Unhappy Modeller needing to vent

[Bigfoot57]

Alex stick with it but only do it when your in the right frame of mind I am at this moment in time having a break from my Lancaster and doing some card modelling of a totally different item just as I need a break from the intricate detail that the Lancaster demands when I feel ready I will again resume with it

Regards

Colin

[Allen Dewire]

Hey Alex,

The rest have said summed it up very well and I have been there too. I just couldn't do or build a thing right so I did a Pete Townsend from "Who's Next" and 'Picked up my guitar and played, just like yesterday' and realized I wasn't too good at that either. Went back to slinging glue with a whole new outlook……..

Prost
Allen

[BarryW]

Why in God’s name do I buy aircraft!
And why do I buy them in 1:72, I build 1:35 amour normally.

I am falling out with modelling big style at the moment, I just can’t get things right. I keep cocking up sanding and part attaching, lost the power to sand round things all of a sudden and feel like I need to set fire to my kit. I am addicted to modelling and adore it but at moment I hate my drug of choice.

Please tell me there are others out there that have had this?
Is it the kits I am building or is it Airfix 1:72 German aircraft that are pushing me over the edge?

The answer to getting the mojo back is to get a large scale aircraft rather than twiddly scale. What is more get a quality kit such as one of the Tamiya WW2 warbirds. That my advice....

[peterairfix]

Or do what I have done in have just pulled out my entire stash and it surprising what I found and at the bottom of the pile one long forgotten kit witch I am now eager to get on with.
Here's the pile after pulling out the stash.

[slupanter]

I have taken all the advice on board!

It’s good to know that this happens, I think I had picked the wrong scale and the wrong kit. A little break maybe just what I need.

This is such a great forum

BarryW I ordered a 1:48 Hobbyboss ME262b on amazon Prime and it just turned up :smiling3:

[slupanter]

your not alone

i get really frustrated when things go wrong.....even worse when it happens several kits on the trot.......had a period last year when i actually binned 3 kits in succession cos they went so wrong, felt like giving up

what i do is go to my fave subject.......braille scale armour!.............do something simple and prove to yourself you can do it

btw........as much as i like aircraft i hate building kits of them

That is a good plan, after a break I will build something easy and just for fun

[Gary MacKenzie]

Please tell me there are others out there that have had this?

I thought only I had hours / days / weeks like that.
I love the quality of Dragon kits ............ have real problems with their instructions
I now like a lot the Academy models, maybe not as intricate , but a lot easier to decipher the instructions.

[Guest]

It depends on your temperament. We are all different & I do not think I can really give any advice.

For me I do get annoyed when things are not going quite right but my temperament tells me to get
at it finish it & get onto the next.

I could not start another kit until the one I am working on is finished & on the shelf ready to be photographed
for publication. I then go through a ritual of clearing up. Changing the Morton blades cleaning the airbrushes.
Then & only then getting out the next kit.

Others can work on 2, 3 kits at the same time. I just could not do that.

That is not a criticism but just to show the differences in the way we approach things. Nice to discuss a problem
but in the end there is only one person who can solve it. Never ceases to amaze me how we are all so different
in nature. Makes life so interesting.

Laurie

[slupanter]

Hey all!

I went to Hinckley model show and can home full of beans to model. I have started slow and now overloaded myself.
Thanks for all the advise

[Guest]

Great news Alex.

[Guest]

Alexander,
As all the other guys have said you are not alone, many on here that belonged to the old site are witness to me binning a Churchill Bridgelayer through frustration. I am now somewhere near to finishing a Chieftain Bridgelayer, and have been wrestleing all night (4 hours) just to get the tracks on - first one done in 2 hours - c/a'd to the wheels and on backwards !!!!!! Sorted out that problem, but the tracks would not go over the front idler wheel, WHY??? it was not untill I came to finally resting the model very carefully on its side that I saw the problem - a strengthening strip across the trackguard was preventing the track from going through the idler. I have cursed this model from day one of the build - I hate it - I have even given it a name 'Dog s ' - have sworn to finish it and leave it on the competition table.
So best advice, go sit in the toilet, have a good curse and cuss, then come out when you have vented and see everyone trying not to laugh, that will soon have you laughing.
Cheers, Mike.

[Guest]

Alexander,
As all the other guys have said you are not alone, many on here that belonged to the old site are witness to me binning a Churchill Bridgelayer through frustration. I am now somewhere near to finishing a Chieftain Bridgelayer, and have been wrestleing all night (4 hours) just to get the tracks on - first one done in 2 hours - c/a'd to the wheels and on backwards !!!!!! Sorted out that problem, but the tracks would not go over the front idler wheel, WHY??? it was not untill I came to finally resting the model very carefully on its side that I saw the problem - a strengthening strip across the trackguard was preventing the track from going through the idler. I have cursed this model from day one of the build - I hate it - I have even given it a name 'Dog s ' - have sworn to finish it and leave it on the competition table.
So best advice, go sit in the toilet, have a good curse and cuss, then come out when you have vented and see everyone trying not to laugh, that will soon have you laughing.
Cheers, Mike.

Mike , reading the bit about the tracks on backwards has certainly made me feel better after my T 38 cock up.

[Guest]

Mike , reading the bit about the tracks on backwards has certainly made me feel better after my T 38 cock up.

John,
Just about to put pics on the blog in a minute...

[Guest]

My opinion on this Is that everyone has been where you are now, and it isn't much fun, I completely changed tack and started building in other genres at present iam a gundam lover, secondly don't put so much preassure on yourself its meant to be fun. If it isn't working when your building put it down and walk away this usually works as well.

[minitnkr]

I sometimes just sit at the bench and ruminate on the work to be done or rearrange spares or research units not finished, or read a good book. This often restores the mojo for me. I still have large pcs of benchwork from my old HO RR layout, scale miles of track, over a hundred pcs of rolling stock & eight locomotives that I sometimes tinker with. PaulE