How do you pick which model you will work on next

[Ramfins59]

I've got a '58 Studebaker Golden Hawk I've had 98% done for years, that calls my name from time to time. It was fully built and finished, but a cat I had at the time (early 2000's) knocked it out of its case on the shelf and it got wrecked.

The hood got damaged and I've just not had the ambition for whatever reason to fix it. Someday I will, but not without making some other changes as well.

Bill, where did you find a model of a '58 Studebaker Golden Hawk?  I'd love to find one for my "Class of '58".

[MrObsessive]

Bill, where did you find a model of a '58 Studebaker Golden Hawk?  I'd love to find one for my "Class of '58".

Rich, the Stude was scratchbuilt by me starting with AMT's '53 as a base. I started building it back in 1997, and it was pretty much done. It met an unfortunate accident a few years later when my then 22 lb cat jumped on the shelf where it was in a case, knocking it to the floor, and the hood got busted.

I attempted to fix it not long after, but lost interest in it for whatever reason. I'd like to get back to it sometime, but in the process, change some things about it that aren't quite right to me now.

Here are a few pics of it...................

A few years ago, I got a junker Danbury Mint '57 Stude Golden Hawk for its interior parts. My thought is to change this into a '57 (different seat and door patterns) and go with a gold color with an off white in the fins. Danbury's model never quite looked right to me, so it wouldn't be too much of a sacrifice. Of course, the Danbury one is 1/24 while my '58 is 1/25. Not a big deal as I can make things fit by shrinking things here and there.

[CometMan]

I tend to jump around a lot too and also get frustrated too! So it is what ever catches my interest at the time.

[misterNNL]

That Hawk is a beautiful model!Thanks for sharing it with us.

[robertw]

The voices in my head tell me what to build next!  

That sounds better then the reason I usually give which is that the unbuilt model talks to me and tells me that it wants to be built now.

[StyreneDestinations]

I've got about a dozen models under construction at any one time. I list them numerically from 2-12, with my favorites packed in the middle. Throw two dice, and whatever number comes up is what you build (it's easiest to throw numbers in the middle of the pack, if any of you have ever played craps). Low chance rolls are snake eyes and double six's, so that's where you put the oddball kits. Whatever kit's number comes up, I promise myself to work on it for an hour minimum. If you look in the background of any of my posts, you'll see dice on my build table. 

[Eshaver]

I'm fairly sure I have covered this story before . i do dioramas . i am currently doing a model of a 1920 Marland oil station built in Richmond Virginia . Now I can fit any 1-24th or 1-25th car to about 1927 into it . 

[Harry Joy]

My wife just informed me that I am building a truck next.

[Tom Geiger]

Aside from the voices in my head,  I'm easily influenced by events.   I'll start (notice I said start) builds for a club theme contest,  an upcoming show theme or an internet group build.  Right now the Tom Daniel  S'cool Bus is on my bench, from this weekend's 24 Hour Build.  Next up will be the Moebius  1972 Ford pickup because that's my club build due in April.   I like this board's Cannonball Aussie build this year so I probably will participate in that too.

And what happens to all those unfinished builds?  Every year I have the week between Christmas and New Years off.  I found early on that I didn't have the time to build something from start to finish, but I had time to take a model that was half to three quarters done, and finish it.  So for the past 15 years I've done my Christmas Model Car Amnesty build. Others have joined in some years.  This year I worked on a 1960 Plymouth airport limo that turned out to be more of a project than I intended.  So I'm still working on it.  But I resolved to finish it and I will.

[Harry Joy]

Next up will be the Moebius  1972 Ford pickup because that's my club build due in April. 

Interesting. My wife decided she wanted to see my 1971 Moebius Ranger done next. I tried to talk her into a station wagon, or a Ranchero, but no, only the Ranger would do.