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For the last week or two I've been working on my Revell 1/48 A-10 Warthog. It's an older (1986) release and it shows in several ways. Raised panel lines and rivets are okay, beautifully done really. Unfortunately it also shows in raised ridges at the edges of the parts where the molds are wearing out. Fit of many parts is poor because of it, and some is just bad to begin with.
I started the kit knowing there would be some issues to deal with, but determined to do my dead-level best to overcome them. Well, I have to admit defeat. There is simply too much wrong for me to fix it all. I'm at the point where I either quit building the kit and put it away for a long, long time, toss it in the recycling bin, or just give a big sigh and build it as it is. Since I have too much time invested to do the first two I'm going to just build it and only do the minimum necessary to correct the most egregious flaws. Not going to worry about lost details when fixing bad seams, no rescribing panel lines, just filling major gaps and letting the rest go. I simply don't have the patience and can't handle the stress otherwise.
Tarasdad
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i have quit several over the yrs i also quit models period for months on end as well as quiting the forum for months as well
I've quit before but not very often. I just finished an Italeri F-16 that was a total POS. I've gotten to the point where my skills and my patience have increased quite a bit so I don't back down very often now. I'm not saying that I'm some sort of pro or anything but I'm better now than I used to be.
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I have a dead worthog as well ,been two years since ive seen it.POS
Last Warthog I did prior to this was the Tamiya, way back in the 80s. May have to invest in another one to get the taste of this one out of my mouth!
I'm with Fly-n-hi up there with not backing down much anymore. In your defense I will say that the usually Tamiya is ALOT more forgiving in nature. You could press ahead with the build just for the added experience though. If I start it I am usually bound and determined to finish it. You could post pics and let us all see what youre going through. These gents on here are full of great and kind help.
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I have definitly tossed a few in the trash over the years,one even twice.I tried to build a Hasegawa 1/48 F-14 twice,and couldn't get it done for some reason or another.It proved to be a very frustrating kit for me.
I have two levels of quitting. I have three shelves directly above my bench, the shelves of doom. I put models (with their boxes and remaining parts) that I have run into issues with. I intend to get back to them some day, but want to move on to something more fun for awhile.
The second level is the kit that is just not worth saving- so bad I don't want to take the effort to modify. Most recent kit at that level was a Maquette model of the Boeing 307. It was junk. The fuselage halves had a terrible finish, and the sides did not mate very well. Only solution was to do a scratch fuselage and the kit just was not worth the effort.
I do find kits up on the shelves of doom that have been there for several years. I suspect I will never complete those, and need to go through and throw some out. The shelves are full- no more room for another kit in that category :-(
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Been there and done that a few times. I'm sure a lot of us has felt defeat on a certain model kit at one time or another.
I haven't quit a kit yet.( except one Italeri car kit that came without the tires). But some I just finish them to get them out of the way. They were not worth doing up right. On occasion it was the modellers fault and not the kits.
The only ones that I actually quit on altogether were a few early ones that ended up as target practice. I have some in boxes from long, long ago that were problem builds. Stored them away to work on as I improved my skills. Maybe I'll get back to them some day. Think I'll take them with me to the Great Workbench In The Sky.
Jim
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On the Bench: Artesania Latina (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II
I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.
Yeah there have been a few I put down and backed away like they were a bomb...
I've only actually trashed a few - most get stuck back in a box and mothballed to finish on a better day. Will they ever get finished, darned if I know...
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
This happens to me quite often I might add. I'm tempted to quit because sometimes it's a futile exercise in frustration and my skills are still not that great.
I was "trying" to build the Italeri He-111 bomber in 1/72 scale, and I invoked the F-word in more ways than I can describe.
While hearing my generous comments about the aircraft my girlfriend came to me to tell me :
Is this supposed to be your hobby ? To have fun ? If you don't have fun while building your kits, why don't you stop and do something else ?
And she's right. Like everyone else, I love a good challenge. But a challenge is not a chore, and if you can't have fun, then there is no point trying to continue.
So I had a great idea for the He-111 : I'm now building a dio of a crashed bomber somewhere in Europe ...
Some Lindberg and AURORA kits............
Yeah JF, do one in London.
