How many find themselves with more than one build in process at a time?

[Dennis Holler]

I know I shouldn't do it...........but I end up doing it anyway!!  I start something new before the previous project is done ....... anybody else have this problem?   I think I need some sort of 12 step finish your project meetings

[Phil Coopy]

Happens to me all the time because I fly CLPA competition and build and compete in RC giant scale. Usually the giant scale projects are long term in construction (1-3yrs) for a competative model.  Usually C/L planes build quicker for me.

Phil

[Dennis Holler]

It started early this spring when I dug out an old Sterling Spitfire that I hadn't touched since 1988 and I cut the half finished wing in three pieces to get it home form Idaho when I went on leave So I started by putting the wing back together and re-sheeting it(better job ) So I would work a little when I got the time in the garage....Then I started a Sterling Monocoupe partial kit just because I thought I "needed" something to do when we were at my moms house on Sunday's after dinner while the kids were playing ;)Then after flying with Clancy and the Sportliners, I realized I needed something stunt worthy that I wouldn't be totally upset with if, I mean when I crashed, so I started a couple week Ringmaster project, which I am to the final assembly/sanding stage, I am not to worried about the finish want to get it done quick! and then like you stated, there are kits and plans piling up that I "want" to build   And this doesn't even touch the basement where the Lionel trains are stored... n~They have been totally neglected for a few months now LL~They might get mad and rust one me!!!

[bob werle]

I agtrr.  It is nice to know others are afflicted too.  I have a profile that just needs controls and a tank,a fun scale sanded ready to paint,two 1/2a than need repair and I just started cutting parts for a new project.  I also am finishing enlarging plans for a hollow log P-38 for a contest in Sept.  I don't want to look a the kits on the shelf. I might be tempted to start one.

[dennis lipsett]

I always seem to have unfinished C/L models that are begging to be finished. I like to frame, hate to finish.
Some take up to 5 years to get done.
But I have a backup plan. Usually there is someone that really needs a model quick and I get rid of it and then since I now have an opening and I just can't stand the open space another one goes on the board.
Somewhere there is some reason for this. It never took me this long to build R/C or helis. No I didn't build ARF's in R/C. Large scale models just don't cut it as an arf. But Helis really are an assembly job. No dust,sanding or dope, paint etc. Just nice sanitary working conditions. You know, the conditions that are condusive to actually finishing a project.
Dennis

[Rudy Taube]

Hi Dennis,

That is the silliest question I ever heard! In 40 years I have never met ANY modeler that only had ONE plane under construction at a time. 

There are many on this forum that would make you look like a darn right reasonable person!

You are surely not alone Dennis. ;-)

BTW: If you are worried about keeping your sanity then you are in the wrong hobby. Sorry, there are no 12 step programs to get you back to reality. 

[Clancy Arnold]

Dennis
The sickness is universal!

About getting kits stacked up to build.  The cure for that is design your own models. 

I have just started my first Kit in over 20 years.  Spent all day just correcting the kit to the documentation for a CL Scale model.
 
Since the Brodak Fly-In I have designed 3 models and built two of them.  The first design, after building the wing, was going to be too heavy so I went to Design 02 and built it.  After a short test flight I saw the changes needed and went to work on Design 03. It is awaiting test flight now.
Clancy

[Garf]

If planes under repair count, I have a long list. I am just now finishing the PT-19, having turned it into a stretched PT-19. Then there is the stretched Galaxy. Then there's the pile of broken wings needing fuselages. I'm getting good at making profile fuselages.

[Dennis Holler]

Dennis
The sickness is universal!

About getting kits stacked up to build.  The cure for that is design your own models.  

I have just started my first Kit in over 20 years.  Spent all day just correcting the kit to the documentation for a CL Scale model.
 
Since the Brodak Fly-In I have designed 3 models and built two of them.  The first design, after building the wing, was going to be too heavy so I went to Design 02 and built it.  After a short test flight I saw the changes needed and went to work on Design 03. It is awaiting test flight now.
Clancy

BTW, I did some looking on that Taub....Thats going to be some kind of neat ship, I can't wait to see it done!!!!   
Clancy,
I'm thinking a full stunt Lancaster, all four engines...all the time it'll need 600 inches of wing...just a bigger Sheeks Mosquito LL~heheheehehheheh I'm one of you  Rookie's don't know when something shouldn't be done!!!!!

