How About Some Stalled Projects?

[Snake45]

Do you have a Shelf of Doom? That's what I call the area in the Snakepit where models go to...well, not die, always, but go to sleep for a long, long time. Stuff I've lost interest in for one reason or another. Sometimes one of these will escape, or be rescued. In the last few years, I've finished up a '69 Chevelle I painted in the early '90s, at least four model airplanes I started around 2002, and several other car projects begun between 2000 and 2007.

So, do you have anything that's, let's say, at least 50% finished (but not of course completed), and was started at least ten years (or so) ago? Let's see some! I think the only such project I have a pic of on Photobucket is this Revell '69 Camaro, which I painted MCW Fathom Green in our old apartment, and we moved into this house in 1993. But if there's any interest in this thread, I can think of at least three others I have dating back to 1969 or so that meet the criteria that I could take a couple pics of.

Here's one of mine; let's see what's on your Shelf of Doom!

[redneckrigger]

My whole shop is a shelf of doom! (So is my 1:1 garage!)

Edited May 19, 2016 by redneckrigger

[Ace-Garageguy]

Yeah, all of mine are stalled. If I put them up, it would just be the same bunch of halfway stuff I've been showing here for years. No time again, not for the next year probably, at least. 

Oh, what the hell. Here's a few..

Edited May 19, 2016 by Ace-Garageguy

[vamach1]

I started this in the 1990's.  Maybe this is the year I complete it.

[Roadrunner]

Nothing started 10 years ago, but everything I've started in the last year remains unfinished, but I hope will be,... one day.

[peteski]

I started a Tamiya Mazda MX-5 Miata (modified to be the M-edition) for my girlfriend who used to own the real car.  That was in 1997. I got as far as getting the Merlot Mica paint, BBS RG wheels and photoetchign the emblems. I'll finish that model someday . . .

[Lordmodelbuilder]

Hmmm, not sure what's going on, but can't seem to upload only 1 or 2 pics & nowhere close to being over the limit

in size.

I have so many that I have started & then they have stalled. This one here was started in 2003. My Dodge welder truck.

I put in 256 hours of work in just 80 straight days. Didn't finish it & haven't touched it since.

Really want to finish it,but also thinking about  tearing it all apart and redoing it. 

 

 

Edited May 19, 2016 by Lordmodelbuilder

[Harry Joy]

No shelf of doom in my house. When a kit frustrates me, bores me, or suffers catastrophic failure. I toss it.

The only exception in the 2009 Finnish P-36 I finished after the 2009 Nats.

Edited May 19, 2016 by Harry Joy

[Lordmodelbuilder]

Couple more. Both started in the mid 1990's.

[Harry P.]

I have models I started 30+ years ago and are still not completed.

[AC Norton]

......at this time,,,,,, AMT 76 Gremlin X,  AMT 65 Chevelle  wagon,  AMT 53 Ford pickup, original AMT  64 Corvette coupe, and the AMT 68 Roadrunner I'm actually working on as we speak.... most all of these go back  2 or 3 years from starting them, and I actually  have performed lots of work on each one, but getting side tracked by looking at, and making plans to build others. between buying kits all the time, then taping parts together and figuring out each project as I would like to build it, others end up stalled, boxed away, or  just  forgotten for long periods. I bought 3 new kits today, but am determined to follow thru on my present build,,,,I'm leaving them sealed.....for now...lol......the Ace....

[sbvwfanatic]

Great idea for a post. 

This build is 9 years old, was final assembly when while pulling the lid off my zap-ca, it spurted out on the paint and rear window. 

I was so upset it sat in a box until last year when I finally sanded down the effected areas to re-spray.

This one 8 years old.

AMT Scirocco w/scratch build 16V running ITBs.

And this was supposed to be my quick build to get me motivated to finish the VWs

That is now 2+ years old 

Modern heat extractor hood

Needed modern chassis 

And motor...

[slusher]

I have three from  last year i will try to finish this year. One that i stopped this year. I have no shelf of doom. I feel better about 7 i finished last year and 2 this year so far..If I don't finish them they don't stay around but only one in the last 3 years went to a final resting place..

Edited May 19, 2016 by slusher

[Jantrix]

Oh yeah. Lots of hangar queens.

First the Puma ATRV. Mostly scratch built.

'32 Ford bobber

My Olds Ute

'51 Chevy 

Allison powered '67 Charger

Skinnie Minnie - I'm not really sure yet what it will be when it grows up.

Plus a few that were in the works but have taken a different path and it's back to the 'ol drawing board.

[disabled modeler]

  On 5/19/2016 at 3:18 AM, Lordmodelbuilder said:

Hmmm, not sure what's going on, but can't seem to upload only 1 or 2 pics & nowhere close to being over the limit

in size.

I have so many that I have started & then they have stalled. This one here was started in 2003. My Dodge welder truck.

