Paulw
Well-known member
Deep thought time, or at least in my minuscule mind. What makes you decide to shelve a project?
I guess you can identify a few things like I do but I think it really comes town to pride in completing a project that it as close to top quality as you can.
For me getting some distance into a build and then deciding to shelve it because of the difficulty of the kit or you just loose interest, hitting the wall so-to-speak. I try to put them up to avoid me making one monumental mistake and then instead of the shelf it winds up in the bin.
I have a couple like that, actually most of my stash is in that mess. I have quite a few started projects sitting on the shelf waiting for the time when I get the urge to bring them out again and attacking it with a fresh prospective.
I think this is a good practice because it limits me from really hacking a kit up by trying to get it done in a hurry. When I started this hobby 7 years ago I was putting them out one or two a week. Something to do with my time as I recuperated from extensive open heart. With no income for almost four years the modeling community sent me kits and all the necessary gear to get started. About three years ago I began to think on how many builds I am actually thrashing just to get something out.
I do have kits where I am stumped on where to continue and how to make it look like it is supposed to. I'll be damned if I can even get my builds to look as good as some of the other builders do. But see, there's the rub, I am not supposed to. I am building for me and no one else. Weather or not the finished build is correct or not just as long as I can make it look good to me and if it has to wait on the shelf for some months until I am satisfied I can finish it looking something like it is supposed to.
So, in retrospect to this article, I hold no shame in putting something on the shelf to further ripen, so-to-speak, until I am ready to continue. Maybe one day I can come out with a build that is 100% the way I intended it to look. Patience.
I guess you can identify a few things like I do but I think it really comes town to pride in completing a project that it as close to top quality as you can.
For me getting some distance into a build and then deciding to shelve it because of the difficulty of the kit or you just loose interest, hitting the wall so-to-speak. I try to put them up to avoid me making one monumental mistake and then instead of the shelf it winds up in the bin.
I have a couple like that, actually most of my stash is in that mess. I have quite a few started projects sitting on the shelf waiting for the time when I get the urge to bring them out again and attacking it with a fresh prospective.
I think this is a good practice because it limits me from really hacking a kit up by trying to get it done in a hurry. When I started this hobby 7 years ago I was putting them out one or two a week. Something to do with my time as I recuperated from extensive open heart. With no income for almost four years the modeling community sent me kits and all the necessary gear to get started. About three years ago I began to think on how many builds I am actually thrashing just to get something out.
I do have kits where I am stumped on where to continue and how to make it look like it is supposed to. I'll be damned if I can even get my builds to look as good as some of the other builders do. But see, there's the rub, I am not supposed to. I am building for me and no one else. Weather or not the finished build is correct or not just as long as I can make it look good to me and if it has to wait on the shelf for some months until I am satisfied I can finish it looking something like it is supposed to.
So, in retrospect to this article, I hold no shame in putting something on the shelf to further ripen, so-to-speak, until I am ready to continue. Maybe one day I can come out with a build that is 100% the way I intended it to look. Patience.