AMS Defeated!!!

Gosh Tom, If thirty years to finish a model is defeating AMS, then I have beaten the hell out of it! I just finished a ten year project!

Rick

I was looking over the stack of started projects and the MS.225 was probably the oldest.

There is an Airfix C-47 converted to a XCG-17 glider that Dave Boksanski helped me with and an Airfix SAAB J.35, both of which stopped at cockpit and other details.

The Meikraft Long Midget Mustang was one of those "crank it out" kits that had so many shape problems I just got pissed of. It's about 40% complete and I may finish it for the May 1 contest. That's about twelve years old.

There are about a dozen in all. How about you guys? How many started kits that have been awaiting attention for years?

Tom

Nah...it's incurable...you're just in a brief remission...;)

No, mommy no! I don't wanna go there!!!!!

Somewhere in the 3-4 boxes marked Started are around 30 kits, not counting figures.

95% date from the mid '80s, (model A/C display for bar owner who sold out) Oldest from my own 'to do' list is Revell 1/720 Big E from early 80s 1/48 C-47 w/Shep Payne's book and Tamiya 1/700 Hornet w/ Mitchell mid 80s IIRC custom '94 S-10 started about 10 yrs ago

And then there are the 15 or so A/C, auto and figures making sure the dust doesn't get to the tables, all while I drag out yet another wanna do. Maybe I (we) have AADS :-)

-- Chuck Ryan snipped-for-privacy@REMOVEearthlink.net Springfield OH

That sounds a little familiar, I got three foot lockers with started kits in them and some more in boxes. I just don't know how many there are in all (at least not anymore)

Smilodon

And here I was enjoying the group tonight! ;] Like Chuck, I don't think I want to know how many. I could look it up on the other computer where the inventory is or I could go downstairs and look at the shelves with crippled birds waiting the return of my attention. Cars are more guilty-friendly. They hide in their boxes. Let's just say, 'many'.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

You're making me feel better, Bill. :-)

I've done more work on the Yaks in the last two days than in the last six months!

Tom

Judgeing from the other replies, I guess I'm the odd one out in this respect. The answer is about a dozen individual miniatures, maybe even less. Other than that there are a few aircraft that were started when the going was necessarily slow on other kits (watching paint dry is so much more interesting when you're building another kit in the meantime :-), and that have been unattended for a number of months now. However, I don't really count those, because as far as I' concerned they're still on the active list; they'll become the primary projects as soon as the current ones are finished, and other kits will take their place as filler.

Of course, this might have something to do with the fact that I got tired of looking at half built kits a long time ago, and either finished or dumped the lot of them.

Rob

27, not bad for a 18 month's return to modeling. mostly i'm trying to find a fan for my paint cabinet.

This condition more or less lead to my only New Year's Resolution for

2004, Not to open another box until I had finished most of the half built models sitting around the cellar. So far, I have managed to keep it.

Bill Shuey

"Calm before the storm" it gets worse

J.B.

I guess it all depends one how one defines 'started.' I have done a minimal amount of work on a Execuform Stinson Reliant, dating back maybe fifteen years, but almost all the pieces are still on the carrier, and i've done nothing to round up the detail bits to detail it (interior, engine and struts, at a minimum.) Others that are hanging fire:

1/74 Glencoe subchaser--I got the hull together about five years ago and did a little bit of other cleanup, but that's as far as I've gotten. 1/72 High Planes Mustang X--I've got the major components to passable dry fit and a few pieces glued together. Started in late 2002. 1/72 Frog [Airlines] Miles Master II or III (depends on the markings I cobble together for it)--Interior nearly done; I expect to finish this for Santa Rosa. However, it qualifies as 'for years' because I bought the kit at the Nationals in 1998 intending to build it 'right away.' I didn't start until February '04.

I've got four other kits underway, but all are less than a year from start date.

Mark Schynert

Congratulations on your self-discipline! I'd have to stick to that for longer than a year, I'd wager.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Yeah Bill, I remember the exchange of posts in January. Good to see that

*you're* still keeping to it....

RobG (hid> >

Ok...I'm stupid....What is AMS? Mike

Advanced Modeler's Syndrome. But I'm not sure which is advanced, the modeler or the syndrome. ;-)

WmB

To reply, get the HECK out of there snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net

Oh man!

You were right, but not in the direction that I thought it would take.

Lynne asked me to clear the work bench of the Yak stuff so that she could do the next ESM 72 editorial. I just proofed it and she is doing a model for the May 1 contest! She wanted something really simple, but eyecatching.

A PM F-86 Sabre is about as simple as they come. Camoflaged in Israeli markings is about as eyecatching as possible. One photograph is all that there is, so she has to use a bit of imagination.

Other than the diorama (which I did a good deal of) that she used for her Master's thesis, this is her first model.

I may end up having to wait in line for my workbench!!!

Tom

accept that you need to build another.

God! I think I've got that too! Takes me months (years) to do a kit, in fact I've got three that were started back in 2001 that are not finished. Mike