Is this normal? How many unbuilt models do you have?

[Anonymous]

Remember the adage "the mind is the second thing to go" guys. Take stock early and often, build, build build.
Will

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jecorbett

You'll know you are out of control when you discover that you have bought two of the same kit at different times. I've done that. TWICE!!!

[(-D]Oh yeah, been there done that...more than once!

[JohnT14808]

Having just returned from a weekend GXT show, I managed to pick up ONLY two grain car kits and one beatup 40' flat that will be a weathering project for my new Bragdon weathering powders. I also get to practice swapping wheelsets and couplers on the flat car. So, adding in the two grain cars, I think I'm at 4 Pullman palace cars, 4 grain cars and two structure kits.....All waiting for when it gets too cold to even GO outside.

[jacon12]

I have no kits to be built. Painted, yes.... I hate painting... [^]
JaRRell

[Cannoli]

At last count I had 7 cars and 3 buildings in HO, and 3 buildings in N that are still untouched.

[jecorbett]

You'll know you are out of control when you discover that you have bought two of the same kit at different times. I've done that. TWICE!!!

[Martin4]

I have around 300 kits still in their boxes. Most of them are simple kits like Athearn "blue box", Roundhouse or Accurail, but I also have a lot of detailed ones like A-Line 5-unit well cars kits with tons of add-on details, Intermountain cylindrical hoppers, many industrial and commercial structures, two refineries (Plastruct and Walthers) that I want to combine, and so on. I'm not in a hurray because the only place I can run the 110 available cars is my son's 4x8 layout. The real 20x15 two-level layout is still being planned but could be under construction in the next few weeks.

Martin
Québec City

[marxalot]

12 HO cars kits, 5 structure kits.. and I'm really looking to put them all away as I'm shifting to 027/0.................

Nice to have kits around foir when you might want to building something. I have heard where a lot of folks are not buying car kits like in the past............. don't have time to building them................

[dragonriversteel]

One kit unbuilt,thats it. Seeing I work six days a week,Sunday is model train day. I can't just let a kit sit there and go unbuilt,it must be done. The best part about this is,once the kit gets built. I send the wife to the hobby shop in Savannah,GA "Bull Steet Station" for more.

Patrick

[Janafam]

At train shows or when visiting a new hobby shop, I will pick up a kit or two. I have on the larger number side of unfinished kits. Now that it is getting cold, I will work on several at the same time, aging differently to not develop a pattern.

[Anonymous]

all mine have been started. my problem comes in when i think i can do the next step better than the kit design dictates. then there is the interiors: the kit was'nt designed for one, but i'm going to include it anyway, and so it goes....

i do have this watertower i'm having trouble finding something to do next for..., it could be nearing completion.

[wjstix]

I think I still have some O scale kits to finish up...and I switched to HO in 1987 !!

[Anonymous]

If I build one a day starting the first day of retirement, I should finish in 18-24 months. Of course this assumes "several facts not in evidence": I will live long enough to retire and I will still have the vision and steady hands that will allow assembly of HO scale models. Currently, all these points are iffy at best!! Thank God for RTR!

[Anonymous]

I have several dozen structures unbuilt, at least 8 locomotives awaiting conversion and/or painting and decalling and probably 25+ freight cars unbuilt. But that is nothing compared to my plastic model airplane kits of which I have over 100 (unbuilt).

Bob DeWoody

[Hawks05]

I have probably 20 or so unbuilt kits. Most of which are Accurail. I have one Roundhouse and 5 Athearn kits, the rest are Accurail. I have one unbuilt structure. The ADM grain elevator.

Only going to add more to that list tomorrow after I go to a show. I can't wait. I haven't been to a show since July. I've only been to the hobby shop a few times, but that gets old after awhile because it's the same thing.

Hopefully over my break coming up next week I'll maybe get a few more kits done and then over winter break I'll have plenty of time to work on stuff most likely.

[Ibflattop]

Yes We are all Normal or is it Abby Normal????????????? Kevin

[Anonymous]

I have nothing unbuilt. I can only afford one model at the time, so I buy one and build it and move on. Well....I guess if you include scratchbuilt stuff, I have alot of unbuilt models, because I do have some scale lumber. Does that coun't?

[bikerraypa]

I think I have somewhere between a dozen and forty million [:D] Plus, there are the "partial" kits from which I've nicked a piece here or there to use on something else, the "hodgepodge" kits of leftover parts from projects (ie, two modular walls, some N scale windows, some HO scale chimneys and some lint all crammed into a Heljan coal mine box), and a fair number of "what the *&(^% is this?" kits, which I don't remember buying but still have a pile of.

