Hopefully im not the only one that does this!

[Corvette.Jeff]

I dont know how many models i've got so furious over because i cant get it to look right, so i end up throwing away. It seems like i'm never happy with the way something turns out, like with this countach i'm building for the cannon ball run build off, I wasnt happy with the interior and the paint job, so now it's gonna have to take a dip in the purple pond dang ocd Anyone else have this problem? I dont think i've finished a model in the last year! I did finish a corvette in january, but i wasnt happy wihtthe engine and redid it, then opened the top and lost the contour of the windshield, so that went in the parts box

I hope im not alone

[jjsipes]

There are quite a few models that I have built that I have not been satisfied with. Sometimes I repaint them and they turn out worse for some reason or another (dirt in the paint, scratches seomthing). I put them back in there boxes for another day. Even some that I finish, I'm not 100% happy with but instead of taking a chance and messing it up worse I put it on the shelf with my completed models and move on. Maybe I will get another someday and rebuild it or not.

So to answer your question, you are not alone.

[Chuck Most]

I am never, EVER, 100% happy with ANY of my builds, but I've grown to accept that at this point! They all have some flaw or glaring gaffe that I could, and probably should, have nipped long before the kit was ever completed. My mentality is this- I've never owned a perfect 1:1 car (if there even is such a thing), so I'm not gonna loose too much sleep if the little plastic ones leave a little to be desired, as well.

[Joe Handley]

Don't even want to think of how many I've had that happen to, usually it's some kind of custom that I botched in some way and can't think of a way out of it other than make it a parts kit. The chopped '49 Merc that's posted in "On the Workbench" is one of them because of an issue with the plastic's reaction to excessive amounts of that putty being applied. I got frustrated and put it away hoping that the plastic would re-solidify to the point it could be saned again.......and forgot about it until yesterday

[CAL]

Yie.

I, too, never been completely happy with a build. Well I should say that. I usually get to the middle of a build and it's not going quite perfect to what I had invisioned in my mind - so at this point I either push through and have been relatively happy with the way it turned out, but never completely satisfied. Or, like many - I have a long list, it gets shelved till I have forgotten why and start back at it. However, it quickly comes back to me why it was shelved. I don't think I have ever tossed a model completely because it wasn't perfect. I have also grown to accept what it is is what it is and all it's ever going to be and live with it.

I think if you force your way through you will become a better modeler for it. Tossing or shelving it you never have a chance to work through it so the problems come up again and again and the solution is never gotten to.

[OSLRod]

I thought I was the only one! I've stripped so many of my kits because I wasn't satisfied with the paint job techniques I started off with when I got back into modeling in '96.

[E St. Kruiser50]

You're in good company.

I don't know how many times I felt just like you, and was ready many times to just give up and try something else. It was so frustrating.

It took me years to get over being in a hurry, and learning to relax, and just enjoy it as a leisure past-time.

Painting was extremely difficult for me too, and I destroyed a lot of perfectly good models because I didn't know what I was doing.

My chrome system took me over two years to get right - GRRRRRRR , but I stayed with it and now enjoy all of it.

I hope you stay with it and don't give up - dave

[diymirage]

thats what the wifey is for

mine will always force me to put the model back on the shelf and the hamer back in the tool chest

even when i think it is a terrible model she sees something in it

[Foxer]

I would have to say EVERY model I have ever built has something I think isn't "perfect". This is one reason for all the kits on my workbench. Something always goes wrong so I usually put it aside and go to another new or, usually, one I put aside earlier and have the solution or just redo whatever it was that made me put it aside in the first place. Time usually works all the frustrations out and finds the solutions to boot! In the meantime, I have the time of my life cutting up some other chunk of plastic! One think I have learned.. do this for yourself and for your own enjoyment. I let some things just pass and that's the way they stay cause I still like it and will enjoy looking at it.

[diymirage]

I would have to say EVERY model I have ever built has something I think isn't "perfect". This is one reason for all the kits on my workbench. Something always goes wrong so I usually put it aside and go to another new or, usually, one I put aside earlier and have the solution or just redo whatever it was that made me put it aside in the first place. Time usually works all the frustrations out and finds the solutions to boot! In the meantime, I have the time of my life cutting up some other chunk of plastic! One think I have learned.. do this for yourself and for your own enjoyment. I let some things just pass and that's the way they stay cause I still like it and will enjoy looking at it.

