When I buy kits I mark the box with the date and price I paid. I’m finally kitbashing, painting and detailing kits I bought in 2003 to 2007.
While I like doing benchwork, laying track and wiring for DCC which started in 2003 followed by basic scenery, I sure missed building kits.
Now that I’m retired I’ve made more progress in 12 months than in the previous 9 years.
Next goal is to post some photos.
Frank
Glad to hear you are enjoying it, isn’t that the best!!
It is nice to have & take the time to enjoy those investments, & make something great with them!
Flowers, candy and movie tickets in a box? Great idea!
David B
Why, I never dated a kit!!! [(-D]
Are kits exciting to date? What is most appropriate? Flowers and candy as mentioned, or dinner and a movie? Or both? Do you double date with a Kit or is it couples night only?
[#welcome] to the joys of the hobby, and of having time to enjoy it.
I thought your kit was going to ba about placing an era date on a kit, or in pricing what a kit was when it was bought some odd years ago.
If you miss kit building and have built all/most of your kits, nothing says you can’t aquire more and change out some structures or RR cars to enjoy the new fruits of your labors.
I hope you continue to enjoy the hobby YOUR way!
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I didn’t this winter, but I like to build kits while watching TV in the dead of winter.
One of these days, I’m going to take all the unbuilt kits off my workshop shelf, put them on a big table, organize them somewhat, and take a picture of them. At this point, I think I could put a new structure or freight car or automobile on my layout every 2 weeks for a year, and not have to buy anything but paint and glue. But, I know I don’t have the time to build that many kits.
Yesterday, I was looking and that shelf, and spotted a kit that I don’t remember buying. I know why I bought it, and where it’s planned to go, but I don’t actually remember getting it. No matter. The benchwork for that part of the layout is still growing in a forest somewhere. No layout is ever done.
When I didn’t have time to work on a layout, I bought kits and designed a layout in my head for the designated train room. Now that I am semi retired I have some time, BUT designated layout room is occupied by returning son. Means I don’t have a place to put all the kits of train cars, buildings and automobiles if I built them. Now I do some train running on my little layout and am in the middle of my first, simnple scratchbuild, which is coming along fairly well.
Still hoping for the layout room to become available again (dreamer) so that I can start to build some kits of things I found interesting. Of course, if I get the space, I’ll have to build benchwork, lay track and do scenery. Since I enjoy all aspects, it should be fun. Kits will fill in spots in time and give me breaks from the other things.
Have fun,
Richard
Me too. I did a thread on another forum about that and got a pretty good number of viewers by entitling it “Dating Models”. [:-^]
Some were disappointed to discover photos like this:
I’ve been working my way through my own stash…
…and have only a dozen or so left to do. [swg] Lots of locomotives to re-work next - shoulda retired sooner, I think. [(-D]
Wayne
If I buy one, will you tell my wife?
[;)]
Sometimes when I’m telling stories about the good old days,people tell me I’m dating myself.
I always figure, why not date myself? Nobody else wants to!
Seriously (?) ([A]) while I do not date my kits, I often can get some idea from the price tags – not just the prices ($1.79 for that Athearn boxcar? OK that’s an oldie but goodie) but the names of the hobby shops on those price tags (Casanova’s in Milwaukee has been gone for, what, 30 years?)
I have from time to time scribbled the completion date on the instruction sheet since I tend to keep those with the kits in the original boxes, if there is space.
Dave Nelson