How Long Did It Take?

I work slowly,not because I am a "master" but because of time contstraints.Very rarely do I spend more then 30-45 minutes in one shot,its usually 15-20 minute bites.I also usually work on one at a time and it usually takes 4-8 weeks on a 1/35 vehicle,no due to process,but due to the time I could allot to building.

I couldn't really give an accurate amount of time. I have a spreadsheet where I track each build, and I have start and finish dates.  When I look, it appears I'm pretty "slow."  But life seems to get in the way.  Sometimes I get to work in small bunches of time.  And sometimes, I get a large window of time to work with.  As for getting it "right?"  Well, I think you are done when YOU say you're done.

I think that people who ask that kind of question are looking for some kind of barometer on how long they might reasonably expect to invest in the completion of a project or model to whatever standard they perceive the object of the question to be.

I'm planning on doing a day by day build log for the WW1 group build. I'm going to guess it will take me longer than I expect, but why rush things - its a hobby not a job!

Phil

I have a 1/87 scale passenger car that I've been working on for 10 years now. It keeps giving me fits and I keep putting it down so it can "think about what it's done to me"!

I kind of agree with doog because I usually ask that question. I guess I use it as a gauge (a ballpark figure) of how long it would take me to accomplish the same task that I'm asking about. Hell I'm probably one of the slowest guys here at building stuff so I tack a little more time on for me. Usually takes me about 6-10 months to build a plane.

HabaneroHal

the doog

I think that people who ask that kind of question are looking for some kind of barometer on how long they might reasonably expect to invest in the completion of a project or model to whatever standard they perceive the object of the question to be.

.....and....?

the doog

HabaneroHal

the doog

I think that people who ask that kind of question are looking for some kind of barometer on how long they might reasonably expect to invest in the completion of a project or model to whatever standard they perceive the object of the question to be.

.....and....?

...oh, sorry--and don't forget to tip your waiter 20%.

About 40 years... give or take a few months.  

1-3 months for a standard 1/24 car

3-5 months for a 1/35 vehicle

2-3 weeks for a figure

several years for a ship

All of this is 100% dependant on outside factors such as health, weather, other obligations, etc.. Pretty much a rough estimate.

I know I'm slow.

That's a given and I'm okay with that since the only other thing I know is that when I do rush (for whatever reason) I will inevitably take three steps backwards in progress and simply delay myself more!

But,  while updating my own WIP thread here I keep noticing the start date of  my own posts.

I didn't know I was THAT slow!

Eh, who cares!

In the songs of our people, our elders tell us the building of a model was started before the sun was dry from its birth and the stars wailed as newborns. Two Tweezers was a young man, brave but rash, and so he still used the Testors orange tube and the scissors of his mother which were forbidden. Many days Two Tweezers struggled at his labor, in order that he might produce a model worthy of the Great Spirit. After many moons passed, and Two Tweezers was an old man, his model was finally complete, but his tribe had moved on. They had gone to be with the peoples of Tenax and of Squadron, and so Two Tweezers and his dusty model languished as an elder coyote that sleeps under the moon. Now the pale face has come and he has named our stars in our sky, and so Two Tweezers now rests among the starts in the constellation of Tamiya the Seamless. This is the story our elders tell us, and we should be wise to heed the admonitions of the Hasegawa Ghost Peoples.

So it is written...... So it shall be glued!

And it was said that the " Phantom builder " he who built in small size for the " GREAT PHARAOH " was a brilliant man .he just couldn't get that big stone block up that hill .So , build he did .The " Great PYRAMID of pocketa was the result . All of four inches on the side and made of bricks of emeralds and sheathed with rubies .the secret chamber holds a diamond ..

Now this pleased the " PHAROAH TAMIYA " and he decreed that All should have this .There fore it was ordered that The scribe HASEGAWA has recorded this .Go forth and create the small ones ,so that the men shall be home with their wives and they shall teach their children the skills of this realm ,in miniature ,So it was written.... so it was done . This many centuries ago .Therefore watch not the clock , but , create my son !

littletimmy

I have a 1/87 scale passenger car that I've been working on for 10 years now. It keeps giving me fits and I keep putting it down so it can "think about what it's done to me"!

                                                                                              

I have a kit of the Star Trek Deep Space 9 station that's been in the works off an on for almost 20 years, and a kit of the Enterprise-D that was started over 15 years ago ( got sick of the thing after drilling thousands of holes by hand with a pin vise to prep it for lighting ) that isn't done yet.

If you look on here:-public.fotki.com/.../m8f_112th_step-by-step

you'll see a step-by-step project on a McLaren M8F I scratchbuilt in 1/12th scale a few years ago, right up until I moved on to a canal boat to live and stopped work.  But every so often you'll see how many hours the preceding stage took.  of course that was working all day as I'm a professional, or was then!

I still have it and may yet finish it.  I've done about another 12 hours on it since the last entry.

Hope that helps,

Martin