To many kits started!

One kit jams up my whole basement, Trumpeter's Leopold

lol, what's wrong with that one?

It's just HUGE, the track base is at least 5 feet long thats all

I think many of us can relate to your problem beav. I'm a month and half behind on the Panther group build, a Panzer III patiently waiting to be finished and 3 more group builds that I commited to. I want one on the shelf now.

Aww, you guys got nothing on me:
Panther for the GB
Tiger for the GB
Firefly for the GB
DML Elefant
Tam Kubelwagen
Tam Flak 38
Has 1/72 M3
DML 1/72 Elefant
DML 1/72 JagdPanther
ESCI 1/72JagdPanther
Italeri 1/72 King Tiger
Rev PkKpfw IV

Plus some planes I've started, 2 Polar Lights Space Coupes, Heller 1/200 Golden Hind.

Some of them are just waiting for decals and dull coat, but I never seem to be able to find the time! (Too busy opening new boxes, I guess!!)

QUOTE: Originally posted by wipw Aww, you guys got nothing on me: Panther for the GB Tiger for the GB Firefly for the GB DML Elefant Tam Kubelwagen Tam Flak 38 Has 1/72 M3 DML 1/72 Elefant DML 1/72 JagdPanther ESCI 1/72JagdPanther Italeri 1/72 King Tiger Rev PkKpfw IV Plus some planes I've started, 2 Polar Lights Space Coupes, Heller 1/200 Golden Hind. Some of them are just waiting for decals and dull coat, but I never seem to be able to find the time! (Too busy opening new boxes, I guess!!)

I expect nothing less than this number of unfinished kits from
WorkInProgressWilliam

QUOTE: Originally posted by shermanfreak I expect nothing less than this number of unfinished kits from WorkInProgressWilliam

LMAO. Come on Bill, time to pull an all nighter and get something done.

im not even going to say what ive got to do

Oh yeah, I forgot about my Flack 38---whoops its so little i forgot about it!
lol
we should have a "Spring cleaning motivation build" lol just to get all of us to post some pics of models we are to lazy to finish! me, well, i got a large amount of indy tracks to attach to my T-34, which is coming along nicely. It was Olivgrun(modelmaster) then i put marine green(modelmasters) over that-not much, just to darken it up, so, now it is looking satisfactory, and I have got some indys attached(YAYAYAYAYAYA) I hate them so much-but oh well... gotta do 'em somethime eh?

Is that all..? I could fill in two pages of partly-built models...!

Bill,

I am not so busy right now. Maybe you can pass some of those unfinished kits over. LOL.

Well, for me only one kit seems to go very slowly and that's a "ship model ". He-he-he.

lol, wow! How you people do it is beyond me. I don't think I'd be able to live with myself if I had more than one unfinished model. Unfortunately, my model area is shared with others in my household, and as such, space for partly built models is limited at best.
Plus, I have to have stuff lying around. I only work on one model at a time. Ever since I started modelling, it never even occured to me to think about starting something new without finishing my current one.

I am trying to be real good this time around.
I am finishing off some pieces from my first stint at modelling:

Panzerwerfer 42 Scratchbuilt/kitbashed
Sdkfz 223 D.A.K.
Sdkfz 250/3 Greif (repairs)
Some other stuff (planes!! Sci-fi!?!) that may never get done.

Have started new

88mm Flak
Sdkfz 250/7

But.......

Waiting in the wings....erm....skirts, although I only meant to restart this hobby to finish off old stuff, are seven (not including figure sets) brand new kits, which call to me daily.....

Tamiya Sdkfz 223
Allan Sig33
Italeri Kubelwagen
Italeri Kommando Panzer
Dragon Panther
Academy Wirbelwind
Tamiya Pak 40

Please people. Give me strength.

Matt

I'm with Bill. I've got at least 17 kits start as of last count.

