I'm getting overwhelmed with what I want to build

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Acutely that’s not entirely correct, let’s just say I’m excited to look at my stash and want to start another build despite what on the bench now. As some of you know my interests change from ships to planes to armor and the occasional car or Sci-Fi, but mostly ships. In the middle ground, until my brain finds and settles on a genera, I look at what’s on my bench and think “I’m really not into that right now but a plane or armor, now that sounds like fun”.
Right now I looking at an Italeri 1/35 M13/40, Tamiya 1/48 Mk 1 Swordfish, several 1/72 armor kits and whatever is in my que in my signature line.

I’m so confused but I know, through experience, that if I start something IE. armor and my brain says I’d rather do a plane, then the armor kit sits there.

By the way, Group Builds are the exception. I try to finish (or start) them regardless.

My wife just shakes her head.

Grrrr!

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I know the feeling. Theres so many kits i have in my stash that i want to be building now. But i know i don’t want to start loads of kits but just build what i have and get onto the next one. This is why i am trying to move away from GB’s unless they fit into what i want to build next rather than pick a kit to fit a GB.

At the top of my itching to build list is a 72nd Fw 200, a 35th Tiger I (not built one for 9 years which i find shocking) a 72nd Ju 88, got 12 in the stash and not built a single one yet and a 72nd S-100.

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I hear you, got more than a half dozen in progress between what I do at work and home. Got to get a four of them done for GB’s, and want to get started on the CV-6 and Scharnhorst, but want to get the Laffey done before those two (my break in to 1/350 PE on ships). Also itching to do the 1/72 Gato, but that one will be next year for the '43 75th anniversary GB.

But, no one to drive me to get buried in anything, so I get lazy and let stuff sit partially done.

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Hi model crazy, I know the feeling. I almost have two or three kits on the bench at a time,and so many waiting in the wings, (pun intended), and I keep buying! I guess just really like building model planes.I’ll keep doing as long as I can. Keep on modeling. Aardvark

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It’s not unusual to have more than one project on the bench at a time. I know while I am struggling with an extensive armor project, I normally have some sort of easy to assemble sci-fi kit sitting next to me when I get burned out.

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I’ve been in your shoes. Try building something out of your comfort zone. I find the lack of subject matter expertise is liberating. Just build it box stock and focus on fit and finish. I never build airliners but I built two the past month and the fact that I know nothing about them makes it really fun. I have built 1/48 US naval aircraft for years. But they usually take months to finish. Research, detail parts etc. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy that but putting together a 40 part 1/144 airliner takes me back to being a sticky finger kid following the kit instructions. Lol.

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Man I’m at that point too. We had house guests for a week and I had to store all of my model stuff to make room for them. That’s been two weeks ago and I haven’t drug the stuff out yet. I don’t know which kit to start building.(from my overwhelming 50 in the stash )

i got an idea for my very first modeling project 3+ years ago, and now I finally have the skill and parts to build it, BUT I cringe at the years time it will take to build my Father’s WWII ship so I keep putting it off.

Ahh nuts, I think I’ll just go fishing.

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You are not alone, every time I look at my growing collection of modern russian trucks and tracks I have the overwhelming urge to dig in and tinker…on all of them…at the same time…lol sheepishly…if I’m not cateful I may end up with an eastern european mad max shootem up sci-fi somethingorother. Just remember you may be Model Crazy but your not model crazy.

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MC, I’m in the same boat. The guys in the club told me that I should step out of my “comfort zone” and build some armour(which I have never done) for the upcoming MosquitoCon on April 1st. The wife came into the workroom to ask me something and saw the IT-28 Russian Bridgelayer in progress on the bench. I got “Why did you start that when you have 4 other kits you’re working on for the contest”? I answered with "It was a challenge I wanted to accept and they will all be finished in about 2 weeks with 2 more weeks to spare ". At the point that they are at, I can finish them in about a couple of hours each which boils down to about 1 a night. No Problem![;)] The 4 kits are 2 planes, 1 truck, and a Vietnamese era Swift Patrol Boat. Didn’t I hear somewhere that “Variety is the spice of life”.

Jim [cptn]

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I have the same issues. So many kits but with a very slow build rate and being 63, there’s no way I’m going to build them all before I kick the bucket unless I were to live to 175 plus. I’m considering renting a vendor table at a upcoming model swap meet next month and getting rid of about half the stash.

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And here I am, I just got rid of over 100 kits I was never going to build, loaded them up and to the second hand store. (not going to mess with the e-bay garbage anymore, have lost too much money there)

But I’m down to my favorites over the ages and nothing but… (the wife isn’t going to be happy when I start buying the other half to finish them. (1/35th artillery and prime movers) I have some guns and some movers but nothing seems to want to match up.

