Always thinking 2 or 3 builds ahead ?

I have 4 armor builds going, plus a car and a ship. I just want to get something done, my poor shelf is begging me to keep it company. If I wasn't so picky anymore about certain accuracy issues, I'd be flooded in finished kits. To me they look much better built then lying dormant in a box.

Well, it is good to keep the fire burning by keep on stocking and chopping firewood.

I have an on-going Shermie Build, repainting my King Tiger, An M1A1 waiting in the wings plus a Concorde that needs some corrections.

I have 2 on the go for the Sherman Group Build.
But I set aside 2 other builds (including of course, another Sherman) for the time being.

Well I have just got back into modeling after 30 years
II am doing the Sherman build [first time filling seams, and going with weathering etc.] but I am already thinking ahead.

I want to do a M5 and an M5 recon, [and maybe a M5 prototype that had the quad 50s]

I want to do a M3 Stuart, M5 Stuart, Sherman, I have a Priest coming, and just got a M8,

I plan on doing a M3 Stuart with interior/exterior better tracks etc.

I also will be doing a bridge diorama with hunter/killer team under the bridge ready to kill a tank or half track...

etc

I've got at least 8 going on right now:

BARV
L6/40 Semovente
Famo
1/16 Tiger I
SU85
1/72 BergPanther
Sdkfz223
Faun

ive got

Panther A early (Dragon)
Jagdpanther late (Tamiya) needs tracks and painting
Sherman Firefly (Dragon) needs tracks
Stug III g (Tamiya) needs painting
Sd.Kfz 251/1(Tamiya) needs painting
Sd.Kfz 251/21(Tamiya) needs painting and some of the resin bits done
Sturmtiger (Tamiya) needs painting
Ostwind (a mix of kits) needs painting

there the ones i can see

I'm doing good right now , only have 2 kits with glue on them. One is an auto build I am trying to get done by this weekend. It's just not wanting to cooperate though and I have done some minor assembly on a Marder III. Of coarse with Hobby Lobby having another sale, there is no telling what I am going to wind up with if I manage to make it down there!

Lets see...
M4A3 (105) Sherman
M3 Stuart
M3A2 Halftrack (back dating)
Panther
M41 Walker Bulldog (finishing base)
CMP FGT/25 pdr

Hawker Typhoon
P-40
Charles W. Morgan
(These last three are waiting for upgrade parts/scratchbuilding work)

There's more too.

hi, well the 2 dio's of the 88's were build at the same time together with one of a lee-grant also dessert with monty on-top and 5figs (had to paint about 14fig in total, still in progress) , also working on a semovente, jaghtpanther, a m3a3 , a bulldogg , and a stug , you see gonna be buisy for a while

right now, am building:

revell unimog (weathering and decals)
academy m113a1 acav ( weathering and decals)
academy m60 with dozer (decals)
two F-15 strike eagle (decals)
two P47 razorback and eileen
F-14 tomcat
zero fighter plane

when am currently building a model, maybe an armor or aircraft... i visit hobby stores from time to time to buy what i need like extra paint or a new brush or thinner. that's where i get tempted to buy a new model. i really love armor but the problem is i don't have enough shelf space. but don't worry guys..i'm still in the darkside.

Always a fair number being built and always tons of ideas in my head...!

let's see...
panther G: futured, awaiting decals (tonight) and weathering
sherman firefly: got more after market bits than i've ever used before, but haven't even started yet
p-40 pearl harbour (wingy thingy): needs camo, and canopy masking etc
spitfire mk.I battle of britain: awaiting top side camo...

that's way more than i can handle!!

Panther G
Mobelwagon
Famo
Jagdpanther
Dragon wagon
105 Sherman
Stug III
Marder III
2 styer trucks
.......yep that's about it I think....
All in various stages of consturction and painting...

