The Stash has another Ally, CAMPAIGN, just went and added an Eduard P-39N to the stash on the off chance the Overshadowed Fighters campaign will fly (it will) then while buying that I had to have a Revell Stearman and a Piper L-4N on floats, stash-3, me-0. The Big Bad Bombers arrives, none in the Stash, HP O-400 bought, Build off, Vampire bought. My Stash is fairly modest compared to many, only about 30 kits, but I still buy more than I build and the pile gets bigger. Target this year, Build more than I buy.

I needed some paint. No big deal, so I drove to my LHS, got the paint, then more paint

My name is Frank and I am a plastiholic. It has been 2 days since my last purchase...oh wait...it has been 32 minutes since my last purchase (darned internet). I built some kits as a youth many years ago but never really progressed much beyond oob builds with the odd stretched sprue in the way of detailing. I stopped once I "grew up" and was too old to play with toys. After a 4 year stint with the USMC, getting married, raising a family and a 30+ year career in law enforcement, I now see the prospect of having some spare time and am easing back to the work bench. It is none too soon since I never stopped collecting and have accrued a stash that includes some 219 kits of almost every make and model of aircraft ever to see service with the Marines in 1/72 scale as well as examples of many of the enemies they faced (42 Imperial Japanese, 10 North Korean, 6 North Vietnamese and 10 Iraqi aircraft). I have an exact count since I meticulously catalogued them, by hand at first and then on an excel spread sheet when these new fangled computers became indispensible. I also have an unknown collection of ships, armor and aircraft in various scales that have been up in the rafters in the garage for 30 years. As if this is not enough, lately, I have become very nostalgic about my USMC service as a heavy vehicle operator 1976-1980 and have been buying 1/35 scale examples of all of the equipment I operated or hauled when serving with 1st Tank Battalion and 3rd Combat Engineers. But I don't have an addiction, I can quit any time I want to.... Well, maybe after I find kits for all of the squad cars and motorcycles I have operated from the 1977 Plymouth Sebring to the 2007 BMW RT1200. At least my stash isn't in the thousands like some of you out of control plastiholics. That's just crazy.

and concentrate on one subject at the time

Happens to me ever time I step into the hobby shop for paint 7 out of 10 times I walk out with a kit . It was 2009 when I got back into and in this time frame I have 230 kit's , 95% is WW 1

Terri

Sorry about your friend.

I've managed to keep the kit acquisitions down lately. Fortunately the vendors are helping out by not offering any kits I want at prices I'm willing to pay.. OTOH, I just ordered a bunch of AM for some projects on the bench.

How does the saying go: "So many [kits] so little time"?

I just imagine a bunch of us standing over the stash, wringing our hands together, whispering,,,,My precious.