Thank for the replies in my other post, It is interesting to see what others are up to even if it not a ship. It was good to hear from those I havn't seen post for awhile.

Now for a different spin. What have you worked on then shelved for the time being?

For me:
An Aoshima 1/700 IJN Chuyo-It needs so much work to get it looking good I might as well of scratchbuilt it.

A non-premium Dragon 1/700 DKM Bismarck-The fun stops when trying to clean up and paint rubber superstructure parts.

Revell Ford Mustang Mach III-I totaly managed to ruin the car body with a bad paint job but bought another kit to try and finish it someday.

My gosh, I have way to many to list here. Here are the kits I'll finish up after the big kingtiger:

1/35 Academy M10 with Duckbill (ABER interior detail set)
1/48 Hasegawa P-38J (Eduard detail set)
1/48 Promodeller (Revell) F-84G
1/35 Dragon Panther G with (actually with out) steel road wheels
1/35 Tamiya Jagdpanther Late (Eduard detail set)
1/35 Dragon Porsche Kingtiger
1/35 Dragon E-100
1/60 Bandai Perfect Grade RX-78 Gundam
1/35 Dragon Sd.Kfz.234-4
1/35 Dragon Flak Panzer 38(t) Gepard
1/48 Accurate Miniatures SBD-5 Dauntless

Most of these I just need to finish painting, applying decals, and then weather.

Some 48th scale twin engine Japanese fighte airplane. Going on 10 years now. Pretty much assembled and even have thebase grey painted on it. Just need to put on the camo green pattern and do final assembly. But-----there are just so many other wonderful kits out there that are screeching at me to be built.

I've been a very good boy when it comes to finishing started kits lately. In the last month or so I've finished, more or less, the Academy M-18, and a DML Valentine and Sherman operation Cobra. The major items not on my workbench, but about to go there, are a Airfix 1/600 Warspite, that has been in dry dock now about two years, and the Trumpeter 1/350 Hood, about a year. The Warspite I think I'm going to put into a dio setting showing her aground while being towed to the breakers yard. Right now the Hood looks like a "what if" where the Great Depression happened ten years earlier and she sits un completed on the building basin.

I have so many projects started. My 1/350 USS Scott(Kidd), 1/350 Fletcher, 1/700 Chiyoda, and a few others.

Well, whats needing work and not on my bench!

I have in work, but on hold
Tasca Sherman Firefly - Need a metal barrel
Academy 1/48 F-22A with all the Eduard sets, and 422 OTS Markings - Pissed Off
DML 1/350 USS Laffey - I am Lazy


And my Closet is full of kits awaiting the starting gun

Well I recieved the 1/350th Dragon USS Cole with PE for a birthday gift in March, I was hoping to have started it by now. Hopefuly I'll get to it before the Holidays.

Joe

Well, I have the Tamiya 1/350 DD445 with GMM PE that I wanted to convert to 1945 standard. It's been on the shelf for almost a decade... Hopefully I'll get over this armor phase soon...

And then there's a Tamiya M48 that's been on the shelf for about the same time...

Cheers!
Stef

I have never started a kit and started another before finishing the first.I have never had more then one project at a time on my bench,never had any need to.It sounds like this is different from the way a lot of you work though,but it's just me.

A couple of years ago I started a large project to depict the four Taffy 3 escorts which most closely engaged the Japanese battleships and cruisers off Samar in 1944: Samuel B. Roberts, Heermann, Johnston, and Hoel--all in the Lindberg 1:125 scale.

After scratchbuilding the Roberts and seriously overhauling the ancient Lindberg Fletchers for the better part of a year, we have: the Roberts at 99% complete, the Heerman-Johnston pair about 85% with the Johnston embedded in her dio base, and the Hoel at about 85%. I need to lighten the Johnston's paint finish a shade or two (and she's the one embedded in the sea base) and get the Heermann installed close by in the same diorama.

The good news is, I just received a commission to produce a wartime Cassin Young in that scale, so I'll convert my Hoel into the commission project and use the proceeds to purchase more Presier TT-scale (1:120) figures to crew yet another project in the Lindberg scale!

--Karl

Matey,

i had quite a many assorted kits which i didnt have any mood right now to build... but for MSW sake, i had only one.. a 1/350 Trumpeter (minihobby kit)...

Being a exMHM kit, the kit itself was kinda sucks...small parts wont respond to plastic cement, large gap, incorrect shape and whatever imperfections we can imagine

Anyway, i bought he kit in 2000, started building in 2006 and then i stop because the 3 pieces were not level....the join kinda warped...till i find a good solution, the kit will be a good dust trap..
i got the WIP thread in our local forum here Clicky

The old minihobbies Enterprise. I think that one had the Beehive island on it though. I have the Tamiya and for a while was looking for theis version. Then decided I didn't want to dump another $100 into project just for that.

Hello Anthony, I have several models that have been delayed for one reason or another. Usually it is because sometimes I feel like assembling, rather than painting. I start with sub-assemblies and then get to the point that I can go no farther without beginning to paint. Then the erstwhile project goes back in the box. Another reason is a lack of display space. I built, and am in the process of manning, the 1/35 Elco PT. I have to keep it in a large plastic storage box due to a lack of space. I started the 1/35 LCM but shelved it because if I completed it, there would have to be a major re-arrangement of my display cabinet. I can't even look at my 1/72 Gato! I did complete the Italian 'Maile' and due to its small size, was able to find a place to shoe horn it in. Then, of course, there is every modelers enemy, a lack of building time. Someday I'll get to my Tamiya Bismarck, Italeri LCM, and LCVP, RoG Type VIIC(Atlantic), RoG S-Boote, Tamiya PBR, and of course my Gato! Not to mention the many aircraft and armor kits I have that are awaiting completion. Until then I must struggle to fight the temptation of the Italeri 1/35 S-boote. Must not, must not! Al

The Saratoga I started over a year ago, the swiftboat I started 3 years ago, The Kilo that only needs a few more items to be finished, The NS Savannah I started for a campaign here, and a plethora of others that I look longingly at each week and wonder when I'll ever start or even finish any of them....


If completion were a requirement as modeler....I would have been defrocked a long time ago.

I forgot to mention the Arizona that I bought the PE set for, but have been too chicken to do it after the Indianapolis PE set debacle... It's a long and painful story.

Um, well the dry dock side of the bench is filled with the Kidd and Nimitz undergoing repairs. Waiting on the wings, partially built:

Revell PT109, started almost 2 years ago when I returned to the hobby, just waiting for time.
Dragon 700 Samuel Adams DDG2 premium ed - nice little kit; shelved due to time issues (and GB ended lol).
Tamiya 1:35 Stug IV, which was for the No More Excuses GB which if course, I did not complete lol - about 50% done
Two Tamiya RUFE floatplanes, about 25% complete, will paint pit next weekend.
Couple Revell P51Ds, still collecting the missing parts from my shelf disaster.

waiting unbuilt:
Revell SMS Emden for the WWI Warships GB
Tamiya Fletcher DD-445 for the Camouflaged ship GB
couple old Tamiya Pz IV, D as I continue to learn how to build armor thingies.

To sum it up....250+ kits.

I've got the USS Yorktown, the IJN Hiryu, and a few O class destroyers to do. All in 700 scale. I know, I know. My stash is shrinking, but there are a few model shows coming up.