Does anybody do rotation in modelling?

I stick almost exclusivly to 1/48 aircraft of ww2 and i usualy have 2 on the go at the same time but i've noticed my stash is starting to include some 48 scale armour, figures ect so dio's can't be far away now...Inspiration also plays a part, after watching the Red Baron i decided that a pair of  Roden Fokker  Dr1s in 32nd scale painted in the Ricthofen brothers schemes will be done towards the end of this year....

i know it ain't the same  but i do assembly line   modeling i take 3-4 of the same model  and do step by step all at once    i get more modeling done in less time      the only var. is the last steps on each  (the decals/paint color etc.. on each)

Not a real rotation, per se.  I have an almost equal mix of aircraft and armor in my meager stash (I think 3 aircraft and 2 armor).  I just stacked them so that I go from one to another, so I don't get bored of doing the same thing over and over. 

I got back into the hobby building, strictly, aircraft.  After 8 or so birds, I was getting bored of the reptition, so I got into armor.  Armor's a nice break, but I can only build so many sets of road wheels and bogies before I want to get back to a plane.

But now I have a few long term projects planned which will bring me heavily back into planes and even a space shuttle.

Guess it's all kind of what strikes me at the time.  I have a Titanic kit in my stash that's been there for a year.  Haven't had the urge to build it yet.  I also have a resin studio scale (1/24) X-Wing kit that I've been waiting for the inspiration to build.

-Fred

I don;t have any "systematic" method of changing genres---I just go with my gut. I am on a "car thang" right now, and can't seem to shake it yet. But I'll get back to armor soon.

I have done a ship, a spaceship, tanks, dioramas, cars, and tried a plane i the last few years. Figures too. And a full castle. Sheeshh---I just realized I sound like a modeling schizophrenic! lol!

Mostly, I start one and finish it.

The only catagory of kit I've never tried was armour, nary a one.  Ships, aircraft, spacecraft, even a rare classic car, but I've never had a desire to do a tank.  I'm not knocking 'em at all, and I can see why folks want to build 'em, but just not me.

My subject matter choices are driven by type of kit and complexity.  I can pick something because it will easy, or something that will challenge a certain skill I haven't tried or one I've not used in awhile.

Never done more than one at a time, but I think I will soon, by design.  I bought one of the Dragon 1/144 double a/c kits of a VF-103 F-14 and F/A-18.  I'll build those two "together."

I never used to abandon a project before, but I must admit I have recently. Getting more picky in my old age, I suppose.

Not so much of a rotation as I "stock pile" kits in progress. I'll move on to another while something is setting or drying. When I have several in the 90% range, then I'll bring out the airbrush and finish them all around the same time.

Sprue-ce Goose

 

BTW.....I can't help wondering if the info posted to this, and other threads on this website would supply enough information for a sociology thesis. Any University students out there?

You could use it to prove that we're all obsessive, compulsive nuts...  ;)

Mark

I usually build aircraft but every now and again a piece of armor I see on the history channel will strike me as "awesome" and I will have to build a kit.  I have yet to attempt to build a warship as they seem quite extensive and I feel my modeling skills aren't quite up to the task.

Bgrigg

I do!

I start a kit, and don't finish it. Start another, same thing. Start a third, and so on. After a while I pick up the first kit and still don't finish it, etc. and so on and so forth.

Wait, that wasn't what you meant, was it?

 

Haha.. That is bad. I already got rid of that bad habit....

I do!

I start a kit, and don't finish it. Start another, same thing. Start a third, and so on. After a while I pick up the first kit and still don't finish it, etc. and so on and so forth.

Wait, that wasn't what you meant, was it?

I've built whatever was interesting but would not build only aircraft, armor, cars, ships.

I build whatever is interesting in no particular order.

BTW.....I can't help wondering if the info posted to this, and other threads on this website would supply enough information for a sociology thesis. Any University students out there?

No,no rotation for me.It's usually a gruop Build or Campaign i joined,or whatever desire I have at the moment.

I dont really 'rotate' I just take side streets.  I always get back to scifi, but ill go and do an Air build, or a tank build, or something like that

I will occasionally break up the routine of my typical subjects (aircraft) with something else.  In recent years I built a couple of cars and a tank, and have on my build schedule for this year another piece of armor, a German King Tiger.  I've also built a sci-fi spaceship, but it seemed like an aircraft so I guess I wouldn't count that as a real break from my usual routine.  I'd love to add a warship but have so far not found one for a price that I'm willing to meet.  And no one makes an affordable USS Texas that I am aware of.

I'm also a "rotate by inspiration" type.  I randomly switch between aircraft, cars, plastic & wooden ships.  I also will take a break from a large project by building an old simple  OOB kit to break up the monotony.

Mark

No, not really a rotation... My subjects are more of an "inspiration" type-thing... I get inspired by some outside stimuli to do a certain project, then I seem to stay in that genre until I get inspired to another type...

I also usually have several builds going on at once, and I DO rotate through those, sorta like I get force to a stopping point (by drying time, casting set-times, whatever) on a project, but rather than leave the bench (I'm in the groove), I pull another one down onto it and work there for a while..