This one of those rare times...

razordws wrote:

I'm working on a build right now that has sat on the shelf for more than two years.  Sometimes our skills are not up to our level of expectations and we can come back to a build after our skills have improved.  Sometimes, as has been discussed here, it is an issue of pateince and other times we just need a break from the hobby altogether to recharge our enthusiasm.  Bottom line is don't give up on any of your builds, it is a hobby and you shouldn't be on a deadline to finish it.

DAVE would that kit be a certain Snowberry

Cheers

Bear

I find that when I get stuck on a project, I put it away and work on something else, either another model or a complete different hobby (I have a few).

Same-same... Probably why I have, at last count, 23 (really!) kits started, lol..

cardshark_14 wrote:

Yep.  Box it up safely and leave it alone for a while.  Start an easy/fun kit that you don't care much about.  Build it OOB.  Feel free to make a what-if or something off the wall.  When you start to be interested in the other build again, pull it back out.  You just need a breather.

 I find that when I get stuck on a project, I put it away and work on something else, either another model or a complete different hobby (I have a few). If I keep hacking away, I'll just get frustrated, it won't be fun any more and I'll probably screw it up.

 In the mean time I let the problem area just roll around in the back of my brain. I'll bring it to the front every once in a while and see how I feel about it. I may ponder it on the way to work one day, or while I'm waiting on line or something.  I'll research how others might have tackled these problems. After a while (maybe even a year or so), I'll feel like I'm ready to try it from a fresh angle. Most of the time I've have success with the fresh view and armed with new ideas.

 I do not like giving up on a project. However, I have no qualms about postponing it's completion until I'm in a better state of mind. 

I think anyone that has been building long enough will run into this eventually.  I've had my share to be sure.  Mentioning the Trumpeter Corsair, I am currently building the new Trumpeter F8F-1 Bearcat and I too have almost had to put it up a couple of times.  This is my first Trumpeter kit and while it's a great kit for the most part I have also found some disturbing issues with it.  Mainly with the wing and folding wing tips.  I am also trying some new techniques on this kit which I guess isn't helping my patience any.  But in the end I think we will all be better modelers having gone through the wringer.  I guess the age old saying, "patience is a virtue" holds so true in these instances.  Have fun with it guys.

 KG

I just did this!!!!

I just deep-sixed the 1/72 "Ace" Waffentrager model! I only got it opened, and started in on it--and the "quality" (and I use that term very loosely!) of it was really something more akin to a vacuform kit! Horrible!

The barrel of the gun looked like a wet noodle--impossible to straighten out, and the rest of the parts were so thick, they could have been cast from concrete! The consistency was something akin to....cheese? The softest plastic I've eveer felt.

Ugh...just horrible. I put it in the garbage box; it was a merciful thing to do!

Good for you, Andy. Take a break from it.

It seems we have something in common. I also have gotten way into a build that I've been adding tons (trying to add) of detail to only to find myself frustrated and hating the project, wishing it were done. I kind of got that way when I did a Dragon mustang over a year ago but I didn't step back and kept at it. In the end it turned out ok but today I wish I had taken a break from the kit. I still see things today I'd like to do or redo that I ran out of patience for back then. Live and learn. I had a fear that if I stopped on the kit I'd never pick it up again and I hate having unfinished kits sitting around.

I have to add that I disagree about you not having patience for the level you are trying to build on. I've seen your work and the skill is definately there. Patience is a learned skill, just like making seams disappear. So don't despair! You'll concur patience just like anything else and move to that level you want to work in. Just by taking the steps you did with your current build shows that you are learning patience. It'll come.

Thanks for the input fellas. I guess it happens to us all. I'm still mad though because overall, it will be a neat build when finished. I did attempt a lot of extra details (more than usual) and I guess I'm finding that I don't have the patience required for that level of building. If you don't have the patience, it seems the skill goes out the window. Lesson learned here...

 Andy

Had it happen this weekend on two kits. I slowly backed away from the bench and turned off the light and locked the shop up for the rest of the weekend.

Thad

cardshark_14 wrote:

Yep.  Box it up safely and leave it alone for a while.  Start an easy/fun kit that you don't care much about.  Build it OOB.  Feel free to make a what-if or something off the wall.  When you start to be interested in the other build again, pull it back out.  You just need a breather.   Cheers, Alex

yup how true. Thats what i do.

cardshark_14 wrote:

Yep.  Box it up safely and leave it alone for a while.  Start an easy/fun kit that you don't care much about.  Build it OOB.  Feel free to make a what-if or something off the wall.  When you start to be interested in the other build again, pull it back out.  You just need a breather.   Cheers, Alex

Been there, done that brother!

Sean- Those aren't Corsair outer wing panels propped up on those tracks, are they?

Sometimes it does need to be put in a box until a later date.

 Other times it time to say I am done and I am not doing anything else to this kit and put it on the shelf.  Only you can know that time though.....

with Alex  This wouldnt be a 1/32 Trumpeter F4U-4 Corsair would it ?

I have been at battle with that kit from day one ! This my method for preventing " your dilemma" I keep several builds going at once, plus if I hit a barricade like not having the right color of paint...I can move on to the Next !