I was listening to the Mike Belcher interview on Hawkeye's Plastic Scale Modeling Hour, and Mike was talking about how he enjoyed the design phase of building, but often lost interest after the primer went on. It made me think about how I'm the opposite. I slog through the assembly, putty, cleaning up the seams and my interest actually picks up when the primer goes on. I despise fitting, puttying, fixing the seams and kit defects. My favorite part is the finishing. I love airbrushing paint schemes, decaling and weathering.
I thought wouldn't it be neat for a club to collaborate on a kit and build it assembly line style. Each guy would only work on the parts he was best at and enjoyed the most. You'd have a guy that did all the scratch building, another would rescribe, another guy would do the cockpit details, another would fit all the pieces together, another would paint the camo, another would decal and finally you get the weathering guy in to finish it up. Perhaps a big kit like a Visible B-17 would be perfect for this. Of course, you'd have to donate the kit to a museum or VFW or something when it was done.
So what are your least and most favorite parts in the process?