Modelling goals for 2012.

Mine is the same every year... not just start a model, but actually finish one.

I haven't met that goal in about 10 years.

m@

Be happy with what I build

Enjoy the build

Learn something

1. Finish off my 3 wips (A-10 is really lagging - up to painting weapons, one of my most loathed parts of modelling, so it's been stalled like this for 6 months);

2. Build up my P-47 for the Big Jugs GB (which will also tick off my first attempt at NMF);

3. Knock off 5 total builds for the year (ie, not including wips);

4. Inspect and join a modelling club to become more proactive in the hobby.

The sad part - i haven't spent any time modelling so far this year - can't believe its March already!!!

1. Finish all the shelf queens

2. Go to IPMS Niagara Frontier show

3. Get better at weathering

Keep reducing the works in progress rolled over into this year from previous years (to potentially completeing them all by the end of 2013)

Finish whatever kits that I start this year and not have them roll over to next year.

Keep improving in the quality of my work while still having fun and not obsessing over stuff...

Gonna pull back on he super-detailing and scratch-building a bit, and get a few SOBs done that way... Maybe lighten up on diorama work, build a few display models... That'll get my number of completed works way up, I reckon...

Last year it was three...

Build and rig a DH.2 - there's a ton of string on that sucker.

My goal is to finish a 1/350 battleship with PE and rigging.After two months of working on her,the end is in sight.

1 - Build a ship (about to get underway)

2 - Build that H-K B-25 

3 - Japanese aircraft

4 - Tackle my first serious conversion (prob 1/32 Hasegawa P-40M to P-40F-15

To get out of this 6 month modelling slump and get back to the bench!

Resist as much as possible of adding to the stash.

Dent existing stash.

Finish 4 builds which would be a something I have done since I was under 13.

Finish my in-progress Zero, which would be my first completed air-brushed airplane ever!

1. Finish my first build since I was 8 years old. (My Spitfire for the Airfix GB)
2. Learn to airbrush (I've done one primer so far).
3. Maybe finish a second build.

Redo my modeling room and get new enclosed glass display cases.

Since we're almost 3 months in already...

Finish all the GB's I'm signed up for.

Build 10 (boy am I behind).

Get better at this.

NO MORE ADDING TO STASH....................... I hope

Mine's the same as it was the past two years. Just start and finish something.

- improve my airbrushing

- build a proper paint booth

- finish 3 kits

- remember to have fun!

mine is to start and finish a model inside the house

just to prove the concept, and to make absolutely sure I have this all figured out so that I can do this in the same room as Anne, without sending her to the hospital

I am getting there,,,,,all I need to do is find a "smell free putty",,,,,and then I will have it

Rex

all I need to do is find a "smell free putty"

Rex, I haven't used it but I discovered this online last night and I saw it in the LHS today. I meant to grab a bottle but I forgot.

Vallejo Plastic Putty. I think it's a resin of some kind.

http://www.vallejo.nl/assets/s2dmain.html?http://www.vallejo.nl/

Build more armor.

Griffin, I somehow missed that when I went looking through the Vallejo and Dax sites

I will add that to my list for "next order" time

thanks for the idea

Rex

No problem. I hope it works out for you.

To be more like Fermis...

-Double up in the Big Beautiful Jugs and Japanese Group builds.

-Get to Dayton and see the restoration work on the Swoose and Memphis Belle.

- Keep it fun

Rick

Not to get banned from the forums... need tips from Manning. 

1. BUILD MORE

2. BUILD MORE

3. BUILD MORE

In no particular order.

At the beginning of 2009, I made a New Year's Modeling Resolution.  I tallied up 12 unfinished builds that I had started in the previous couple of years, and decided that I would work only on those kits.  I also resolved not to buy any new kits that year.

The kits were:

2 Monogram TBFs

1 Monogram TBD

2 Monogram P-40s

2 Monogram P-47Ds, a razorback and a bubbletop

1 Monogram SBD (notice a pattern here)

1 Aurora F4B-4, with detailing added to the cockpit and corrections to the turtledeck

1 Lindberg F11C Goshawk, with detailing to the cockpit

1 LifeLike/Pyro Hawker Fury

1 Hasegawa Essex in 1/700, adding the hangar deck and a Trumpeter airwing (kit aircraft to be installed in the hangar.

3 years later, I've finished the TBFs and the P-47 Razorback.  The SBD I almost finished, as an A-24 and my entry in the first Monogram Mafia group build.  It's awaiting decaling (I need to get the underside markings).

I managed to wait till July that year before I broke my resolution not to buy any new kits (actually, a used kit, Monogram's B-24D in the boxing with a bonus P-40 kit added).

I've started and completed some other kits in the meantime, but now I'm more careful, more realistic.  I can pledge only to keep plugging away.  I am back to a ban on buying kits, though.  I'll never finish the ones I have, and I don't have room to display them all, if I ever did finish 'em.

Finish this stupid Tomcat!!!!!!

I have been accepted to the Fermis School of Camoflage in the Real World and Eating Critters School of Modeling... hope to get a passing grade..

Finish my first Dio since High School...

remodel my son's old bedroom to my new Mancave..

deafpanzer

Not to get banned from the forums... need tips from Manning.