT Cobra
- Monogram "Mc'Donalds Thunderbird" (Bill Elliot I think)
- Monogram "Texaco / Havoline Thunderbird" (Davey Allison)
- Monogram 1/48 "First Lunar Landing"
- AMT Star Trek (NG) "Cut-Away USS Enterprise"
So yeah, no stash in the way ya'll mean.
Have these... Also waiting mail. Ordered for different complete interior builds that are armor kits.
M1 sep with tusk 1 and 2 plate and reactive armor, full interior kit.
Border 1/35 Israel Merkava MK.2D w/Full Interior
RYEFIELD 1/35 M4A3 76W VVSS SHERMAN LATE Internal Deluxe Version
1/35 M76 Amphibious Cargo Carrier OTTER Early Production
M1 sep with tusk 1 and 2 plate and reactive armor, full interior kit.
Border 1/35 Israel Merkava MK.2D w/Full Interior
RYEFIELD 1/35 M4A3 76W VVSS SHERMAN LATE Internal Deluxe Version
1/35 M76 Amphibious Cargo Carrier OTTER Early Production
I also have the RFM M1A1/A2 w/ full int and ordered a seperate int because no matter how I try to figure a way to build it, so much of it will still be hidden. I'm just going to build the seperate int as a stand alone that I'm back and forth on mounting to the same base or as a seperate base… and I have the RFM M4A3 76 VVSS(W) w/ full int in the stash. I keep hearing that I made a sound selection with that one…
As for the Border Merkava Mk2D, Rob Adams of TheModelingInsanityPodcast has been building it off and on in our Discord Build Room. I've been following that build very closely as I was suppose to build mine at the same time. Other commitments kept me from starting which turned out to be a blessing in disguise! While it's been a beautiful build that has gone relatively well(you have to know Rob to understand relatively well with him as he likes to really push the boundaries on trying to open up these tanks to show off the interiors), the tracks have been a full blown nightmare! I'm not even sure how many hrs he spent prepping them, but I do know it was 6-8 hrs of assembly for 1 SIDE only to have it fall apart!!! The kit is now sitting off to the side, awaiting aftermarket tracks! Once I see which ones, how they go together AND hold up as he installs them, I will order mine Momma didn't raise a complete fool, lol
Lol... I hear that I will be making a jig to put together the tracks when I do mine. As far as displaying it I have two ideas. One is displaying it peeled away like the top turret separate from the bottom and split basically displaying it as parts. The other option is cutting away parts to display better. It will probably be a combination of both to display it properly. Or one other option as well is to bring the same model into the equation but a basic model to display full exterior then do cutaway on the interior one..
I have ideas but honestly I need to get my hands on them to really play with and see what I can do or can't if that makes sense.
I have ideas but honestly I need to get my hands on them to really play with and see what I can do or can't if that makes sense.
Perfect sense Adams is big on using magnets on panels, he did a phenomenal job with them on a full interior Mk V that did well at one of the Nats last yr(I believe it was AMPS at South Bend(?) but I could be mistaken and it might've been IPMS in Wisconsin(?) )… Either way, I'm confident Robbie will turn out a stunning build of her. He truly enjoys building the Merkava, except the IV, says that turret reminds him of a spaceship
