Curiouser and Curiouser!

[Airborne01]

Is it just me or do other forum members have unfinished dioramas, models or ideas etc that they start to research and get poised to launch when ..... somebody else posts more or less the same project they've just started!? This means I have to temporarily shelve that idea/model lest people think I have no original ideas or am merely plagiarising other people's work! :anguished:The benefit however is that I can pick up some tips and/or new ideas and inspiration for the future ! :hugging-face:
Steve

[The Smythe Meister]

Yeah, definitely,
It's happened to me a couple of times Steve
... sometimes just seems incredible that two people, completely independent,and separated by  miles can suddenly,out of the blue,come up with the same idea!!.....
.... almost "spooky" really!!

[Allen Dewire]

It's not just you Steve...In today's modelling world, I'm sure it happens pretty often. Similar minds think alike no matter where you are around the globe. I have had it happen to me a few times, but I have a one-up on it. I never finish anything most of the time, so it doesn't matter what they do anyway....

Kidding aside, the facts are simple. Let's say you are building a Tiger I Late model and will set it in a '44 dio. How many scenarios can you conger up and not have similarities in the ideas....Knocked out, stuck in the mud or water, in an urban environment, in a winter setting, in repair, on a train car or loaded up with troops, etc......I think you should see what that person is trying to achieve and then do it one better. More accuracy, better landscaping, so on and not worry what others will think. You are the one having fun and it's your model Sir.......

Prost
Allen

[Ian M]

Also helped by the ever shorter released these days. Everyone grabbing them while they can! Forums are a good push You see one being built and deep in the back of your mind a voice says "Oh I got one of them..... "

[Tim Marlow]

Never had that, but then, I mostly paint toy soldiers anyway……
What I did find infuriating in my pre internet railway modelling days was to research and spend many hours scratchbuilding railway rolling stock, only to have one of the mainstream ready to run companies bring out a model of the same thing almost as soon as you finished…….yours would then always be referred to as a super detailed Lima mail coach, or whatever……

[Airborne01]

Yeah, definitely,
It's happened to me a couple of times Steve
... sometimes just seems incredible that two people, completely independent,and separated by  miles can suddenly,out of the blue,come up with the same idea!!.....
.... almost "spooky" really!!

Cue theme tune from X Files ....

[Guest]

It wouldn’t stop me — if I want to build a model of something now, then I don’t care if someone else happens to be showing something similar (or even the exact same kit/subject) on a forum I am going to post it on.

[Guest]

Steve, had a similar experience way back in the early days of Tamiya. Scratch built an M113 using the Aurora 1/48 scale wheels I think, this one made it to the show just before their launch, then decided to go one better and build the M577 - and guess what Tamiya brought out theirs.....
Just heard there is a Centurion avlb on the market - 3D printed - but still going to build mine, and then we will see......

[Airborne01]

It's also frustrating that those 'one -offs' (such as a really nice 1/35 Ontos) never seem to appear, even if you're bold (daft) enough to try to scratch build such a beastie!
Steve

[The Smythe Meister]

It's also frustrating that those 'one -offs' (such as a really nice 1/35 Ontos) never seem to appear, even if you're bold (daft) enough to try to scratch build such a beastie!
Steve

Oi!!
I did an Ontos last year Steve
Can't remember what make, but it was a good kit to build

[Guest]

It's also frustrating that those 'one -offs' (such as a really nice 1/35 Ontos) never seem to appear, even if you're bold (daft) enough to try to scratch build such a beastie!
Steve

Academy have one out #13218, and there is also brass etch by Voyager and tube to replace the barrels and Verlinden do an interior set 2623. On my to do list.

[Airborne01]

Oi!!
I did an Ontos last year Steve :smiling3:
Can't remember what make, but it was a good kit to build :smiling3:

Think that was the destroyed Academy offering mate - even you couldn't deal with th :hugging-face: ose sh----y 106's

[Guest]

Oi!!
I did an Ontos last year Steve :smiling3:
Can't remember what make, but it was a good kit to build :smiling3:

Probably the Academy one, just needs the susspension tweaking a bit.