Where do you keep your completed models

[8674planes]

Hi I have an increasing problem which is I have too many model aircraft. I just wanted to know where do you keep your completed builds?

[scotthldr]

Most recent builds in a display case, older ones boxed up and in the loft.

[Craig]

Here

[iainpeden]

My "den" - in reality our 7ft by 10ft 4th bedroom - is my computer room, library and modelling room all rolled into 1. On one of the 6ft walls I have 11 shelves housing 150+ 1/72 Phantoms. There are a few more models dotted about on the top of bookshelves.

In the loft, about a quarter of the eaves are shelved - 2 inch by 1 inch slates screwed to the a-frames of the roof timbers supporting hardboard. I have lost count of the models up there - about 25 1/48 Phantoms, 2 Lightnings - and the 1/72 Kittyhawk I got in my Christmas sack when I was 6 (dad made it!) - and that is 49 years old this December. Over the last 6 months I have found a ready market on E-bay for completed models; I have just sold 6 Tornados, 3 hawks, 3 F-16s, an A-10 (1/48) and 3 Starfighters. They were just slowly gathering dust, were out of sight out of mind - and the proceeds make me feel less guilty when I'm bidding on stuff on e-bay because I'm simply recycling the money back into the hobby.

[Craig]

My "den" - in reality our 7ft by 10ft 4th bedroom - is my computer room, library and modelling room all rolled into 1. On one of the 6ft walls I have 11 shelves housing 150+ 1/72 Phantoms. There are a few more models dotted about on the top of bookshelves.

In the loft, about a quarter of the eaves are shelved - 2 inch by 1 inch slates screwed to the a-frames of the roof timbers supporting hardboard. I have lost count of the models up there - about 25 1/48 Phantoms, 2 Lightnings - and the 1/72 Kittyhawk I got in my Christmas sack when I was 6 (dad made it!) - and that is 49 years old this December. Over the last 6 months I have found a ready market on E-bay for completed models; I have just sold 6 Tornados, 3 hawks, 3 F-16s, an A-10 (1/48) and 3 Starfighters. They were just slowly gathering dust, were out of sight out of mind - and the proceeds make me feel less guilty when I'm bidding on stuff on e-bay because I'm simply recycling the money back into the hobby.

Just out of interest, did they bring a worthwhile return? It's something I'd look at but it seems a lot of the time more trouble than it's worth...?

[iainpeden]

3 x F-18's for £6, a 1/48th Tornado for £20, a 1/72 Javelin for £23. I reckon I have made about £100 over the last 6 months; as ever with e-bay its the luck of the draw. I'm tending to group models together which seem to sell better.

The trick in packing is to put them in a plastic bag, then into a good quality cardboard box - I get lots at work - which is filled with paper from the shredder.

As to it being worth it - well they only gather dust and it's a £100 towards kits I wouldn't otherwise have had. I get my pleasure from the making rather than showing or looking at them (hence my total lack of appreciation for die-casts - but that's a different story).

[Fumbles]

Wow! Craig! where did you get those really nice display cabinets from? I hope you say something like IKea If so I may be able to find them here in Canada. If you say something like Argo's I crap out of luck.

[Craig]

Wow! Craig! where did you get those really nice display cabinets from? I hope you say something like IKea If so I may be able to find them here in Canada. If you say something like Argo's I crap out of luck.

Sorry mate, Argos it is

[Dragon Rapide]

Aha! Bad luck! I thought they were IKEA, since they look suspiciously like my bookcases. They certainly look good and I am wondering what is going to join the MD-10 ( I think) and 747 on the bottom shelf.........

[Craig]

Aha! Bad luck! I thought they were IKEA, since they look suspiciously like my bookcases. They certainly look good and I am wondering what is going to join the MD-10 ( I think) and 747 on the bottom shelf.........

EMB-145

As for what joins them not sure yet! Maybe a Thomson 767, maybe a BA 777, we shall see!