Have any of you ever given up?

I know most males, including me, don't like to say they have given up but today I finally did on my AMT Lincoln Continental:banghead: It just got to a stage where it was basically made of putty and while sanding, I went straight through the back. :eek: I was so frustrated!

My question is, How many of you have given up on a project and thrown it out or used most of the parts somewhere else?

few times after a pile of cars i decided to mark them all abandoned i have a few making the list this year too.

i think i have only written 1 off

mostly i put them away for a while ( ie. that black 69 camaro i was working on ) and get back to them later

but it sounds like yours is pretty far gone!

no shame in scrapping it! just make our parts boxes all the more full!!

If I am tired with the model I put it aside and go back later. Never given up. Had one almost writen off with totaly warped body but I bought another body and managed to finish it.

I think I did it once with Revell 512TR.

Dont think i've ever given up, although i have some models i've shelved for over a decade. I think my main problem is staying motivated to finish

Dont think i've ever given up, although i have some models i've shelved for over a decade. I think my main problem is staying motivated to finish

It's strange, I never found a understandable translation for this kind word......:redface:

I have.
Once.
My first ever attempt at a model car build was of a Tamiya Porsche GT3 that I thought would be good to learn on by cutting out the doors and seeing what the different putties were like to work with.
While it wasn't a complete failure by the time I had gotten back to it, what I had done to it prior to me putting in the box was no longer acceptable by my own standards and thus, it was not so much given up, more like rejected.

I have given up on at least one, I could tell it was gonna turn out way to "toy like" for me to keep so I put it in the box with no intention to finish ....Fujimi S15

the more you build (or better saying "buy and want to build"), the more you have, the more you are tempted to give up one and move on another.
that's my problem, I can't contain myself starting all the things I get, so each time I get another, it replace the previous one and I almost finish nothing !
If you concentrate on builds one by one, giving up should be an accident, due to a parts break or a disappointment facing an inexpected result.
Most of the time when I decide to finish something I make it.
Totally given up models should represent a very small percent of my models and are especially those at 1/43rd scale.
I think I didn't completely and definitively give up more than 5/6 models if talking about 1/24th scale (out of around 150).

I only given up on 1. The fujimi Porsche 911 turbo cabriolet. This was my first fujimi kit and an enthousiast model. I did something wrong with THE assembly of THE body and after alot of superglue and patience it was un fixable. So i broke down the model and use the parts for scratch building.

Lesley

I have a couple models "on hold"...Sometimes I try to put too many details and I get frustrated a little bit, but nothing a couple months and a new project can not resolve. :tongue:

Yup. Many times. No shame in it as far as I'm concerned. Threw them the trash and never looked back. Just started a new one and learned from the experience.

I did on a Ferrari F50. I saw pics of it that got me going and found the kit for $15. I ordered the PE set so I could follow Kustov's version, the realized one important thing. I DON'T LIKE THE CAR!!! :eek7: So I scrapped it

I smashed a Tamiya NSX with my bare fist because I found out paint had bled through the masking tape while my mom was yelling at me.

So immature...

I gave up on my Tamiya Mobil1 NSX. Building the car was fine, couldnt be happier with it, but as soon as I laid the first couple of decals on it I instantly put it back in the box and never touched it to this day. Most of the decals ripped, or have split and I dont want to look at another waterslide decal! I'm planning on scrapping the decals for the car, removing the ones Iv'e already laid, and turning it into a road-going version.

I dont know if its me, but the waterslide decals are really thin and break extremely easily?

I was @ final assembly stage on this build and the glue bled through onto the paint.(And I had glue "flick" onto the rear window, I was going cover w/a decal) I haven't trashed it but can't decide if I want to try and save it or just use the interior/chassis on my other MKV GTI I'd planned on building in another style.
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I've def got other builds that are indefinatly stalled. can't say I'll ever get back to them with how little time for kit building I have.

I get alot these days. And I think I going to dump alot of my past work away these few days. Although I still keep a number of models and hopefully I could make a come back, but currently I think I lost my 'mojo' in scale modeling, yes not only in cars and bikes, but also my sci-fi and resin kit modeling, if not I would not give away most of my models to some AF members here. :grinno:

I'm practically in the stage of 'given up' right now. I have around 5 builds I've half built and put on hold. Uni work has been intense and having some time now to do some modelling again, I'm a little reserved about starting a new kit incase I give up on that too. With the news of AFMOTY I've picked up an itchy trigger-finger for my airbrush but I seem to be mainly collecting boxes rather than building them!

I prefer the term "indefinite hiatus". It somehow softens the blow and prevents me from doing something rash (like throwing something away). I have actually gone back and completed a few models I had given up on years before. The Indian motorcycle and Lotus 25 in my signature photo's were on "indefinite hiatus" for years before I cracked them open for a second go. Over time a modelers skills improve and once common kits become rare and expensive. That can breath new enthusiasm into a dormant project. Sometimes a close encounter with the real thing can regenerate interest too. I currently have a Gunze HiTech Jaguar E-Type on "indefinite hiatus". I pull it out of the box once a year and think about all the crappy work that has to be redone on it. Then I slip it back in the box and forget about it for another year.