Works in progess---what stops them?

Since I was sick last week I didn't build, found out the hard way not to try to build when sick, but  I did go through my stash of kits to see which ones I could continue building that I had started and not finished. I found several kits with bad paint, my biggest problem, kits stopped  because of certain parts I was scratch building, missing parts from other kits I needed to dig out and use, and many other reasons for not finishing them. Plus many more projects that have been stopped for inspiration reasons and just wait in the boxes for me to complete them. I don't remember what stopped some projects or inspired me to continue working on a kit after it sat in my stash for months, or even years sometimes. I promised myself to do my best to finish the kits I start and try not to get in over my head on certain projects that I once had big plans for with many working features and super detailing. Those can burn you out fast if you let them or frustrate.you enough to stop building for a while.

I am having more fun building like I used to and just doing the basics on most of the builds. I will never finish some of my kits but I will finish the ones I start. I never know what will inspire me to start a project; seeing one on the street, in a magazine, on TV or just from my memory of cars I have seen in the past.  But if I am not inspired the kit stays on the shelf or is left un-finished for how long I don't know.

What is, or has been, the reasons you have stopped working on a build? I won't ask how many half done projects you have but I had way more than I thought.  Way more !!!   I have the time to build and do all the stuff I normally do everyday since I retired, but that doesn't mean I was inspired to work on every kit or half finished kit I had. Also I made the mistake of thinking now I had all the time in the world to build every vehicle with tons of detailing and working features. Not true.

Just a thought while I had the time to go through my kits. I feel better now, so back to the bench and that decades old AMT chopped '32 Ford coupe project I started "way back " when the Beatles were still  together. Yea, that old.  Needed some work on the body and frame and a different motor, and of course better paint.  Thanks,   Patrick  M

 

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