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Do you revisit your old models?

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  • Member since
    July 2008
  • From: Vancouver, the "wet coast"
Do you revisit your old models?
Posted by castelnuovo on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:37 AM

Do you revisit your old models and re-do them using techicks you learned later?

Here is my Panzer II.

Before:

And after.

The markings are not historicly accurate as I painted the originals over and did't have appropriate decals.

The tracks are the worst part, no matter what I did they still look plastickyWhistling

 

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 6:41 AM

Yes, I often do. Having spent a quarter century in the military, I moved every 3-4 years and built kits normally went into a box and got banged around, missing parts, getting broken,etc.

Every so often, I'll crack open one of the boxes to grab something to use for another project. Almost invertably, I end up grabbing an old, beat up kit and after fishing some of the bits & pieces out of the box, I'll rebuild it, repaint it and redisplay it.

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 7:19 AM

No,not the same model,but I will try again with a duplicate kit to do a better job the next time around.

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Posted by Reserve on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:29 AM

Like Tojo, I try not to do this. In the past I have and usually end up making a tremendous mess out of things. Thus, I keep them hidden in dark corners where no one will see them and will pull one out occasionally for a yardstick to measure my progress with. Still can't get over what I did to that Tiger II...

 

Mark

  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: Illinois: Hive of Scum and Villany
Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:55 AM

My old/ out of date models are re-used for parts; usually for Sc-Fi projects.

For example: My old Aurora Panther and Tiger tank kits donated their engine decks for a project.

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    April 2006
  • From: Denver, Colorado
Posted by waynec on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:50 AM
i don't. it's hard enough calling one finished the first time though i can see fixing up an old one as a wreck in a dio with a newer kit. i am also, somewhat unsuccessfully, staying away from older ship kits with all their molding issues. i say this though i am working on the hobbyboss POLA and working on the alanger POTEMKIN.

Никто не Забыт    (No one is Forgotten)
Ничто не Забыто  (Nothing is Forgotten)

 

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA
Posted by tigerman on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:00 PM

I recently took a Dragon JS-II and added some washes to it. Debating whether or not to put some pigs on it as well.

Normally, I would say no, but then I don't have many old kits left.

   http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y269/wing_nut_5o/PANZERJAGERGB.jpg

 Eric 

  • Member since
    June 2005
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by minimortar on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 12:03 PM

I revisit from time-to-time as well but never do I re-do a model. I just learn from the past mistakes.

Thanks,
Kevin Keefe

Mortars in Miniature
A Scale Model (Plus!) Collection of the Infantryman's Artillery

  • Member since
    September 2006
  • From: Dripping Springs, TX, USA
Posted by RBaer on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 1:07 PM

I frequently re-visit old models, often doing a complete strip and re-finish.  I'll also d/a  them just for parts, depends on the quality of the original build, and if I need the parts bad enough for another project. An example:

The Cromwell in the background in this pic is a good example. I picked up some Friuls, and am slowly cleaning up the original build. It'll get a strip and re-paint, and then proper stowage and markings, neither of which I did several years ago when I first built it. Ther are several models in my model room right now, awaiting the same process.

Apprentice rivet counter.

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    July 2004
  • From: Texas
Posted by wbill76 on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:06 PM

I will occasionally use old models as "test bed' subjects to test out something before committing on the current project but that's about the extent of it. Older models also become parts donors  as well if required. Wink

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    July 2006
  • From: New Jersey
Posted by redleg12 on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 8:25 PM

The older model all have a donor card!! But I usually keep the as a learning experience

Rounds Complete!!

"The Moral High Ground....A Great Place to Emplace Artillery."

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    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 9:26 PM

I do every now and then. Usually with some sort of AM major component on the few recent examples. But seeing how large my stash is these days, I dont modify older kits as frequently as I used to do.

 

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  • Member since
    July 2006
  • From: Philippines
Posted by constructor on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:43 PM

I do look at them quite often because I have to dust them off. Sometimes, I repair some broken parts or if it grabs me, I do them all over again. 

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    October 2005
  • From: New Port Richey
Do you revisit your old models?
Posted by deattilio on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 11:04 PM

I give most of my finished models away so I have few completed at hand to revisit.  Additionally, at the near glacial speed at which I am hacking through the stash I needn’t slow that progress by tinkering with those kits that have escaped the hobby desk as “complete.”

 

WIP:
Trying to get my hobby stuff sorted - just moved and still unpacking.

 

"Gator, Green Catskill....Charlie On Time"
 

 

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