It seems that I usually have several going. Recently (like last week) finally finished two. Funny thing is that there were the two newest. Seems I kinda lost interest. Here is what is going in order of start times: 1/20 Ma.K Gans 1/32 Revell F4 1/48 VF-1A Macross fighter with weapons 2 different Gundams 1/8 Resin Alien Zenomorph 1/20 AMC Toyota Hilux - Finished (Project Top Gear Toyota) Games Workshop Imperial Knight - Finished
Are you the author of this same post over at Hyperscale, Trooper? [:)]
I’ve got over a dozen kits started, maybe more. A couple are assembled and in the painting and decaling stage, others are partially assembled.
I usually get started on a kit, with enthusiasm, and build until I hit some technical snag, like a tricky masking job, for example, or PE and rigging on a 1/700 ship. Then I wind up looking to some other kit to start in the meantime, and another build is consigned to the Shelf of Doom.
Years ago, as a New Year’s modeling resolution, I picked out 12 stalled builds, and resolved to work only on those kits till I had them finished, not starting any new builds. I also resolved not to buy any more kits in that year. Making a resolution of it helped me a little bit; I finished half of them, and I made it till July of that year, before I broke my resolution to join a group build on some forum or another. I also held out buying any kits till that time.
Since then, I’ve also gotten some help with this, when our club chose “Shelf of Doom” as our annual build theme. At the beginning of the year, everyone picked a stalled build from his SoD, and we showed them at our February meeting. The goal was to finish the build by December. I finished my original selection, then I worked through three more. It really helped having that theme, to stay motivated.
I’ve done other builds, completely, and in short time, but I’ve also stopped joining group builds, and I don’t participate in our club’s monthly theme builds. I just can’t build fast enough to make the deadline.
I think I can tell them off from memory, too:
- Monogram’s old Lockheed Constellation. This one is active, but I’m stalled at the point of doing the two-toned color scheme
- Otaki’s P-51D in 1/48. Basic NMF is on, need to do decals
- Wave’s 1/20 AFS kit. Basic suit is assembled, I’m redoing the limb joints with epoxy putty. That one will go in a diorama with another suit kit.
- Minicraft’s XF5F, to be finished as a what-if USMC ground attack plane. Major assemblies done. I got stuck because I decided to open the nose and show off the guns.
- Nichimo’s copy of Monogram’s old 1/48 SB2C, started for a group build. It is a terrible copy of a kit that already has problems. The outer wings are thinner in chord than the inner wings.
- Monogram’s P-80 kit. Painted and awaiting decals, but the ones I have for it have me daunted, especially a marking that runs from the nose to the waist and has to be cut over the weapons bay hatch.
- Monogram’s Tom Daniel Red Baron Hot Rod, started years ago for a car group build. Mostly assembled, but there were some short-shot pieces, and I had to go ahead and strip the chrome like an idiot.
- HobbyBoss’ 1/700 USS Arizona 1941, which I converted to the USS Pennsylvania circa 1935. Assembled and basic colors laid on, awaiting PE. But it’s my first time working with PE, so it has sat now since the original ship group build from 2010.
- Hasegawa’s 1/700 USS Essex. Adding the hangar deck, and correcting the kit to depict the Essex herself, not a generic version of an Essex (stern AA position needs to be corrected, which requires some surgery).
- Lindberg’s F11C Goshawk (started, cockpit detailed, but incorrectly, before I had good references)
- Aurora’s old Boeing F4B-4 (started, fuselage and lower wings assembled).
Those are just the scale models. I have many figures going at any time, 54mm metal, and some larger-scale anime and sci-fi figures.
OK, now I have 4, in order, the 1/48 TriMaster Me 163, just finishing the Pitot tube and antennae, the finishing is done. A Trumpter Marder 1, a Hochkiss captured tank with a 75 mm AT gun on it. Only have to decal and dull coat it. A 1/32 Hasegawa Me-163 I started for fun as I just finished the 1/48 one. I had extra stuff around, so what the heck. It is under assembly now. The lest one is a ICM 1/48 Spitfire Mark 9, also put together, ready for paint. I have the new Meng Panther Aust A and a Takom BergePanther in the lineup.
I have bunches in the stash, a thousand or more. Really I have only a couple on the so called “shelf o doom”. I just build them, l never get very hung up on things. Been doing this for decades. It is still fun.
I’m retired now, my wife keeps me busy enough, my daughter and her family are great. The one thing that fouls me up is dialysis three times a week. Could be worse. In a few years i could get a transplant.
@ The Baron Nope not me! [t$t] and thanks for all the replies guys. It’s always interesting to see the thoughts with like minded people.
It depends on how much time you have.I am retired and have thirty projects at once.Twenty of them are super detail and ten w/ metal finish.All aircraft.Also I have a few rotary wing aircraft in 1:35 and 1/32 scale super detailed.( open-up) .I have a wall shelf w/ individual shelf space for my projects.I just pull one project down to work on.I have a holding area shelf on the back side area for the completion phase of the build.Airbrush area included .
Lol, I’m retired too and find I don’t have enough bench time due to other life things that need tending to. Now with cooler weather approaching I will be spending more time outdoors doing yard work/gardening and bike riding for phisical activity.
I usually have at least 2 builds going on and rotate between them as one has parts drying then the other one gets work done. I’ve had as many as 5 going on at the same time.
I don’t have any projects going at this time as ‘going’ would imply that I am actively working on something. I do have nine kits/subjects started with only progress on two of them so far in 2018. Thats just me - I am a slow modeler and would probably be considered more of a kit collector than modeler. That can change.
I do like reading about the subjects I am interested and even have a backlog of reference material waiting to be reviewed/read dating back to the AMPS national show in 2017.
Hmmmm… you’d think the question of building lots of models or 1 at a time would have a more cut and dry answer!
As for myself, I’m currently working on I don’t even know how many little model kits that will eventually go together on this neat 1/200 battleship diorama I’ve got going. [:P]
Please don’t tell me it’s just 1 model or my head will literally explode. [:(((]
Ah … Ahem…
( It’s only one model. )
But, It’s a really COOL model !
16 tho will be 17 as i’m kitbashing Revell’s 1/429 scale USS Arizona into the OBB’s http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=165105
plus 7 of Heller’s 1/400 scale T47 Surcouf class destroyer to kitbash the different versions of all gun, asw & aaw. using 2 of 3 Heller’s 1/400 scale Colbert aa cruiser as an all gun cruiser & as a missile cruiser with the 3rd to be kitbashed as the all gun aa cruiser De Grasse.