So I am sitting in a room with a stack of NEW kits which are for all intents and purposes awesome, and yet, I get those moments when I decide 'but I have had this kit for years, I should get it built first'.

So I get it out, and I am working on it, and I was aware it was substandard long before I began. And the part fits sucks, and it is old mold tech, and the flash is bad. And I had elected to pre paint portions of it making glue up a small scale hell. And then I find the tracks are really bad even for their own time.

And all the while I have great kits sitting on the shelf, not being worked on, that have none of the issues this item I am working on has. And the kit isn't even of something rare that I can't just buy again newer and better.

What the hell am I doing wasting glue on this junk?

Couple of weeks back the answer came out 'no I am NOT wasting time on this garbage'. It was a 3/4 ton Dodge weapons carrier. It sucked. Might have seemed good in 85, but this isn't 85. Round filed it and wrapped my head around the idea that it wasn't a loss, it was wasting good hobby room space though.

It's not been easy getting rid of some relics, but the day is only so long eh. Why waste it on 11th place items.

I tend to have these moments all too often....  the last was when I was working on a diorama that contained two horses and a goat. Filling and sanding seams on these critters was a test in patience in the first place. As I continued this effort I abrupty stopped.... I realized I was spending a lot of time working on the seams under the animals.....  Why? I don't know,,  who the heck is going to see the belly of any of these beasts??

What am I doing?!!

Suffice to say, their undercarriage are not "seamless".

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 I realized I was spending a lot of time working on the seams under the animals.....  Why? I don't know,,  who the heck is going to see the belly of any of these beasts??

What am I doing?!!

Suffice to say, their undercarriage are not "seamless".

And how many armor builders waste their time and paint to spray the underside of the tank?

Yeah been there before.

Filling sink holes in areas that can't be seen in the finished model.

Filling holes and finding out later that they're holes for mounting pins and having to drill them back out...

I'm still rather new to modelling, but I wonder how much of it is our obsessive-compulsive behavior.  I've got a shelf full of models near my bench, and I get satisfaction just looking at them.

Then...I have to make a spreadsheet with the order I plan to make them...with a seperate column for type, scale, manufacturer and aftermarket stuff that I bought and put in the box...

Then, I look at the model shelf again and say "Why am I building that next?  Just because it's older?"

Tiger,,,   SO true. I do the same thing....  I end up detailing all sorts of areas that I KNOW will never be seen. In the past few years I have been trying to cut down on some of this just to get through the builds in less than,, months. Sometimes I can bypass,, other times I do it because I feel I have to....  it's a disease I tell ya!

Misplacing the Intergalactic 229 Space Modulator!