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how long did it take for your longest Plastic kit build

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Posted by Gigatron on Sunday, May 9, 2010 6:32 AM

10 months, with only one week off (waiting for parts), revell 1/48 visible B-17.  Even with all of the available PE sets, I ended up scratchbuilding a lot of parts.

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Posted by ACESES5 on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 4:11 PM

Revell 1/32 B24 Libarator 2 months no wonder I'm half blind had to get new glasses after that. Aceses5Propeller2 cents

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Posted by Jim Barton on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 11:42 AM

I've been building a 1/24 scale tornado chase vehicle for seven years plus.

"Whaddya mean 'Who's flying the plane?!' Nobody's flying the plane!"

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, May 1, 2010 8:21 AM

bbrowniii

Pffft.....  ask me when I'm done!! Geeked

Ditto... I'll let y'all know..

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Posted by Harshman II on Saturday, May 1, 2010 1:57 AM

Longest I take is 2 weeks. Everyday 2 and half hr session except weekend which will goes for 8hrs.

But I am soon going into 1/450 IJN Akagi which may broke my current record.

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Posted by shoot&scoot on Saturday, May 1, 2010 1:20 AM

Did an Accademy M-36 Jackson tank destroyer that soaked up about 400 hrs over 9 mo.s.  Lots of PE., lathe turned main gun and Delco generators, piles of scratch and resin parts.

Last build was an Italeri M-7 Priest with Dragon main gun and Accademy suspension parts.  Also lots of PE, resin  and scratch parts.  Took about 500 hrs over a year time period. 

I call the amount of time put into detailing "degrees of stupidity" and my stupidity lately goes right through the roof!

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Posted by humper491 on Saturday, May 1, 2010 1:01 AM

i'm getting back into things, but have a 1/350 enterprise that's almost 10 yrs old, the flight deck has been repainted 4 times(maybe have it right this time) tried to do the towr with PE, for me it turned out well, and started putting the PE railing on the ship, but gave up again!! joking with my daughters, i say that my grandkids can finish it.

Humper Beam

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Posted by skater-x on Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:24 AM

i've got several that are taking years.

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Posted by jimbot58 on Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:10 AM

You mean actually finish one? What an odd concept!Tongue TiedConfused

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Posted by mg.mikael on Friday, April 30, 2010 8:03 PM

About a half a year for a 1/35 Zvezda M-3 Scout Car. The kit needed alot of work(considering it's a 40 year old kit) plus I decided to scratch quite a few parts.

 

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Posted by Konigwolf13 on Friday, April 30, 2010 7:15 PM

18months and counting. IJN Yamato. First 3 months not very succussful brush painting large areas, cleaned it off. Next three months a few goes at airbrushing. 6 months in storage ready for move. Day after taken out of storage partial broken hull by kids, large break by me. Next 6 months rebuilding broken hull and built up main guns with AM Barrels and Eduard PE. Currentley having issues with hand tremours from medication and fine things are difficult. ETA on finished product? When its done.

Andrew

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Posted by Dan A on Friday, April 30, 2010 6:56 PM

Dan A

About a month-and-a-half, working on it only on Fridays. It was a Tamiya T-34/76A (I think that's the right designation).

Now that the photo-etch fret for my M151A2 is in-hand, I'm thinking that the myriad tiny parts will push that particular build well past a month-and-a-half...

In progress: Hasegawa P-51D/K (being built as a D), Tamiya Morris Mini Cooper 1275S, Testors Kaman H-43B Huskie (held up by lack of parts)

To be resumed sooner or later: Academy M151A2 with Eduard photo-etch

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, April 30, 2010 3:34 PM

Several qualify under the put away for a long time due to frustration, stress ,difficulty, waiting for AM parts, etc. Many are still in the on and off to this day. But a rough guestimate of work time would probably top four to six months. My biggest slowdown always seems to come at the painting stage. I can build quickly, but painting takes me a long time. Add interiors that need to be painted during construction and  build time goes up exponentially for me.

 

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Posted by bbrowniii on Friday, April 30, 2010 3:19 PM

Pffft.....  ask me when I'm done!! Geeked

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by fermis on Friday, April 30, 2010 3:17 PM

 Academys 1/32 F/A-18D, over the course of about three months, I logged all the hours and what I did durring each session. I built it for my bro, who was in Iraq at the time, dropping bombs from his F-18D. We compared our log entries to see what I was doing while he was flying. Turned out, when I built the GBU-12s, he dropped a pair and got 50+ of Zakari's(SP?) guys!!!! Anyway, I put in 127 hours on it.

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 30, 2010 2:13 PM

Forever...and a day.

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Posted by Dan A on Friday, April 30, 2010 2:08 PM

About a month-and-a-half, working on it only on Fridays. It was a Tamiya T-34/76A (I think that's the right designation).

I have quite a few that got put away for a spell, too.

In progress: Hasegawa P-51D/K (being built as a D), Tamiya Morris Mini Cooper 1275S, Testors Kaman H-43B Huskie (held up by lack of parts)

To be resumed sooner or later: Academy M151A2 with Eduard photo-etch

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how long did it take for your longest Plastic kit build
Posted by DURR on Friday, April 30, 2010 2:01 PM

not counting putting it away (for a yr) because you  got p/o ed at it   and what was  the kit

me  it took  3 1/2 months to do             working a revell saratoga a/c carrier in 1/542 scale

i worked it 2-3 times a week for 30-45 min sessions

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