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48RyMckCa48 · Joined: 24 Feb 2021 Posts: 65

You open up a model and start working on it, you work on it for a week or two, then get that itch to open up another model and you start working on it, and you work on it for a week or two remembering that you have started one and you need to go back and finish it, then that itch hits you a gene to open up another model kit, one that you have been wanting to build or a long time, so you go back in to the circle of opening kits and not finishing them.
Then in the mist of it all you start losing parts or you break parts and so on and so on.
I am in that fix and don't know what to do and I have got the itch to open up another model.
So what's the fix, I think I know the answer, it is put two or three of them in their boxes and finish one the go to the next then the next.

Thanks in advance
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DaveVan · Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1578

I must have 25 projects going at once. Then I realize how many and I tell myself I have to finish a few before starting any more. I think ADD is common among model builders.

TN Vols fan · Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 274 Location: Crossett, AR

I build them one at a time. I don't think that I have it in me mentally to have two or three balls in the air at once.
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Dennis O · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:23 pm Post subject:

If I start one, I usually finish it but it may take me months. Sometimes I get bored with a project and I box it up and back on the shelf it goes. That doesn't happen often. It is exciting to rip off the cellophane off a new kit.
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MarkJ · Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 1303

That only happened to me once when I realized I bought the wrong 1954 Hudson Hornet kit. I was building the 2 door sedan when I realzed I needed to be building the sportier 2 door version of the car. So I put it away till I could find the correct kit and I started on another build. I always build a model to completion before I start on another one.

Crime Dog · Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 332

You guys are all more disciplined than me, I must have dozens of kits in some form of completion or at least started. I only have one on the bench at a time, but I rarely build one from opening to finish with out getting sidetracked to something else. I have the attention span of a Golden retriever....see a squirrel and I'm off for the chase!

volkerc · Joined: 08 Oct 2023 Posts: 34

Mmh, I had 3 going at once lately but only so I can get them done quicker, keep painting what needed to be painted with the same color which then sped up building.

Duane Garner · Joined: 03 Feb 2022 Posts: 96 Location: Clovis, NM

I'm like Dave, I typically have 20-25 going at the same time. No real reason, just the way I've done it for almost 63 years now

volkerc · Joined: 08 Oct 2023 Posts: 34

jaws1972 · Joined: 25 Feb 2022 Posts: 54

I have done this many times, start a kit, shelf it, come back to it, start another, etc.

This year I built my Harvick 29 Mustang and 12 Blaney at the same time so I could swap chassis parts to achieve my desired results.

naskoalcar · Joined: 26 Jan 2022 Posts: 32 Location: North of France