I think if you leave kits together in a box, they reproduce.

Ray out

[mononguy63]

Um, right now I have an entire unbuilt layout.

Does that count?

[willy6]

about 98, not counting structures and locomotives. not a thing the WIFE NEEDS TO KNOW......lol

[prompter]

Last count:

897 car kits (HO and On30)

233 structure kits (HO and O)

Chuck

[DigitalGriffin]

I have 3 buildings, 3 large $$$$ service facilities, and 8 cars, all waiting to be built. Sadly I'm adding a cathedral and a chappel to that list today. (Each of which is complex in itself) And then I have about 40 or so cars scheduled for wheel and coupler conversion.

My problem is I worry the model will go out of production, so I snatch it up while I can.

[Trainnut484]

I've lost count on how many unbuilt models that lurk in my modest HO collection. I know I fall under the category of having more unbuilt models than finished ones. I guess that's normal [:D]

Take care,

Russell

[IRONROOSTER]

I'd like to say that my backlog has gone down since this thread was started, but actually I have bought more than I have built. But then my secret hobby is collecting unbuilt kits. [:D]
Enjoy
Paul

[Anonymous]

Old posts apparently neither die nor fade away. Nor does this disease which appears to be rampant in the hobby. but It is as normal as alcoholism or drug addiction. Pardon my crankiness, Mother Nature has decided to cover the front yard and drive with the dreaded four letter word!

I wonder if the people responding here have participated in topics crying about the high cost of new kits, locos and rolling stock and structures. A few suggestions for overcomming this problem:
1) Open an E-Bay account and sell two unbuilt pieces for each new item purchased, might even produce sufficient excess ca***o pay the heating bill.
2) Actually build some of those structures, locos, or rolling stock before you buy something else, perhaps a 3 built to 1 purchased ratio.
3) Log off the internet, and go finish a project before you come back here, with the exception of a pass for return if you encounter a problem that requires help from those left here who have no stockpile of unbuilts.
4) Help stamp out Bird Flu, buy nothing from Asia until the World Health Organization gives the all clear for the pandemic. (Have you noticed the spread of this disease into Europe, perhaps we should swear off Europe for a while too)
5) Swear off cigarettes until you have cut your backlog in half (National Smoke Out Day) which may give some of us better health and more disposable income for heating costs this winter, and more trains. Non smokers will derive lesser advantages here , except for having more old cranky modellers to give advise to the new comers. The time needed to fulfil this project should be sufficient to break the smoking habit and actually get some railroad modelling done!

Lastly, a confession, I am as guilty of the collection fettish disease as any other poster here. Time to take some "retirement time" and put it to good use, and follow some of my own suggestions! Signing off for some basement time and inventory coversion!

Will ... one more cigarette!

[SpaceMouse]

I started this thread back in February when I was as green as my neighbor's grass. I now have 4-5 times as many as the first post.

[rolleiman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jesionowski

At least 200 car kits, of which 100 are craftsman style Tichy, Intermountain, Branchline, Ambroid, Labelle and a few Resin Kits. Also probably 50 building kits to go on the yet to be built layout.

Rick

Pretty close to [#ditto]

Jeff

[jeffers_mz]

Let's see, projects started but not completed:

1. Mainline roadbed and track laid, complete, spur trackbed cut and sanded, support stock ripped, flextrack and turnouts in stock, will lay the railbed today, and the track tomorrow.

2. Wiring components acquired, will snaffle up a control box Friday and Saturday, and wire the beast up Saturday and Sunday.

3. No plans to start the scenery/terrain phase yet, except blueprints and topo map essentially completed.

4. I ripped about one scale mile of 14 by 14 inch timber stock yesterday for a pair of bridges temporarily supported with luan scraps. The roadbed frame for one trestle is clamped and drying, ties cut, rough pier design complete but individual members not cut yet, I'm guessing a week to complete that to paint-ready status.

5. Two 40 foot hopper blue box kits, one for each kid, they haven't seen them yet but they will be rtr a week from Sunday.

I generally plan things to death in advance, visualizing every step along the way, making sure I have all the equipment and supplies lined up, then knock it out once all the lights are green.

[bwftex]

I've got two Westerfield kits and one LaBelle kit. Since I'm starting a new layout in standard gauge I have very little in the way of cars and structures for my prototype. Most of it must be scratch built. If drawings, building supplies, trucks, couplers and detail parts count then I have dozens of un built models. Bruce