SPA Modeler

What do you guys do when you get models for presents? Do you build them straight away - or do they get put into the stash for years collecting dust?

So far in my stash I have...(all Airfix)


1/48 EE Lightning - started
1/72 NT Lancaster B.II - Not started
1/24 Harrier - started
1/72 VC Icons set - One of four built.
1/72 DC-3/Dakota mk.IV - Not started

I should really get these Done!

I have not received any models as gifts,friends know I buy my own and that I'm selective in what I build.

My wife gives me cash as a gift and tells me to get what I want.

I buy my own kits. No one in my family has a single clue what a model kit is nor what to pick out. My wife knows I do models but rarely asks what kit I want.

I agree with Tojo and Blacksheet, i don't really get model presents..
But if, tricky question... Might be that in some situations I would feel pressure to finish the gift.. In worst case it would even be a kit I would never ever have wanted..
So, i am sort of happy I don't get any... Easier at least this way..

- Kari

I have received, literally, a couple of models from friends in the past 30 years as gifts. Both went into the stash although one was built within a short time afterwards. The other is still in my stash. The last time that I received a model from family as a gift was from my parents decades ago before I joined the Army.

portman wrote:So far in my stash I have...(all Airfix)


1/48 EE Lightning - started
1/72 NT Lancaster B.II - Not started
1/24 Harrier - started
1/72 VC Icons set - One of four built.
1/72 DC-3/Dakota mk.IV - Not started

I should really get these Done!

You call that a stash? Come back when you reach hundred.


Actually I am jealous. I have a 150+ stash so I should be set until my retirement. But I still buy stuff. And OT I get models ( and Am) as presents. I make a very specific wish list. So I use ally get stuff I want. And then it collects dust like the rest of the stuff. But I was very happy when I opened my present.

I got a couple of Trumpeter (1/32 F6, 1/32 F4U) a few years ago at Christmas. They were on a list given to wifey. Then the three 1/144 craft last year. Two of the three built, the F6 is started and gathering dust. Like many have said, family doesn't have a clue on what to buy for me.

I don´t get kits as gifts at my birthday, Christmas, and so on. I buy my own. 99.9% of my relatives don´t know anything about what to get me as a present because they don´t have an idea about my hobby. Fine for me.
When there should be a totally new 1/32 scale F-4U Corsair I tend to get it for Heidi, but times are tough these days in regards to new such kits...

I've only received a couple of kits as a gift, and both of them came from fellow builders. One of them has been added to the "stash" and the other is currently a WIP. As for family and friends buying me kits, doesn't happen. Typically they know (or ask my wife) where I get most of my kits and they end up getting me a gift card from that retailer so I can buy whatever. My wife said that she would never go and buy kits or supplies for me because she doesn't know what I prefer or what supplies I use the most, and she says she doesnt need that kind of stress.