Peace

let's see:
1/35 Tamiya Panther G nearing completion,
1/32 Hasegawa Me163 well along, but mostly shelved during the Panther group build.
1/35 Tamiya Pzkpfw IV-D well bbegun, but put aside for Panther group build.
1/35 Tamiya T35/85 barely started
(i needed something to glue while home for Christmas)
1/24 Tamiya CLK-GTR barely started and back in box
1/24 NASCAR awaiting paint & decals (since about 1996, i think !!)

so i guess i am always a few builds 'behind' !

ed.

You are definately not alone.
This is what's on my bench at the moment:

1. Tamiya 1/35 Panther G Early
2. Dragon's 1/35 Platformwagen Type SSY
3. Revell's 1/72 Panther A
4. Academy's 1/35 M36 Jackson
5. Soon to be AVF Club's 1/35 German Pak 43/41 (for the new group build)

All: Good thing we are all not assembly line workers huh ...... we would be bored the first hour! Great replies! , makes me feel better about my addiction ( ummmm hobby ) BTW just started ordering detail parts for my jagdtiger , gonna try that aber knock your head against the weall PE! This is a fun hobby , you always have some subject that you can do and if there is no parts for it , just make them yourself ( did any of you see Petbats interior of that panther he is doing , just incredible! And he scratchbuilds to boot !....Well maybe one day for me , I don't have that skill yet !)....................laterz , Shawn

This ought to make you all feel a bit better.

My ratio of unfinished to finished projects is around 6:1!
Please don't make me list them....
I am hoping to get back near even money by the end of the year!

Wish me luck........

I´ve currently got a Tiger E/H1 and 2 in the wings waiting to be built. I'm planning my ears off with the Tiger 1, because I got a stack of PE I intend using as much as possible of.. I plan to do this one perfectly.. I'm just wondering whether or not to take another step and get the fruilmodel tracks.. decisions, decisions. It would make assembling the thing easier, because I'de just loop 'em round. The kit ones are link and length jobbies, y'see..

And you wonder how I sleep at night..

The 1st project
im doin (almost finish except Panzer III Ausf J) ;

- SU 85 (Tamiya)
- Panzer III Ausf J (Tamiya)
- Stug IV (Tamiya)
- German motorcycle R / 75 side car (Tamiya)
- DML figure tank rider (soviet army)

2nd Project still in progress;

- M4A3 105mm howitzer (Tamiya)
- Somua (Heller)
- T-34 / 76 1942 prod. (Tamiya)
- Panther II (Dragon)

later im goin to add some T-34 / 76 1943 from my stash...

Right now I have
an m3a2 halftrack
figure sets (quite a few)
M3 stuart
weathering a few models
...

here's my WIP list:

- 1/35 dragon BRDM partially painted & built
- 1/35 tamiya walker bulldog (detail & figure need paint)
- 1/72 hasegawa churchill (needs details painted & added)
- 1/72 hasegawa stuart ( same as above, plus trax)
- 1/72 revell marder 1a3 (about 2/3rds assembly complete)
- 1/72 pst kv-t tow tractor (needs details added)

all of these r temporarily on hold while i work on 2 group build projects:

dio base 4 my ersatz m10 (panther group build)

m4 conversion to m32 recovery vehicle (sherman group build)

i also have a honda civic, a couple of subway cars w/ scratchbuilt interiors, & 3 or 4 structures ( 4 my n scale model railroad) in various stages of completion.

i know that's a lot of stuff, but a lot of it is really just about done, i just enjoy
adding details 2 kits...

believe it or not, i actually do finish building things once in awhile...
LOL !

frosty

hello frostygirl!

QUOTE: Originally posted by Garry_Gnu hello frostygirl!

hello back atcha !
so what aren't u working on ?
LOL !

hahaha, a lot! finished my m41 though

am finishing my unimog and m113a1 acav right now.

