Just wondering if other modelers out there have the same affliction as me. I can stand in front of my display cabinet and look at my builds for what seems like forever. Sometimes I’ll reposition them to see them from a different angle or possibly remove any panels that can come off such as on my recently finished Tamiya Spitfire. This phenomenon happens a lot more after completion of a model. I especially like to see the progression of my own skills from my older models which get downgraded to the bottom of the cabinet as newer ones are added. I’m usually snapped back to reality by my wife asking what I’m doing!
Not that they are that great,but I do enjoyblookingbat my models in the display case.
Oh man, I do that all the time. Part of the fun of building them is getting to that point. Moving them around in the display is fun too. One of the reasons I got back into scale models was that I could compare the relative sizes of different aircraft from various eras, as long as they were all in the same scale. So, I build all 1/48. But, yes, looking at them from all sorts of angles and positions is fun for me too!
Gary
I like to photograph my models from all angles. Boy, the camera (especially when shooting closeups) can sure bring out flaws that my unaided eye missed! Sometimes I go back and correct the problems, other times just live with it. But it sometimes sure brings down the pride when that beautiful model I thought was flawless shows several previously unseen flaws!
Yeah, I sit and look at my builds too. Sometimes briefly to pass the time as I am brushing my teeth (I dont care for looking at my mug in the mirror) Other times as I add a new build to the collection and see how it fits in among the rest of them of the same type on any given shelf. And yes I do notice the progression of my skills over the years as I have incorporated new techniques, discarded others, and generally just chugged along. Like Don, at the completion of a build I photograph it from many angles (as well as during construction) and spot many flaws along the way. I may not be a nitpicker about kit moldings but I do nitpick my own work quite severly in my mind. I guess that’s why I get so pleasantly suprised when my kits do well at IPMS. I have yet to present a flawless build… I will probably die when that happens… LOL! But yes, I like to look at my work…
Yep, once in a while I look at my work and think of how it can be better. And yes Don, the camera will catch things we don’t see. I also read somewhere to use a mirror at different angles to look for mistakes.
I have about a dozen just above and to the left of my head when I sit at the PC screen. Anne calls them my favorites, because she hasn’t learned yet that my favorite is the one still in pieces on the bench, which of course will be my Best One Yet.
They are just above my shelf of most used paperback book references. My 2 biggest time wasters are looking at those models and having one of those thick Ginter books catch my eye,causing another re-read or another trip through the pictures and captions.
I figure if we don’t like looking at our models, why would we build them? (surely not for the long lines at the door wanting to see our latest, lol)
Rex
we all as members of this forum ARE members of the model admiration society
When I tend to look at my models it brings back what was going on in my life at the time. Grade school, then high school, college, recovery after a car accident, during Christmas time… they all bring me back to the time they were being built. They are kinda like little time capsules.
To be honest, I don’t really look at my completed builds too much. Once I finish a model, I normally look at it and like to go back over my past builds to see how far I’ve come.
In fact the most I look at my collection is when I’ve just finished a build.
I’ve just started to photograph my completed builds as of this year and, as Don and others have said, it sure can bring you down when you see the flaws on screen.
I LOVE doing that! Just got 2 new display cases so just I can do it more often
Yup, guilty as charged! And, quite often this “admiration” turns to reviewing and next thing I know a model is back on the bench getting something fixed or weathered or …
Yeah, I do that all the time. I will study a finished kit and look towards the next kit and what I can do to improve something for the next time.
I once had an interesting conversation with the gentleman who was in charge of the model shop at the Mariners’ Museum, back in the thirties. The four or five guys in that shop built models of every sort of ship from liners to tugboats - all in 1/48 scale. (That makes a liner about twelve feet long.) every hour or two he would say, “All right boys, put down your tools and let’s have some admiring time.”
I think that’s a fine idea. In my case, though, it usually turns into notice-mistakes-I-somehow-missed-earlier time.
I love admiring my builds. I’ve also been known to fly them around the room, making engine and machine-gun sounds.
Hi :
I’ve been doing that since I was a kid - Oh ,how many years ago was that ? Seems like centuries .I still have some Armor and Ship subjects as well as Cars as well as present projects , that were way beyond my expectations .It’s fun to look at them and realize it’s all good .
I laughed so hard when I read that. I just did that today with my grandson after he finished his Hellcat.
Yes , Sir :
I seem to do that too . Gosh , I am not as good on wooden ships as I once was !