I put in 256 hours of work in just 80 straight days. Didn't finish it & haven't touched it since.

Really want to finish it,but also thinking about  tearing it all apart and redoing it. 

 

 

Brad... That is very nice...love the bed.

I have way too many stalled projects mostly restorations due to lack of the right part or parts or ones that will work....must be well over 100 of them.

[Snake45]

Wow, great response, fellas! Maybe this thread will motivate some of us to actually finish some of these projects. (Whenever I use the word "finish," one of my model airplane friends says, "What! You're supposed to actually finish them?" )

[Foxer]

I don't pay much attention to dates and time but many of the many are over 10 years in the sleeping box. Pictures I do have and many will have seen these in one stage or another. I can hear their muffled cries for attention every time I decent the stairs to the shop ..

32 Chrysler Hot Hod

32 Hot Rod

49 Mercury

Renault CV

56 Kombi

59 Impala

60's Dragster

61 Valiant

Dodge A-100 work truck

TR4A

69 VW Bug

81 Porsche 924 Turbo

91 and 84 Porsche 944

92 Crown Victoria

95 Subaru Legacy

Citroen 15CV

Infiniti G35

Subaru Sambar

 

 

Edited May 19, 2016 by Foxer

[JTalmage]

  On 5/19/2016 at 2:33 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Yeah, all of mine are stalled. If I put them up, it would just be the same bunch of halfway stuff I've been showing here for years. No time again, not for the next year probably, at least. 

Oh, what the hell. Here's a few..

 

Your Hot Rod and Kustom builds are soo inspiring Bill. After getting so far on some of them, I don't think I could stop. They're works of art!

[espo]

  On 5/19/2016 at 4:39 AM, Jantrix said:

Oh yeah. Lots of hangar queens.

First the Puma ATRV. Mostly scratch built.

'32 Ford bobber

My Olds Ute

'51 Chevy 

Allison powered '67 Charger

Skinnie Minnie - I'm not really sure yet what it will be when it grows up.

Plus a few that were in the works but have taken a different path and it's back to the 'ol drawing board.

I wondered what happened with your Olds. Just to cool to let it die.

[Greg Myers]

This is what modeling is all about. Once you get the main idea down it's on to the next one. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

  On 5/19/2016 at 2:35 PM, Greg Myers said:

This is what modeling is all about. Once you get the main idea down it's on to the next one. 

 Works for me. Love those two of yours, too. Drag-racing's golden age, in scale plastic. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

  On 5/19/2016 at 1:32 PM, JTalmage said:

 

Your Hot Rod and Kustom builds are soo inspiring Bill. After getting so far on some of them, I don't think I could stop. They're works of art!

Thank you sir. The two you highlighted are the two closest to done, but I put a '37 nose on the channeled / sectioned '40 speedster (just to see what it could look like) and though I like it, it needs to get back to the original design shown here. The '32 is so close, I just need some self-discipline to get the small stuff done....but it's hard for me to get on the bench when I know I'm only going to get in 15 minutes or so.

[Impalow]

  On 5/19/2016 at 1:32 PM, JTalmage said:

Your Hot Rod and Kustom builds are soo inspiring Bill. After getting so far on some of them, I don't think I could stop. They're works of art!

Couldnt agree more!!  Bill your stuff is always a delight, finished or not... its still cool. 

Here is a fun one i haven't touched in over a year....

 

[Nytrozilla]

I like to keep my unfinished stuff on display, so they are a constant reminder to get my act together and finish what I'm working on now, so I can get back to them. Does that make sense?

I do have two on my build desks, but one is in progress. The Batmobile Tumbler gets camo paint. It stalled in the middle of masking.

The ones on display are: Charlie Allen F/C with Deora hauler. Needs paint, decalage, assembly, details, etc.

Next is the QuarterMaster 4 engine Daytona. Needs nose hinge, 4 blower hats with linkage, paint and decals.

Finally, what started as a 1/16 Hawaiian will be Don Schumacher's Wonder Wagon. I wiped out 2 Charger bodies after clear coats fish eyed around the decal edges.

In other words, all four have paint issues. I'm starting to sense a pattern here......

Edited May 19, 2016 by Nytrozilla

[Lordmodelbuilder]

IMC Bug.Started in the early 70's. Built it stock. Then in the 80's I made it front engine with Chevy power. Have located most of the parts & will put it back to VW power & Cal Look itOld mid engine Hemi powered IMSA style Datsun pickup I started in 1982. Never finished

Shortened this Bus in 76. Got it painted in the 2005. Here it sits.

Started in 1977.

2002 start of a Phantom 65 Blazer.

Started this Caddy truck in 2002.

Started this one in the 90's for a 30-day build contest at a local hobby shop. Close,but didn't finish.

2002 build for an online 454 SS contest. I was building a 67 454 SS.