Mur

These past several months I've been sincerely thinking about changing the way I go about the hobby.

I've been thinking about selling or trading off the obscene number of kits I have in exchange for a more manageable number of 1/48th scale kits by comparison.

For example, rather than building 33 more Bf 109s, I'd rather build 4 in 1/48th scale. I'd like to do Mölders' Bf-109D from the SCW, Galland's Bf-109E-4, Marseille's Bf-109F-4 & Hartmann's Bf-109G-14. I never planned to do "too many" Fw-190s but even still the number is a bit high. I'd rather get by with Kittel's Fw-190A-4 or A-7 & then a Papagei Staffel marked Fw-190D-9.

The same is true for my P-51s. I'd planned to build a whole herd more of Mustangs in 1/72nd scale but it's not realistic, not at my age & health. I'd rather do a 1/48th scale P-51A, Gentile's P-51B, Horbaczewski's Mustang Mk.III & Preddy's P-51D. For the T-Bolts I'd want to do Zemke's P-47C, Oliveira's P-47D & Perdomo's P-47N.

You get the idea, basically. This is as I would apply it to single engine fighters & other "smallish" aircraft.

I would also cull the flock of multi-engine birds I'd planned to build an absurd number of but keep those at 1/72nd scale to conserve on space. Some single engine birds might also be retained in 1/72nd scale due to the inability to find them in 1/48th scale. I'll likely keep most of my post-WW2 combat & training aircraft in 1/72nd too scale too but I'd nix the idea of doing multiples on any of those. The RB-36D, RB-47H & B-52D I would still plan to do in 1/144th scale.

What are your thoughts on this? Is this just some sort of mid-life crisis that will pass or is this just a bit of common sense & wisdom catching up with me? I'd like to hear your thoughts if possible.