I Need a New Word

[STYRENE-SURFER]

Snake-a-fide

[Ace-Garageguy]

I like Improvastore! Good one!

"Snake-slapping" makes me think of a Russian-roulette style game, but played with annoyed pit-vipers rather than a revolver with one round in the cylinder. Great for reflex-training.  

[mikemodeler]

Refresh makes sense because that is what you are doing- taking an existing model and refreshing some of it but not all of it. I know that you have varying degrees of refresh for each build, but in essence outside of a total strip and makeover, what are you really doing to them?

Think about the show Overhaulin'. Some vehicles required much more "overhauling" than others but in the end, they were all "overhauled".

[Snake45]

Refresh makes sense because that is what you are doing- taking an existing model and refreshing some of it but not all of it. I know that you have varying degrees of refresh for each build, but in essence outside of a total strip and makeover, what are you really doing to them?

Think about the show Overhaulin'. Some vehicles required much more "overhauling" than others but in the end, they were all "overhauled".

You inspired me to a new one: "Restover": Resto+makover.

[Snake45]

"Snake-slapping" makes me think of a Russian-roulette style game, but played with annoyed pit-vipers rather than a revolver with one round in the cylinder. Great for reflex-training.  

Snake-slapping or Snake-whipping is my own building style where I do the absolute minimum necessary to get an acceptable-looking result sitting on my shelf. It's one step up from a slammer, one step down from a nicely done curbside. Snake-slapping can be (and often is) done on a brand-new, full-detail kit. In a Snake-slap, the body and paint will be nice (maybe not my very best paint job, but quite acceptable), the wheels and tires will be detailed, and the "sit" and stance will be right, but the chassis will probably be all flat black primer, there will be no engine or underhood detail, and the interior will have minimal detailing and probably be just semigloss black. Other people call this a "shelf model" or a "two (or three) footer" (because it looks good from two feet). Mine look good from even closer than two feet, but lift the hood or turn the thing over and most hard-corps car modelers will be disappointed.

[ChrisBcritter]

"Makeover" seems to cover it pretty well.

"Rebop" I've heard used before too, long long ago.

[lordairgtar]

Restoptimized ... I really like that. Not fond of anything with the word Pimp in it. That should go in the trash bin along with a few other words I won't say here.

 

[keyser]

Buff 'n stuff. 

The "rest" isn't really restoration, nor is it restful. 

Put it in the hole, like in basketball, or Loop it, like closing the open loop. I hate buzzwords from business that some of these sound like (no offense). 

Hey, snakes molt. Molting?? New skin, new start?

In my case, it's just final finish. Mostly with my own stalled projects.

Edited March 7, 2017 by keyser