I was just curious if others shared a tendency to either be a pack-rat when some especially appealing kit comes along, and you buy a couple immediately (Ummm. One out of the box, one superdetailed to the max, one for conversion, one for a rainy day), or if there is a kit you remember fondly from the past and you buy it again (and again, repeat as necessary) just to have one on the shelf at all times.

I'll start:
Pack-rat: 1/72 Revell He-177 (4x in 'inventory', because I got'em dirt cheap)
Revisitied: Airfix 1/76 Matilda. Recently purchased, I've built it at least three times in the past.

Let's hear them!
Mika

I'm a pack rat of a slightly different color - I pack rat overall. I don't purchase multiples of one kit, at least not right then. But I do purchase many kits, because One Day I Will Get To Them All!
No - I don't do multiples.

For me its Hasegawa's 1/48 Bf 109 series. I believe I have three G-6s, three G-10s, two K-4s and one K-14. I used to have 6 Hasegawa's 1/48 Hellcats, but I sold them off and only built one. As a matter of fact, except for the Bf109s and an unfinished Monogram 1/48 B-17G I was able to sold all my aircraft kits a couple of years ago when I switched to armor modeling.

Cheers,

CDT Reimund Manneck
U.S. Army ROTC

I tend to buy kits in pairs - one for saving in the collection - one for building. In the case of really nice or unusual kits, I'll get an additional one.

Gunnie

I pick up stuff when it grabs my interest. However a kit a keep rebuilding is the Tamiya GMC truck. Wonderful kit and wonderful possibilities. I aslo seem to keep building the Challenger II kit by Tamiya as well....

Nate
Wisc. USA

I buy kits whenever I find a great deal or when that really special one comes along and I can't resist...........regardless of price...I have a lot! I am a total packrat when it comes to spare parts.......I never throw away extra parts. I have a spare parts box that is out of this world! And just about every set of directions from every kit I've ever built! I think "Packratism" is in the genes of the modeller! Jeff

In my case I'll buy the kit more than once if another variant can come of it like the Stug III by Tamiya(new or old kits) can be build into a regular Stug 75 or a Stug 42 with the 105 cannon. The same is true of alot of the panzer 3 kits out there. Then there are conversion kits that need the same kit.

mkctanker

I'm definitely a pack-rat. I have 110 Tamiya kits sitting in my storage room to build. I only buy one kit. Sometimes, I will lose a part and buy a second kit to get the part. Crazy I know but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. In some cases buying the whole kit is cheaper than buying the extra parts tree from the manufacturer.

I am a sucker for a good deal as well. When Hobby Lobby does their 50% off model sale, I can't help but buy a couple of kits.

Definately a ratpacker here. I may buy a single kit now and agian, but I like to pick up two for sure, if I really like the subject. Then there's a part of me that says, yes, it will make a good model, but think of the Dio possibilities. That's when I usually go crazy. Right now, I have 4 Tamiya Pz III Ausf L's, 3 Accurate Miniature B-25's, and I just got 3 of the Tamiya re-issued M3A2 Halftracks. Oh well, nothing left to do now, but build them.

And yes, I both love and hate when somebody like ModelExpo or Hobby Lobby has the 50% off thing going...God help me; because I can't help myself.

Mike

I only have 2 dozen kits. Right now instead of packing up on extra kits I am trying to stock up on aftermarket items for the kits I have. Now that's where you can blow a ton of money I am learning

I have never bought the same kit twice ....... yet!
As I only started modelling about 19 months ago, there is too much of a choice and so many cool things that I want to do. Nearly everything I build ends up in a dio, so that takes away alot of the time, just building kits. I have a collection now of about 15 models to build. And unless something just jumps up and roars buy me, I want to build what I have first. Well thats the dream, but I have bought 2 kits recently since I started this strategy

Guess I'm something of a "pack-rat" when it comes to some kits. I have a "thing" for the old Bandai 1/48 vehicles, so I tended to pick them up whenever possable.

I've never gone out and bought a load of models at the same time, but over the years I've bought loads of Tamiya SdKfz 250 and SdKfz 251 halftracks. (do these look cool or what??)