Seeing that this is becoming the model version of Al Anon: Here is my incomplete list: M109 Paladin , has needed weathering for around a year now ! M110 Spg , my first attmpt at airbrush camo ( very nasty I must say and the colors are not even close to correct) time to strip and redo it ! SdKfz 251/1 finally got my feild app striping down so I repainted it too , needs weathering! Tuach Panzer 3 ,Needs details and weathering ( and dio base ) Panther ausf D everytime I look at it I want to fix something else ( looking at all of the awesome builds on this site makes me want to do that !) Karl gerat Mortar, needs weathering and some details. And now I am ordering for yet another kit , and will probably join in the gun build too ![:0] Becoming like my Father here , a freind of mine once came over to our home and looked in the garage at all my dads dismantled vehicles, machinery, boat motors etc ( my dad thought he could fix anything himself , yet could never seem to pull it off !) anyways my friend saw that and said , WOW!...... your dad is really into taking s@#$ apart and not putting it back together isn't he ?

Builds in progress? OH Yeah! The M4 composite hull for the Sherman build, Patton's Patton, just for fun.. 1/6 scale Stuart detailing (interior etc).. M108 SPH .. M3 half track... M1IP Abrams, 1/23 Sopwith Camel (Ruston's 1000th plane color scheme). Dozens of unmade kits, tanks, artillery, aircraft, sci-fi... Pounding out a full scale harness of plate armor just for S's & G's.

It's tough sometimes to keep a single build going. Maybe it's because of being interested in so many things at once, or lack of 'stick-to-it-ness'.... Who cares. Lots to do all the time!

Ron

right now, I have to do the figs for my bren carrier and it will be done.
have to finish the tracks for my 72 revell m1a1
got my m10 on the desk right now.
and I have a half finished destroyer sitting in the closet.

6 more unbuilt in the closet plus several sets of guys and accessories, round out my collection.

I have about 8 builds on the table going:

Three 1/72 scale PST captured KV's in German Markings
Two 1/72 scale Revell/Germany Cromwells-one British, one Israeli
One 1/72 scale Revell/Germany Merkava III
Two 1/72 scale Su 7 Fitters.

After that, I'm probably going to take a break from Armor and Aircraft and get my shipyards started on about for ships that have been calling my name.

Wow! Glad I'm not the only one. lol

I've got:

1/35:
Tamiya Panther A for the build
DML Firefly Vc for the build
Tamiya Tiger I Mid for the build that ended two or three months ago. I finally got the MK tracks in. The PE was driving me nuts, so I put it aside for a while.
DML Elefant put aside for all the group builds
Tamiya old motorized King Tiger - who knows if this will ever be finished. Been a "test bed" for techniques lately, but I do have a Royal PE set for it!
Tamiya Marder IIIM. All I've done is glue the basic hull together just because I wanted to see what a state of the art Tamiya build was like! lol
DML E-100. Hull is glued up. Put aside until I get some of these other things done.

1/72:
DML Elefant. Waiting for the decals.
DML JagdPanther. Just getting started on this one.
Revell Pz IV. Waiting for time and the courage to re-make the shurtzen with Parts PE.
ESCI Jadgpanzer IV. Waiting decals. (I hated this kit!)
Hasegawa Stewart. Ready to put the 3rd camo color on it. Going to use the Silly Putty method.
Italeri King Tiger. Waiting for a load of Dunkelgelb in the airbrush for the 3rd level of camo.
Tamiya P-51D. This is finished, but I've got to get "smart" enough to know how to do a natural metal finish and not have it look like crap!

Other scales:
Several 1/48 aircraft that I've done such major work as spraying the interior silver and gone no further. (Hey, it's a wingy thingy. Who cares if they sit for 5 or 10 years!! lol)
Heller 1/200 Golden Hind. I'm at the point of stepping the masts and starting the rigging. This thing took close to a year and a half just to paint the features on the hull! What fun. I put it aside because I got interested in armor! (Good choice!!)

I'm sure there are more that I can't recall at the moment. But I'm not sitting at home looking at my kits!

I think the reason I do this to myself is that I get all hyped up about a kit and what it will look like when I finish it. Then I get in and start it and get frustrated that it isn't going together just the way I'd like, so "put it away" until my frustration level goes down and I learn enough to get it the way I'd like it. So far, I'm still trying to get to the "learned enough" level!!

Have fun, fellow modelers!