its even worse when it is a model you are building for someone else

like the firebird i build for my father in law the other day

it was the worst kit i have ever laid eyes on

nothing fits

it was not even worth of the partsbox

but i made it through and it looks like ######

but the wife made me keep it and i guess it will make the next one look even better

[diymirage]

I would have to say EVERY model I have ever built has something I think isn't "perfect". This is one reason for all the kits on my workbench. Something always goes wrong so I usually put it aside and go to another new or, usually, one I put aside earlier and have the solution or just redo whatever it was that made me put it aside in the first place. Time usually works all the frustrations out and finds the solutions to boot! In the meantime, I have the time of my life cutting up some other chunk of plastic! One think I have learned.. do this for yourself and for your own enjoyment. I let some things just pass and that's the way they stay cause I still like it and will enjoy looking at it.

its even worse when it is a model you are building for someone else

like the firebird i build for my father in law the other day

it was the worst kit i have ever laid eyes on

nothing fits

it was not even worth of the partsbox

but i made it through and it looks like ######

but the wife made me keep it and i guess it will make the next one look even better

[Guest Mustang3.8]

I dont know how many models i've got so furious over because i cant get it to look right, so i end up throwing away. It seems like i'm never happy with the way something turns out, like with this countach i'm building for the cannon ball run build off, I wasnt happy with the interior and the paint job, so now it's gonna have to take a dip in the purple pond dang ocd Anyone else have this problem? I dont think i've finished a model in the last year! I did finish a corvette in january, but i wasnt happy wihtthe engine and redid it, then opened the top and lost the contour of the windshield, so that went in the parts box

I hope im not alone

Your not alone, Jeff. I had to strip my 1970 Chrysler 300H 3 time before I got the Hurst paint scheme right.

[FujimiLover]

I know exactly how you feel. If you've been watching my recent builds, you'll know that I had to purchase a second Koenig Specials Competition model kit just to redo the body since the chassis/interior from the first one was perfect. I have to do it again for my gorgeous all red KS 911. Since the failure of the KS 911, I just have not gotten back into the hobby. In fact, I'm just starting my build of my Smart Drifter and a month ago I started painting it. I'm not entirely satisfied with the white paint on here as it's not as shinny and glossy as I'd like it to be.

No one should ever be 100 % completely satisfied with their work. If they are, how can they ever improve? How can we ever get a project finished? My last four KS models are in no way perfect, but I am very satisfied with theme as they are. They look great, casual on-lookers would be impressed, family impressed, what more could you want?

Perfection takes a long time to achieve. That is one reason why at the end of my posts, I have left a signature in bright red text, Quality Takes Time.

If you want perfection, just keep building and building and don't ever give up. Eventually, you'll be satisfied with your work. Most likely up to around 80-90% as I don't believe anybody is really truly 100% satisfied.

I guess this is one reason why I like collecting die-cast models as I don't have to work hard on perfection. That is also why I'm fond of models from Auto Art, and Kyosho. They are perfect, and all you have to do is buy theme.

Still my point is, we are our own worst critics. We know what stink's because we did it our selves. We see imperfection in our own work when your significant other might not. Maybe she's jealous cause she wishes she could build as good as she think's you can.

I envy the work my brother Eric in California can do. I consider him a professional model builder. His hobbies are RC airplanes and the details he put's into his models are superb. He's a master sheet metal expert and a very anal-detail minded person. He currently has a shop at his local airport where they maintain full-scale real life airplanes that pilots bring to him to either fix, or do their annual maintenance on. I envy his craftsmanship and in my vision, I see my self doing the same kind of work.

In my head, everything is already perfect. My problem is getting the perfection from my thoughts, to my hands, and into the model I'm currently working on. This is very hard to do as I said, in my mind, it's already perfect, it's already finished. Only practice, will make the real model equal to what I see in my vision. Hope this helps!

[GOTH KUSTOMS]

Man you dont even wanna lnow how many times in the last 35 years of building off an on, that I get half way thru, and realize OH crud, DANG it, but I just shelve it and get back to it later, with a fresh perspective, and a different view, so no man your not the only one, who isnt 100% happy, but when you get it done, and realize that people will be looking at that killer build, with a few flaws, from an arms distance away, it all works out ok, becouse they see the build as a whole, they dont see the imprfections, unless there into the detail of a build, I had to learn that with drawing, people dont get as close to it as you and I do, so they dont get to see all the bad stuff, anyway no man your not alone

[nitrojunkie]

It happens to all of us. I don't think I have anything that I'm Blissfully happy with but I use it as a learning tool and try to do better next time.Just remember nothing is perfect but we will still aim for it.