Do you ever work on 2 (or more) kits at a time?

So good to hear I'm not the only one that does that!

Yes, all the time. I too favor the longer drying time and having more than 1 kit going allows for adjustment in time and fatigue level. Example; after working all day and a long commute I am not usually up to masking a canopy or bubble but I might be up to assebling a few photo etched pieces or applying a basecoat.

Downside is I've misplaced or lost parts if I let too much time go by or have too many kits going

Yes.

For me it all depends on the complexity or goal of a model. If I know it will take weeks/months, etc. I will work on it in stages while completing other kits too.

However it is a simple out of the box build, I will often work on one at a time. I can work on one sub-assembly while another is drying. 

Life is not a race.... nobody gets out alive anyway. Seriously, I do this for my escape. If I ball multiple things up simultaneously it is no longer relaxing... thats just me.

Ben

I always have more then one build going at a time, 2 ships and an AFV at this moment.  Can't be wasting time for paint or glue to cure to do the next step.  It also is good to have a fall back when one kit starts to get frustrating. 

Marcus

Tanker - Builder

OhHo!

 I usually have three or more going ! Please don't ask why.

 

Why?

Er No!

OhHo!

 I usually have three or more going ! Please don't ask why.

As a rule...I do not work on more than one kit at a time.  It is too distracting for me and if i have to wait for something to dry, I can always find something else to do.  I usually deep clean the AB when i get to that point or do some research on a future project Etc. 

I work on more than one build at a time, but it does tend to lead to abandoned or stalled builds, and so, my Shelf of Doom has at least a dozen builds on it, some going back ten years or more.

I just counted 7 on my bench,  2 of those are just about finished except for a antenna and a pitot tube

John

I tried working on multiple kits at the same time. I felt that I wasn't accomplishing anything. Nothing was getting finished. I only work on one kit at a time now.

68GT

It's not uncomen for me to have 3-4 builds going at one time.  What helps me keep track of things is to check off on the instructions what has been done.  The other is that I keep parts and assemblies in a box top or bottom untill they are ready to be glued, painted or workind in some way and then they go back in the box.  Once ready for attaching to the main model body they come out of the box for the last time.

 

I actually have one I started in 1994 not finished yet.

It's not uncomen for me to have 3-4 builds going at one time.  What helps me keep track of things is to check off on the instructions what has been done.  The other is that I keep parts and assemblies in a box top or bottom untill they are ready to be glued, painted or workind in some way and then they go back in the box.  Once ready for attaching to the main model body they come out of the box for the last time.

Ummm maybe.......

I seem to do this frequently. I currently have 3 1/48 (A)C-47 kits on my bench. An original Monogram Skytrain, a Trumpeter Skytrain, and a Monogram AC-47. These kits are huge and have taken every available square inch of my work space, but I didn't see much interest in coming back to one of these a few years down the line. I do have a fourth, a 50+ year old Monogram Puff the Magic Dragon, in a box scale (1/96?), but I just did not have space for it while building its bigger cousins. I am leaning toward building that smaller kit once I complete these three big ones.

I have been known to build many of the same airframe from time to time. The most I ever did was 5 P-40s.

I have 100+ kits started in various stages from barely touched to almost finished. I have Modelers Attention Deficit Disorder!

Never.

I almost always have multiple  kits on the go but lately it is ridiculous. (Five at a time) it is a combination of some of the reasons cited here. Drying time for paint and glue and other finishes, hitting a step I don’t want to do so starting another kit. What Else? I think just dying to start a certain kit. Sometimes whine I’m working on something I will buy a kit Ive always wanted so it gets started right away. Anyway , for now that means 5. But, about three of them will be finished within a week or two.

Have always concentrated on one, leaving the build for drying times has led to distractions ie cutting hedges, lawns, weeding and painting the house. So I recently started on two. Now I have two on the bench but it hasn't stop the hedge and lawn along with the weeds from growing. 

At the moment, there are 11 kit's sitting on my workbench .......

8 of them are 1/87 scale train stuff, so their really small.....

I have over 100 models started out of a stash of about 500. I’ll start what ever catches my interest and work until it’s done or more likely hit a step I don’t feel up to doing and switch to something new or different. Out of those 100 or so probably about 25 stand a real chance of getting completed and probably about 10 are active and will be completed soon. This way I always have something to work on and I can pick and choose what feel like doing from day to day. At my age I feel why not indulge my whims.

It's probably an organizational thing, but I find it a distraction moving projects in and out of the sweet spot. Different stages of a build require different tools, and forget about having parts from two kits in the same work area. It clutters things up for me and increases the risk for losing parts, and/or, cause breakage. It's a mind thing for me. Maybe the answer is that I build a removeable platform that I can swap out! Simply lift one build out with all its parts, and replace with the other. Hmm.

The one time I tried two at a time the second kit was eventually set aside and has sat that way ever since. Limited time plays into it too, but--like others have said, there are down-times where something else could fill the gap. Or in some cases, a person can use a distraction from a build that is dragging on, been there. 

I have not given up on the idea but thus far, struggling with it.

I use Testors enamel as my main paint.  It has a considerable drying time, so when I get to the painting phase on a project, I start another one.  Thus I almost always have two kits in progress.

Personally, I sometimes wish I could bring the number down to only 2.