Bummed out...

[freakmech]

one of my rare threads but here it goes... i cant finish a friggin' kit. over the last year and a half ive started six projects and havent finished one. i just keep losing interest before i finish. so i start a new kit and the cycle continues. ive got some 100+ kits now and im totally uninspired. i wanted to just clear my work space today and start something new and i cant even find something i want to do. im sad really. all i think about is cars, i read about them, i spend 2-3 hours a day on this site. an hour or two on others. i read motor trend etc... but im just not inspired to build a kit. last year i took a three month break from modelling and this site but i couldnt stay away from modelling any longer. what can i do? what should i build? why is this happening? im depressed so any help or suggestions would be nice. anybody been through this? sorry just had to vent my anger, thanks for listening!

[Fkouch]

I know exactly how you feel. I have about 6-7 kits on the go aswell but they always take so long because I always want to make them the best they can be, that is, perfect paint jobs, extensive customization and scratchbuilding. Most of the time I just want to do too much.

However I find that just picking a kit you're not too bothered about and just doing it box stock is a great break from all the extensive projects.
Use it for experiments aswell, like trying Candy colours or two tone.
Just make it as simple as possible and you'll end up with not only a finished model (at last!!) but hopefully some new skills and increased motivation for another one.

Cheers

Farrokh

[Hawk312]

When you go to the hobby store, pick better model kits.
j/k.
I have the exact same problem as you. I currently have 3 projects started on my desk, and about 5 model boxes full of painted parts that were never put together. So I`m afraid I don`t have any advice for you, just sympathy.

[SupaMan89T]

i feel the same as you i wanna see the finished product but i rarly work on it its weird and i keep buying i dunno whats wrong with me.

[mike@af]

I cant finish kits either. I usually have about 5 projects at any given time. All 5 of those finish about 1.5 years later at the same time.


What helps me is to:

Watch Monster Garage, Southern Steel, American Hot Rod, Overhaulin, Extreme 4x4, PHRTV, Trucks, Powerblock, etc. with fabrication

Look at pics of a similar project.

and i forgot the rest. Point is. We all have our downtimes.

[DSM-Mark]

I find myself in a very similar place...

I actually think this forum is part of the problem... don't get me wrong, it's absolutely awesome the amount of tips, solutions, etc. that can be taken from this site. However, it makes me set my standards too high. I screw up one little thing and I think the whole project is dead. Sometimes I think it would be best if I just do one, without looking on the site here, and without trying to go too crazy. You know, start simple, even though you've seen how to do awesome things. For example, I wanted to customize a die cast eclipse before the plastic ones came out (I know, wrong medium), so I stripped it, put down a primer coat, then a base coat of orange on the bottom, followed by black on the top, with a BMF chrome trim line along the joint. But then the paint chipped in one section, and suddenly I have no desire to finish the thing.

And all my projects tend to want to be ultra-cars. Wildly modified, but I want them to look perfect too.

So next up, I think I'm going to start from scratch (again) and work on a Toyota Celica Rally Car (Hasegawa) and just lay down a simple metallic gray paint, with clear coat, and just 'stock' decals. If I can get one body well done, I know that I'll continue with it. That's always the difficult thing for me, because I'm always trying to get the PMan shine, and tend to screw something up.

Good luck with it!

[blubaja]

Hey,

This is also my everyday. All I get inspired to do is buy more and more kits. I have too much inspiration to get a new kit rather then to finnish one:-/ Every once in a while, I will build when I can't sleep. Maybe. it's that there is too much inspiration around us, and that we should be starved of it for a while. Then we'll get a model fever. lol. My whole room is filled with models-in boxes mostly, car posters, diecast, and I work with cars at school. There is no hope. When I close my eyes to sleep, I dream about what I'm going to do with a model. It never formulates into the plastic form though.:-/ I feel your pain.

Frank X.

[RallyRaider]

Same boat here Chad. I think the solution is to keep the projects simple. I can't help myself trying to add extra details and modifications that slow everything down way too much. Like right now I'm itching to lay some paint down on my latest Peugeot 206, but still have heaps of work to do on the engine/bonnet and intakes I've modified. If I'd just kept it simple I'd be high on paint fumes right now! After I finish my two current project I'm going back to curbside or out of the box engines for a model or two...

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

I have mucho downtime...I like models, I generally enjoy building them, but my free time gets spent on websites, PS2, and other things. Taking way more time looking at/talking about models but not building them. But I don't get too torqued about not building...when the time is right, I take advantage of it. When it's not, I do whatever else I want to do...much of it while my mind is thinking of new/better ways to build models. It's all good .

Honestly there's nothing you can do to remedy the situation, except perhaps choose a kit that you know can come together in a minimum of time...something simple and not complex is usually a good antidote to being depressed over working on a kit that takes too much time and saps your creative energy.

[lovesmith05]

Originally Posted by RallyRaider

Same boat here Chad. I think the solution is to keep the projects simple. I can't help myself trying to add extra details and modifications that slow everything down way too much. Like right now I'm itching to lay some paint down on my latest Peugeot 206, but still have heaps of work to do on the engine/bonnet and intakes I've modified. If I'd just kept it simple I'd be high on paint fumes right now! After I finish my two current project I'm going back to curbside or out of the box engines for a model or two...

This kills me too. I have a project that I really want to paint but I am AT LEAST 3 days of hard work from getting there. I build about 1 model a year. It takes me 3-4 months until I am relatively happy with the results then I dont build again for a while. Then, later on, I will pick that model back up and remember all the things that went wrong or that I could have done better and all of a sudden, the fever is back.

[jswillmon]

I've spent more time dusting my unbuilt kits since moving than i have actually building them.

I think my new nitro monster truck has alot to do with that though.... I break it alot!

[Technoman]

I use to be like that, would have 6 or 7 started kits on the go and never finish one of them. Just go and pull one out and finish it, even if you aren't entirely happy with it having it completed will spur you on. Does for me anyway.

Hardest part of modelling in my opinion is choosing what to build next!

[JTRACING]

I say do somthing totally differant, try building a motorcycle or something like that. a change like that could get you excited abouit it again

[AstroRide44]

im pretty cheap, so i hate my self and feel like i wasted money on nothing when i dont finish a model. i feel like that money, regardless of the amount, could have gone to better use some for something else.

but if most of those kits are gonna go to waste, feel free to send some of them my way

[scaleracecars]

I refuse to start another kit before the current kit is completed. Sooner or later I just do it and move on to something else. I think I might have 2 partially completed kits here stored away . Just set the goal to complete them one at a time and do it. I never try for perfect just the best my skills will allow. With each one I learn more and most of the time the next model is better than the last.