Model Airplanes

Do most model airplane kit collectors buy the kits to assemble them or just to keep the kits as collectibles?

I am referring to the old kits from the 1960s, 70s and 80s (Airfix, Frog, Monogram, Revell, MPC, etc.).

Public Comments

1. Most people buy them to build them initially, but soon end up with way more than they can ever build in this lifetime....
2. I bought them to BUILD them... I had build a good 50 Monogram kits by the time I was 14, and then moved over to Tamiya (in 1978) and build over 60 tanks and vehicles and hundreds of figures. I DID reach a point in the early 1990's when I was serving in the Navy and bought kits (multiple copies) and they mostly sat in storage until I left active duty. I was buying as many US Naval Aircraft as possible... I eventually build EVERY major model flown by the US Navy in 1/72 scale. I WILL admit that I currently have about 40 models in storage that I intend to build (I got distracted by a model railroad)... but DID sell off all my "spare" kits in 2000.