What do you do with spares?
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scottie3158
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I have a collection of odds and sods and quite a lot of PE which normally comes in useful one way or the other.
I used to just cut the parts from the sprue and store them in a plastic container but moved on to a labeled zip-lock bag now for easier searching ea. kit and scale written on them.
Decals are in a shoebox and a mounting pile of pe frets are still loose in a drawer, have to organize those one of these days...
Hope you find a system which works for you Pete.
Decals are in a shoebox and a mounting pile of pe frets are still loose in a drawer, have to organize those one of these days...
Hope you find a system which works for you Pete.
Some good ideas there, thanks folks. At the moment I just put all the unused parts back in the box, but I'm thinking that if I empty those boxes I can hide them away in the attic (or even the recycling bin) then I can sneak some new boxes into the stash without Management noticing...
I also have a large Jiffy bag full of decals and PE that I was given. I really need to sort those into separate envelopes.
Pete
I also have a large Jiffy bag full of decals and PE that I was given. I really need to sort those into separate envelopes.
Pete
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So what Box contains your Ship spares then Ian
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Most of my modelling has now shifted to RC tanks etc so spare parts from new 1/72 etc kits are now non existent. I do however, still have a drawer full of bits and spares from when I did makes these kits. Some of them went into kitbashing (see pics of a sci-fi ship, made for a story concept), these are dotted with various 1/72 tank spares, Star Wars, Star Trek etc, the main body of the model is the body of an old Bizel cleaner...you never know when bits might just come in handy.
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Shoved in boxes all over the place. I always said I would sit down and categorize them all but I never have the time. Like Scottie I have a large box of PE spares which is invaluable
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I keep mine in three boxes, US/English, German and anything else also a multi draw unit for Sherman tank parts only.
Pete.
Pete.
Some people are so very organised.
I have just two old boxes
One, a big one, full of spare parts that I remove from the sprues after I have finished a build. It includes parts of kits that I built back in the 70's.....
The other is where I place left over decals, masks, p.e. and oher misc parts.
At least one of the boxes gets rummaged through for every build.....
I have just two old boxes
One, a big one, full of spare parts that I remove from the sprues after I have finished a build. It includes parts of kits that I built back in the 70's.....
The other is where I place left over decals, masks, p.e. and oher misc parts.
At least one of the boxes gets rummaged through for every build.....
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That’s pretty much how my collection of boxes of parts started as well,* but after a while it began to get so full that I needed to sort the parts better in order to find anything at all among them. Thus, separate boxes for wheels/tracks and subjects I’ve built a lot of and so have a lot of spares for, like M113s.
* That’s not entirely true. It began with one of those sets of little plastic drawers into which I sorted leftover parts, but by the time I was building models seriously I soon ended up with a proper parts box instead.