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Post by artdecovampire on Jul 6, 2013 3:04:12 GMT -5
All my original PS were mine when I was a kid and I've repainted them, just like my Pyros and Lindbergs. Back then I never bothered with the box other than cutting off the best pic and pinning it on the wall of my room. Those bits of card are long gone. Now I have bought a 1972 horned dinosaur, ideal for restoration complete with box and instructions. What does anyone else do with their empty boxes. This box is a piece of uber-nostalgia for me but not for the wife, so its not going on the mantelpiece. What do you lot do with yours? Should I be as fussy with my Revell boxes too as I've just thrown them in to the recycling?
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Post by prescenes2 on Jul 6, 2013 11:18:33 GMT -5
Since the PS is, as you say "Uber-nostalgia", I'd save them. I have done that and found a small corner of my room to place them in for my viewing pleasure. i haven't been as picky with the other boxes because there isn't that much importance behind them. I still have the boxes from other company kits but they are flattened and placed inside another box and stored away for a time when they can be displayed. BUT.... I am not holding my breath! My wife's not crazy about it either but she does know my fondness of the series and the happy memories.
Good luck.
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Post by artdecovampire on Jul 6, 2013 12:59:00 GMT -5
I had this idea of carefully flattening it out by easing apart the seams and mounting it in a nice frame. Does this sound a bit daft? The instructions can go in a file.
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Post by lowelker on Jul 6, 2013 20:33:58 GMT -5
I have no original boxes from my youth: they were thrown in the trash during a move. Yes,,,,,,,,,,,,, I still hate that uncle who grabbed those bags for the dump....... long story.
I have been toying with getting some nice boxes to use a front piece to cut out and frame.
These boxes are ART.
I may still follow through with it.
Don't know yet.
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Post by TAY666 on Jul 7, 2013 7:56:11 GMT -5
I keep mine and display them (sort of).
At least until I can afford to start buying sealed kits.
When I do that, they will replace the empty boxes.
Then again, I've gone a bit overboard with my collection.
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Post by skid on Jul 8, 2013 13:32:47 GMT -5
Hey, Art Deco. You can flatten the smaller boxes with no problem, I've done most of mine like that. Don't know anything about breaking down the bigger boxes, as I've never owned any.
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Post by andymoscarts on Jul 8, 2013 13:50:44 GMT -5
Got mine on a shelf in the "Man-Cave"  |
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Post by prescenes2 on Jul 8, 2013 23:20:38 GMT -5
Got mine on a shelf in the "Man-Cave" LUCKY! |
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Post by artdecovampire on Jul 9, 2013 0:22:58 GMT -5
A man cave! How I envy you. Each time one of the kids goes off to university I hope and pray I get their room for my very own man cave......but as Stephen King says....sometimes they come back..... and back..... and back.
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Post by andymoscarts on Jul 9, 2013 7:51:17 GMT -5
Superman has his fortress of solitude,Batman has the Bat-Cave,I've got the poky little room at the back of the house,but its all mine! Art,I hear you buddy,got a couple of them returnee,s myself. |
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Post by scooke123 on Jul 9, 2013 17:28:01 GMT -5
Same here - as 1 leaves again it seems like another one returns!!! I do have a small part of the basement thats all mine still!
Steve
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Post by artdecovampire on Jul 10, 2013 0:18:33 GMT -5
Maybe I am complaining too much. I do have free reign of the loft, which is tropical stuffy in the summer and Arctic freezing from September onwards in the winter. I can only just get my manly shoulders through the hatch and the boards wobble. There's on light bulb on a wire. But my kits are in there which makes it worth a visit! Plus any empty PS boxes from now on will find there way in to this sacred place. I was told I can frame my box but its not going on the walls down stairs! LOL!
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