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Old 02-12-2002, 06:16 PM
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how long it takes you?

to finnish a project?

i talking from the time you buy it and get home to the time you're done...

just wondering....
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Old 02-12-2002, 06:26 PM
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it depends

I bought a 1:35 UH - 1 Huey helicopter about 5 years ago, and its still not done. It just sits in a drawer with a 1:35 AH - 1 cobra that I got about a year later. I'm glad to say the cars are a bit quicker to make, but i still don't rush them. (about a month)

My mate does car models occasionaly, and he's usually finished after about a week! Surprisingly though, they aren't that bad.
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Old 02-12-2002, 06:28 PM
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well from the time i bought the kit it would have been a few months because i bought 8 kits at once and did them one after another, but i'd say it takes me 3 weeks to finish one depending upon whether or not i have all the paints i need. right now i'm waiting on 2 colors to resume my 360 modena, soon to have a challenge grille
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Old 02-12-2002, 07:04 PM
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Old 02-12-2002, 07:33 PM
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2-3 weeks. My ITR (currently in the gallery. ) took me two weeks. The Lancer Evo V that I'm currently working on is looking to take 3 weeks. It's been 2 weeks so far and I need 1 more week to let it dry.
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Old 02-12-2002, 07:52 PM
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HAHAHHA :finger: oh man... from the day i buy it home till finish.... I have kits sitting there since 1989 man

but if you talk about finishing the kit.. I have goten kits done in as short as 3 weeks, and I have goten kits that dragged on for say... hmm.. 3+ years like my Impreza

and some of the kits that i have in my display case that are primed only.. have been sitting there for somewhat 4 years too
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Old 02-12-2002, 11:43 PM
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Well, the last ZL1 Camaro I built took a solid year of every-other-night work, mostly because of many new techniques I tried to get the results I wanted. If I'm building a hard-core contest car (I'm in a very competitive model club - great builders) a full year is the norm. If I'm building a shelf piece I'll only take 3-5 weeks to build it, most of that time waiting for paint to cure.
I also have a closet full of models (256) waiting there turn, many since 1980!!
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Old 02-13-2002, 02:05 AM
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well it depends really. if school isnt in the way i can finish a model in about a week. lately modeling has been slow for me though ive been really stressed out and too tired to model . my white supra has taken me the longest so far its been a little more than a month since i started working on it. so many things went wrong... i had to strip the paint off of it 3 times. im still working on it and ill be done soon i have to pain the panel lines and do some detail work. wats sad is that i finished my 1999 celica and rx-7 that i started after the supra and they've been done for a while now. my next project is a black celica gt-four
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Alot depends on what the kit is...on a average about 6-8 weeks.
The simple kits you can knock out in a week or two if you rush them.
One of the longest i have done would be nearly a year to built a Drag Car(rail) with all the extras you can add to them
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Old 02-13-2002, 04:47 AM
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Fastest: um, 5 hours? hahaha, I'm not kidding, that's how long it too me to finish building the Initial D Evo III, I didn't even paint the body...didn't need to...everything was black! It doesn't look bad at all!

Longest: well....2 months?....I think, I tend to rush when I start a kit so for me, 2 month is a lot of time!
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Old 02-13-2002, 08:18 PM
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umm let me see..

the tomcar 1:32 was like 1week.
the 1:4x sukoy was 1 week too
the F15eagle 1:32 was 3 weeks
the f15eagle 1:4x was 1.5 weeks

the RC take a lil longer
the hpi vette super nitro was 3 weeks
and the hpi NSX was 2 weeks it is a castrol mugen my fav

and now that i into lil cars is like a week for each
so far i have a ferrari modena 360/castrol-mugen NSX again, i said is my fav /a ferrari F1

and now working in a mercedez CLK-GTR and a supra, the stock one...

i had to throw away a yellow F50 , well i kept everything but the body, that includes the engine and it looks awesome

next i think is gonna be a 1/8 P40 warhawk, thats an RC plane.....
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i had to throw away a yellow F50 , well i kept everything but the body, that includes the engine and it looks awesome
You wouldn't want to give away the engine bay would you? I have that same exact kit.

By the way it takes me about 2-3 months, off and on, to finish a model.
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Old 02-14-2002, 08:30 AM
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You wouldn't want to give away the engine bay would you? I have that same exact kit.
sorry

i wanted to paint the body red from a yellow stock and i mess it up big time...

so i kept everything but the body. so i have the engine, suspention, interior, well you get the idea....

i wish i could be driving that car in real life

oh the CLK is about 85% done, only thing left to do is the decals. and glue the body...
and the supra is about 1% done, i only openned the box it looks good its alive, its alive
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[b]i wanted to paint the body red from a yellow stock and i mess it up big time...B]
That's too bad. I am sure it is hard to throw away a Ferrari.

Let me now if you ever want somebody to take it off your hands.
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Old 02-14-2002, 08:45 PM
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That's too bad. I am sure it is hard to throw away a Ferrari.

Let me now if you ever want somebody to take it off your hands.
i was so upset.....
i tried to fix it and i did it worst, so i looked at it for 15 minutes, took a hammer and broke it in 50 lil pieces i didnt wanted to know about it anymore

i think i gonna buy another1 now to finish it
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