MSS
How timely! Here just last week I wrote about my stash and today in the Braille Scale forum on Missing-Lynx is a thread on basically the same subject. You can read this at http://www.network54.com/Forum/47210/thread/1280794512/Odd+thing+with+resin+kit... If memory serves me correct, though, I think you have to be a subscribed user to see that page (which I highly recommended you do if you are an armor modeler.). Here is a synopsis of what was said:
Modeler A wrote: "I was assembling some MIG resin figures this past weekend and noted some prominant writing on the packaging: "DO NOT KEEP THIS KIT IN YOUR BASEMENT. BUILD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."
I have never seen this warning on any other kit or website. I presume this has to do with the resin getting moldy?"
Response 1 was "it's a joke!" Which it probably is.
Response 3: "This probably has to do with our increased understanding of this little known disease. With your 100 kits to be built you are clearly in the early stages. Mig's warning is timely, don't put it away, it'll never be seen again. Build those figures now so they have a chance to see the open sky (well the inside of an exhibition hall anyway) don't let them collect dust in a ziplock polythene bag. Think of a new era in modelling [sic] when we can all build each and every model as soon as we get it home, think of those poor kits languishing in your basement waiting for someone to liberate them, some one to make them complete! "
In the thread was a term new to me that I liked: Modeler's Stash Syndrome. Now a disease for we modelers who do not suffer with AMS (Advanced Modeler's Syndrome)! I feel complete.
Remember, it is better to have stashed away hundreds of kits you plan on building than to ...
Modeler A wrote: "I was assembling some MIG resin figures this past weekend and noted some prominant writing on the packaging: "DO NOT KEEP THIS KIT IN YOUR BASEMENT. BUILD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."
I have never seen this warning on any other kit or website. I presume this has to do with the resin getting moldy?"
Response 1 was "it's a joke!" Which it probably is.
Response 3: "This probably has to do with our increased understanding of this little known disease. With your 100 kits to be built you are clearly in the early stages. Mig's warning is timely, don't put it away, it'll never be seen again. Build those figures now so they have a chance to see the open sky (well the inside of an exhibition hall anyway) don't let them collect dust in a ziplock polythene bag. Think of a new era in modelling [sic] when we can all build each and every model as soon as we get it home, think of those poor kits languishing in your basement waiting for someone to liberate them, some one to make them complete! "
In the thread was a term new to me that I liked: Modeler's Stash Syndrome. Now a disease for we modelers who do not suffer with AMS (Advanced Modeler's Syndrome)! I feel complete.
Remember, it is better to have stashed away hundreds of kits you plan on building than to ...
posted by the Mediocre Modeler | 12:05 PM
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