What percentage of kits that you start get finished?

[Miatatom]

Several folks have mentioned unfinished models/projects. So far, I don't have much of a batting average either, mostly due to paint issues. I'm getting better though. What's your batting average.

[martinfan5]

Just guessing here, but I would say I am around 90%-95% finished.

[mnwildpunk]

0% a kit is never finished

[DeeCee]

100%

[atomicholiday]

I wouldn't want to guess at a percentage, but I'm pretty sure it's low. Seems like something always stops me. Either I get to a point that I'm not sure what to do, or inspiration will strike with another kit and whatever I'm working on gets put on hold.

[Bennyg]

Depends if I stuff it up. Won't get finished if I damage it too much.

Ben

[disabled modeler]

I would normally get 100% done but I also have a huge batch that needs parts to restore them and cant find/afford them so my average is way off. They sit till the parts are found they need....

[Chuck Most]

Not counting ones that fall prey to some sort of catastrophic mishap during the process, 100%.... eventually. It may happen ten years after I start, but it WILL happen.

Count the catastrophic mishaps... that number falls to about, oh, 50 to 60 percent.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

I'll say 60%, because I start every kit but never finish it.

[Snake45]

Prolly ten percent. Maybe 20. Whatever the exact number is, it's absolutely shameful.

[Foxer]

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[SfanGoch]

You familiar with the Mendoza Line?

[crazyjim]

100%. I finish every kit I start and in a timely manner.

[cobraman]

Close to 100 %

[tubbs]

I'll say 60%, because I start every kit but never finish it.

sooooo, wouldn't that be 0% miles?

well, that is where I am at. a big fat ZERO. there is always something that I want to do to them.

[Jantrix]

I'd say 90%. Even if I put a project away, it will still get completed someday. However if my custom design does not come out as envisioned, and it is unlikely to be achieved, I will totally scrap or trade away the project. Also a poorly fitting kit will very likely end up as scrap.

[cartpix]

Between 25 & 50%. More toward the 25.

Jeff

[Rob McKee]

I would say 25% of the project I start get finished.

Not a good number, but this is just a hobby after all.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

sooooo, wouldn't that be 0% miles?well, that is where I am at. a big fat ZERO. there is always something that I want to do to them.

No, they get 60% finished.

[Ramfins59]

I'd guesstimate about 95% of my started kits will eventually get finished.

[Foxer]

You familiar with the Mendoza Line?

I'm well below average, but having fun and I work on something every day and fully enjoy it .. when I feel like it. That's a hobby ...

"When a kit's built, you have nothing to build"

Modeling is ALL about building, not finishing as fast as you can.

[Quick GMC]

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I have never completed a kit 100% in the last 8 years. I have posted 2 in the completed section, but one was missing mirrors and the other a hood. I have a very nice one I am building that is 95% complete, but I broke an A pillar and threw it in a box. I'll get back to it some day. I am constantly building. I think I have about 35-ish models, about 25 of them in progress at varying stages. I enjoy building and detailing. Painting has been my downfall. I always get dust or polish through and I don't have the patience or interest to strip and fix, so I just start with a new kit.

I think some day, these will all come together and instead of several years of building a bunch of stuff half way, I will be finishing all of them. Hopefully. If not, I still have fun building.

[Pete J.]

There is a lot to be said for the unfinished kit. Why they happen is often a mystery. I currently have three kits in process. They will all get done eventually. They always do. I am by nature a slow builder, often prodded on by a contest to finish something but always good to have something on the bench. I can's say 100% get done as long as there are unfinished, but there is really only on that has been in that state for a long time. I started it in my Mom's hospital room, before she passed, and it is really hard to get back to. The rest get done.

[jbwelda]

pretty much 100%. what I start I finish unless there is some major big problem and even then it just gets set aside until I get up the courage to face it headon and get it finished. might be a few years though

jb

[BubbaBrown]

O%, I work on them till they make me mad, then they go up on the shelf and I dig one of several hundred out and go back to work. Losing interest and waiting for paint probably stalls more except for BMF.