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Fantastic news! - With the 2 Eagle Dora books and the 3 Crecy volumes (I still need the first 2) and these 3 JaPo magna opera together I feel they constitute the crème de la crème of Fw190 references. Now where are the Bf 109 equivalents?

Another house?

Apologies ya’ll for the spam replies - I was just having fun

Joking aside this makes the consequences a little more serious. The items can be sold but still, it takes time. I’ve stopped buying kits now, just about to finish honing my references - new releases are a bane but the more improved models get the less art is needed to build them - take those 3d prints for example. I would implore myself and others to cherish what you have. There is joy and skill in turning an old kit into a competition entrant - it doesn’t have to be a winner. Scratch building is pure scale modelling wouldn’t you all say? The buy and drop engines, etc take away from that. AM is the innovation killer (edited from Dune) What we want to try and ameliorate is our ‘Elaborate Hordes’ condition. I don’t think many of us want to add up the value of kits, equipment and reference materials purchased - I did a quick summation and was mortified. Now I’m trying out my new mantra: Build more and buy less!

Don’t be afraid my level headed friend for there are some terrifying statistics on here

He has a second mortgage

Indeed, none of are. But some of us act as if we are getting younger

You truly are blessed my friend. Such discretion and self control deserves much praise. Please share a thought for all of us way out there on the other side

Well that because there is substantial, very substantial and ultra-hyper-substantial. I imagine the vast majority of us crazies fall well into the latter. When I’m navigating my warehouse like stash I sometimes wished I had done more snoozing and losing.

That is very admirable of you (and also a little cruel if I may be so kind as to say) but you’ve been saying this for the last decade. I think your better half has planned a move out of desperation

I admit I don’t know the numbers of the A-9 with tall tail but with the probably more popular Dora 9 /tall tail combo they were just a handful. Not sure if any of you guys have seen this pdf on IBG - it gives you the wng no. for the Mimetall tall tail and the cowling distinctions: http://www.ibgmodels.com/resources/Fw190Dvar.pdf Trying to find a D-9 with a tall tail is hard enough but an A-9 would more than likely have been obliterated before the wars end 1. For being so rare 2. For being a comparative retro plane. I just read that only the 190 A-10 that was conceived with said tail but only as a drawing I just trawled through the whole Peter Rodeike fw190 book and it was very difficult to spot an A-9 with a standard tail let alone with the Tank tail I am not on your level of knowledge with such things but I think you would have better luck finding the end of a rainbow!

It’s good therapy to laugh at ones affliction - my only issue is how to stop

I checked my scalemates: I only have 13 x 1/32 (+ 2 x 1/35) 66 x 1/48 47 x 1/72 If I had to edit my stash I would keep all the large kits and Eduard limited edition kits, and… to be honest I would end up with the exact same stash I have now

So just the 22 kits then? Should be able to get through them I a couple of decades lol

Amazing? Don’t you mean tapped?

Pandora’s box has been opened

Hey John, It has also definitely convinced me to buy these volumes!

You saved our day! I can now sleep! Thanks! On a serious note (I started it) how does one post pictures here? I’m on an iPad

And that is how it should be done! My stash is like a warehouse full of fruit. If I don’t consume the stock in due course some of it will start to rot. Roughly translated as; Having a vast amount of kits is like having the key to your own personal model shop, your own kingdom or your very own Aladdin’s cave. But if you buy (hoard) more than you build then the kits you have had for decades in your stash starts to become aged, out dated and diminishes in value. Ive worked out I have to start building 50 kits a year - for the next 5 years. As soon as I made that rather shocking discovery I stopped buying kits - books I still buy as they are easier to sell and take up much less room but even they are getting unwieldy. I implore all fellow modellers to follow this fine exemplar - you will be all the better for it!

Great photos - but it does beg the question how a larger cannon along with ammo feed and chute as well as oil reserve can fit behind engine whereas a lighter cannon has to have the ammo box above? I can only surmise and say it’s because the Ta152 was a later development (?), cannons less likely to jam being closer to the axis (?), a different engine (?) or a combination of some/all of these points (?) Just as moot is that the D-12 also has the MK108. I think it’s interesting to know these factors if you want to build any of the later Dora’s with open cowlings - or even just the top gun flap open. Loading ammo becomes a different operation between the 2 configurations for any dioramas So; The Ta152 (Mk108) has everything tucked behind the engine block (and armour plate) The Dora (Mk108) has the ammo can above and a crescent shaped oil tank integrated on the port engine bearer (with less protection) The Ta152 was provisionally designed to be fitted with cowling guns. The reason I point out these discrepancies is because it seems that only a very few kits have the correct configuration

I was thinking more along the lines of #Metoo

I thought that this would stump a lot of people! From what I’ve just seen only drawing exist and they show an ammo box perched on the cowling shelf. I didn’t see that coming…

Best to stay that way. Otherwise you could end up like The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Of course - that 4 x 1/32 scale If that’s all you have then there is a good chance you will finish them in the foreseeable future but…I somehow doubt that’s all your stash. My experience leads me to believe that only when we’ve satisfied our cravings for our favourite kits do we begin to get multiple copies. It happens to us all!

Talk about being above my pay grade - awesome build! However, I just looked at another thread about stash. One fellow builder has 20 Spitfires. If we take the time it took for this magnificent build of 1 year plus that’s a couple of decades and only on one type. Also he has over 20 Fw190s and 35 Bf109s. As J McEnroe often used to say…