1,2,3,4,…24,25,…32,33,34…oh my!!!
I’ve discovered my problem… it’s the answer to why I’ve only finished one project in the last three years! I never seem to finish what I start! I build alot of brail scale ww2 aircraft, so it can’t take too long to complete each one, but I only finished one, and that was because I used it as a visual aide for a school report! I’ve counted twice now, and came to a total of 37 started and unfinshed model kits in my tiny little bedroom! 3 1/48 scale planes, 1 1/144 scale plane, 5 1/72 scale planes, 2 1/72 scale armor, and the rest are 1/25 scale autos… I just never finish them… Does anyone else seem to encounter this problem, or is it just me???
I have always finished the kits I started. Except for once, and that was because the kit was atrpocious and I got a nice new better kit to start on.
They won’t get built unless you work on them. Sounds like you don’t spend much time on the bench.
Regards, Rick
Unfortunatley, I don’t, I get side tracked! ALOT… between school, and the five music ensembles I’m in… I get pulled away alot!
unfortunetly, yes. Sometimes I will Drastically lose interest or i just get fed up with bad fit or something (the italeri 1/72 Waco glider is coming to my mind!)
I have 4 kits that have been started within the past 2 months that I need to finish. I think my biggest problem is the weather for airbrushing, just too cold.
I am really bad about buying $5-$10 accessory kits, like Tamiya figures and equipment.
Sometimes I get very discouraged, or just can’t get the excitement to get back up. However, I never start anything new until whatever it is that is the current project, is finished.
It is like reading a book, somethime it is better to leave it… It’s happen to me with an old Fujimi F-5 kit (Poor decals, no cockpit details at all…) 10 years after, I decided to finish it the day I bought my first Airbrush. In 10 years Internet has enter my life and I found a company that makes great decals of Canadian airplanes. Now I own a “Not so bad” model of CF-5
The other trick it’s to complete two kits at the time, so if you feel to work on your models for a couples of hours, you can apply paint on one model and detailling the other during paint is drying. It’s works for me, it won’t be long that all your kits will be finish. And when they are finish, show them to somebody. After that you will find more time to build the rest of your collection
Mate,
Do yourself a favor - after realising that you have all those unfinished models, pick ONE, put away all the rest and FINISH that one model.
I guarantee you’ll feel great.
And it might give you the kick up the backside you need to finish the rest.
I also have this problem as well, but the Mrs. has put the Kabosh on the purchase of any other kits (for the most part, heheh) unless I finish some of the small collection of kits that I currently own. I’ve prioritized which kit gets built, in which order and making sure that it’s a good mix of Aircraft, cars, sci-fi in an order that keeps me with getting bored with one subject or another. I just have a hard time with nitpicking my builds to death, almost to the point of freezing myself in place of fear of a less than “perfect” model.
I’m getting over it, there’s too many models out there I want to build! [:D]
I usually finish kits once I start them, there have been a few abandon projects over the years though.
I’m with tankmaster 7 , I usually finish a kit unless it really sucks, and that just #$%@^es me off![banghead] Like every Monogram kit I’ve bought in the last year. The 1/48 scale aircraft kits that I grew up on are horrible.Drove me away from the bench until I decided to just put them away and get better kits. I don’t mind doing a little repair but these were HORRIBLE MARV!!! But now I’ll have a couple of kits going so if I’m waiting for something to dry or set up on one I can still work on another! It just feels great to get it all done and put it up to admire.
Personally I have 2 kits in the unfinished stage.
One is the Cutty Sark, and that one will sit unfinished until my nerves are steady enough to finish the rigging, and the other a P38J, which the Alclad finish ‘cracked’ up on.
As soon as I can find an easy way of removing the Alclad, I’ll finish that one too.
My approach to modelling is the same as life really, if it drives you nuts to do it, or if it just doesn’t seem possible, don’t quit on the idea, just take a small break, and wait till your enthusiasm ‘reboots’.
One thing I DO NOT do, is start something else in the mean time, cause if the same thing happens again, you wind up with 100 unfinished things, and no easy way out.
You can’t move ahead if your always behind!
There are very few that I start and do not finish.
I’ve had one or two bargain kits I have stopped before finishing but those get tossed out or used for paint practice scrap due to bad fit or etc… otherwise I finish them. I try not to get too mnay in progress at once because it’s frustration not to finish one at least once in awhile…
I start ONE< STAY WITH IT UNTIL IT IS FINISHED< THEN START ONE…I can’t do the four or five going at once thing. I get absorbed, when not building, I’m researching.
Steve
i got about 4 kits in the stash that i have started and haven’t finished yet. ofcourse, it bothers me to leave them unfinished, so i will finish all 4 before i crack open too many more. thats a bad habit, a good way to loose/damage parts, or get lots of dust attached to the parts. good luck on getting them finished. later.
I always finish one before I build another, so I never give myself an excuse why I’m not finishing the one I’m working on. It gives me that extra push. Besides, I usually am so excited to get it done once I start.
I never have that problem because I never have enough money to buy new kits. It’s either work on the ones I have going, or work on nothing at all. Works well I think.