You ever give up on a model ?

[upnorth]

I've given up on a few more than I care to admit to.

Hasegawa's old 1/72 S-2 Tracker is a real nemesis of mine. I've tried it three times, followed the advice of more than one seasoned modeler that finished it to award winning status on how to get the best from the kit and I'll be damned if I can get that kit to work into something decent. After the third go round I decided that kit just wasn't mine to build.

There's only been one kit that I gave up on as soon as I opened the box and that was Monogram's 1/48 F-16 ADF kit from the late 90s or so. I was caught by the ND ANG markings on the box art and the very decent Wal Mart price tag and took it home.

I got it opened and, much to my disgust, found it was nothing more than the old Revell 1/48 F-16A from the early 80s that I had built as a kid and it had damn near put me off the hobby early. The old kit was unaltered and the ADF and new engine exhaust parts were supplied on a supplementary sprue. They didn't look real convincing and the whole kit felt like a cash grab by Monogram using a kit that should have been retired ages ago.

When I finished the old Revell F-16A as a kid, I vowed NEVER to try to build that pig again, I stayed true on that vow and that whole reissued kit ended up in my spares box.

[Sauragnmon]

Give up on a kit... yeah, I've had a couple that I gave up on, at least in their original forms.  I shelf them somewhere, or they wind up damaged and defeated at the back of a shelf, to be followed by me going "oh, what have we here... hmmm, now This looks interesting..." and pulling out the (comic sized) sledgehammer and smashing it into parts for my next piece of insanity.

As 787 said - I'll also consider any dead kits you have, especially Eastern subjects - got a dead J-10? a dead Sukhoi?  Maybe you have some Russian engines floating around you can't think of what to use them on?  Send me a PM, I'll find Something to resurrect it from.

*turns into the background* IGOR, STOP PLAYING THE PIPE ORGAN, I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK!

Anyways, that's that. Back to work!

[Geoff]

Oh yes! The last time I surrendered was to a Zevezda Su-24 after I broke the nose wheel so many times and then had to try and strip the paint off it. Its waiting to be reduced to components.

[B777LR]

Give up on a kit... yeah, I've had a couple that I gave up on, at least in their original forms.  I shelf them somewhere, or they wind up damaged and defeated at the back of a shelf, to be followed by me going "oh, what have we here... hmmm, now This looks interesting..." and pulling out the (comic sized) sledgehammer and smashing it into parts for my next piece of insanity.

As 787 said - I'll also consider any dead kits you have, especially Eastern subjects - got a dead J-10? a dead Sukhoi?  Maybe you have some Russian engines floating around you can't think of what to use them on?  Send me a PM, I'll find Something to resurrect it from.

*turns into the background* IGOR, STOP PLAYING THE PIPE ORGAN, I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK!

Anyways, that's that. Back to work!

Comrade, i hear you!

Lets start the socialist workers against the scrapping of unfinished models union!

[NARSES2]

I have a big box of scrapped projects,far too many to count. Sometimes your skills dont match up to your expectations.

A point to ponder though, there are a couple that would be considered "good" builds or paint jobs by some of our members, it must be the same with a lot of other people.

That's so true. The number of times I've complimented a model only to be told by the owner that he was really disapointed with the way it came out 

[Weaver]

I have a big box of scrapped projects,far too many to count. Sometimes your skills dont match up to your expectations.

A point to ponder though, there are a couple that would be considered "good" builds or paint jobs by some of our members, it must be the same with a lot of other people.

That's so true. The number of times I've complimented a model only to be told by the owner that he was really disapointed with the way it came out 

Course, you're looking at it fresh and unbiased, without the ability to make unfavourable comparisons with the vision of it that he had in his mind when he started it.

First time around, I used to give up on almost all of them: either I got bored or distracted, or the kit got broken, either by me or parental "creative carelessness".....

Since taking it up again, I havn't given up on one yet: trying to break that habit of mind is one of the reasons I'm here.

[Mossie]

I've been guilty of that.  I often find fault in my own builds that others either don't notice, or don't worry about.  One model I've been complimented on at shows is the floatplane P-40 I did.  I procrastinated over it for so long, changed the paint scheme & kept knocking bits off it that I just had no enthusiasm for it when it was done.  Even now I wonder if the paint scheme should be slightly different!  I'd strip it, but I know I just never will be happy with this one simply because of the hard time I had building it.

And I have the opposite too, I was quite pleased with the scheme (finish could have been better mind, see I'm doing it again!) on my captured Ho-229 & most people walk by that one!

[Gary]

You know another type of kit I never ever tend to build, thanks to UpNorth for reminding me, is a re-pop I've already built. I can't tell you how often I have purchased a "new" kit only to find an ancient flash filled set of sprues with a new set of poo-poo (with an english accent) decals. Hasselgawa is the worst offender in this and as a result, I tend to not buy any of their product now. Revelle Germany used to mention on their packaging if themoulds were old Matchbox kits or older Revelle boxings. Italarie and Zevesda have been swapping for a while and simply paying close attention usually pays off, as the Russian boxing here tends to be quite a bit cheaper. Airfix used to upset me but they made no pretense about being a new kit and the price was usually so danged low, you'd have to be an idiot to not know it's too good to be true.

[jcf]

You know another type of kit I never ever tend to build, thanks to UpNorth for reminding me, is a re-pop I've already built. I can't tell you how often I have purchased a "new" kit only to find an ancient flash filled set of sprues with a new set of poo-poo (with an english accent) decals. Hasselgawa is the worst offender in this and as a result, I tend to not buy any of their product now.

You can tell if a Hasegawa kit is a re-issue with different decals and/or parts by the kit code.
If it has an alpha-numeric code its the 'original' kit, If it has a five numeral code - its a 'new' markings re-issue.

i.e. He 111:
Original release, E21, http://www.hlj.com/product/HSGE21
Changed markings + cable cutter, 00929, http://www.hlj.com/product/HSG00929

The coding holds true throughout their product lines.

Jon

[philp]

While I have never taken a kit and hit the wall with it, I do have a bunch of unfinished hiding around the basement.  MPC Ju-88 that I tried to put engines from a Revell kit into, used this liquid silver putty (that dates me) and obviously used too much as the plastic went soft.  Course, now I am doing some whiffs, maybe I will give it some jet engines...
Couple of 48th scale kits that never got completed including the Monogram Mig-15 that now gets used as my spray test bed.  Couple others that may never get to the finished state but who knows.

[John Howling Mouse]

I only consider it giving up when I've actually destroyed the kit.  Was doing really well on a Revell 1:48 P-40 several years ago and then found out I could not get the upper wings to come anywhere near to joining with their wing chord on the fuselage.  On impulse, I suddenly crushed it in my hand---which cut me up with shards of plastic splinters and then I was really boiling over!

Driving over a half-built but unsalvageable kit in your 4 x 4 can also be very therapeutic.   

[Mossie]

What about WUH???

[John Howling Mouse]

What about WUH???

Still in the works!  You'll understand when you finally see the rotors and engines.

[Mossie]

What about WUH???

Still in the works!  You'll understand when you finally see the rotors and engines.

Woo!

[HOG]

No, as with a bit of pestering, flattery and the occasional gift, she usualy gives in.
As to plastic, I have several long. LONG,exteremely long term WIP`s.


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