I even have a Rogers 40mm AA gun. I’ll probably never build it, and a turtle ship not the current ones the rubber band powered one from the 50’s, I’ll probably never build that either.

Got a half built wooden Road Grader on my workbench out in the shop, been sitting there for ten years.

Pushing 60 next july, two heart attacks past, time to slow down a bit.

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[8-|]Just Do It…

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Well I have to complete the Fletcher before I start anything else. Hopefully this will allow my brain enough time to figure out what it wants. I’m leaning toward planes which is good since Bish’s RAF GB is starting in April and I need to complete one for the Thunderbolt GB.

I need to do as Bish does and just limit my GB activities to what I want to build at the time and not just what’s in the stash. Although there are 2 of Stick’s GB that I am looking forward to very much and I can NEVER pass up Gam’s Japanese GB’s

Too many commitments and irons in the fire is what is going on here I would say. [8-|]

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I really know what you all are going through. I want so bad to start a new project and am really board with my current project, but cannot seem to put it aside. I like 1/700 scale, but after installing what seems miles and miles of tiny PE railings, and still only half way done, I am kinda feeling burned out.

I also build in wood, and want tostart another wood ship project, but again, then will mean having the same project on the bench for months, or even years.

Hence why I love my collection 1/72 dime store models, I get in a fog, pull one out of the stash, and slap it together over the weekend.

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Thats a probolem. A GB comes up and you just can’t resist. I know bthat feeling well.

To many kits and far to little time.

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Hi, I’m Brad, and I’m a modeling addict.

(“Hi, Brad!”)

Yep, you are not alone. It’s easy to feed the excitement you get when you think of a subject, and buy a kit (new or otherwise), to add to the stash. And the excitement drives us to start another build. Then we lose interest, and fix on another subject.

I’ve tried a couple of things to deal with this. One was to make a New Year’s modeling resolution. That was back in 2010, I think. First, I looked over my queue of in-progress builds, and I selected 12 of them. Then I resolved to start no new builds, nor buy any new kits (new to my stash, that is), till I had finished those twelve kits. It worked relatively well. I made it to July of that year, before I bought any kit (it was Monogram’s combo boxing of their B-24D and P-40B, for ten bucks, which I couldn’t pass up). As far as completing the builds went, I finished four of them that year, but I joined in some group builds, here and on other forums. While I finished those group build subjects, that meant I didn’t finished more of the backlog. But I took it as a net positive that I was finishing builds.

Another thing that helped even more, was our club’s annual build theme last year, which was “Shelf of Doom”. At our January meeting, we each presented one or more builds that we had started but then let sit, and the goal was to finish them by the Christmas party in December. I picked 3, all 1/48 airplanes, including one of my remaining “Resolution” builds. I found that club theme helped motivate me to focus on getting those builds finished. We’re running the theme again this year, but I’m trying to finish on my own.

And I don’t join group builds anymore, or participate in our club’s monthly theme builds. There are just too many group builds, and I find that I can’t quite keep to the monthly cycle of building. I have consistently missed completing builds for the monthly themes, and when I missed the February deadline, I decided that that was it.

And above all, I remind myself that it’s a hobby, so I’m not going to let it get to me, too much. I’m just working on staying focused, once I start a build, to follow through to completion.

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I definitely need to adhere to Bish’s “Limited GB’s”…I’m in 6 GB’s right now and have not finished one of them LOL. I still need to find time to sleep. I have to echo the statement on seeing a GB of interest and joining…it’s hard not to.

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Sounds like a lot of us are in same boat…or tank…or plane …or auto!!

I have 5 1/72 scale planes, a 1/32 Huey, and 6 120mm figs on bench.

But its how I like to work,glue or paint drying on one, I work on another, that way I don’t get impatient and jump the gun prior to glue setting, paint cured , etc

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It occurred to me earlier this morning, in reflecting on this topic, that for many of us, we join group builds with the same frequency that we start new builds with existing builds unfinished on the bench. That’s one more reason for me not to join any new group builds, till I finish what’s on my plate.

Though as a motivation, we had a “Finish What You Started” fellowship build at Agape Modeling (I didn’t finish mine [:(] )

The last one I joined was the third Monogram Mafia build here. I finished one of my kits, but hit a wall with the second, and unfinished it sits, awaiting a kickstart.

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Yup, I’m with you guys… I have been holding off as best I can in joining any GBs this year (and last year), and just trying to finish one kit at a time, and make a dent in my backlog of started and sidelined builds. But I can feel the urge to start another half dozen new kits right now. I am happy that the urge to build has returned big time. But it is so hard to stay focused.