I tend to just put them away. I find that as my skills slowly improve, I often can go back and solve problems that seemed impossible before.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Sprue-ce Goose Some Lindberg and AURORA kits............
Add Glencoe kits to that list!
Don Stauffer Sprue-ce Goose Some Lindberg and AURORA kits............ Add Glencoe kits to that list!
Before this the worst kits I built were a Testors kits OV-10 Bronco and Williiams Bros 1/72 Boeing 247D. The Italer 1/48 C-130 was challenging, as was their 1/72 C-119 - both tested my building skills for various reasons but neither defeated me. So far this A-10 has been the only one where I've had to admit defeat. I've nearly got it ready for paint, just a few more parts to attach and seams to deal with as best I can, then it's off to the garage for a Euro 1 camo scheme. Hopefully that will camouflage (heh) the worst of the flaws.
Not sure if I have quit on this one yet but started it about 15 years ago and then put it away until I had a better area to work on it. Then started for a few days but put it away again and did some cars. Will I ever finish it? Good Question. The kit is not up to scratch on quality so will need a fair bit of work and the kit is also quite complicated with all the hoses. It is a Modelli Despositati E Brevettati - Yamaha 4
In the past 30+ years I have tossed exactly one kit. Not because it defeated me, but because it was a major conversion project that became un necessary when a kit of the actual subject was released (typical of my conversion projects) and 1) it was too far gone to go back, and 2) it was not that good of a kit to begin with. Now that is not to say that I do not have many sidelined builds. I currently have between two to three dozen of those in various stages of assembly and completion. But I fully intend to complete them all one day. Not all will be contest entrants or contenders. But each will be completed eventually... God willing and the river don't rise ;-)
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
I boxed a 90s era ERTL Corvette ZR1. It wouldn`t sit on all four wheels. Super frustrating!! The chasis was quite out of whack...anyway, it found it`s way into the bin, but, really, have not had any issues since (couple of odd old Airfix planes, but, fought through it).
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On the Bench: Nothing on the go ATM
Last night I added another to my "trashed" kits. Was building the Special Hobbies B-18 Bolo. It has a lot of transparencies, with some like around the cockpit and the nose, having many small transparent panels. The problem was that the metal structure between the windows was not well defined so it was hellacious to mask. I even tried baremetal, instead of painting, but the frames are too fine and the bond not good enough. The frames are molded as sort of a half round that gradually melds into the transparency area. I just could NOT get a decent appearance to that framing, so am trashing the kit :-(
don don't trash it i don't know if your into dioramas at all but... maybe it could be one with a crashed a/c the glass areas are always shattered any way may be fun
joe
Don why not go an alternate route for framing the canopy? Make your frame from painted thin strips of tape or foil cut to the appropriate sizes and apply them after the rest of the build has been painted.
I'd have to sand the existing surface to eliminate the bumps, then polish the areas to get the transparency back. There are a LOT Of transparency areas on that plane! I have decided to keep the kit, and sometime in the future carve those areas in wood, or indeed sand off the framing, make new areas with my Vac-u-form and add the framing with styrene or bmf. But that will be well in the future after doing some easier kits first to relax from the trauma.
Oh , You Bet :
There was an unfortunate 49 Mercury in my stash and the ideas were whirling in my head . Note , find a way to apply brakes to that behavior .Result , a custom body job so Ugly that even EDSEL wouldn't have loved it .Body went to the round file , the rest in my parts stash !
The only model that I have given up on was Academy 1/48 CH-46 Sea Knight. It was a beautiful kit and no fault to the kit. It was my first helicopter and just a lot of my errors built up into a giant mess. The straw that broke my back was a very poor priming job that resulted in an awful paint job. That and the the fact that I didn't install the "canopy" quite right just forced me to call it a day.
One day, I am going to make a second attempt at her as it really was a nice looking kit.
John
Zvezda's T-60 light tank. Nasty kit
Very few that I can remember in a long time in the hobby. here was a Glencoe Soviet something or other--worst model I ever saw. A 1/72 ACE waffentrager; a Stuka that I messed up the complex paint job. And a very expensive and rare AMT AMX Javelin that I completely ruined with bad paint.....oh, that still hurts to remember!
thats a shame on the amx kit i have one johan built and one i am saving cause my bro has the real thing 68 i just quit on an eastern exp mig-31
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