Things I've learned when putting together a model recently

I used 2 part epoxy to put togetheer the frame.The rest is not too tough but the decals are a little tricky! 

Hi mfsob! Well , you are right there.It seems like the closer to finished I get ,I find something else that can go here or there. It is like an itch. BUT,you eventually have to stand back and say FINIS! The rut is easy to fall into. I was doing a liner last year and as I looked at her before the final painting I decided the portholes(ALL 765 of them) needed to be drilled out.Now,why did I do that?? See what I mean. Anyway I know whereof you speak.Happy modeling ---tankerbuilder

By all means, keep these first efforts around so you can look back on them and smile to yourself. I got back into the hobby in 2005 after, ummm, decades off - and my first kit was a 1/700 resin ship kit. Talk about an initiation! But I made it. Or it made me ... anyway, it looked more or less like a ship when I finished with it.

And it resides in its own case, just like all the other efforts to date (very few, I'm slowww), where I can look at it from time to time and absorb the messages - Don't Get Cocky. Your Next Build Will Always Be Better. Sooner Or Later, You Have To Declare A Build Finished. Don't Think About Trying Something New, Just Do It And See What Happens. Etc., Etc.  

I had the original 1968 Hotwheel of Beatnick Bandit.

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Hang on to this one.  In five years time you'll look at it and laugh.  I still have a few that were my first when I came back ......They will have to make way for new arrivals soon tho.