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Re: Increasing a collection
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:58:48 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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But really, start small in building and allow your collection to jump up
before getting into something too big.
-Lenny
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That’s really good advice. Everybody has a different style, of course, but
having large multiples of parts changes what you can do with them. And you may
find that your tastes change as you develop- when I started buying on BrickLink,
I didn’t mind used bricks, but as I built nicer models, I wanted to use nicer
parts. So I went and bought a whole other batch of some parts. The used ones are
great for internal support, I’m not wasting them- but I could have waited and
just bought what I wanted.
Tim
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| (...) I'd say 20k pieces was a medium-small collection. It wasn't until I hit 50k+ that I could really start planning large projects without really eating into my parts selection. Now, I've got probably more than 100k and I feel safe that I could (...) (18 years ago, 27-Apr-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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