Well, as I sit here tonite viewing my stash and then viewing my shopping cart on GMWS, I'm confronted with the fact that I'm a MODEL ADDICT. I build only a fraction of what I buy, but I just can't QUIT. I see it and I think that I really need it. I'M A JUNKIE! Hundreds and hundeds of kits, and that doesnt count all the tools, paints and extras. I'm out of control.
SWMBO just looks at me, says nothing and shakes her head as she leaves the room.
Wow, I just deleted my shopping cart, maybe I'm on the road to recovery! NOT
Gary :-)

Gary, yes you are an addict, but not a model junkie. I perfer model connoisseur

The only person I know that's not a "collector" is the great Shep Paine. Once he told me he only have 2 or 3 kits at home!!!

As for the rest of us, we share your pain.

Gary, that's why we are all here... to share the joy and pain of this hobby. Life is too short to worry about what others think. If you enjoy collecting, hey by all means have a blast

WC

WC,
Don't know about you but EVERY kit that I see and buy I'm thinking I'll "do this with it" or "do that with it" and before I can get started, BAM another kit pops up that I gotta have and the process starts all over again.
Hopefully, once I hit retirement like my good friend of 35 years, the MiamiJayhawk (Rick Brownlee), I'll actually get some of these babies built.
One thing about this hobbie that I still enjoy though is opening all the boxes that have been on the shelf for a long time and rediscoverying them from time to time.
PS. I cheated...after I deleted the shopping cart, I went back and restored it again, it's there staring at me now. HOOKED AGAIN! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Gary

My wife told me I am no longer a model builder, I am a model collector...

Shaun

I admit to having an addictive personality. :-)

If models were heroin - I'd be Sid Vicious! fortunately you can't get sprue through a syringe!

This sounds like the beginning of a Support Group! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Model Junkies Anonymous

My name is John -and i'm a model-holic.- Do we get a 12 step?

Here's one for you. Dang those kit manufactures!

Not only am I a model junkie, but I have MADD....Modelers Attention Deficit Disorder.

Here's an example....you have a kit on the work bench an is being built. You see a new must have kit at the lhs and you get ('cause it must have, right). Well, the kit on the work bench goes carefully in the box and on the shelf. You start the new kit. And then the cycle starts all over again!

So, now, you're not only a collector, your a starter who hardly ever finishes!

Aaaarrrrgggggg!

There are two distinct and separate hobbies:

1. Building scale models
2. Collecting scale model kits. Remember, the one who dies with the most kits wins!

No,but you might get a PE set!(The first one's free,kid) :-)

The SWMBO told me the other day,"I think you have enough kits now...."
I must hide them better now
cheers!

Wow Rick,
We all share the same symtoms...or is it MO :-) :-)

Is hiding kits from your wife, the same as hiding bottles of gin from your wife? :-) :-) Maybe we really do need a 12 step program...... !!!!!

Maybe Staff Jim will let us have our own forum, so we can help each other recover from this malady.

Aw Grim:

Say ma friend, I feel your pain. . . especially the part about trying to hide the
new kit boxes as they come in the mail. I never realized that when I got
divorced and paid that $74,000 in alimony that there would be any kind
of benefit to it. I buy a kit. . . big deal. No one is here to say a word,
not even a dog or a cat's meow mix. And like you say, I'm retired and get to do
this any hour of the day or night. Sheeeeze, you'd think I'd imrove, right?
It really was worth all that money and I didn't realize it until I started reading
your addict post and all the other clever stuff from the "support group" . . . crew.

But take heart Reaper, none of this kind of addiction will give you
heart disease, or a brain tumor, or bad kidneys, er swollen feet, etc. etc.

And at some point, not to far off, hopefully you'll be retired too . . . I suggest
you sent the SWMBO to Club Med in New Zealand . . . . jussssss kiddin' but
you know dat.
:-) :-)

I don't think thats far enough, she can smell new kits from great distances!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-)

Actually, this is one malady that I'm sure that I don't want to recover from.
99 plastic kits on the shelf, 99 plastic kits, take one down and put it together, 98 plastic kits on the shelf!!! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Well sorry to burst your bubble but I am not a collector. I actually buy what I need for a project. The consequences are that I miss a lot of good releases that go OOP because I usually don't buy unless I have an active plan for it. I guess that's why I do so many campaigns here on Big A. I enlist, develop an idea and then hunt for what I need.

Hi

As the General Manager of Club Med New Zealand I advise that in conjunction with Armorama we are currently offering a special deal for modellers wifes/girlfiends of site members who want to come and visit long or short term.

Nah just kidding around LOL

Regards

Sean

Aw Sean:

Your post is so funny. . .. Fer a minute, I thought perhaps you were on the
level. and then I got your meaning. I love to laugh. . . mate, you've made
ma' day. Hope your's , meaning your day, . . . has gone well.

So funnny. The reaper had to go to St. Louis last night, for a press run
of the catalog he's doing for the company he woiks for. . . . so he won't
get to respond to this. Clever. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Wrong there Rickster.
I'm watchin' and laughin' my fanny off.

Never been to NZ Sean. Maybe I could convince SWMBO that as a recovering addict it would be the perfect vacation. But now that I think about it, she would probably expect me to sell off part of the stash to pay for the trip and we all know that ain't going to happen. Guess I'll have to settle for a NZ travelog. :-) :-) :-) :-)

Just got a notice that my order from On Target Hobbies just shipped. Well here we go again.
Later

Hi Gary,
Recovery in New Zealand will probably turn into re-lapse mate.Imagine how many kits you could buy with the U.S$ being stronger than the Kiwi one!!Also a couple of thousand each to go to N.Z in tickets...all those kits you could be buying!!! :-) :-)
Cheers,Shay

Shay,
That settles it...pick up a NZ travelog for $19.95, and BUY MORE KITS with the ticket money!!!
Works for me!
Hope SWMBO doesn't read this thread or I'm in Deep S@#%!
Gary

Well, it's 4am here in St. Louis, MO and I'm off to an early press run (in town to print a corporate catalog). Later today I'm going to visit one of my favorite places in St. Louie, CRM Hobbies, and we all know what that means....BIGGER STASH - LESS CASH! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :
Chris Merseal (CRM) has a great little store...not big but just crammed full of just about anything you can think of. Do I really need anything new...NO! Is that going to stop me...NO!
My name is Gary and yes I'm an ADDICT! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Got back from CRM Hobbies here in St. Louis, MO just a little bit ago.
Chris has moved into his new shop and it is First Class.
If any of you are passing through St. Louie, I suggest that you swing by and check out his new store.
And yes if you're wondering, I did drop a wad of Georges in the store today and I had a blast doing it. :-)
Chris will be a vendor at the IPMS NAT's in my hometown, Kansas City, so be sure to look him up if you go.
Later,
Gary

Well, I decided to go back to CRM today since I had some time before I returned to KC. (can't you just see the "George's" just flying out of my wallet? :-) :-) :-) )

I wanted to take alot of photos to show the new store and all the great stock that Chris carries but a large storm blew through St. Louis last nite and left thousands of people without power and you guessed it, CRM was among them.

Well I took a couple of shots anyway, not like I planned but for those of you who have been to CRM in the past, you can see that his new store is spacious in comparison. Don't forget, if you come to KC for the IPMS Nationals, Chris will be there.

CRM Hobbies Store front


Chris Merseal unpacking new stock (no power, no lights, no air conditioning)


Down the street from CRM where the storm left it's mark.


Later,
Gary