Novità

Guy Rump
Interesting, following. 👍

Finn
I'm in

John
What ? No June or August !

Martin Oostrom
I now have to live with that failure for the rest of my life. 2023 is ruined forever
🤪

Bill Newcomer
Dude! You need to build faster!

OK you made me look at my damage. I bought 33 kits this year. AYE, Yi Yi!

Spanjaard
you can still order some more to compensate for June and Augist LOL!!!

John
Now I had to look at mine, 31 kits this year. One regional show and IPMS/USA in 2024 so I'm thinking dozens more in 2024. Happy New Year and Modeling in '24

bossy122
I find it better not to pay attention. I just added 5 more and haven't finished a damn thing in forever. Is there a way to see what all got added to the stash in THE STASH?

Ellis Smith
Woah I need to buy more kits to keep up with you lot, mines a very small stash by comparison.

Martin Oostrom
Welcome, my fellow addicts 😄

Bossy, if you add the date bought and the price when adding a kit to your stash, you get two 'benefits'...
1) Your projects show a total cost 🙁
2) In the stash, on the right in blue, you see a date in a blue bar, that's your date bought/sold.

bossy122
Yes, I noticed the dates. Looks like I acquired 29 kits and only finished 4, none of which were started this year. Awful.

Spanjaard
good i have never added those details 😄

Pepe
😲

Bill Newcomer
Martin, the date method is how I determined my count for this year. I am generally pretty good at adding inventory. Cost? I don't want to know. Especially since I have purchased a lot of paint this year.

Martin Oostrom
Bill, Paints are priceless to me! I love the Molotow stuff, but at €29 for 30ml, thats too much. I'll wait for a discount somewhere.
I know that a €50 kit needs about €10-25 in aftermarket stuff and paint.

Bill Newcomer
Have you tried Green Stuff World Chrome?

Martin Oostrom
Nope. I did a quick google search and we have one supplier over here and 17ml costs €7,99 with another €7,50 for shipping.
Alclad is cheaper, but oh so fiddly to get just right. Que the Molotow!

Jv
I missed this post
Yes you should do this
I am always interested in stach albums
Always interesting to see what others get
Sometimes I see kits I haven seen before
I also.love to see what people wish for here its a good way to keep up with coming kits
You sure got some nice kits in the last year
I few I would be happy to have in my stach to

Martin Oostrom
Most of them were bought on Dutch eBay. To prevent more purchases I deleted the app from my phone 😁
No more temptation!

Jv
Lol not sure that would help me much
Just got another 8 models today

Bozzer
Mate, I noticed that you have the AMT Allied Van Lines kit? I'd love a scan of those decals, before you get around to using them.

bughunter
Martin, have you ordered also a new cabinet? Many of the new kits will merge into huge models so I guess you will need a lot of space for the finished ones.

Bozzer
Bughunter, I believe that he's ordered a barn, from IKEA! 😉

bossy122
Now I don't feel so bad about my purchases this year. : )

Spanjaard
i so not feel bad.... about not adding the dates, so I can not even count 😄 😄

Martin Oostrom
Hey! This was all in 2023. I'm a changed man now 🤔

Spanjaard
you do not keep track anymore? 😄

Bozzer
Spanjaard, sometimes it's best, not to keep track 😉

Spanjaard
indeed!!!! 😄

Urban Gardini
Well I for sure don't keep track and that's damn good as my inflow of kits is unhealthy and I've not finished a kit since 2019. Started many but get them done is difficult for some reason. But it's too easy to buy kits...

Ben M
Kit acquisition syndrome!

Ben M
Could you mount an X-wing fuselage and wings on one of those trailers… like it's being transported.

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Spanjaard
that is a great idea 🙂

Phil M
I love 1/12 and trucks, but dont have much place for them 🙁

Alexander Grivonev
What a great blue, amazing 👍

Phil M
thanks, its alclad candy color, cobalt blue if I remember well

Spanjaard
fully agree with Alexander

Neuling
A nice one!

Rui S
Great paint job 👍

Phil M
Thanks Rui and the other 🙂

bughunter
Great build!
Reminds me of some of the funny jokes about the Smart on the TV "Friday Night News":
"Smart has sales problems. That's why every third Kellogg's box now contains a Smart. It doesn't matter if you miss it while eating - it will be excreted undigested." 😉

Alexander Grivonev
Freitag Nacht News, war ne gute Sendung!

Phil M
hahaha 🙂

Martin Oostrom
This is a great job on something else than a Ferrari

Phil M
haha yup, still, I just bought my first alpha model and it is a ...............Ferrari!!

Dontsniffglue
Wasn't happy with the "light blue" the kit called for. Bought some Testors blue metal flake, and blended some gloss white in to try and get a closer approximation of the engine color. Also took some liberties with the oil pan. Instead of keeping it blue, I mixed some flat aluminum with some flat brass. Two shots of the intake manifold show the light blue previously used, and the darker custom shade I mixed.

After most of the parts were put together, I ran a black wash over all of it to highlight the textures and give it a "oily/dirty" look. So used to doing that with acrylics, that I forgot that it wants to remove the paint I'm going over. Overall, not too bad for the first model I've touched in 25 years.

Christian W
Good color choice! I think it doesn't matter wethter it is original paint or not. I never saw one original so it looks pretty good to me. Cool!

Spanjaard
fully agree with Christian W, the blue looks truly beautiful

Dontsniffglue
Thanks! A couple of the original paint colors for this car was Lucerne Blue (this one is probably closer to what I have here) and Bermuda Blue which I really wanted but couldn't find anything close. Either way I'm really happy with the end result.

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Christian W
I know this source. It is awesome! On that source I based thze built of my two Trans Am.