I don't know how many of you might have run into this situation.
You're looking at you're flightline, or parking lot as the case may be, that you call your modeling shelf and you see a few older models that aren't quite hitting the finishing standards you can hit today and the more you look at them, the more they detract from the over all display.
They aren't bad models, they still have potential, but you just can't leave em' as they are any more, you know you can make them better, but how?
I've got Revell's 1/32 F-16 on my shelf. She's dusty, paint quality's a bit crude as she predates my airbrush days, decals are starting to flake off and deficiencies that I didn't know how to fix when I built her but do know how to fix now are really eating at me, begging to fix them.
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The problem, it'll take a complete tear down of the model to properly fix everything. I had been toying with the idea of tearing here down and trying to convert her to an F-16 XL with the delta wing, but I haven't commited to it or any other course of action. She's to good to toss and maybe too good to break down for spares, so until I decide what to do, she sits there getting more derelict.
I was looking at a book about the U.S. Air Force's surplus aircraft "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona recently and I got to thinking about that F-16 and the potential in it to be resurected, but how and into what?
Perhaps someday I'll know what she should look like and commit to getting her there.
Anybody else got a derelict or two on their shelves begging you to restore them to some state of glory?