[Larry Fernandez]

I know I shouldn't do it...........but I end up doing it anyway!!  I start something new before the previous project is done ....... anybody else have this problem?  I think I need some sort of 12 step finish your project meetings

Your gonna love this..............

Shark 45; ready for primer
Checkmate 4 (Trivial Pursuit in disguise) ready for paint
Hemstraught PT-19; wing built and covered, fuselage and tail feathers built ready to cover
Van Loo Chipmunk; wing built, ready to cover
Hi Johnson Stuka; wing built and covered
Checkmate 3; wing built covered, fuselage built
Top Flite Peacemaker; assembled, covered and ready for finish process
Flying Fool; wings, fuselage and tail feathers built
Profile P-40 ( based on the Parrot P-40) Ready for primer
1/2 A Hemstraught PT-19; wing built, covered fuselage built
1958 Chevy Impala Convertible; stripped to nothing ready for complete restoration.

All this and my so called friend Kim Mortimore, is trying to talk me into building another Still Stuka and an old time plane. (some friend)

If I can live to be a hundred and six years old, I might finish all the projects I've started.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team

[Terrence Durrill]

Larry,

 

        And I thought I was insane.................(1) Sassy Saucer---framed up and ready to cover (since 1987),  (2) Sterling S-3 Yak-9---wing construction started, (3) Sig Super Chipmunk---fuselage framed up, (4) R/C Balsa USA Swizzle Stick---ready to cover, (5) Half-fast---parts cut out and waiting in an old single VooDoo kit box................58 kits for .15 to .40 size engines, mostly C/L (this is not counting rubber and 1/2A kits) waiting on the shelf.............repair and restoration candidates too numerous to mention.  Oh, yes, a 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit sitting in the driveway awaiting restoration and an antique licence plate.  O.K, Larry, I feel a whole lot better now!  I am not alone..................TDurrill          

 

[Larry Fernandez]

  O.K, Larry, I feel a whole lot better now!  I am not alone..................TDurrill          

 

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Glad I could help

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team

[Michael Boucher]

Hi Larry, Sounds like your a mini Boeing factory to me, cool. What and how did you cover the Johnson Stuka project?  Thanks, Mike

[Dennis Holler]

Larry, That Hi Johnson Stuka is on my list of somedays...I think the next one I start will be a Jack Sheeks FW190 I have plans for...now I feel as though I don't have enough planes "in process"

and I also have a completely stripped shell of an automobile in my garage..1972 911E, started taking it apart 8 years ago ~^I did recently at least purchase some replacement panels for it so there is some on going progress being made Then I think I counted 10-12 shoe boxes full of disassembled pre WWII lionel steam loco's all awaiting some sort of restoration or repair and the train layout thats been running for 2 years but has no scenery beyond the plywood table top

Did I mention thatI have also been renovating my home, installed and finished 800 sq ft of hardwood oak last Christmas and on and on....

I am so GLAD I am not alone LL~My wife mw~thinks I'm the only one!!!

[Larry Fernandez]

What and how did you cover the Johnson Stuka project?  Thanks, Mike
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Mike, I covered the wing with medium silkspan.
The polywog airfoil has a slight undercamber, aft of the high point of the wing which makes covering a chore.You don't want to pull the damp silkspan to tight or it will pull away from the capstrips
Before covering, make sure you brush on about three or four coats of dope on the capstrips. This will help adhere the covering.

I have built more than a couple of planes in my time, and I have to say, without doubt, the High Johnson Stuka wing is the most difficult wing I have ever built.

When you think your modeling skills have become pretty good, try building the Hi Johnson Stuka.
It sure humbled me.

Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team

[Dalton Hammett]

Hey,  I liked reading this,  I think I'm getting better.  Sure I still have four big planes on the building board, at least 20 kits lined up to be next and I think four kits still ordered),   four containers of Lionel equipment boxed up that I say I will get to ---- But I did sell my Karmann Ghia !!!!!

Dalton H.

