Longest time you've had a project 'on the bench'?

[tanktastic43]

I've been inspired to complete an idea I started back in 1993!
I started to convert a tank turret and now i'm in the mood for finishing the whole lot.

Anyone else out there with an unfinished 'long term' project?

tt43.

[TsrJoe]

i have projects sitting here for 10 years or even more, some abandoned, some the interest waned after scratchbuilding the fun parts, others stil awaiting information or inspiration to complete  many many more ill admit to have been sitting for over a year or three too 

[PR19_Kit]

I started to build a RW RCAF F-104G in the summer of 1970, that was '833, the first all-over Tiger Scheme aircraft. For various reasons it didn't get finished till the Telford show of 1996! So that took me 26 years to finish.......... 

I don't think I've got any Whiffs that have remained un-finished for that long yet, but there's a few that are getting there......

[anthonyp]

Couple years, but my dad has his last one that he started still sitting on the bench 30 years later.

[kitnut617]

Got a few myself, I get to a point where I've figured out the challenges, then it get's shelved

[dragon]

I've been inspired to complete an idea I started back in 1993!
I started to convert a tank turret and now i'm in the mood for finishing the whole lot.

Anyone else out there with an unfinished 'long term' project?

tt43.

Yes, but now you can claim that you have a project that was started last century, before the Internet became fun.

[Weaver]

Well technically the Millenium Falcon model up the attic has been "in progress" for 24-ish years, although to be fair, that covers a long period of thinking I'd given up modelling entirely......

[thedarkmaster]

I recently ( a couple of months ago ) finished a DC10 that i started before i left school, considering i left school in 1982 thats at least 28 years that i had been intending to get it done one day 

[Spey_Phantom]

longest time, that has to be my 1/72 Argentine SU-22. was on the bench for 2 years 

[NARSES2]

I've still got stuff on the go (or still in the hangar) I started 5/6 years ago. Making an effort to get one hangar queen completed every time I start a new bunch 

[ChernayaAkula]

My longest in-progress build that I actually intend to finish is a Revell 1/35 Panzerhaubitze 2000. Started it the day it came out (no, really! No stash hoarding back then! ), but haven't finished it yet. That would make it around 10 years, I guess.



The other two were stared for the Unofficial Armour GB on ARC a few years back. Needless to say, they're still in the state depicted above. 

[Steel Penguin]

a DSV1 liberator, around 10-12 years, i built it when i realy wanted to build that kit, and was happy  both building and when it was finished.

[Nick]

Try this... Fujimi 1/72 F-14 Tomcat. Given to me on my 13th birthday, started soon after. 19 years later it's still not finished. 

[Alvis 3.14159]

1/48th Tamiya Dambuster Lancaster, bought sometime in 1975 or 1976. It's aboot half done, and gets dragged out every couple years to get looked at, with intent to finish. So far, no soap!


So that's aboot 35 years or so. Damn, I'm getting old.

Alvis Pi

[Hobbes]

Longest for me was 10 years, for a Hasegawa Jaguar/TWR XJ-S.  Some problem would crop up and I'd put it aside until I knew how to solve it. The first attempt at painting the body was a disaster, so I spent several years learning how to spray-paint. The floorpan was warped, making it near-impossible to assemble. Etc. Finished it in 2004.