I've posted in a different thread, but I have somewhere around 200 Mopar and Semi models with a scattering of Furds and Chebbies.
I sold over 100 non Mopar models to a guy who I thought would just flip them for $2 a kit! (people around me are tough!) Turns out that he and his son and dad all build models together. Made me feel a lot better about the hit I was taking.
I went to an auction where the family's dad died. He built models and had a ton of build and unbuilt models. Built ones all painted with a brush, he didn't believe in spray cans or aurbrushing. Some of the nicest paint on a model I've ever seen. Anyhow, 3 collectors where paying retail for these kits and wouldn't let anyone else but them. They let each other have whatever they were interested in, but not anyone else. Hatred going to an auction to pay the same price I can at a store.
My dad helped me resurrect my modeling hobby. He got a few kits I liberated from his hoard of crap. That ballooned to 300 and I trimmed it to the current 200.
Dodgeaddict, you have the passion, that's for sure! I wish I could get those Tyrone Malone models, they always fascinated me. Got a book for some school thing when I was 9 and have loved them since. I used to deliver flowers and saw a truck show at an office I delivered to. Checked it out and one of his old tricks was there! It was repainted and the cab was on an hydraulic cylinder. I think it was the Boss truck but I can't remember. I'll see if I still have a pic of it. It was cool to see something that I read about in person. I'm surprised I never got into trucking with my love of big rigs.
I probably have about 10-12 in progress builds that all stalled out and I haven't got the motivation back. I'm hoping to find it this winter and get back into the swing of things. My biggest setback is no paint booth. I'll have to cobble up one with the old stove hood I have had laying around for about 3-4 years.