My wife got onto me the other day about my kit buying (this was a couple of days prior to going to Hobby Lobby for their 1/2 price sale - she spent four times as much as I did). Seems I was perusing Evilbay and she asked me "Why do you want any more kits? If you live to be ninety you'll never get all the kits you now have built" (i'll be 60 this year) or words to that effect. So when I was putting up the new kits I had bought, I decided to take an inventory with the following results:

Armor
67 unstarted kits, 11 in various stages of construction, 31 finished
Aircraft
396 unstarted kits, 17 in various stages of construction, 48 finished
Ships
22 unstarted kits, 3 in various stages of construction, 12 finished
Misc (cars, space ships, weird things - gifts I've received at Christmas and Birthdays)
14 unstarted, 2 in various stages of construction, 4 finished)

Plus I've got a bunch of 1/48 aircraft kits out in storage (got them in an estate sale) that I'm eventually going to sell on Evilbay.

Do't see what her problem is, I apparently have gone from a kit builder to a kit collector.

You win.

Matt

Damn! What'd you do, buy up a store?
If you ever (dare is say it) decide to sell any of those armour kits, post here. I'll be first in line

Mine:

Tamiya 1/35:
M60A1
M2A2
JS3 Stalin
M1025 Humvee

1/48:
Focke Wulf 190D

Academy 1/35:
M36 Jackson

Dragon 1/35:
E100 Super Heavy

Hasegawa 1/32:
P51 D Mustang

Revell Germany 1/72:
Panther Ausf D

Total Gridlock!

Wow, with this many kits people have in the "wings", that just gives me the confidence to go and buy something else to build!

YOu've all given me renewed confidence to NOT finish any of my models

I agree with Matt! Quincy wins, hands down! But I'll bet I'm pushing close to the same numbers of unstarted kits! (Don't have the "in storage" horde, though!!)

QUOTE: I don't think I'd be able to live with myself if I had more than one unfinished model. I only work on one model at a time. Ever since I started modelling, it never even occured to me to think about starting something new without finishing my current one.

Zok: There is something terribly wrong with this kind of thinking. Have you considered seeing a therapist?? That's what "Model Clinics" are for, you know!

QUOTE: WorkInProgressWilliam

Robert: LOL FUNNY! I never before realized my initials were an acronym for my life!!

I agree with Zokissima, I can't have more than 1 kit going at a time. I don't feel right leaving any partially built kits laying around. I have to complet one before I start another. Space is not a concern, I have a whole garage as my workshop, with a large bench dedicated to modeling. I just can't leave one uncompleted. I guess I am just too organized, or too anul. It is just the way I am.

I can't see more that a square foot of work table-I have an old shop table, with lots of drawers-filled with plumbing and electrical stuff*not mine of course* and the top is piled high-like half a foot in some places with sprues and instructions, and shelving units around me, are covered in more not mine junk, and models, stashed whereever. There is ample foor-but I live in an old house and walls leak around here*water comes in, so it is built like everything is on flood stilts.
lol
I don't know how anything gets done!

Actually the majority of the kits I have are older kits - about 10 years ago I flew down to see my youngest son who was attending college down at Independence Ks. While waiting on him to come and pick me up I noticed a display case in the airport lobby that had about 80 1/72 models in it. I was looking at them and mentioned that I built that scale aircraft and the airport manager mentioned that the lady who had given the models to the airport had recently lost her husband (the modeler) and she had a bunch of kits she wanted to get out of her garage.
He gave me her number and the upshot was I bought 600 kits for 500 dollars and hauled them home. ended up and kept about 300 of them, sold a bunch to friends and have a bunch of 1/4" Aurora kits in storage. Some times you just luck out (I was really suprised that wife let me buy them).

I guess I am lucky. I have the Sherman Calliope and a Tamiya Panther A on my work bench.
mark956

I got:
hasegawa
1/32 p-51
Trumpeter
1/32 f-105g wild weasel (what a dog!)
Dragon
1/35 King Tiger Porsche Turret
Academy
1/35 Pzkpwn 4 H (not started but itching to)
And a whole bunch of Dragon infantry kits that have been opened and mismatched!
What a mess! Nothing like wipw's mess, but it's sizeable.

QUOTE: Nothing like wipw's mess, but it's sizeable.

Hey, I resemble that!!

Actually, mine aren't all over the work bench. I've got most of them cubbyholed. I just pull out the parts I'm working on at any given time.