farewell my Gundam boxes......
Mon 2011/07/11 10:40 JST
i finally wanna clean up my room big time, so i got no choice but to get rid of all these boxes..... some of them been with me for more than 15 years....... this is a final goodbye
wow . . . just in awww with the large collection . . . can picture they can be used for a full wall cover . . .for maybe visual ascetics? but sad you have to throw them away TwT
i know, but what i'm gonna do now is to cut out the box art and save all the instruction booklet. at least i still have part of the boxes with me.
he he ~ awesome . . . I personally fined that side of the box your picture is showing to look the best
as of now i still have all of them in my bedroom, it's like i walk into a gundam model kits store. it's really sad that i will have to cut them up soon..........
but like what you said . . . you will still have some parts of them with you ^~^
Do u have all the models set up in your room
yes i do, they are all in my living room, i did post those picture awhile back
I wanna see ur gundam setup!!
i did post it under "my living room"
This really is sad :'( I'm sorry that you had to get rid of some..
Nice. I have like 1/3 of that and I think it is too much :)
I actually just got some self storage to store my figures and toys to free up my limited living spaces... they are for displaying, not storage!
i was thinking to do the same at one point, but rent a self storage just to put empty boxes seem a bit too much :p
OH noes!!!! and you have such a nice collection of boxes too :D
Thats what a 6000$+ of gundam kits looks like... your missing pg strike freedom seems many agree nobody likes him cause of his fragile wings and bad posebilty and not everything gold plated :/.
actually i did have that one as well, but that haven't put together yet. as of now i still have 9 more kits sitting somewhere in my house, that need to put together when i do have the time or space
If only we are in the same country, I will take all those boxes.
Why not just fold them and store it somewhere?
i did think about that. but as you know if you cut the corner, and make it flat, the bottom of the boxes will need to do the same thing as well, then it seem pretty pointless, cause if i ever need to move again, i will need to move a box of empty boxes. so i decided just to cut out the cover and the side, maybe one day i could put them up like a wallpaper or something, lol
It is sad to hear this >< ....I'm thinking if you still want to keep all the boxes why don't you just cut the four corners, so you can make the box like a page that thin. By doing this, you can still have the box with you, and you can make alot of space too.
yup, this is what i'm about to do, but instead of cutting all 4 corner, i simply keep the top and 1 of the side. i wish someday to place them up like a wallpaper or something.
I can relate to this. :(
It's painful to cut the box art but boxes take up space.
On some of my kits that are not as rare and cheaper (although my collection is a fraction of what you have), I cut the corners and flatten them; can't throw them away.
Right now my box art collection is in storage but I do intend to put them on a frame on wall once I move to a better home.
Judging from the sheer size of collection I have one question, I see you have perfect grade Wing Zero. Do you by any chance have the rare B-Club resin version?
I've been searching for non edited pics to see how the kit actually looks like built properly as it is the most detailed Wing Zero kit as far as out of the box details go.
it is really painful, since some of these boxes been with me for more than 115 years too, lol. if only i live in a mansion, lol
anyway, about the PG Wing Zero, i don't have the B-Club resin version, that's way too expensive....... but i do believe that is actually much better than the PG that i have.
Save up for that mansion :P
You sir have good taste in Gundams :) Gundam collector is an understatement.
The reason I say its painful is that some of the kits have been discontinued for years (especially the Wing and most U.C. series).
I'll eventually find the B-Club kit floating around somewhere in some hobby shop on the corner and I'll buy it ($$$). The kit will be the icing to my Wing Zero collection.
congratulation on your finding.
Nah, I don't have the kit actually; still looking for it.
I've gone to various hobby stores and check ebay regularly for the real deal stuff, but haven't found anything (Since the kit cost in upwards of $500+ I will have to verify its real and I'm not getting a fake).
Found some years ago but at the time I couldn't afford them.
When they do pop up however, they are prohibitively expensive.
Btw, I just saw your "living room" post and my jaw dropped, plenty of eye candy to see.
i know how that feel, it's like back when i first found the big GP03D, normally everywhere is selling at around $300, but there was a guy in ebay selling it at $160, so i can't wait and click on it, ended up he got the money and run......
ever since then i stop buying it from ebay.
Ouch!
I can't stand scammers like that, it's happened to me a few times as well.
To make matters worse, there is an abundance of counterfeit products around the whole site.
There are a few trustworthy dealers around the site I can trust for the smaller items.
thats a lot of boxes to say farewell too!
really don't want to do this, but if i don't i can't continue to get more in the future, lol
Definitely agree that saving the top pic is the really important thing. You could make a scrapbook of just the tops for a keepsake.
hm.... interesting idea, never thought of that. definitely keep that in mind.
LogannRunn, that is a great idea!
You can have a scrapbook with tabs that can be purchased from a office supply store and have them divided by series and timeline; that way you have an easy way of keeping track of your box art :)
The smaller Gundam kits such as the SD's can take advantage of the scrap book's efficient storage. Larger kits such as Perfect grades can be used as a display.
more than 15 years??when did you started?
well, i'm as old as Gundam itself, so you could say i start pretty much at the age of 8 or so