How do you feel when you finished a model?

Hey Hayes,
I hope you get your money and you can dig deep to make more models. I know what its like to do something out of prue passion. Get back to the bench for you and that passion that you have.

Dales Model Art
http://community.webshots.com/user/dales_model_art

Surprised,,,, I have incompleatitous.... Darn Photo etch.... Details details details....I need to do a few "BoxStock" projects to get back on track..
Butch

I usually feel quite a bit of accomplishment when I finish one. Partly that is because I have a nasty habit of chucking a model if I make a mistake. So recently I have been trying real hard not to be quite such a perfectionist and carry through and finish whatever I am working on. "The next one will be better" is what I try to convince myself.

Sadness, relief, joy, pity, horny,.................? Or is it the other way around?

Anyway, I always feel relieved at finishing one so I can play with it before the cat or kids get to it. Then I get to build another one, or two, or ten at the same time.

Even the ones I hate turnout to give me satisfaction. I work in a basement with a huge, bare, concrete wall that really helps to "recycle" parts from a model which paint job didn't work out as expected.

I may ban Fed Ex, that is bull about blacklisting models. They took it, they broke it, they pay for it!

Hey guys who are needing to build box stock to get out of a rut, I've started building models with the kids, you know, slapping them together and getting glue on my fingers and paint all over me. The model looks like it went through a nuclear holocaust, but boy did we have fun. Try it once in a while, it is great thearapy.

Scott

I feel an awesome sense of pride and accomplishment.

And since I want my scratchbuilt ships to be one-of-a-kind, I destroy my hull molds and patterns (keeping all the research materials though).

Bruce

Well like Shermanfreak I have to look at knowing that it is a job well done.I am allways amaized on how it looks when finished.I can't believe I did it,with trying to make it perfect know that it is not.That is untill it is completely finished.I could look at it for hours and say with a smile on my face,"Boy did i do that,I'm good;very good.Digger

Depends upon the kit, sometimes relief, but mostly satisfaction tinged with some self criticism.

I personally feel a sense of AWE looking at the model once completed - all the feelings of frustration over many hours of researching, building, painting, scratch-building, painting, re-painting, painting some more, applying those f***en decals when they split, touch-up painting, building a display based, did I already mention painting . . . . (guess which part I dont like, cos to me image is everything! - u stuff up the paint job, u stuff up the model!)

besides my little jokes, this awe or high-feelin I get is wat I live for in this hobby - no wonder I'm addictted!

It's been so long since I finished one, I can't remember any feeling.

like so many others i have mixed feelings. i feel proud of the accomplishment but humbled because of the experience. the amount of research put in, the knowledge that this (in my case) aircraft was a part of history, my focus is ww2 and pearl harbor so the aircraft i build all have history (as so many of yours do) that knowledge to me is a very humbling experience.

joe