[James Mills]

Dennis,

I made sure to show my wife this post so she doesn't think it's just me .  She nicknamed my building room the wing shop.

James

[Brett Buck]

I know I shouldn't do it...........but I end up doing it anyway!!  I start something new before the previous project is done ....... anybody else have this problem?   I think I need some sort of 12 step finish your project meetings

  Yes, we all do it. But we could stop anytime if we wanted to, we just don't want to.

    Brett

[RandySmith]

I know I shouldn't do it...........but I end up doing it anyway!!  I start something new before the previous project is done ....... anybody else have this problem?  I think I need some sort of 12 step finish your project meetings

1 and 2 -I have both of the Hunt Lost foam super light SV wings here with SV fuselages and tail surfaces all kitted and ready to assemble
3-I have a piped Vector built doped in clear ready for paint...painter has not got to work yet..he has not finished the paint booth here
4-SV-11XL built ready to paint
5-BU wing Staris built ready to assmeble and paint
6-Foam wing Staris built ready to assemble and paint
7-StuntFire semi scale ready to paint has clear only
8-P-51 mustang old time Kenhi all cut and kitted ready to start
9-New SV  Cutlass  all built foam and molded componemts ready to assemble and paint
10- XL  ready to assemble and paint  all foam and molded
11- VECTRA (Dreadnought) all Built and ready to assmeble and paint
13- P-47 all kitted and many built components
14 APEX built ready for color
15- Vectra built in silver reay for color 

somebody need to get the paint guy off his butt! of course that would be me doing the lollygagging on getting the paint room finished

Randy

[david beazley]

A quick look around the shop shows 4 in various stages of construction and 1 in need of repair.  That's a low number for me.

[john e. holliday]

Well you did it.  I have one that has been waiting for me.  I have finished several planes since I started this one.  In fact it was started before I started my shop.  I will not tell how many I have finished since.  I have 5 that I canreadily see that have not been in the air yet.  I am not counting the mouse planes built when I thought I was going to have some step grandsons racing as well as the other grand kids.  If I don't have something in the works I wonder if I am really lazy.  Oh, I have a new 1/2A plane I am starting on.  Have pics of the box so far.

[Peter Ferguson]

All this and my so called friend Kim Mortimore, is trying to talk me into building another Still Stuka and an old time plane. (some friend)

Thats what friends are for!

[Kim Mortimore]

Larry is so easy.  Just dangle a nice juicy new project carrot in front of his nose and watch him salivate like Pavlov's dogs!    The two previous black-and-white Still Stukas knocked my eyes out--there's a great picture of #2 at aeromaniacs(dot)com-- not to mention a certain PT-19, Checkmate 3, P-40, and the list goes on and on.  He complained about the imperfections in the Stukas' finishes, but I think he was using an electron microscope!  Hey Larry, tell them how you got the monokote to stick to the fillets!  

Can't wait to see the finished Chevy!  I've never seen one of Larry's automotive creations in the flesh.  I'm sure it will be every bit as fabulous as his modelling efforts!  

Hey Larry, how about a new commemorative Super Combat Streak for your Dad's nasty-fast GMA Johnson?!  

Kim, Buttafucco Stunt Team

edited for additional pot-stirring

[steven yampolsky]

I've looked at the symptoms in "The Encyclopedia of Psychological Disorders, 2010 edition" and figured out what we have: it's "kitandenginehoardingandgazillionbuildsgoingatthesametime-itis"!!!!!

I am working through a 9 step program to cure myself of "kitandenginehoardingandgazillionbuildsgoingatthesametime-itis":

Step 1) stop buying engines! I've been clean for over 2 years. Mostly because it's impossible to find new B40 in stock anywhere and the ones in Classifieds are going at insane prices.
Step 2) stop buying kits,ARF's, ARCs, etc. Eh,yeah, this one hasn't gone too well with SV ARC's finally arriving and Umland producing kickass kits.
Step 3) stop starting new projects!! This one I've been able to do because I no longer have any room left to store partially started projects plus my partner in crime is on a hiatus(he's into music now).
I haven't gotten past step 3 so steps 4-9 aren't even in being considered!

