What do you do with spares?

[Guest]

I keep mine in three boxes, US/English, German and anything else also a multi draw unit for Sherman tank parts only.
Pete.

[BarryW]

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.....

[Guest]

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.

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.