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48RyMckCa48
Joined: 24 Feb 2021 Posts: 65
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 1:31 pm Post subject: Has this ever happened to you |
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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 _________________ On the Bench: Marty Robbins Buick, 4 Saturday Night Stockers, #88 Crisco Car, AH-60L Dap Black Hawk Helicopter, Millennium Falcon. THATS ENOUGH!!!! |
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DaveVan
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 1579
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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TN Vols fan
Joined: 18 Jan 2022 Posts: 286 Location: Crossett, AR
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ "Many men fish all their lives without knowing it is not the fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau
"I am, Sir, a brother of the angle" quote from The Compleat Angler, lzzak Walton 1654 |
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Dennis O Board Moderator
Joined: 28 Jan 2018 Posts: 881 Location: Louisville, Ky.
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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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. _________________ Dennis
Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.......
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MarkJ
Joined: 29 Jan 2018 Posts: 1306
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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Crime Dog
Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Posts: 339
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2023 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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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! |
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volkerc
Joined: 08 Oct 2023 Posts: 34
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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Duane Garner
Joined: 03 Feb 2022 Posts: 99 Location: Clovis, NM
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2023 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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volkerc
Joined: 08 Oct 2023 Posts: 34
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2023 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Duane Garner wrote: | I've done it for almost 63 years now | |
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jaws1972
Joined: 25 Feb 2022 Posts: 54
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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naskoalcar
Joined: 26 Jan 2022 Posts: 32 Location: North of France
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Crime Dog wrote: | 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! |
Definitely the same for me,
I spend a lot of time on a kit; improvements, add pieces of plasticard for adjustments, preparation painting, painting, decal, clear and polish, so I never arrive at the end of these actions at once, when it lasts too long I do not support it anymore,I put away and I rush into my attic to select my next victim ... I may have about twenty models in progress, some started hummm... about twenty years ago. time in time I will see them, I open the box to ventilate them and I say to myself what a shame, there is no longer much to finish it.
What I can say is that I do the same. |
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