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

Weirdo?!  Nope....I usually have 2 or 3 going at one time.  When I lived up north, and had one quarter of a finished basement dedicated to my hobby..with a HUGE working table in the center...I had multiple builds going.  I think the most at one time was 5!  

I have three going right now!

I usually have two more going at once.  They are sort of getting in the way.  The ceiling is almost full as well.  Time for a bigger house.

marks93cobra

Sometimes I get to a point where I can only make a little bit of progress and then I have to wait for glue to dry or paint to dry and if I had a second kit going, I could just pull it out and work on it.... is this a common thing? or am I just the wierdo 

Thanks,

Mark 

Shoot, I used to have four or five going at a time, then found that I was hardly ever finishing any of them because my job and life was taking more of my time than I expected. So, I'm attempting to limit myself to one at a time now. So far, that is making my modeling time, and my attitude towards it, a LOT more enjoyable. Right now, I'm working on Tamiya's 1/32nd scale A6M5c Zeke only, and I'm more relaxed while buiding it, instead of trying to think ahead to all the other kits I have going on, and when I can get to one of them next.

Hope that your modeling life turns out well!!

Gary Mason

For various reasons, I'll have more than one build going on at a time. 

I do. When I get to the point were Im waiting for paint to dry, I’ll generally crack open another kit. 

I always have 2 or 3 going at the same time. If there's no "Honeydo List" up and running, I may have 1 or 2 more going too.

Jim  

I always have more than 1 project on the go. Some times I will shelve a project then bring it out again months or years later to finish. I struggle to just sit and focus on a single thing, If I'm in the mood to build something it's no fun having to sit and apply weathering powders to something instead.

Plus you need a back up when you screw up your current project and have to chuck it in the parts bin.

not successfully.

When there are multiple starts on my bench, some will inevitably slip to the back burner, to be finished later or forgotten.

I’m probably unlike most in I never work on 2 kits at a time. I don’t get much time as it is to work on 1 let alone 2. I prefer to focus on 1 project and never allow myself to start another until the other is complete.

Hello!

First - yes, that topic has been discussed a lot here. To search the forums effectively, it's best to use google and just type "cs.finescale" and then the search term, like "two kits at time". This search term gives very nice results: "cs.finescale two kits at time".

As for me - I do it all the time, and I know I'm not alone. And I do it for just the reasons you wrote - let something dry on one model and do something on the other in that time, do not let the "building spirit" waste!

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

Frankly, I can't imagine doing it any other way, although some do.

I am a strong advocate of LONNGGGG drytimes for paints, like a week. I can't sit still that long, so I like to have a couple of other kits around to work on.

Lately I've been disciplining myself to keep it down to two.