Global Scale Modeller

Yep, are you building 1 or 100 models a year?

And do more builds mean the quality is lacking?

I ask this because I dont think I am some model building manic and yet I seem to knock off two to four a month - 24 to 48 a year. Some are bad, others are very bad, most are good, some are very good, and maybe one a year is better than the others.

Last year i completed 28 models

I don't like this question, I can count them on one hand....feel shame

Twokidsnosleep wrote:I don't like this question, I can count them on one hand....feel shame

Its all about the quality mate.

Twokidsnosleep wrote:I don't like this question, I can count them on one hand....feel shame

Don't worry Scott... Me too buddy, me too!..
It's not for the want to do more, it's the time management and worry of working more than one or two kits at a time.
I work from the kitchen side so every little piece or model type action needs putting away upon the close of model time!..
Also having a 22month into everything baby girl around my ankles while modelling means extra care is always needed.
Sharps, poisons, glues and small parts makes model time a very stressful time.
I need to model more and worry less.... Lol...
All the best guys..

...and don't dare ask how many lifetime's worth of kits I have in my stash and growing every day!!!AHHHHH

Stokesy44 wrote:

Twokidsnosleep wrote:I don't like this question, I can count them on one hand....feel shame

Its all about the quality mate.

Well said that man

Twokidsnosleep wrote:...and don't dare ask how many lifetime's worth of kits I have in my stash and growing every day!!!AHHHHH

Lol..... I got about 15 years worth at my current build rate.... Give or take my usual loss of mojo and occasional use of junk and styrene sheet for building.. Lol..
Scott you got an excuse, your still building a house, from the ground up!... Hahaha...
Keep doing what you do buddy, we all enjoy the quality!....
All the best.

Kevthemodeller wrote:

Stokesy44 wrote:

Twokidsnosleep wrote:I don't like this question, I can count them on one hand....feel shame

Its all about the quality mate.

Well said that man

I'll second that.... Top response...

Too few to keep my stash from growing out of control and too many to have any space to put them.

It usually ends up being around 12-15 per year.

Erm...two? Hahaha!

well think I build last year between 12 and 16 ) if I included painting Busts and figures ...lately I build a lot dioramas , and some could have two or three builds in it , so think I'm not very wrong !

about 10 when I can decide what to actually build hah

For some reason the number of models I make is inversely proportional to the level of petty crime in my local area.

No idea why.

I ain't answering this one.....

Ok, I did the count for 2015, only counting models started and finished in 2015
Lotus Egg car and dio for Easter sig
Dagobah X Wing and dio for Star Wars sig
Hobbit Figures and dio
Two Zulu era soldiers
That's it

I gotta try to pick up the build pace for sure...any body selling spare time???

If I had any, I wouldn't sell it, I'd have more than 6 done...

Oh yeah, 6. But three were identical, and egg planes. So really it's like 4.

About one a month on average for me.

I've finished 1 so far. And I started it last year
I have been working on 3 others though so that slowed me down.

I had a prolific year in 2015 - finished 5 models! Usually its about 3 otherwise.
That thing called work really eats into the modeling time

I need to get a life.

2015 was a busy year for me! I focused on dioramas mainly. I made only few stand alone pieces, mostly planes and figures. Vehicles were usually incorporated into a diorama.
So my stats refer to everything individually.

Vehicles/planes: 20
Dioramas: 12
Figures: 52

I don´t think it really affects my quality, i simply can not do better as i do. I enjoy a medium steady pace more than a slacking super-considerate pace.

TheTroyster wrote:I need to get a life.

I disagree
You get your kit and give'er, get it done. I totally respect that.
Don't sell yourself short quality wise either, seen some real nice builds and dioramas come off your bench
We are all different in likes, life duties, work responsibilities and speed of build.
Different horses for different courses.

Twokidsnosleep wrote:

TheTroyster wrote:I need to get a life.

I disagree
You get your kit and give'er, get it done. I totally respect that.
Don't sell yourself short quality wise either, seen some real nice builds and dioramas come off your bench
We are all different in likes, life duties, work responsibilities and speed of build.
Different horses for different courses.

I get up so early - and after going to the gym, I usually have a good hour and half to two hours before I head off to my store. Plus, I love building in the morning - nothing better than a Protein shake, pot of coffee, and the smell of extra thin glue before work.

I go at one a month. For two months then nothing for the remainder of the year.

I build a lot......
But I only finish a few.....modelling ADHT me thinks !!
cheers
Mark

Last year was somewhere in the high 60s, this year I'm looking to half that, combination of more involved larger kits and going into more detail with paint and weathering. Planes always take me longer than tanks though, more of a build it and then paint it kinda guy.

I only really got back in to building a year and a half ago, I think in that time I've built maybe 5. So 2.5 a year? This year the pace picked up slightly, doing the From Russia with Love GB motivated me to finish that build in record time (for me!)

wookiee76 wrote:Last year was somewhere in the high 60s, this year I'm looking to half that, combination of more involved larger kits and going into more detail with paint and weathering. Planes always take me longer than tanks though, more of a build it and then paint it kinda guy.

Holy crap 60!!!
I' d be buying kits like a drug addict.....oh wait, I already am

Twokidsnosleep wrote:

wookiee76 wrote:Last year was somewhere in the high 60s, this year I'm looking to half that, combination of more involved larger kits and going into more detail with paint and weathering. Planes always take me longer than tanks though, more of a build it and then paint it kinda guy.

Holy crap 60!!!
I' d be buying kits like a drug addict.....oh wait, I already am

Maybe it means he buys 600 a year. According to my math regarding my build/buy ratio...

Lol, i have a shelf that i use to hold my stash and once that's full i don't buy any more kits until there is space.

better fix is build another shelf....it's what I do far less anxiety that way....

Errr, ive built 1 this year so far, 4 last year when i started... the bigger question would be how much modeling time you get in a week? for me one evening propperly and a few hrs here and there.
about to change all that if i can get my current GB built on time i will have set a new personal best lol

i Lack somewhere to put them once completed? toying with buying one of those glass cabinets..... AND evicting the wife if she moans lol

I normally get in and hour or two in the evenings and as much as I can handle at the weekends as long as other people aren't intruding on my me time.

I've done eight so far this year. About to finish another one here in the next week or two. My modeling comes in spurts. Some months I'm so busy with work I almost forget to sleep and eat. Other times, I'm so bored I don't know what to do with myself.