Builds per Year

[slusher]

I am sure it verys with what life throws at us but does anyone try to build a certain amout of builds a year? With heath reasons l have built the fewest l ever have. l have so many projects l want to get done is why l like to build around 12 a year....

[Guest]

I used to build pretty fast and considered one per month a good rate. Now, I'm lucky to get one built in two months. I did manage to pull off a one week build this year,but it was a box stocker.

[Foxer]

I have NO set amount to build! In the past 4 years I've completer an average of .25 builds per year .. yes .. one completion in 4 years. It's just me .. I enjoy working on them too much. I do something on one or the other almost every day and detail them all WAY too much!

Edited November 7, 2012 by Foxer

[Dr. Cranky]

I'm with Mike, I don't have a set number, and in the last few years I have fallen in love with a kit in particular and have spent a good chunk of the year building the same kit over and over . . . this way I am forced to know a kit rather well.

[Danno]

I don't measure my output in Models-per-Year. It works out more like Years-per-Model.

I used to worry about it until my friends labelled me 'The Unfinished ModelKing.'

[Ace-Garageguy]

Yup, years per model.....

[Ramfins59]

When I first started back into car modeling back in '91 I guess I finished about a model a month... Now with better skills, the proper tools and a LOT more patience, now I'm lucky if I can finish 4 or 5 models in a year. Of course, now the models usually come out a whole lot better than they did 20 years ago.

[Guest G Holding]

Finish......???? Who does that, I start between 5 and 10 kits per year, I know I finished one in 1974..no 1973......It WAS finished!

[martinfan5]

Not bragging, but I lost count, I have no life, so I am able to build

Just counted, so 51 builds, plus a handful of diecast redos, I have 8 more builds that I need to finish, so I think for the year the number will be 59, hmm, cant end on a odd number for a even year

Edited November 7, 2012 by martinfan5

[tubbs]

I try to keep my completed builds even with the influx of new kits............. not workiing....... not working one bit!!

[cobraman]

One every 3 to 4 weeks sounds about right to me.

[Prostreet]

Man, how do you guys find all this time to build, Been over a year on my latest build and that's all i have been working on.

[bbowser]

I try to keep my completed builds even with the influx of new kits............. not workiing....... not working one bit!!

LOL. Me too. Every time I think I'm making progress, Revell or Moebius or Round 2 releases more that I just have to have. I think I've completed 4 or 5 this year with a couple more pretty close. There's just not enough time.

[gtx6970]

You mean actually finish more than one per year ?

I've finished 3 cars this year, one was start to finish this year. Yes just one.

the other 2 were painted/started in the late 90's

I've got probably 15 started does that count ?

[Jantrix]

I have been jumping from build to build too much. No completions in the last 14 months or so but 5 or 6 at 75% done.

[moparmagiclives]

I've been building again for the last six years or so, I've finished 5 so far i think...Cooking right along.

[Tonioseven]

I think I have completes 3 builds this year; seven last year.

[rmvw guy]

One every two weeks untill I get derailed every once in a while, My goal is 24 a year. Actually I have 15 this year so far.

[tubbs]

One every two weeks untill I get derailed every once in a while, My goal is 24 a year. Actually I have 15 this year so far.

yea, thats my goal too, 24 new projects a year....... what...... oh, finished, not started....... nevermind!!

dude, thats crazy!!! are you married? have kids?

[slusher]

One every 3 to 4 weeks sounds about right to me.

l was doing one every 3 to 4 weeks but health slowed me down. 1 every 3 to 4 weeks is a good schedule..

Edited November 8, 2012 by slusher

[gtx6970]

I consider it good if I just get to work on a model in a month, let alone finish one ( or more) a month

[Danno]

Not bragging, but I lost count, I have no life, so I am able to build

Just counted, so 51 builds, plus a handful of diecast redos, I have 8 more builds that I need to finish, so I think for the year the number will be 59, hmm, cant end on a odd number for a even year

Hmm. That explains a lot.

[mikemodeler]

Define "completed" for me!! If you mean the point at which you stop fiddling with them and put them in the display case, then I am in trouble! My hectic schedule doesn't allow me much time to build and my never ending quest to add details or customize a kit prevents me from getting many completed. Like many others, I have kits that were started years ago and have yet to be finished.

[caine440]

Maybe 5 this year.

I was around 10 a year.

[greymack]

I think I built too many kits this year 1 per month . I do find it interesting that I'm adding more and more detail to the so called finished models.So I guess we're never truely done a kit. Are most of you rebuilding kits too new to you and old kits?