[Michael Brooks]

This is just a way of life for me. You throw in that I keep getting distracted by other things like honey do lists, non-C/L projects with my son, work etc, and I get a lot of nothing done on all of my C/L projects.

Mike

[Bill Little]

  Yes, we all do it. But we could stop anytime if we wanted to, we just don't want to.

    Brett

I refuse to count my projects.  I have a block right now to actually finishing a plane it seems..........  Once it is done, it loses that mystic aura, so to speak.  I dream about it for a long time and when finished it doesn't hold that dream anymore.

Anyway, I am sure I have Adult ADHA...........

Yeah, Brett, sure.......... we can quit ANYTIME, we just don't *want* to... yeah, right.......... (heard THAT one before....)

Bill

[Jerry Leuty]

  Building probably brings more satisfaction than flying. At 64 I get physically tired after an hour of flying by myself. In building you can stop and look at your creation and give it some thought. I love to fly a plane that I dreamed up, designed, assembled from raw stock, and fly it. I have about 10 planes in my hanger that are ready to fly. Usually more than that I start to give the porkers away to some newbee. To have 3 or 4 planes in progress at any one time is probably too many to deal with.............at least for me. What you really need is a couple of great flying planes that are reliable and some time to go fly them. Then when you crash you can salvage the spare parts, IE, engine, b-crank, wheels , etc. and go build another. Also though I think that you should have one plane in progress at all times. This keeps you sharp and interested in the hobby. The better planes you build, give away or sell cheap your old porkers to someone interested in getting re-started in the hobby. The main goal is not to build super sharp airplanes capable of 20 points at your local contest level but to build and fly well in your skill level class. After all not many of us are really World Class aerobatic pilots. So don't stress out over it and have some personal satisfaction from your hobby.................Jerry

[Randy Cuberly]

Well....
Only counting the ones that actually have the wings, fuselage and tail feathers built there are 10 of them.  That's not counting the three free flights of course.
Yes it definitely is a sickness.
At least I see I'm not the only one who has contracted it.
Let's see:
KA10, Tempest II, LA Heat, Saturn, Whitely Hawker Hunter, Playboy, Fierce Arrow, 52 Nobler, Gesieke Nobler,JD Falcon.

I'm also not counting the Fox Racer or the three almost finished ARFs in the rafters...a Score and Two Stregas.

I wonder if retirement might be the CURE.

Maybe I'll try it soon.


Randy Cuberly
PS:  I wish I could be like my Buddy Eddy Capitinelli...He builds georgeous airplanes one at a time...Now that's got to be SICK!

[john e. holliday]

Randy C., take it from the old DOC, don't retire as you won't have time for anything.

Jerry L., it is hard to get motivated to fly when you reach the age that all the joints ache.  Also not as much fun as when you have someone to share the circle with.  In fact it gets boring.  

Well, back to the new plane kit I just received.   

[Jerry Leuty]

    It is more fun when flying with somebody. I went out this morning for a couple of hours by myself. I think safety all the time. I do everything the same way and try to remember that the prop is just waiting on some fresh flesh to eat. After 6 or so flights a man stopped by that lives near me. He is restoring a full scale aircraft, a Chief I think he called it. He use to fly these C/L years ago. He saw me last year flying in the same place as today. He is encouraged about getting started again. So maybe with time he will come join us on the circle. I put a couple of more flights and then on the last flight of the day I guess that I was too hot and tired. I pancaked in a very nice ship coming out of the reverse wingover. Never say; "just one more flight and then I will pack it in." You usually will pack it in alright...........right into the ground. The plane was not hurt too bad. I will wash it down and do the minor repairs. It is hitting over 100 degrees here in north Texas these days. So any flying has to be done before noon. Take a wet rag, and plenty of ice cold water........................OBTW I have been using some of Rich's Brew, 10% with 29% Castor. I recently got a can of 5% power master with 29% Castor. What a difference. The Power Master fuel gives good strong runs every time while the Rich's Brew has been lacking. I still have 3 gallons of the 10% stuff. I hope that it is not all like that. I will get another can of the 5% at Mike's hobby shop in Carrolloton, Texas tomorrow night as I go for our monthly DMAA club meeting there......................Jerry