The perennial stash....

[ALBATROS1234]

personally i have close to 500 kits, not all ww1 aero but 80% are. but i know a guy, hes close to 70 and has been building avidly without a break since the 50s. he has between 3000 to 4000 kits by his estimation stuff he has collected from the start. he is a very prolific builder building 3-4 per month, all 1/72 so its much less involved.

[ALBATROS1234]

i want to come back and say i didnt mean any disrespect when i said theres less involved in 1/72 models. i just meant in that scale you mainly suggest certain small detail, on larger scales especially 1/32 and larger its much more visable so its easier to super detail models. for instance when i built a couple of 1/72 biplanes there was a lot that there was just no point in doing imho.a gauge you can just paint white or black and put a drop on gloss on. i throttle you can take a wegde and glue a tiny bit of stretched sprue and paint it silver and you are done. in larger scale i have made throttles that look like a small version of the real thing and it took me all night with wire and scrap metal and plastic.etc. i have seen some 1/72 stuff that amazed me at what some guys can do that small. but for the average modeller 1/72 is too small to super detail.