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  • Member since
    June 2004
  • From: Oklahoma City
Posted by Zone V Afterburner on Saturday, September 4, 2004 10:00 PM
I am with you guys wholeheartedly on this.... I feel so obligated to try to 'perfect' my projects that I have a hard time finishing what I have started or I leave it alone altogether.I need to get out of that rut so maybe something like this will help.
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Posted by fightnjoe on Saturday, September 4, 2004 9:44 PM
to me this sounds like a good idea for a group build in the future. slap together build. no filler, no pe, no paint, no resin. just to slap it together. for fun.

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    July 2004
  • From: Texas
Posted by wbill76 on Saturday, September 4, 2004 9:16 PM
These are what the Mad "theme" days are all about...24 hours to build, paint, finish. Makes for some interesting circumstances, even as a spectator. Thumbs Up [tup]

Most of the kits that I've got in my current stash would make very expensive cathartic experiences though, would have to choose a special subject to throw together for it not to be too painful in the process. Big Smile [:D]
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    February 2004
  • From: Green Lantern Corps HQ on Oa
Posted by LemonJello on Saturday, September 4, 2004 8:58 PM
I think this is what I'm going to have to do to get over this "block" I've been having. I've got my work area all set up, a shelf full of kits and yet I can't get in the groove and build. I've got a couple kits that I started before I moved last year, and I feel obligated to finish them, but they just don't hold my interest right now. I think I'm just going to grab one of the other kits and start in on it. Maybe that will get me going again. What do you all think?
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  • From: Washington State
Posted by leemitcheltree on Saturday, September 4, 2004 8:26 PM
Gip -
Shock, horror and little fishes, man!! You've offended my delicate sensibilities!! Make a kit "for fun"??? What's the world coming to?
Actually, haven't done that in years.......sounds like a good idea.
What I thought about the other day is getting one of those "snap-tite" kits and sitting down with my 11 year old daughter and see if I can "infect" her with the modelling bug.

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  • From: The flat lands of the Southeast
Modeling for "Funsies"
Posted by styrene on Saturday, September 4, 2004 12:23 PM
After spending weeks and months accurizing all those kits on your workbench, have you ever given in to the urge (or even had the urge) to take a kit and glue and simply slap it together like you did when you were a just a kid? (Some of you still are, so this question doesn't apply to youBig Smile [:D]).

I did. I'm primarily an armor modeler, but I got the urge, grabbed an old Monogram F-something-or-other airplane, cut everything from the sprue and just glued it all together. Took me about an hour to finish it. Looked pretty bad. Didn't care. Fortunately, I was able to give it to my son, and he loved playing with it. But I found it almost cathartic in a strange sort of way: no pressure to fill seams, sand mold marks, or paint it just so. Just pure, unadulterated, living-in-the-past kind of fun.

Of course, with the price of kits being what they are now, I don't do this regularly.

What about youQuestion [?] Ever built one just for the "fun" of itQuestion [?]

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