Right Frame of mind

zipmeister

Member since
May 2006
From: Tampa, Fl

Right Frame of mind

Posted by zipmeister on Monday, September 18, 2006 10:25 AM

Hi guys,

I often hear the phrase "It's not a hard kit but you gotta be in the right frame of mind when you work on it"
I have a model like that. I'm OK once I get started on it, but it's just hard to get going in it. Mine is the B-25 my pop and I started about two years ago. It's the plane he flew in WWII in New Guinea. I have a feeling if it was just another B-25 I would have finished it a long time ago. We got started on it then he got sick (cancer) and passed away before we finished it. I've been on a mission to find his nose art for years. Well thanks to a few fine friends on the forums I now have his nose art. I entered the build in a couple of GBs. I took out the kit was looking it over and I found all the clear parts masterfully masked by my pop with masking tape. Only thing is the tape was on there so long it was rock hard. Then I thought this is the last bit of modeling my pop ever did. I didn't want to loose that, so I went online to Revell and ordered all the clear parts. Now I have everything I need but it's really hard to get back on the model. I want so bad to finish it as kinda a tribute and to get some of my GBs done. I decided before I start any new builds or enter any more GB's I will finish what I have now. I'm down to three builds to finish. After that I will do my other builds one at a time. I feel alittle pressure from the GBs for some reason.I don't know why, if I can't build a model in a year I should pack it up. I will finish every one and I wont back out of any because I'm not built like that. Finish what you start, thats what pop always said, and thats how I taught my boys.
I was just wondering if anyone else has a right frame of mind build that they are having a time with.

Thanks for letting me think out load for a while'

Zip

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Dubau

Member since
March 2006
From: Boyertown, PA, USA

Posted by Dubau on Monday, September 18, 2006 11:09 AM

Zip I think I know what you mean. When I deside to build a model I have to look everything up on the net about that kit. What color was it, Should I add wires, should I should I and so on. I get all caught up in it that I want to make it look like the REAL thing it takes me forever to start it.

And as for the B-25, I think it's GREAT that you are going to finish it for your Pop. My My 2 cents [2c] here, I would make a stand and have a plaque saying something about your Pop and the B-25

Post some pics if you can

Have a GREAT day

Bud

" You've experienced a set back, and without set backs and learning how to fix them you'll never make the leap from kit builder to modeler "

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Thehannaman2

Member since
August 2004
From: Buffalo NY

Posted by Thehannaman2 on Monday, September 18, 2006 12:28 PM

I here you completely. I have a Hase 1/48 Dauntless that I'm doing as an A-24 with the Verlinden set that has the open engine, guns and the interior upgrades and the incredibly fiddly Eduard divebrake set. Now, I have nowhere near teh emotional connection that you have to your B-25, but the monetary investment ( I currently have over $80 into this pig) has me thinking (and working) really slowly and purposefully. It sits unhandled for months at a time because I seriously am intimidated by my own ambition and am afraid of screwing it up. I've finished five kits while working around this thing on my bench. Man, just thinking about it give me the shakes.

Justen

"The distance between genius and insanity is measured only by success."

Member IPMS Niagara Frontier. "The BuffCon Boys."

IPMSUSA Member 45680

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Hippy-Ed

Member since
December 2004
From: Stockton,Ca

Posted by Hippy-Ed on Monday, September 18, 2006 6:59 PM

Hey Zip,
I can relate to this. My girlfriend Donna had tried to build a 1960 Corvette about 3 yrs ago & never finished it because of her eyesight. I have it sitting on the shelf it it's box just as it was left. I've contemplated this same question since it was her attempt at sharing the hobby with me. I also have Darrel Waltrip's #17 Western Auto/AC Delco Chevy on the shelf which I pulled out of storage & asked her about it 4 months ago. Not to mention the Heller 1/200 Spanish Galleon she had ordeed.

I'll have no probs with building the race car or the Galleon but, when I look at the 60 Vette, I feel a stir in the bottom of my belly.

As you know, I have the 1/48 RA-5C in the stash and want to build it up as my uncle's Vigilante which he was killed in. (BuNo:149312 AC 901) Being an early Vigi I am planning to order the early intakes from Cutting Edge for it and I have plans of doing up something similar to what Bud suggested for your Father's B-25. Let me ask you, What would he say to do with it?

Finish what ya started Big Smile [:D]

If you lose your sense of humor, you've lost everything

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DURR

Member since
July 2013

Posted by DURR on Friday, September 22, 2006 7:23 AM

zip

this may sound crazy but box it up and put it away

buy another b25 and start fresh

that way you will have the best of both worlds

( a model you can just go ahead and build, and hold on to your fathers last memory)

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eizzle

Member since
August 2005
From: Greencastle, IN

Posted by eizzle on Saturday, September 30, 2006 7:24 PM

Well, an idea struck me while I was reading your post. I think what would be neat, is to take the unfinished model, make a base for it, and put the main part on it, then kinda scatter the other parts around the base of the model. Maybe put a couple people in it to look like they are working on it. Then get yourself a new kit, and make his plane out of that one and pose it next to the one the two of you were working on. Just a thought. You could have your cake and eat it to... sort of, well Nevermind Big Smile [:D]

Colin

Homer Simpson for president!!!

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ZzZGuy

Member since
September 2006
From: Newfoundland, Canada

Posted by ZzZGuy on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 11:22 PM

I have abandoned several models that i lost intrest in. It's simply not fun to build a model you don't care about.

If you are excited at the idea of the finished product and love the subject you'll go through a lot to see it done and love every minute.

Mongol General: Conan, What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven befor you, and hear the lamentations of the woman!

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ZzZGuy

Member since
September 2006
From: Newfoundland, Canada

Posted by ZzZGuy on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 11:25 PM

eizzle wrote:
Well, an idea struck me while I was reading your post. I think what would be neat, is to take the unfinished model, make a base for it, and put the main part on it, then kinda scatter the other parts around the base of the model. Maybe put a couple people in it to look like they are working on it. Then get yourself a new kit, and make his plane out of that one and pose it next to the one the two of you were working on. Just a thought. You could have your cake and eat it to... sort of, well Nevermind

That has also given me a idea. If someone like say... me, saves all the models they abandon along with the parts in a box, several years down the road you take everything out and make a temporary dio of a model kit grave yard...

Mongol General: Conan, What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven befor you, and hear the lamentations of the woman!

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