What Haven't You Finished?

I'm an "old school" modeler and only have one model on the work bench "in work" at a time. When it's done, I'll start a new one.

Trust me...you're definitely not alone! I know several modelers who have 10, 15, or 20 kits all started, but unfinished.

I am so guilty of this.  I have currently the following "in progress" kits:

1/35 Dragon Wagon - paint, weather and final assembly, I don't know why I stopped on this one.  Need to get it done soon.

1/35 Panzer III (I think?) - it was going to go on the dragon wagon, just need to finish painting and weather it.  First (and maybe only) German tank I'll make. 

1/35 M2 Bradley - lost a set of road wheels moving from Oki, it's been sitting ever since.

1/35 5-ton Guntruck - first real scratchbuild attempt, need to finish painting and assembly of the fighting compartment on the bed.  Just kinda lost interest for a while.

1/48 AV-22 - my "Spectre Osprey" - this one I have to scratch the big guns I want it to carry, got distracted by the next project, but this is the one I'll do next when I get home.

1/48 - Tiltrotor escort - major kitbash of a 1/48 Mohawk and a 1/72 Opsrey.  I'd say it's about 60% done.  Major assemblies (fuselage, wings and engines, landing gear) are done.  Par429 sent me some Hellfires to hang on it, and I need to add a cannon as well, but it will be the first I do when I get the chance.

I have a Cutaway Millenium falcon kit that I built about 10 years ago and I never painted it!!!!

I think I will practice airbrushing and weathering techniques on it before I receive my Academy 1/32 F/A-18C Hornet. I think it's agreat model to practice all this.

I've forgot that kit, thanks for recalling me this.

I have got 4 kits which I started but then put away.  I don't exactly know why that is.But I think because I started them during transition periods, for instance changing from brush painting to airbrush painting.

The build quality of these kits is way below my current standard so I don't know if I will ever finish them.

Techmod T-50. I was building this for an online group build. I brought it in to my local club for show and tell when it was about 75% complete. I replaced the fenders and many parts with PE. An older modeler who had just returned to the hobby saw the unpainted kit and went to pick it up. He grabbed it rather roughly. The fenders broke off, the kit started to fall from his hands. He did one of those instinctive catches with his hands and totally wrecked it before it smashed to the floor. Didn't have the heart to try to rebuild it.

Zvezda T-60. Terrible kit, too many parts incompletely molded, along with the tracks. Good thing was that this kit was an early one that came from Soviet Russia. Inside the hull (was supported with a piece of styrofoam) was an actual Soviet Guards badge made of metal and colored enamel. Nice Cold War souvenir.

Rob Gronovius wrote:

Techmod T-50. I was building this for an online group build. I brought it in to my local club for show and tell when it was about 75% complete. I replaced the fenders and many parts with PE. An older modeler who had just returned to the hobby saw the unpainted kit and went to pick it up. He grabbed it rather roughly. The fenders broke off, the kit started to fall from his hands. He did one of those instinctive catches with his hands and totally wrecked it before it smashed to the floor. Didn't have the heart to try to rebuild it. Zvezda T-60. Terrible kit, too many parts incompletely molded, along with the tracks. Good thing was that this kit was an early one that came from Soviet Russia. Inside the hull (was supported with a piece of styrofoam) was an actual Soviet Guards badge made of metal and colored enamel. Nice Cold War souvenir.

i always have 2,3 even 4 going at at time always the same type of model

right now i got an M60 blazer and a pzkw iv f1/f2 going

i build the wheels for one and while they dry the wheels for the other the turret for 1 then the other etc......

cars the eng for each and so forth

it makes the time watching the paint dry (or the glue )much more productive

Mmmm...  Quite a few things, as usual:

Azur's 1/72 Dewoitine D.371 (awaiting decals)

Azur's Breguet 27 (assembly)

1/72 diorama involving kids, stones and a Merkava...

1/72 patterns of a Char B1bis, of a Renault AMR 33 and of a M149A2C

1/76 patterns of a Panhard 165/175 TOE and of a Lorraine 37L

And waiting to jump on the table are, chiefly, a Dewoitine 510 (1/72 Heller) and a Blohm und Voss BV-141B (1/48 Historic)...