"How much of the extra plastic bits from a sprue do you keep?" Topic

I love plastic figs but all the extra bits can be a bit of a delimma. How much do you keep?
For Instance, the old Wargames Factory WSS spre gave you some 7 extra heads, weapons etc. how much do you keep?
The new PSC tanks often give you options to make different versions of a tank, do you keep the extra turrent/barrel etc?
I'm down to less than 25% now.
All of it you never know!
75%
50%
25%
none, all goes in the trash

All of it.

All

Throw sprue in the recycle bin. Extra arms etc keep most of them.

All the bits, and prior to last week all the sprue as well.
You never know when you need some plastic rod.

Storage finally became an issue so while I'm on lockdown I'm going through the sprue box with a pair of diags and trimming out all the straight pieces of usable length so I no longer have a tangled mess of interlocked sprues.

Robert

All the bits and some of the sprue.

Specifically on PSC tanks, I keep a fair bit of the leftovers..things like spare gun barrels can be useful for conversions or upgrades for kits from other sources, and the Sherman sandksirts recently got chopped up and turned into the stowage bins widespread in 4th Armoured Brigade. A 95mm Churchill howitzer found its way onto a Cromwell HQ tank.
From Sherman unused hulls I trimmed off the tools to transplant to less detailed Armourfast kits.

I don't keep them on the sprues as that would create clutter.

Made 75 cal musket balls from my metal sprue saved from my first MiniFig 2s

All of it !!! You never know when you may find use for some of those bitz.

All the bits.

And all the sprue, you never know when you'll need a

Pretty much all of it

I have a bunch of the WSS original Wargames Factory and when I finish with the box I take off all the extra bits and put them in Ziplock bags – one for grenadier heads, one for arms, etc

They have come in handy!

I keep them all. I am using FF mongol arms and GB arab arms on my ACW project. Cut the swords down to a knife and a grey plastic arm is a grey plastic arm. TIG

All of it for me too!

All of it

Sheee-it. Not only do I save all the plastic bits, but I also save all the cardboard sprues from board games after I punch the counters.

Steve

At the risk of having tomatoes tossed at me…

From a wargamer's perspective, I'll say that I'm starting to wish certain sprues, especially from *certain* manufacturers, would have more complete figures/models and fewer bits. I do like some customization, but if I have to chose between ten extra heads and enough parts to make a complete model for an army project, I'll take more complete models. I've got drawers full of bits; I don't need -that- much more.

Yes, there was a time when it was difficult to find good pieces for customization, but I wonder if we aren't going too far in the other direction now.

All of it.

All the bits.

All the sprues.

Pretty much all the boxes.

All of it. Of course.

Almost all (except for what was lost.) Refurbing my 45+ year old 1/35 collection, and have a couple bags of old parts, so sorting them back to where they are supposed to go (plus some kitbashing… ;-)

Keep some of the extra bits, give some away, throw the rest out. I have a lot of storage room but it is finite.

Never keep any sprue.

I keep a lot of it. Wrt PSC I don't necessarily keep all the Hull options but I keep some. Stowage, gun barrels, crew, tracks etc, keep the lot

In some of those models there are enough bits to build complete additional vehicles.

I also keep lengths of sprue itself as it is useful modelling material

Too much of it. My bits trolley is enormous.

x42

I take all

All,you never know when you might need stuff.

I save a lot of bits, for years. Then I finally realize I'll never use them and throw them out. After that I need the ones I threw out.

All of it forever….I know I will need it sometime!

I'm a heretic. I throw it all out when the models are done. I had a bits box and Never Used It. It fell one day, bits everywhere, and rather than sort it I tossed it. Haven't missed it, now I toss the sprues too.

but I also save all the cardboard sprues from board games after I punch the counters.

Is that a different poll?

inlgames.com/frames.htm

Save all the bitz and about 80% of the sprue as well.