I was planning on doing all the versions at one point, I managed to do about 6 versions of 250 in Alt (stock body) and Neu (scratch biult) body versions and 10 versions of 251 and scrtach built 2 SdKfz 11's using the 251 chassis (one with flat bed and cargo box easyish' and the other a gun limber, the rear was a pain in the rear, getting all those curves to blend in without showing.) and how many rivets on the side???

One thing I haven't done yet with the 251 is to scratch build the Ausf A and B versions yet.

Oh and a shed load of PzKpfw IV's from Italeri and Tamiya.

In my younger years I've made squadrons of spitfires in Brown/Green and Grey/Green camo, short wing versions, the lot excpet seafire and bubble canopy. All in 1/72nd Airfix and Matchbox .

That's about it for doing multiples......................

Pack rat all the way. Buy and save ain't noway I will ever finish them if all require Pe and addons. (:-)

Big time packrat here. I have well over 700 Automotive kits stashed away, and a lot of aircraft too. My worst sins are

Accurate Miniatures Mustangs. About a half dozen. (I don't even build 1/48 scale, they were just such great kits!)

Hasegawa P-47 Thunderbolts. You can never have too many "Jugs" in your collection.
Hasegawa OV-10 Broncos. One for a USAF, and one for Marines...
Four Frogfoots... (Frogfeet??) Why do I need four of these?
Three A-37 Dragonflies. (I got a bonus at work right during the middle of the "Ground Attack" phase of my hobby)
Enough Sabres, and Migs to recreate the whole Korean Conflict... About a dozen of each.

Kits I keep coming back to.
Revell/Monogram TBD-1 I built one as a kid, and it is just a cool looking airplane.

Kits that keep coming back to me;
Revell's PT-109 (1/72) I got one as a gift when I was a kid. Built it, with about three tubes of glue! Now I got another one as a gift this year. It will be my next build. (Only a half tube of glue this time!)

I got hooked up with a new computer, and internet account, using the excuse that I was going to get on E-bay, and thin down my excess kits. The score so far- Kits sold:6 Kits purchased: 114. I also have similar results going to model shows and swap meets. I am even worse now that I cast my own resin. I am supposed to sell it to help defray the costs of my hobby, but I end up trading it for more kits!

The absolute worst kit for me, though is Revell's 1/25 series of '32 Ford street rods. I own sixteen of them, along with eleven built ones! I know they're not military, but they are addictive.

In the last 6 years since I got back into the hobby in a serious way, My collection of kits has gone from about 11 to 200+. these are about half armour and half figures (I'll probably only build one figure out of each set) there is also agroup of 30+ resin conversions. If there is one kit I seem to buy most often these days are Acsdemy M113 Zeldas and Italeiri M4a1 Sherman. I never seem to have enough of either.

Josh
aKA shiryon ( had to try it)

Can't have enough Jeeps! All the Italeri variants and the newer Tamiya kits are the best. If I can get 'em cheap, I pick 'em up. They're always great in a dio and "civilians" recognize it. For instance, the average Joe off the street may not have a clue that the M10 tank destroyer ever existed, but if you park a venerable jeep next to it, it places the M10 in context.

I also love the fact that there are countless variants of the jeep and so many different configurations -- maybe more than the Sherman.

I've also gone through at least a dozen Tamiya M4A3 kits, as well as Italeri M32 and Kangaroo kits, that I have parted-out for conversions.

Italeri and Tamiya deuce-and-a-halfs are also worth collecting for their conversion possibilities.

The only kits I've bought more than one of at a time was the M-151 (Tamiya/Academy) when I was doing my "pack of MUTTS" which would up with 14 0r 15 variants. I also have 2-3 Tamiya M-113A1 Fire Support. These were bought cheap for conversion purposes, though now that I have the A2 version, one will likely br built as a companion. Then there are the multiple F-5x and A-4x kits that will be done as a major project on Aggressor aircraft. And all the F-4Ux kits to document the vaiants of the Corsair family. And the Humvees...

(I REALLY LIKE THIS NEW AVITAR) Mean while: I'm not so much a pack-rat as a fan of the Tamiya Abrams M1A1 and the Tiger Tank. I've built at least three of both. Ohter kits I built tend to be favorites as well. BUT I have not built so many of them. And I tend to buy more that I can quickly build. One on deck and at least 7 or 8 waiting to be built.

DAGGER-1